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concert repertoire for the benefit of both the music students and the community. “I wanted to challenge our students and create a new listening opportunity for audiences. One of the added benefits is the diversification of PLU’s music library, since we are performing works that have never been played on our campus before.” Purchasing the rights to perform more diverse work will have ripple effects in the years to come, encouraging more students to become familiar with the work of talented female jazz

assumed that, to be Christian, you had to be against this or for that. Against abortion. Against gay rights. My religion was not going to be contingent on social issues.” When he stepped into that Sunday-morning church service, he came to understand that living a spiritual life did not require stumping for a set of predetermined social issues. “God is more concerned about our heart than those social issues,” Ford said. “What he’s after is our heart.” Ford now attends church every Sunday, but it is

from sub-leasing to officially sanctioned tenants? Or not? What about the community that is already there – what rights do they have? Does the fact that Blackbridge is an established, functioning (albeit technically illegal) community matter? Does it matter that the artwork that is being created in Blackbridge appears in galleries in districts in China and throughout the world? The questions continue to pile up, even as Blackbridge seems destined to be torn down within the year. Manfredi has one