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economy. More than 10,000 PLU alumni make their home in the area. And more than 3,500 students enroll at PLU every year and the university employs 700 faculty and staff. “I thank you for recognizing and holding up the essential and critical role of education in the context of economic development,” he said. “And, there is much to celebrate.” But he expressed pause in celebrating. As the PLU president nears the end of his 20 years at the university, he expressed concern about the future of a “new

volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout undergraduate and graduate school for college-related studies and more volunteering. He even met his future wife there, in 2004. Today, Levy is a specialist in contemporary Honduras and an assistant professor in Pacific Lutheran University’s anthropology department. His research has focused on Honduran governance after the 2009 military coup and the outmigration patterns that followed.More Read Previous Diversity Center Alums: Complexities of Care

concentration camp in 1945 –  “First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.” “This is the rough chronology of who was rounded up by the Nazi regime,” said Hubert Locke,a renowned Holocaust scholar and dean emeritus of the

it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. More About Jodie Rottle •    An April 2014 interview with Kupka’s Piano. Rottle, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, no longer just plays the flute; she has perfected it—and she’s also seriously expanded her musical repertoire: •    Rottle is a soloist, a chamber musician, a music teacher and a contemporary-music specialist who has premiered works by jazz and classical composers from around the world. •    She has performed at venues as varied as the Brisbane

October 20, 2008 Looking for that first job? Try the career fair. PLU’s annual career fairs will be filling up every inch of the UC beginning Oct. 28, and it’s a place where both employers and students can check each other out, and possibly help you find that all-important first job after graduation. Adam Geisler, a junior and history major, said that while he might not find his dream job in the many booths, he still likes attending and checking out which employers show up.“As a student you

critical work into what they called a “special edition of The Journal of Frankenstein Studies,” complete with illustrations, book reviews, and responses. Other faculty engaged the wider community outside the classroom. For example, Associate Professor of English Rona Kaufman, her husband, and their daughter Juniper built community in their neighborhood. Juniper had the idea to share eggs laid by the family’s chickens with neighbors, and started leaving them on a stand at the end of the driveway

taking PLU jazz to the heart of this scene and will present our music in a variety of formats, from combos to the large jazz ensemble,” says Deacon-Joyner, who serves as the university’s Director of Jazz Studies. All of the featured students will perform together as the University Jazz Ensemble. Throughout the program, the ensemble will subdivide into various “combos” and “little big bands” that will demonstrate different elements of the students’ musical abilities as well as different dimensions of

Should History Tell a Story? Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Mark JensenOriginally Published in 1990It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of seventeenth-century France in which it is not mentioned. “If he did not say ‘I am the state,’ it is only because it went without

October 21, 2011 Laura Rudquist ’12 (center) talks with a colleague at Campus Ministry offices during her regular shift. Rudquist, from Minnesota, said PLU feels like home, yet still challenges her in her studies and world view. (Photo by John Froschauer) Minnesota Lute finds a welcoming new home, challenges when she arrives at PLU By Barbara Clements When she was choosing a college, Laura Rudquist ’12 had a few requirements – no 40 degree below winters please, a location near a big city and

“A Holly Jolly Christmas”: Oppositional Binaries in McGrath and de Wilde’s Emma Posted by: ramosam / December 24, 2020 December 24, 2020 By Madeline Scully Both Douglas McGrath and Autumn de Wilde seize upon the holiday scenes in Emma (1815), the only Austen novel with a Christmas scene. Each film’s Christmas scene display the cultivation of relationships and community-building. However, in their respective representations of Emma and Mr. Elton (McGrath) and Emma and Mr. Knightley (de Wilde