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to learn more about the game and other connection events. Even though Leah’s parents are both alumni (her mother, Ruth, is a new member of the university’s Alumni Board), she fell in love with the campus after visiting her cousin who attended the university. “She was having such a great time there and she had such a good experience and everybody there was so nice,” Leah recalled. “I’ve never met somebody from PLU that wasn’t nice.” That’s what her dad remembers most fondly, too — the people. “The

discuss his experience taking classes in the Rieke Science Center, which is currently undergoing improvements to ensure students like Simpson get the best educational experience possible.Why did you want to study nursing? I chose to study nursing because caring for others is extremely important to me, and I am also extremely interested in biology. So, combining those two aspects in a major like nursing seemed like a great idea. Also, my grandma is a nurse, my brother’s a nurse and my sister’s a nurse

Center for Media Studies. “MediaLab will continue to exist and will simply become part of the new Center,” Wells explained. “The real intent here is to increase the overall capacity of our programs and do an even better job of integrating our campus with surrounding communities. We can help and learn a great deal from each other.” Learn more here. An artist’s rendering of Garfield Station. Garfield Station The 120,000+-square-foot Garfield Station is moving full speed ahead toward a scheduled

. Responding to endorsement questionnaires and doing endorsement interviews was incredibly time consuming but was a great way to get to know organizations and their priorities. The forums were challenging but were a great way to get to know what some members of the community care about. And meeting people at their doors and asking what they care about took hours and hours and hours but was a great way to get to know the voters. Ultimately, I think running for office was the best practice for the job — but

have a global literacy. We have a particular lived experience that may be similar or dissimilar to lived experiences of others. I think language and culture teach us about ourselves, but also teach us empathy for others. For me, the study and teaching of languages and literatures was a way to gain a closer understanding, a closer bond, to my own heritage. The ability to study my own culture in a critical academic way grounds me in my own heritage. I view it as a great privilege to share my heritage

Latinx person, as an indigenous person, as an Asian person, and so on,” she explains. “These are not always comfortable conversations, but I’ve found great joy and a sort of liberation in the opportunities for honesty, resolve and direction they can provide.” -Kristy Gledhill ’21 (pictured above) Kristy Gledhill ’21, a recent graduate of Rainier Writing Workshop, PLU’s creative writing MFA program, agrees. “Those breakout discussions can be the most valuable part of the event, but they can also be

rather swiftly. And they crucified people a lot, he noted. One mass crucifixion (the remains of Spartacus’ rebellion) stretched for 300 miles along the Via Appia leading from Rome. Romans considered the convicts subhuman and not worthy of mercy, he noted. Animals captured for the shows in the great Coliseum weren’t torture, but in the end, did die. During the time when the great shows were at their height, between the first and third century AD, thousands of animals from tigers to hippos, died. So

Oregon, but I found a great, flourishing Asian community here that I can call my friends. It is a place that makes me feel like I can be me. Who impacted you the most at PLU? Dr. Sailu Lulu Li has been my biggest mentor. She is also from China. Dr. Lulu jump-started my finance career and walked me through how to navigate America as a first-generation Chinese immigrant, especially in the field of finance. You started as a business major with a concentration in accounting but switched to a

Oregon, but I found a great, flourishing Asian community here that I can call my friends. It is a place that makes me feel like I can be me. Who impacted you the most at PLU? Dr. Sailu Lulu Li has been my biggest mentor. She is also from China. Dr. Lulu jump-started my finance career and walked me through how to navigate America as a first-generation Chinese immigrant, especially in the field of finance. You started as a business major with a concentration in accounting but switched to a