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Lute earns spot in prestigious public policy program at Carnegie Mellon, along with full-ride scholarship Posted by: Kari Plog / May 15, 2018 Image: Riley Dolan ’19 chats with Bob Ferguson, Washington state attorney general, during Ferguson’s visit to campus earlier this year. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) May 15, 2018 By Helen Smith '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 15, 2018) — Riley Dolan ’19 never intended to go into political science in college. That changed after coming
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political science and economics. He hopes to attend law school after graduating, then work as a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. State Department — once he’s old enough to do so, at age 30. Ramirez-Ortiz chose PLU because while a smaller school, it’s also globally connected, with opportunities to study abroad and meet people from around the world. “PLU is where you can prepare to become part of the international community,” he says. He plans to take advantage of study-away opportunities, particularly
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producing concerts through LASR for laying the groundwork toward pursuing an individualized major. The route allowed him to design and propose his own program of study. “I realized that combining those elements and creating a specialized major would open my schedule up for doing things like internships and individualized study courses that would create a better educational outcome.” Similarly, Nicole Query ’22 enrolled at PLU with plans to double major in history and political science, and minor in
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being able to foster that engagement. I’m always in a process of tweaking classes, making them more pertinent to students. You know, some of the things that we talk about in the Spanish Civil War, we can use them to talk about our current political climate. Taking a historical moment that is foreign to students and making it current, or at least pertinent. PM: I like what you say about being able to foster student engagement. They discover that French is something that they need. It is an experience
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political messiness and social friction.” The other “takes the prettifications at face value and asks how they happened.” The push and pull between these two relationships to Austen is evident in the reactions to the newest version of Persuasion; reviewers crave an immersion in the world of Austen that they feel they’re denied even as many try to show how the prettification happened by focusing on recent Austen-adjacent productions. Dames’s formulations are powerfully illuminating. On one view they can
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understand what’s going on and adjust my life accordingly.” However, Hofrenning’s post-graduate plans span further than mere governance. Hofrenning aims to combine his degree with his religion and Hispanic studies minors to contribute to progressive peacebuilding in Colombia. “(I want to look) at what opportunities come out of the political landscape down there right now,” Hofrenning said, “and to use what I learned from Hispanic studies to insert myself and start working in Hispanic politics
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was not what he saw when he was flying injured soldiers and Marines out of the battlefields of Iraq to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Hrivnak, a professional firefighter now, and a U.S. Air Force captain with 20 years of service, urged the audience to consider writing about their experiences. There is a power in the written word that details first-hand experiences, he stressed. Hrivnak said that because of political feelings about the Iraq War, residents in other countries feel that all Americans are
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professions across the board. “Latinos are underrepresented in powerful segments of American society,” she said. “We must ask what the implications of this continued political and professional underrepresentation is on our society and our democratic institutions. Beyond issues of representation, this research is important for our civic health.”Politics and Government at PLULearn more about the department and the majors within itShe said that fact clearly illustrates the need to address the achievement
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consequence of losing her Chinese citizenship. No matter how she looked at it, she felt she was forfeiting a part of her identity. “It’s not that I can’t go back to China ever again,” Huang said. “It’s just – I’m feeling distant now, like an outsider, because my nationality isn’t Chinese but my – everything else is.” Still, Huang says time and reflection has helped change her perspective. Now, she is focusing on the opportunities that lie ahead. The current tumultuous political climate has galvanized more
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