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Exhibit Overview This exhibit highlights resources for exploring the south Puget Sound indigenous Salish family of languages, including Twulshootseed. As the PLU land acknowledgement notes, “PLU is on the traditional lands of the Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin Island and Steilacoom peoples; we acknowledge and respect the…
and practice of acknowledgment, linking this content to treaty relationships (or lack thereof).” Print Books (on display) These first two books listed are not related to Salish languages but are include in this exhibit due to their focus on indigenous language and writing. E98.E85G46 2003 Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing E98.E85A48 2006 American Indian rhetorics of survivance: word medicine, word magic Below are books more locally focused on people and language. E99.P98A5x
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Dave Robbins Steps Down after 33 Years as Chair of the Department of Music Greg Youtz’s first glimpse of Dave Robbins was him strolling down a hallway in Eastvold, while his two-year-old daughter toddled along at his side, clutching his finger. “I remember thinking that…
said. “When I first arrived, they already had been working for a couple years and it was just around the corner. Literally, Dave worked on this for probably seventeen years.” The committee consisted of everybody from the then president and Board of Regents, to the architects and PLU facilities representatives. “The fact that we have this building, and that we got not only phase one, but phase two – that is largely due to Dave’s tenacity and just reminding all of us, ‘hang in there guys, it’s coming
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Intensive Caring – PLU nurses take their skills to cardiac patients at their homes By Barbara Clements Leo Rivas, a Pacific Lutheran University nursing student, had stopped by for a chat with his client, Trevor Modeste, 54, who lives in a tidy rambler tucked between…
discovered that Meade was trying to pay his $300 medication bill out of his own pocket. Ross helped Meade and his wife navigate the VA benefits labyrinth and also discovered that he wasn’t getting the disability benefits he should have been receiving for the last three decades. “Took a couple of visits to figure out what was going on,” Ross says modestly. “As a nurse, you don’t’ just take care of the patient, but the whole family.” It’s this sort of attitude and the changes in the lives of the patients
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Photo by John Froschauer Cancer survivor inspires teammates with spirit, perseverance and a mid-90s fastball By Nick Dawson It was only one pitch, but it was a pitch filled with emotion for PLU pitcher Max Beatty ’14 and the entire PLU baseball family – coaches,…
the previous summer, those numbers were continued downright unbelievable considering what he had gone through during the previous seven months. Even more encouraging than all of that for Beatty, however, was hearing from doctors early in the 2012 summer season that he was cancer-free; blood work showed no traces of cancer in his body. “To hear that news,” he said at the time, “is awesome.” That was last summer. A couple of months later in October, Beatty was back with his Lute teammates for fall
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By Layne Nordgren Turnitin provides originality- and plagiarism-checking for student papers and includes a set of online tools for faculty to provide in-context feedback for students. For PLU courses, Turnitin can be enabled as an option when creating a Sakai Assignment . On June 3,…
called Turnitin: Feedback Studio to reflect the integration of originality reports and grading functions into the same interface. Originality Reports will be renamed Similarity Reports to more accurately describe relationships between submitted papers and text matched in Turnitin database sources. And since GradeMark is no longer a separate product in Feedback Studio, its features (for providing grading feedback to students) will simply be known as Grading. Screen Layout and Tool Location Feedback
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Something I thought I’d never do: Sing for 12 million people! By Kari Plog ’11 John Marzano never thought he would be on live television singing in front of millions of people – but that’s exactly what he did alongside nine other close friends over…
group spent a lot of time playing “silly games” to pass time backstage. Both Serino and Marzano said the experience was a great bonding opportunity. “For me, it wasn’t about AGT so much,” Serino said. “I had more joy building relationships with the group and with people backstage.” Marzano said he was friends with all the PLUtonic guys before, but those friendships grew deeper through this experience. “We bonded a lot down there,” he said. “We are closer than we’ve ever been because of this
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Caring course work Anna McCracken ’14 is preparing to hand out prepackaged salad in the bottom level of Food Connections – one of the services housed in the Catholic Community Services building by St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Hilltop Tacoma. Beside her other volunteers are…
, the Nativity House, Tacoma Community Center and the Tacoma Rescue Mission. The students came to make a difference, but the impact of the experience ended up changing how they see the world. “For me it was about learning how exactly we can be helpful to other people,” McCracken said. “Being present is the most important thing we can do.” “It opened my eyes to how community and how relationships are truly valuable,” said Nicole Gallego ’11, sociology major from Federal Way, Wash. “The experience
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PLU Associate Professor Vidya Thirumurthy draws a kolam, an artful design that Hindu households use to communicate with their community. (Photo by John Froschauer) Connecting the dots: Letting neighbors know “all is well” with the world By Steve Hansen, Scene Editor Each morning, on the…
a Hindu tradition, but they learn simple mathematical concepts, and spatial orientation and relationships through their daily creations. Children will unknowingly take those concepts they learned on their doorstep and use them, later, in the classroom. “At the time, I never thought much about it,” Thirumurthy said. “But there is probably a relationship between designing kolams and mathematical concepts.” When Thirumurthy returns to southeast India this fall, she will be looking for other
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By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Jan. 28, 2015)—If you can’t make it to the Seattle Seahawks’ pre-Super Bowl rally in Arizona on Jan. 31, you can take comfort in the fact that at least one Pacific Lutheran University graduate will…
graduated, and the company has grown to more than 212 employees (including other Lutes recruited and hired by Dilts) and taken on sponsorship of the MBA Executive Speaker Series on campus. Pyramid Staging started out on a much smaller stage, so to speak, and built its clientele over time. “It’s really a small world, and everything is 100-percent relationship-driven,” Dilts said. Many of those relationships formed during his time at PLU. “Earning my MBA at PLU has helped me in so many ways, it’s hard to
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Pacific Lutheran University’s Wild Hope Center for Vocation is pleased to announce it has been awarded a two-year, $49,612 NETVUE program development grant from the Council for Independent Colleges. Wild Hope was established in 2003, to support students and faculty as they explore life’s big…
, faculty seminar on Lutheran Higher Education, and fellows program. Our Meant to Live events connect alumni and current students. This year, our student interns produced an amazing video series and podcast which are worth checking out! Vocation is such a complex, rich, and important concept and we hope that the Wild Hope Institute will help us to reach every student who wants to engage with it. Real work around vocation requires time, trusting relationships and mentoring, critical questioning, reading
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