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most positive examples of “building a diverse community has taken place on college campuses.” The PLU community should be a beacon of light to the world and see uniqueness as a gift, he said. In a largely student-led service, that message was echoed again and again. Bashair Alazadi, who helped form the Muslim Association and Allies this year, pointed out the similarities between Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Alazadi ’13, a business major, noted that nowhere does the Koran condone killing

take on projects that improve public health and reduce disease. “We feel there’s plenty of water, we just need to capture it and use it correctly,” McKenney said. McKenney highlighted three of their current projects in Oaxaca, Mexico in his discussion Friday morning. The projects include building 8,000-gallon rainwater catchment systems as part of a rainwater harvesting program in the Bravo Ahuja district of Oaxaca, creating a wetland for sewage treatment in Santo Domingo Barrio Bajo Etla, and

restoration efforts in the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center further west. Efforts to expand and enhance the native species in the Tobiason Center have been on-going. This past year, Assistant Professor of Biology Romey Haberle helped start a biology space adjacent to the Mary Baker Russell building. The plants from that space will be used as part of the Tobiason Center project, as well as to increase native plant species presence on the vacant hill space across from the Morken Center. Last summer

long awaited and much anticipated event,” President Loren J. Anderson told the assembled crowd. The 60 year-old Eastvold had been identified as a building in dire need of revitalizing as far back as 1995, he said. It took a series of steps to get to this occasion. First was a fundraising effort ran purely by volunteers that raised $10 million. “It was, I think, by any stretch the most successful volunteer fundraising in the university’s history,” Anderson said. The next was a generous gift left to

Amateur Night and later as a member of the renowned Nuyorican Poets Café’s slam team. In 2008, he collaborated with Tony Award-winning tap dance legend Savion Glover on Broadway. (Photo by Emily Noelle Ignacio) “It’s amazing to connect with such diverse audiences along this journey,” says Gómez,“ from a working-class neighborhood in San Antonio to a rural town in Indiana to the beach breezes of Miami to a theater on Broadway. It’s the ultimate testament to creativity bringing people together, building

building and enhancing our community through the study, practice and understanding of artistic expression. Housing the departments of Art & Design, Communication & Theatre, and Music — and presenting more than 250 events each season — SOAC combines the best practices of liberal arts education and exploration with the values and benefits of applied and professional study. SOAC offers several artistic achievement awards to talented students in Art & Design, Dance, Forensics (Speech & Debate), Music and

May 15, 2011 Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke to a crowd of 15,000 at the Tacoma Dome urging them to change their world for the good, one act at a time.   Tutu urges 15,000 in Tacoma Dome to be the spark that changes a community, a life. By Barbara Clements If you see people who are hungry, feed them. If they need pants, give them a pair. After all, Levi’s are not just going to float down from above. And, in the end, our humanity is ultimately defined by our relationship to each other. These clear

representative of the US,” Hylander said. “I pursued Fulbright because I want to learn more about Latin America, specifically about the US’s relationship with Colombia and other Latin American countries and I want to learn how I can work for social justice in Latin America and for Latin American immigrants in the US.” Caitlin Walton ’12 – ETA in Malaysia Walton – from Colorado Springs, Colo. – graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education. She has accepted an ETA position in Malaysia. There she

talk to students, but so far her PLU classes haven’t synced well enough with AVID classes for tutoring. “There’s still time,” she said. “If it wasn’t for them, my school career would have been a lot harder with a different outcome. I’m so very grateful for that relationship because I have done so much more than academics.” Read Previous Daffodil Royalty Blossoms at PLU Read Next How ‘€˜Packaged Pleasures’€™ Have Changed Us All COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear

improv is what it does for the human brain.  There’s exciting new research about what’s called the Default Mode Network (DMN): it’s the home of creativity, and flow, innovation and breakthrough insight. Improv strengthens the DMN. It activates empathy, self-value, and the synthesis of ideas. Improvisational relationships — where each relationship participant is equal and unique — are healthy, productive, synergistic relationships. And so, businesses thrive when the minds that make them up are improv