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thoughtful individual, but I was also challenged to leave my comfort zone. In doing so I became a sojourner my junior year and lived in South Africa for 11 months, an experience that opened up my eyes to a world I didn’t know existed. Additionally, PLU encouraged me to explore my personal values, faith and views; which has resulted in strengthening my understanding of what I hold to be true. My PLU experience has provided me with opportunities I didn’t know I was seeking, a support network that has

horror that was going on in lower Manhattan that day,” Senn told us. “Going into work I had a spring in my step, couldn’t wait to get there.” Everything changed at 8:45 a.m. As soon as he arrived on scene, he witnessed the tail end of the second plane just before it hit the south tower. Looking up at the towers, he said he could see people in the windows one hundred floors up. They started jumping. “It was an excess of 100 degrees up there,” Senn said. “They knew this was it. There was nothing we

capital projects, including the renovation of Eastvold Hall which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Scheduled for completion in the fall of 2013, the center will house a remodeled Eastvold Auditorium, the new Studio Theater and the scene shop. It will be the finest performing arts center in the South Sound area. Tower Chapel will also be renovated, and has been renamed the Ness Family Chapel. It is funded through a generous gift from Kaare and Sigrunn Ness

Bakeless award, and she also has received a Whiting Award, an NEA grant and a Pushcart Prize. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies including Orion, The Georgia Review, Poets and Writers, and New Stories from the South, the Year’s Best. Rainier Writing Workshop Faculty Interview (Podcast)Rick Barot and Ann Pancake discuss creative writing, publishing, their favorite books of the year and the Rainier Writing Workshop. Read Previous Granddaughter of Charleston Shooting Victim

. Engage with our local community in learning about how poverty affects us all. South Puget Sound Higher Education Diversity Partnership Institute: Seeing the Current in the Racial Water with Dr. Robin DiAngelo Feb. 3 | 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Chris Knutzen Hall/Diversity Center | More Information           “What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race is meaningless, yet remains deeply divided by race?” Dr. DiAngelo will provide a shared framework to help us analyze the racial “water

States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson’s world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family’s upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she

Citedhooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. Sanditon. PBS Masterpiece, 2022. Works ReferencedBarrett, Lindsey. “‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’: The Political Power of the Image”. TheBlack Atlantic. Duke University: 10 Feb. 2014. “Episode One-hundred fifty: An

.  He also serves as director of the Tacoma Young Chamber Players, the South Sound’s premier chamber music experience for young adults. Dr. Lyman’s articles have been published by American Music and the International Trumpet Guild Journal. His trumpet warm-up book Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet is published by Keveli Music. The Lyric Brass Quintet’s CD, American Music for Brass Quintet, is available from Emeritus Recordings. A second album, featuring the world-premiere recording of Luther

confirmed “… and justice for all?” events. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public and take place on the PLU campus. FEBRUARY Feb. 4: The South Puget Sound Diversity Partnership invites you to an all-day conference with Dr. Caprice D. Hollins on understanding racial stereotypes and strategies for mitigating stereotype threat. 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Chris Knutson Hall in the Anderson University Center; $50 registration required. Feb. 12-14: The Vagina Monologues. PLU’s Women’s

Administration (MBA) program, a highlight is the required (and included) 10-day International Experience. Mulder describes it as “an opportunity to use the world as a classroom and meet with industry executives to learn about business best practices all over the world.” In the past decade alone, business students have traveled to places like Chile, South Korea, Singapore and China. In the years ahead, faculty members are planning learning programs in Peru and Germany. As this tradition of global learning