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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 12, 2016)- Jane Wong knows good poetry when she hears it. The published poet, who is a visiting assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was impressed with her students’ prose and wanted to share them off campus. “They are real…

    simple — they’re good, and I wanted people to see that,” Wong said. “I really wanted it to be part of a larger community and have the public come in.” Khilfeh, an English writing major with a fiction and poetry emphasis, shared several poems exploring her Palestinian heritage. Khilfeh appears white, and said it’s more natural to use poetry to explore her “ethnicity that’s hidden.”“I think that poetry is probably the easiest place for me to talk about heritage,” Khilfeh said. “In poetry, lots of

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 3, 2017)- You know it’s a good class when even the professor goes home shouting: “You’re not going to believe what we learned today!” Joanna Gregson, professor of sociology, says she told her husband just that throughout her January Term course “Policing…

    explain what they were seeing. While Premo helped develop the course, he says he learned from the experience, too. “I just didn’t consider that many people don’t realize what the police do on a daily basis,” he said. “I hope this class has given the students some insights into what the police do and why it is so important in our society.” Read Previous DCHAT Podcast: PLU Dean of Natural Sciences Matt Smith answers alumni questions Read Next Black History Month at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand…

    investigating the major ideas and products in the history of computing and business. Our attention turned this week to the introduction of Apple’s breakthrough home-computing product, which emerged during the first surge of commercial PC innovation in the late 1970s. This era is also known for the release of the SOL-20 (1977), the Tandy TRS-80 (1977), the Commodore PET (1977), and (eventually) the IBM PC (1981). “To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive,” wrote

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)-The seventh episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “failure” among host and Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, Associate Professor of Art and Design Jp Avila , and Assistant Professor of Business Kory Brown . “Open…

    for both the failure, a meaningful failure that then they can recover from. In a way, we want to create this setting, the environment where they actually can fail. Academia is a very safe place to fail. Perhaps, more importantly, provide sufficient time for them to struggle through the recovery process with sufficient coaching and with the interaction that Jp is addressing here. For example, this last semester, I taught an entrepreneurship course. They started companies. They built products. They

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 27, 2016)- The scene: a cramped room somewhere in a Pacific Lutheran University residence hall at the beginning of the millennium. The characters: five nerdy dudes, each with a handful of dice and plenty of junk food. This is “The Gamers,” a…

    . “We’re not punching down.”   That approach directly relates to Dobyns’ activism, which started during his time as a student at PLU. He was heavily involved with Harmony, an advocacy group for the LGBTQ community at the time. He said using media to bring people together is a natural progression. “This is a silly comedy about gaming, but we are also making a show that addresses meaningful values,” Dobyns said. “We’re not hitting people over the head.” He added that other shows he’s produced — including

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 1, 2016)- Bryanna Plog ’10 seems to have done it all in her years after Pacific Lutheran University – teaching English abroad in Colombia, writing books about travel and interning for a conservation nonprofit. But now, she says, serving as a park…

    parents were teachers and always had summers free. So, the family would take trips to many national parks. So, it seemed natural to try a summer internship outdoors. That hooked her. After two summers at Zion National Park in Utah, Plog spent a summer at Katmai National Park and a summer at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park – both in Alaska. Plog is currently at Yosemite through October, after being officially hired by the Park Service in January 2013. She works at Zion in the winter months, which she

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…

    . Now, I can figure out the steps to take care of myself."- Kiana Norman '17 Norman said writing a letter to herself for Lisosky’s assignment seemed like a natural approach. “The idea just came to me,” she said. It was an instant hit with her classmates. Lisosky said she had to get it published somewhere. So, Norman decided to shoot for the stars and submitted it to The Washington Post, The New York Times and other notable publications. After a series of “no” responses, Norman stumbled across The

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures  will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…

    Guzman’s words “to travel from the Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution.” Weaving together archival photos of Patagonians, interviews with their descendants and sympathetic scholars, and breathtaking footage of natural wonders on earth and in space, Guzman has created a film of unusual, cruel beauty, as accessible as it is mind-boggling.* Languages: Spanish, Kawésqar MustangFriday, Sept. 30 | 5:30 p.m. | Ingram 100 Mustang begins at the point when the childhoods of five orphaned sisters in the

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