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Beyond the uniform By Igor Strupinskiy ’14 The sun isn’t up yet, but the PLU ROTC cadets are already standing in formation Olson Gym. A typical day for these dedicated cadets, starts at 6:30 a.m. with physical training. Junior cadet Derek Ayers and sophomore cadet…
various members of the cadre, or ROTC instructors, with different members being assigned different years. Twice a semester, and once during J-term, cadets go to Joint Base Lewis-McCord to exercise those class skills in the field, such as orienteering. Being a cadet in ROTC is only part of the students’ identity. “We’re not all Army all the time. That’s just part of what we do,” said cadet Chris Wolf, first-year student. “Mostly we’re just regular students at school.” They stand out because of their
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dCenter ’emerged’ as a resource for students, fun place to hang out For many, like senior art major Chelsea Putnam, PLU’s Diversity Center is a place to foster one’s individuality.“I really wanted to learn and gain my own individuality with this place,” said Putnam. Initially…
wouldn’t understand my struggles that I’m going through right now, I wouldn’t know myself as a person,” Vargas said. “I wouldn’t know anything about my identity without the D-Center.” Through the Diversity Center, Vargas found his vocation. “This is where I belong or at least where I ought to be,” Vargas said. “We have similar interests, we have similar struggles, we have similar rhetoric’s of understanding, we share a lot of things. We share that same vocation.” What makes the Diversity Center unique
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The Reinhold Neibuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Larry Rasmussen gives the keynote address during the Lutheran Perspectives on Political Life. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) Voices from empty chairs By Chris Albert The human species’ role in…
identity of the cross that calls people to care and nurture the most vulnerable, he said. Now, it is creation itself that is most vulnerable. The science of this crisis is no less valuable, in that it guides actions and explains what is happening around us, he said. “Science is indispensable because it can tell what is happening,” Rasmussen said. “Religion is in any case no substitute for science, yet few people will die for a pie chart.” He said how PLU is a place where those concepts can thrive and
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TACOMA, Wash (October 17, 2016) – Pacific Lutheran University prides itself on global education—it was the first university with a Study Away student on every continent at once, and nearly 50 percent of students study away, compared to the national average of 10 percent—but its…
internship or research project tailored to each student’s major or vocational interests, and general education courses offered in a unique downtown setting with community engagement and study tours: Tacoma: The Power of Place and Identity – GLST 301 (A – 4 credits) – Tacoma 101 with opportunities to learn from community members about the history and current realities of our globally connected city. Business Ethics – Dr. Sergia Hay – PHIL 225 (PH – 4 credits) Students will examine competing conceptions of
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Upcoming events for Black History Month 2017 at PLU ! Calendar sponsored by Black Student Union . 2017 Calendar of Events FEB 1; A Visual Display of PLU’s Black History Grey Area in the AUC PLU’s Campus Ministry office will present a month long visual…
women/Black femininity, racism, rage, and identity politics within the album itself and through its consumption. FEB 16 Black Male Barbershop TalkPflueger Hall 2nd Floor Study Lounge – 6pm The Barbershop in the Black community is known as a space and place of laughter, fun, community, discussing everything from religion, to sports, and most importantly issues facing the Black community. Come join us for an opportunity to discuss critical issues of success and support for Black males on PLU’s campus
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The success of the Wild Hope Center for Vocation was established, in good measure, through the lives of the faculty mentors who engage their students with questions of meaning and purpose—in the
enables PLU to consider how voices old and new to the university are shaping the story or vocation of PLU, now and into the future. The PLU project includes a faculty-authored book on the university’s educational mission, first approved in 1993; a timeline that indicates the persons, groups, events, and practices that have shaped and continue to form the university’s identity, especially the voices of indigenous people, women, international students, students, staff, and faculty of color, those who
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Originally Published in 2014 Sometimes being sick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, what it means to be sick —or to be healthy for that matter— might surprise us. As the growing field of Religion and Healing shows, our understanding of what…
healing in different ways, and all are linked by their foundation in the Christian religion. Professor Suzanne Crawford O’Brien at the 2020 Wang Symposium Looking at religion and healing from a comparative perspective, Crawford O’Brien’s course (RELI 230) invites students to consider how illness, healing, and wellness are understood and experienced in traditions outside of mainstream Christianity. This course explores how wellness has to do with the ability to maintain a working identity: a self that
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Thursday, March 4 - Symposium in Downtown Tacoma Opening Reception (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm) Location: Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, Foyer Keynote 1 (7:00 pm - 8:45 pm) The Olympic Games,
Counseling Psychology, Washington State University Location: University Center, Regency Room A-3) “Football, Futbol, Soccer – in Seattle” Gary Wright, Senior VP of Business Operations, Seattle Sounders Location: University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center A-4) “Olympic Nationalism: Narratives of Identity and Difference in the Beijing Games” This presentation examines identities of the nation-state as they are imagined through the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Through her studies of urban, educated
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Thursday, March 4 - Symposium in Downtown Tacoma Opening Reception (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm) Location: Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, Foyer Keynote 1 (7:00 pm - 8:45 pm) The Olympic Games,
Counseling Psychology, Washington State University Location: University Center, Regency Room A-3) “Football, Futbol, Soccer – in Seattle” Gary Wright, Senior VP of Business Operations, Seattle Sounders Location: University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center A-4) “Olympic Nationalism: Narratives of Identity and Difference in the Beijing Games” This presentation examines identities of the nation-state as they are imagined through the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Through her studies of urban, educated
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How do you move institutions towards living the values they claim to hold? Brian Norman '99 (full oral history interview here)
talk about their own — and not just their own identity, but the world in which they were finding themselves, and also gave them a little glimpse into the kind of activism that students could [use to] figure out mechanisms and models and histories to go about making change beyond a sort of like micro level of a student group,” he said. Brian described his time at PLU as a heyday for novel queer and gay visibility, at least in many respects. He said there were definitely instances of homophobic
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