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campus and observe these two subjects at play in various sites around Tacoma. For students this means a lot of field trips. “Being able to see the different temples has been really great because you get to see that not every Buddhist does the same thing,” said sophomore religion major Haley Bridgewater.The course was originally meant to be a part of the new Tacoma Immersion Experience Program (TIES). This study away program had intended to take PLU students off campus and into Tacoma. When students

-related surgeries, filed a personal injury claim against the Army and enrolled in a Ph.D. in nursing science program. Blanchard, a recently retired Army captain and mother to three young boys, has also become an outspoken advocate for workplace safety. She’s forthright with her story, bold in her critiques of power and encouraging in her message of change. Her advocacy has led her to speaking engagements all over the country, with a wide variety of audiences including military personnel, human

trade agreements at the time, Barlow noticed that water was listed as a tradable commodity. Odd, she thought at the time. And unfair. “I thought (water) should be free for all, and considered a resource,” she mused before she spoke this spring at the Wang Center Symposium, which focused on water – both its growing scarcity and value, as well as its impact on socioeconomic trends. “I guess since I wasn’t a lawyer or a scientists, I saw these issues with fresh eyes,” said Barlow, who has a degree in

May 2, 2012 Mary Lund Davis Student Investment Club board members Cameron Lamarche ’12, Kirk Swanson ’12, Phillip Magnussen ’13 and Arne-Morten Willumsen ’13 pose in front of the Wall Street Bull in New York City during the G.A.M.E. Conference. Lutes on Wall Street By Chris Albert This spring, five PLU students and one professor were checking into their hotel in New York City for the G.A.M.E (Global Asset Management Education) Forum, when it dawned on the students they were really here and this

about it,” said Baghirov of her time at PLU. “It made you look at what you were learning and how it could be taken to a higher level. I may not have thought of it at the time as preparation for the Peace Corps but it was. I may not have thought of it as this is my wild hope component but it was.” Baghirov applied for the Peace Corps during summer 2006. The idea of Austin Goble ’09, Ruth Tollefson ’09, Raechelle Baghirov 05, listen while Sallie Strueby ’11, speaks during an Alumni panel discussion on

not too close. He double majored in global studies and Hispanic studies and minored in Holocaust and genocide studies. We recently met with the PLU senior to discuss his plans for improving health for all. What did you enjoy or learn from your Global Studies major? I enjoyed learning about the strengths and challenges experienced by countries worldwide. In my classes, we studied countries through the use of case studies. It’s important to me to learn what’s happening beyond the United States and

which a miserly and miserable Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Of these, the most powerful is the Spirit of Christmas Past, who sets the groundwork for Ebenezer’s eventual transformation.   Professor Eric Nelson at 208 Garfield in 2013 Not that he was all that interested, at least in the beginning, in changing. Scrooge was mired in his understanding of his past and in his ways, and not at all happy about being forced into a review of them. But an

Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put

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in some area of expertise manage to engage audiences that don’t necessarily know that much about their topic in a way that is accessible and exciting,” Young says. Young explains that there are a lot of barriers to intellectuals contributing to the leadership of public and social movements. “The idea of actually caring about writing for public audiences is seen as not serious and a bad use of your time. Because what you should be doing is writing for journals and writing books,” Young says