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January 11, 2008 UC, Morken powered by wind turbines As of Jan. 1, nearly 20 percent of the university’s energy is being purchased from renewable sources. The commitment to purchase “green” energy stems from the culture of the university, said Dave Kohler, director of facilities. Renewable energy is energy generated from natural sources that cannot be depleted, like wind and solar power. He points to the university’s mission to “care for the earth,” President Anderson’s signing of the

her passions. She connected with other international students and guided subsequent Trinidad and Tobago students when they came to campus. “PLU is a forum to be who you are, meet people, discuss diverse issues and discover our community,” Hughes said. “This notion of service and care extends beyond the classroom.” The Diversity Center turned out to be one of the best outlets for Hughes to express herself. Through it, she organized the first campus carnival, now an annual event. The carnival is an

how Rome dealt with its prisoners – not very nicely – and the animals it used in the Coliseum games. Some animals faired a bit better than the convicts, simply because they were so expensive to capture, transport and care for, Nelson said. In both films –Animal Gladiators will air later this year – Nelson worked as an expert consultant, giving a flavor of the culture of the time and the mindset of the population. “Machines of Malice” will look at how “advancements in technology” – such as

spent his first day at Sol y Luna feeding Daniel his lunch, cleaning him up and making sure he could rest comfortably. He continued providing this one-on-one care in the days and weeks to follow, but soon Sol y Luna’s director Marian Joanna Hijlkema had other plans for Williams. After his second or third trip to Mexico to volunteer Hijlkema finally asked him about his background. “Up to that point I just said that I was a Norte who liked to spend time in Merida and wanted to volunteer,” Williams

by Mary Oliver brings to life this journey of vocation – “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” “Colleges need to remain places where you can ask troubling questions, push the boundaries and seek knowledge wherever that might be,” Krise said. He expressed how PLU is a place where care for the mind, spirit, body, community and the earth are pillars to stand on. He reminded students that the faculty and staff who work here are following their vocation. “PLU is full of people where

, an independent online news site devoted to covering aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community, purposefully combats our urge to simply skip over humanitarian journalism. Instead, says founder Tom Paulson ’80, it is “geared toward making people really care about poverty.” “When I was in college, we didn’t even know this stuff was going on,” Paulson says. In his quest to keep humanitarian stories interesting, evermore relevant and impossible to skip over, Paulson says

PLU’s mission is built to tackle challenging issues like those all people face moving past this divisive election cycle. “The word ‘care’ in our mission statement is especially important today: PLU is and will remain a place that honors, respects and protects people of all kinds: of all races and ethnicities, all religions, all classes, all sexual identities, all nationalities,” he said. “We Lutes will work together to do what we can, in our institution and in our communities, to build a model for

central to our institution’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.” Read Previous PLU named Top 10 Peace Corps producer in the country Read Next Gov. Inslee visits campus for town hall meeting with PLU community COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS

the audience to consider the need to go beyond traditional civil rights reform to protect the rights of trans and gender-nonconforming people. UC Berkeley-based physician and medical anthropologist Seth Holmes examines social hierarchies, health inequities and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems and health care. “Polarization not only drives people apart, it also discourages the kind of

, and their passions,” Mulder said. “There is an incredible amount of support from faculty, and students are never a number … but rather a relationship. Even students who were a bit unsure of a master’s degree in analytics find that they can flourish in analytics because of this approach. In all cases, the care that PLU is known for will be present in the course design, whether that is working independently at times, or with others.” MSMA students have the option of enrolling in a nine-month or 21