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  • to better understand what sorts of strategies immigrants living on the US/Mexico border have developed to determine their own circumstances, often in the context of injustice, social inequality, geographical displacement, and human rights violations. Our program also included visits with Kate Pritchard (PLU ’14) and Brian Erickson (PLU ’09), two PLU Hispanic Studies alumni who are currently working on supporting and advocating for immigrant communities on the US/Mexico Border. Border Patrol

  • spirit of social justice lives on through a legacy scholarship established in his memory. Read More Going Places Kristina Walker ’02 first discovered Copenhagen and its hundreds of kilometers of bike routes as a PLU study-away student. When she returned to Denmark more than a decade later, it was as executive director of Tacoma’s Downtown on the Go. Read More The Reboot of Outdoor Rec Back in the 1990s, campus outdoor recreation programs were roughing it due to a lack of organization, leadership and

  • sustainability. She said students of color at PLU are “hypervisible” and sometimes they want and need to be in a space where they are like everyone else. It’s how they recharge, she added, in order to bear some of the big questions about social justice that they have no choice but to confront on a daily basis. PLU is having an ongoing conversation about trying to create more of these spaces, Hambrick said. In addition, Taiwo said PLU must hire more staff and faculty of color who understand students

  • students each year. Georgia said she’s working with the Tacoma-based program, Ready to Rise, to identify scholarship recipients. The program is spearheaded by Degrees of Change, an organization that works to extend the reach of the Act Six initiative, which fully funded Panago’s education at PLU. Awardees must embody Panago’s values, including a deep passion for social justice. Tim Herron, Degrees of Change president, says Panago lived the Act Six mission, particularly after his time at PLU. He “poured

  • seamless cloth between my work life, family life, and my faith,” she says. Make it better Life intervenes in ways that can thwart any aspiration, through no fault of your own. Art Thiel '75“I’m not someone who likes to measure success by counting things — how many times I’ve done something, or how much money I’ve made,” says Art Thiel ’75. These days, he says, “I don’t find things like money, prestige or social media likes personally rewarding.” A legendary sportswriter and commentator for the Seattle

  • & Magnetism4PHYS 100TR4Gen Ed (Natural World) Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism5PHYS 1544Gen Ed (Natural World) Physics C: Mechanics4PHYS 100TR4Gen Ed (Natural World) Physics C: Mechanics5PHYS 1534Gen Ed (Natural World) Psychology4 or 5PSYC 1014Gen Ed (Examining Self & Society) Research4 or 5GENR 100TR4Elective Seminar4 or 5GENR 100TR4Elective Statistics4 or 5STAT 2314Gen Ed (Quantitative Reasoning) [May not be used to fulfill the statistics requirement for degrees in psychology, sociology, social work or

  • & Magnetism4PHYS 100TR4Gen Ed (Natural World) Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism5PHYS 1544Gen Ed (Natural World) Physics C: Mechanics4PHYS 100TR4Gen Ed (Natural World) Physics C: Mechanics5PHYS 1534Gen Ed (Natural World) Psychology4 or 5PSYC 1014Gen Ed (Examining Self & Society) Research4 or 5GENR 100TR4Elective Seminar4 or 5GENR 100TR4Elective Statistics4 or 5STAT 2314Gen Ed (Quantitative Reasoning) [May not be used to fulfill the statistics requirement for degrees in psychology, sociology, social work or

  • school in her hometown of Portland, Ore. “Competitive juices run in the family,” Potter said. “Sports became a bigger deal as I got older.” Potter picked up basketball in fifth grade but didn’t begin track until her teens. “In high school, it was for more of a social aspect,” Potter said. “But I have gotten more competitive with it and have taken it to a higher level.” (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Potter, who competes on the women’s basketball and track teams, hurls the shotput. +Enlarge Photo And

  • getting to know the people that live in the group homes,” Markuson said. “They bring a lot of joy to my life, and when we sit and talk and share stories, that’s what I love.” As a PLU student, Markuson worked as a Resident Assistant for three years; learned about social justice and racism; and took advantage of Study Away opportunities, traveling to New Zealand and Ecuador on J-Term trips and studying for a semester in Botswana. “For me, studying away was such a great opportunity to understand the