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their families. –Maria Chávez By Maria Chávez PLU Associate Professor of Political Science When she was 11, “Ana Sofia” came to the United States on a tourist visa with her parents and sister. Now 18 and a high-school senior in Seattle, she learned of her status as an undocumented immigrant only two years ago—and has found the new knowledge unsettling. “It’s just the feeling of feeling unwanted,” she said. “Even though you have not done anything bad—because I don’t feel I’ve ever done anything bad

youth basketball teams and builds community connections through steering-committee roles with political campaigns—you know; in his spare time. “At the core of what I do, both professionally and in service to my community, is communicating information about opportunities, services and resources,” Powers told the Business Examiner. And now he’s looking forward to even more connections. “I’m excited for the opportunity to connect with other honorees,” he said. “There are folks in this year’s class from

political science and economics. He hopes to attend law school after graduating, then work as a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. State Department — once he’s old enough to do so, at age 30. Ramirez-Ortiz chose PLU because while a smaller school, it’s also globally connected, with opportunities to study abroad and meet people from around the world. “PLU is where you can prepare to become part of the international community,” he says. He plans to take advantage of study-away opportunities, particularly

producing concerts through LASR for laying the groundwork toward pursuing an individualized major. The route allowed him to design and propose his own program of study. “I realized that combining those elements and creating a specialized major would open my schedule up for doing things like internships and individualized study courses that would create a better educational outcome.” Similarly, Nicole Query ’22 enrolled at PLU with plans to double major in history and political science, and minor in

society,” she said. “We must ask what the implications of this continued political and professional underrepresentation is on our society and our democratic institutions. Beyond issues of representation, this research is important for our civic health.” She said that fact clearly illustrates the need to address the achievement gap through better public policies and educational support systems at every stage in the pipeline. “It’s inequitable practices in education that lead to a lack of achievement

being able to foster that engagement. I’m always in a process of tweaking classes, making them more pertinent to students. You know, some of the things that we talk about in the Spanish Civil War, we can use them to talk about our current political climate. Taking a historical moment that is foreign to students and making it current, or at least pertinent. PM: I like what you say about being able to foster student engagement. They discover that French is something that they need. It is an experience

political messiness and social friction.” The other “takes the prettifications at face value and asks how they happened.” The push and pull between these two relationships to Austen is evident in the reactions to the newest version of Persuasion; reviewers crave an immersion in the world of Austen that they feel they’re denied even as many try to show how the prettification happened by focusing on recent Austen-adjacent productions. Dames’s formulations are powerfully illuminating. On one view they can

person I am now, a much more confident and self-assured individual compared to who I was in September 2009 as a first-year student. What’s next? I plan on taking the year off to work in a field related to sustainability or geology before attending Colorado State University to attain my master’s degree in watershed science, focusing on alpine hydrology. Bernice Monkah, Bachelor of Arts in economics with an mathematical economics concentration and political science with a minor in mathematics Why PLU

understand what’s going on and adjust my life accordingly.” However, Hofrenning’s post-graduate plans span further than mere governance. Hofrenning aims to combine his degree with his religion and Hispanic studies minors to contribute to progressive peacebuilding in Colombia. “(I want to look) at what opportunities come out of the political landscape down there right now,” Hofrenning said, “and to use what I learned from Hispanic studies to insert myself and start working in Hispanic politics

stationed nearby at Joint Base Lewis-McChord — don’t have a city council or city liaisons to contact for support. Studies of the economy, health and wellness of unincorporated communities have shown clear results. The World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that “lack of municipal status is a structural determinant of health responsible for social conditions which generate cumulative health risks for residents.” As an unincorporated community, Parkland receives basic services from Pierce County