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the year. This year’s celebration is led by 15 outstanding PLU students, one of whom will be crowned PLU’s Lucia and receive a $500 scholarship. In Sweden, Lucia Day is celebrated on Dec. 13 in schools and in the workplace. In Swedish homes, the eldest daughter rises early in the morning, dresses in a white gown with a red sash and wears a crown of candles in her hair. She wakes her family at dawn and serves coffee, gingerbread cookies and Lussekatter. The Lucia custom was introduced to the PLU
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inequality on campus. Continuing a critical dialogue is another step that can help gain solidarity on campus.” According to a 2014 USA Today story, a white police officer killed a black person twice a week from 2005 to 2012. This statistic, in the opinion of Harris, transcends any fading media focus. “Just because Ferguson may not be a hot topic any more in the media or on campus does not mean that it is not within the black community,” she said. “This a reality we are forced to live.” Read Previous
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be used disingenuously to gain access to to different marginalized group. Dodson pointed out that being a real advocate for something is a continuous process, and Jennifer Smith noted that titles like “woke” or “ally” is not something you can give yourself — because that very action defeats the purpose. The group agreed that performative allyship stems from a desire to absolve oneself from the infrastructures of white supremacy, to align oneself as not part of the problem, to gain
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story tells of Lucia coming on a ship, in the cold, dark winter, bringing food during a famine in Sweden. Under the old Julian calendar, December 13th was the shortest day and longest night of the year. This was the day Lucia came bringing light and hope in their darkest time of year. In more recent times, the tradition has changed. A daughter of the house, usually the eldest, rises very early on December 13th, Lucia Day, bringing coffee and saffron buns to her parents and family. She wears a white
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report Prohibited Conduct in several ways: Submit a report online: anyone is able to electronically submit a report via the online Incident Reporting Form. Impacted Parties can remain anonymous; however, the Title IX office will only be able to act on as much information as is given. Contact the Title IX Coordinator or Deputy Coordinators via email or phone: Jennifer Childress-White, Title IX Coordinator (childrjl@plu.edu, titleix@plu.edu, or 253.535.7361) Eva Frey, Deputy Title IX Coordinator
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1968 Summer Olympics when medal winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in a black power salute on the winner’s stand. David Maraniss, Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World (Simon & Schuster 2008) A look at the Summer Olympics during the cold war when issues of East and West, Black and White (Mohammed Ali was still Cassius Clay), male and female, and amateur and professional really emerged. Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro, Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
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involving public and private sector leaders to establish the field of “virtual exchange” which culminated in the establishment of the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative announced by U.S. President Obama in February 2015. Idriss is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and recipient of the Open Society Foundation’s New Executive Award in 2015. Shamil Idriss at The White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism Shamil Idriss at US Institute for Peace on the Role of
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religions, as I want others to do the same with my faith.” She also appreciated PLU’s interdisciplinary focus and the ability to explore intriguing and important coursework topics. For her capstone, Sandhu and her group melded social justice and computer science, crafting a web-based advocacy platform for hate crime mapping that combines national and state-level statistics. In her 2023 J-Term, Sandhu spent a month researching and studying forced migration at Oxford University. Oxford’s tutorial system
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-Hays Award to do curriculum work in Namibia during July. Jennifer Jenkins, assistant professor of German, was selected to participate during the summer of 2010 in the Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German Studies, funded by the German American Fulbright Commission and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden- Württemberg. Read Previous Crime of My Very Existence Read Next Transfer student finds his home at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If
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. Cantata 191 Gloria in excelsis Deo Christiansen, F. Melius Beautiful Savior 1994-95Luther-Olds A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Howells, Herbert Magnificat Rachmaninoff, Sergei Bogoroditse Devo (Rejoice O Virgin) Harris, William Faire Is The Heav’n Christiansen, F. Melius O Day Full of Grace Kverno, Trond Ave Maris Stella Bach, Johann Sebastian Der Geisthilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 White, Michael Goin’ Home on a Cloud Luboff, Norman Deep River Martin, Warren Great Day Rautavaara, Einojuhani Lorca
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