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November 3, 2008 Wearing purple to raise awareness about abuse The color purple was dominating the PLU Campus last Wednesday as more than 900 students, faculty and staff wore purple T-shirts in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness month.“I just think it’s really visual and it shows the support of something,” said PLU student Melissa Coch, who organized the event as part of PLU’s Voices Against Violence. They wore them throughout the day and in the evening a few hundred gathered in support
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in, they quickly focus on Lee, who starts by asking them to write and talk about their favorite food and why. French fries and pizza top the lists. Next, they break into small groups with aides and start working on math and reading. Lee takes the two toughest cases for himself: Sarah and Carlos. Sarah has had a bad night and keeps falling asleep on the desk. Lee said he feels the girl has some medical issues that need tending, but they can’t get her mother to show up for the doctor’s appointments
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October 4, 2012 Doug Smith ’15 and Aiko Nakagawa ’15 after chalking advertising for “unPLUg” a sustainability and low power use push at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer) UnPLUg aims to create culture of conservation By Katherine Baumann ’14 The lights are off but the competition is on. Students in the 10 resident halls across campus are vying against themselves to see who can save the most energy during the month of October in the annual UnPLUg competition. The UnPLUg tradition began in 2009 with
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LUTES ANSWER: How can innovation help meet the challenges of the moment? Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 How can innovation help meet the challenges of the moment? “Embracing innovation ensures we have a pipeline of ideas focused on improving our future as we manage the current complexities in our lives today. We must be eager to engage students, communities and colleagues in discussions about new ways of thinking and solving problems. Innovation, combined with an agile
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What does being a Lute mean to you? Posted by: Thomas Krise / April 16, 2014 April 16, 2014 This spring, I was asked by a first-year student, “What does being a Lute mean to you?” To me, being a Lute means caring–caring about thoughtful inquiry, caring about service, caring about leadership, caring about other people, caring about community, and caring about the earth. Here are two unsolicited emails I’ve received within the past two weeks of the student’s question that speak to exactly these
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, joined the group last year as a chorus member in the production of Turandot by Puccini. After the show ended on Aug. 18, Marzano was invited back as a chorus member in La Boheme. Rehearsals for the universally popular classic began in January and since then Marzano has been leaving campus right after Choir of the West practice to head up to Seattle. Leaving at 5 p.m. puts him in Seattle around 6 p.m., so he can get his makeup done and costume on before the curtains go up at 7:30 p.m. “The good thing
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When Two PLU Historians Sit Down to Chat Posted by: shimkojm / October 8, 2018 Image: History professors Beth Kraig and Rayne Allinson enjoy yet another lively conversation October 8, 2018 By Dr. Rayne AllinsonOne smoky August afternoon Dr Beth Kraig and I decided to beat the heat and take shelter in the cooling confines of the University of Washington, Tacoma library, to have a cheery chat about plagues.We thought this would be a fun topic to discuss, given that most of last year’s graduating
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Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / February 20, 2023 February 20, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb, 79, discusses her experiences of sharing her story of surviving the Holocaust and her obligation to testify. Giza was born in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. She was smuggled out of the Ghetto as a toddler in a suitcase and was then hidden by a Polish family. She migrated to Uruguay when she was seven. Open English TranslationOpen
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, Lukas Foss, Henryk Górecki, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield, Jake Heggie, Peter Schickele, Roberto Sierra and Tobias Picker. She has been a concerto soloist with ensembles such as Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, BBC, Warsaw Philharmonic and London Symphonies. A prolific recording artist, her performance of Pulitzer Prize winner Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto won the coveted Diapson d’Or Award with the Houston Symphony on Telarc as well as Gramophone’s “Pick of the
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yoga teacher, Kate, and her feisty German Shepherd . Weber will lead a yoga class for PLU students and others following the reading. A Killer Retreat finds Kate teaching yoga at a vegan retreat center when a wedding guest at the center is found dead shortly after a loud and public fight with Kate. Kate must try to solve the murder before the police put her behind bars as their number-one suspect. “Weber’s vegan yoga teacher is a bright, curious sleuth with a passion for dogs,” said Krista Davis
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