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Alumni NewsBy Kristin Monroe '16Alumni News Editor 2015-2016 Year OverviewThe T.O.H. Karl Forensics

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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

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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