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restore the integrity of PLU’s language requirement and oversaw the founding of Hong International Hall, on whose task force he has served since 2006. Mark’s institution of the annual International Poetry festival in 2002 represents his most personal legacy to PLU. Ceremoniously, Mark lit the flame of poetry (a candle) and invited students, faculty, and staff to share poems in any language over tea and scones.   Erudition, patience, and kindness are the hallmarks of Mark’s teaching, whether in French

understand that influence better. They also teach here because they appreciate and respect the religious commitments held by students, staff, faculty, and alumni of the university. Will a religion professor try to force his or her own personal convictions on me?No. Because of their advanced studies and teaching experience, PLU religion professors recognize that there are diverse and sometimes conflicting viewpoints on any given issue. Their purpose is not to take one side but to help you understand why

powerful collective story to tell. LET'S GET STARTED Scroll Down THE INTRO At PLU, caring means more than kindness and consideration. It means a bold commitment to expanding well-being, opportunity, and justice. It’s a community-wide commitment to care for each other and for our neighbors both down the street and around the world. The PLU experience allows students’ ambition to blossom into purpose, their skills to sharpen into tools, and their caring to become a transformative force. In today’s world

Obituaries – Resolute Online: Fall 2024 Search Back to Landing Page Big Names On Campus Accolades Lute Library Class Notes Class Notes Obituaries Submit a Class Note Obituaries Bryan Dorner Professor Emeritus Bryan Dorner passed away in May 2024. Beloved by his students and peers alike, Bryan joined the Department of Mathematics in 1980 and retired in 2017. Bryan was a driving force in incorporating technology into the teaching of mathematics at PLU as early as 1990, long before technology use

notion of writing as “cleaning up,” rhetoric and composition posits that writing is itself a process of inquiry.  Writing begins with engagement, be it wonder, dismay, concern, fury, elation—or (seemingly) simple curiosity, a “What if?” or a “How so?”  Inquiry is the heart of writing, its generative force. When a writer tackles a condition or circumstance she deems both significant and unresolved, she has the opportunity to use writing to construct questions, engage knowledge, and wrestle with issues

educate our military to conduct warfare in a moral and humane way? What is the relationship between the military and civilian cultures? This book is unique in that it focuses largely on the “boots on the ground” questions of how to conduct war and how to prepare our military personnel educationally to conduct wars. By contrast, many books in this field start with the more theoretical question of whether and when the resort to force, that is, the decision to go to war is moral and just.  It is not that

, in part: “… you have the breadth and depth of knowledge around preventing sexual violence on campuses that we need represented in the Think Tank. … Recognizing that public health cannot prevent sexual violence by itself, Think Tank participants will represent public health departments, sexual violence coalitions, researchers, law enforcement, and college and university staff and administrators.” As part of Not Alone: The First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual

gender, without consent. Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse is any sexual intercourse (anal, oral, or vaginal), however slight, with any object, by a person upon another regardless of gender, without consent. Relationship ViolenceDating Violence and/or Domestic Violence Sexual AssaultAny type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs by force or without consent of the recipient of the unwanted sexual activity. Falling under the definition of sexual assault is sexual

interested in all aspects of German cultural and history. Her research and publications are focused on the role of the artist in public discourse in East and West Germany, as well as on the exhibition of contemporary art as a cultural and political force in the Cold War era and today. Her most recent work deals with contemporary art and cultural integration. PLU Faculty ProfileIn addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is

with force. Mural created by Central American migrant refugees living in Casa Tochan, Mexico City. Photo Credit: Adela Ramos. We returned to Oaxaca, where I continued part of my studies through an Anthropology class focused on indigenous populations in Oaxaca. With the knowledge I gained through our experiences, and especially our time visiting with IMUMI, I was able to relate what we learned to what I was and am currently studying. For example, an important aspect of the migration of indigenous