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Calendar Calendar Highlights Homecoming 2017 Below is a speech, titled “A PLU Story,” originally presented at the 50th reunion dinner for the class of 1967. Tim Sherry ’67 moved the crowd to tears with his story of five basketball players who played together for four years at PLU and have remained friends ever since. Sherry’s story centers on two photographs, pictured below. In addition to the speech, which has been modified for this podcast, Sherry also reads a poem he wrote, inspired by the milestone
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Education Program. The one exception to this is Hist 121: History in Video Games, which provides Creative Expression (“CX”) GenEd credit. Below is the current course list, a sample reading, and when the course is offered:Hist 121: History in Video Games - CXSurveys the social and cultural impact of video games in American history, including how historical figures and events have been represented in popular games during the past 40 years. Combines the study of visual media theories and the creative
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came from a bad situation, but I’m doing alright now.” The road to graduation was filled with challenges for Reyes. The journey she embarked on years ago to earn her diploma is one, she says. It helped give her the strength to become the type of social worker her clients could relate to. At 11 years old she was drinking alcohol and by age 15 she was addicted to drugs. Reyes bounced around from home to home as a teenager, suffering from severe depression after her mother died when she was 11. Her
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Europe when it first emerged in 1347? A scene from The Walking Dead TV show Or did students’ book choice connect more to binge-worthy TV shows like The Walking Dead, where a mysterious mutating pathogen leads to a zombie apocalypse? We were determined to put our historical heads together to find out. Well… that was until we actually sat down together, and found ourselves merrily distracted (as Historians are wont to be) by questions of how and why we got here in the first place.Beth shared how her
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genres and modes for a variety of purposes and audiences. Culture and History. Students will read diverse texts within their historical and cultural contexts. Critical Approaches. Students will deploy ideas from works of craft and criticism in their own reading and writing. Oral Communication. Students will participate in critical conversations and prepare, organize, and deliver their work to the public.
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(Thomas et. al., 2021). Impact of other mental health challenges, such as anxiety, on academic performanceResearch in the Journal of Affective Disorders describes how “a wide range of emotional problems–not just depression – have a significant association with lower academic functioning, even after adjusting for a broad set of confounders” (Bruffaerts et all, 2018). Data they examine (and definitions of “mental disorders” they use) come from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College
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chemical is added to, or taken from the list. A revised list and a copy of the SDS must be forwarded to the Environmental Health & Safety Manager. The Environmental Health & Safety Manager will maintain an archive SDS file for hazardous products that are no longer on site, as an historical record.8.0 Hazardous Non-Routine TasksEmployees may be required to perform non-routine tasks involving hazardous products. Prior to starting work on such projects, each affected employee will be given information by
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repeating: PLU’s IHON program is both international and honors. It’s what students like about it. That is certainly true for Nellie Moran. As someone who hopes to someday work for the U.S. Foreign Service, she is very interested in the cultural and historical contexts that shape the world. “The fact that the program was internationally focused was a huge draw to me,” Moran said. “Taking classes that force me to think more globally is so beneficial for the work I want to do in the future.” Thinking
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letter to German councilmen—“We are such blockheads and beasts when we dare to ask, ‘Why should we have schools?’”—imploring them to establish Christian schools and to use municipal taxes to maintain them and pay their teachers (does that arrangement ring a bell?). Building on that centuries-old premise, the PLU Faculty Assembly added these words to the faculty handbook in fall 2011: “The individual faculty member upon appointment becomes a member of a community of scholars who respect and uphold the
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A club can access their funds in multiple ways. All forms are available on the Business Office website at https://www.plu.edu/financial-services/documents/ as well as the Clubs website at https://www.plu.edu/clubs/documents/. Club funds may not be spend on alcohol, drugs, gambling, or other items that violate PLU’s Student Code of Conduct or local and federal law. If you have any questions about how to fill these forms out, contact the Office for Student Engagement.Account ChargeImpact and
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