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passionate about speaking for those who have no voice? The overarching goal of the program is preparation for generalist social work practice with individuals, families, households, groups, communities, and organizations. If you are excited about tackling some of today’s major social challenges and enjoy working with people, then social work may be just the career for you! Read Previous Stephanie Aparicio Zambrano ’23 discusses her PLU experience, psychology major & internship with the Dean of Students

an energy that I didn’t know I had. I still frequently apply lessons in grit and teamwork to my daily life in medical school that Dave taught during rowing practice. How did you hear about the Dr. George and Emma T. Torrison Scholarship? IB: I learned about this scholarship through my advisor, Dr. Auman. She mentioned the scholarship, and I was very excited to apply! I hadn’t heard about it before, but I was excited for the opportunity to speak about how my faith as a Lutheran motivates me to

“Democracy in Theory and in Practice,” with Michael Schleeter, assistant professor of philosophy. Both PLU faculty members received numerous emails from students concerning attendance of inauguration, prompting a discussion among faculty and registered students a week later to discuss Inauguration Day expectations. PLU students meet with Senator Patty Murray while studying in Washington D.C. during J-Term.× “We’re going to be walking into an epicenter,” Sill told the students, gathered in a Xavier Hall

, Mexico photographed in 2017 by Christa Slater (‘20) It must be recognized in the first place that the ultimate burden of carrying out this unique response of PLU lies with the faculty. Thus, as a group of professionals, we must ask ourselves if we can in fact uphold such a claim in practice and with integrity. In other words, can we make it a reality in the praxis of our classrooms and programs? Although promoted in good faith and with the interest of the institution at heart, is the mixing of

packages back home for the holidays. While former classmates generally remember Parnell as a reserved student, Sandy Parnell remembers a young man who was a really nice guy. “I tease him because he seemed to be the big brother to a lot of the girls on campus, but I think that’s why I liked him a lot – he was kind and always treated people with respect,” she said. The two started dating their senior year. Sean Parnell earned his law degree and went into private practice. Sandy Parnell still works part

practice. Then, on Feb. 4 at the PLU baseball field, Beatty was on the mound. He beat Concordia on that day, pitching two innings of shutout ball. Five days later in Arizona, he shut down Concordia (Texas), ranked No. 16 in Division III baseball, on five hits in eight innings. With two wins that week and an average of nearly 1.5 strikeouts per inning pitched in those two starts, Beatty earned Northwest Conference Pitcher of the Week recognition. “It has been absolutely incredible having Max back out

work interested me. I also wanted to study the Bible more, so I chose a second major in religion. My junior year, I went on the PLU exchange program to Chengdu and loved my time there, but really missed piano. When I came back to PLU, I still wasn’t able to play piano much because I was too busy with other classes. It was also at this time when … I decided to switch my religion major to a music major—it seemed like the perfect excuse to practice piano more! How do you hope to use both majors in

, Africans and African-Americans relations, and critical service-learning as a pedagogical practice in peace education.DR. ROBIN DiANGELORobin DiAngelo, Ph.D., is director of Equity for Sound Generations, Seattle/King County, and a consultant and trainer for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice. Growing up poor led her to explore class oppression and how her experience differed from others in poverty because she is white. Her work on “white fragility,” a defensive response to real

. Responding to endorsement questionnaires and doing endorsement interviews was incredibly time consuming but was a great way to get to know organizations and their priorities. The forums were challenging but were a great way to get to know what some members of the community care about. And meeting people at their doors and asking what they care about took hours and hours and hours but was a great way to get to know the voters. Ultimately, I think running for office was the best practice for the job — but

says. Trepanning wasn’t designed to kill but to help those with headaches or head injuries by relieving pressure or pain. But the practice was also applied to “release evil spirits” or “a stone of madness” from those who were injured or mentally ill, which we would today understand perhaps more correctly as neurodivergent or intellectually disabled.  The modern revival version arrived in the form of lobotomy, a surgery that continued into the 1970s as a method of attempting to “fix” individuals