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provides variety, and as we are progressing in our society, it’s important to expand their cultural lens, so they don’t just have a single-minded view of the world,” Organizers admit that running a summer camp is challenging. During the first week, some of their campers began complaining of hunger. This was causing campers to become distracted and unable to concentrate on the lessons. Harris says they originally planned to only offer lunches to campers, but soon realized they needed to offer breakfast

as a social, political and cultural figure through the lens black feminist theory,” said Jennifer Smith, director of the Center for Gender Equity who will serve as PLU’s first dean for inclusive excellence starting in January. Smith will be co-teaching with CGE Outreach and Prevention Coordinator Tolu Taiwo. “It’s going to be fun to co-teach together and engage students to ask really big questions about race, gender and sexuality through something we consume and enjoy,” Smith said. "It’s going to

this is super important. Learning another language sheds light on your own language, your first language, your mother tongue, and it opens crazy worlds, crazy opportunities. I mean, in terms of, like, travel, in terms of what music you can be exposed to, what movies, TV series, what cultural production you can come into contact with and learn from. It just opens the floodgates of knowledge and culture. I never said this to my students because I didn’t have the chance to, but I had a couple students

his way through a crowd, 200 strong, at the June 1 gathering to welcome him on his first day, Krise repeats that refrain again and again to those in the greeting line in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. His shiny, gold PLU-issue name badge reinforces his informal style, stating simply: “Tom Krise, President.” A few feet away, his wife, Patricia Krise, an executive at Ford Motor Company, utters a similar refrain. Her name badge: “Patty Krise.” Both approach you similarly – firm handshake, friendly

, whose English was the best in the family. I came to India excited for the prospect of adventure, cultural immersion and professional growth, whereas her avenues for a complete education had already been scuttled during her adolescence without her input. Her life’s path had most likely already been decided by her male elders. I think of this, and then I think of the day I met with the executive director of an international foundation early on during my time in India to discuss their development

sustaining the quality of academic programs, co-curricular activities and the full array of other operations on campus. A number of special academic projects were also made possible with campaign support. They include $800,000 in foundation support for a new School of Nursing outreach program in geriatric care. And campaign support provided for activities outside the classroom. Co-curricular support included gifts for Campus Ministry, the Scandinavian Cultural Center and MediaLab. Read Previous

anchors for the school district’s summer program, and with a special eye toward hiring new alumni like Meyer and Allen who had done their student-teaching senior projects Namibia. The cross-cultural experience they both received in Africa made them ideal job candidates for the excursion to Alaska. After the summer-school adventure ends, both already have interviews lined up for the school year, they said. “The time in Namibia really made my future clear,” Allen said. “I know I want to be a teacher

assault,” said Woodman-Ross. “That’s what the It’s On Us campaign does—it helps to hopefully remold the responsibility of the university to reshape the culture around violence and that it’s not simply a women’s issue,” said Jennifer Smith, Director of the Women’s Center. “Everyone is impacted by violence, and everyone is responsible to speak up, act up, notice, and do something because if that becomes a cultural norm, people will know this isn’t tolerated on campus.” Smith said that with so much of

Charitable Trust funds the scientific exploration of the natural world and supports projects that will enhance the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest. Prominent among Murdock grants last year were three awarded to PLU assistant professors of biology. Michael Behrens, Julie Smith and Jacob Egge received grants totaling more than 120,000 dollars to fund two years of student-faculty research looking into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest and species divergence in several Mississippi river

language impacts cultural and personal memory. Set in Pakistan in the early 2000s, the novel follows Alys Binat and her sisters as they navigate the marriage market, female identity, and British and Pakistani influences on their self-expression. Kamal translates “What will people say?” into Urdu: ” کہیںگے/ Log kya kahenge” (35). She applies a post-colonialist perspective to the question by asking not only how society will judge an individual’s actions, but how Pakistan will speak for itself as it works