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immigration: What happens to those the migrants leave behind? Representing the Hispanic Studies Program in the Film Festival Series, “The Other Side of Immigration” explored a side of one heavy topic many people may have not considered. “(In) the towns where I shot the film, people are living on three dollars a day if they don’t have a family member in the US, and four dollars a day if they do have a family member in the U.S.,” Germano said. Examining life in the Mexican countryside, Germano’s film

January 1, 2013 Kurt Mayer: Jan. 14, 1930-Nov. 13, 2012 The Holocaust Studies program at PLU lost its founder and namesake for our esteemed endowed chair on November 13, 2012.   Kurt Mayer, survived by his wife Pam, his daughter Natalie, his son Joe, and Joe’s wife Gloria made this program possible.  Mayer’s long friendship to PLU prompted Mayer and his family to join with Nancy Powell and her family to provide generous gifts which launched the Kurt Mayer Professor in Holocaust Studies in 2007

. She found PLU and has never looked back, calling the university “a nurturing environment where my professional goals and academic programs are appreciated and rewarded.” Ciabattari, whose research is focused on family dynamics, has published several articles concerning work-life balance among low-income women, housework patterns in marriage and remarriage, and other family-related topics. Ciabattari also serves as the Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at PLU. “In my teaching and

, funny, and harmless. In reality, stalking can be scary, dangerous, isolating, and traumatic. A stalker is most often a current or former intimate partner, an acquaintance, or a family member. “Stalking is a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress. Stalkers use a variety of tactics, including (but not limited to): unwanted contact including phone calls

space only had room enough for the four to sit or lay down. The family remained in hiding for 18 months, freezing from the cold and slowly starving as food became scarce. His mother was pregnant when the family went into hiding, and as the weeks stretched to months, the four living in the barn had to decide what to do with the baby. “We were infested with lice and fleas, and living hour by hour in fear,” Friedman said. “When the time came to vote, I could only think that I didn’t want to die, I

grandson, told his hometown paper, The Free Press of Mankato, Minn. “This is just a part of the fabric of who we are.” In total, nine members of Harstad’s family will hike 33 miles over four and a half days, said Carolyn Harstad, 77, the wife of Peter Harstad, from Lakeville, Minn.: “Eight miles one day, four another and so on.” The hikers and other Harstad family members will converge in Skagway, Alaska, on July 23, she said. Then, after taking in a mandatory trail orientation, a family hike and a