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State Department of Social and Health Services, where he helped social workers provide case management and crisis intervention services. He also worked with children and families in Tacoma to create action plans and goals. Adding to his long list of community service and leadership endeavors, Adams also served as president and Rieke Fellow in the Diversity Center, led the PLU step team as captain, spoke at the state’s annual governor’s breakfast and served as a youth outreach coordinator at Fab Five

and fluidity. Flux, is also synonymous with change. The exhibition’s theme of ‘in flux’ is a way to band many different artists together. “The only commonality between us all is that we are ever growing, ever changing, especially in this time of our lives,” Henderson explains. “This show is not an ending, but a beginning—a continuum of thought and idea.” At the year-end exhibition, students do more than display the work; they’re in charge of hanging the show, advertising for it and sorting out

that the classroom can be “the most radical space of possibility,” in the words of bell hooks. Personally, students have inspired me to learn more about the colonization of Guåhan, soap operas in the Philippines, the history of “the bedroom” as a concept, LGBTQ+ populations in Taiwan, local news practices in the Pacific Northwest, and much, much more. Students at PLU power change in our community, and as a teacher, I want to facilitate more spaces and avenues of agency for them to do so. Also, PLU

innovative approaches to work for social change. Featured speakers include Ben Atherton-Zeman, spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, and Lane and Patty Judson, parents of domestic violence victim Crystal Judson. Judson was fatally shot five years ago by her husband, then Tacoma Police Chief David Brame in a Gig Harbor parking lot. There will also be presentations by representatives from A Call to Men and Seattle-based The Men’s Network Against Domestic Violence, among others

student clubs, and doing internships,” Brock said. “And we encourage students to get to know the faculty personally, so they can serve as guides, mentors and coaches.” In the case of Mattich, that meant being treated almost as though he was a colleague of professor Ptak – not just a first-year student. “What I like about this class is that the expectations were made very clear,” said Mattich. “Professor Ptak considered the course syllabus a contract with us. If she wanted to change anything, or we

remodeling the Chapel comes up, the student chorus is always the same: “Please don’t change the feel of the Chapel!” One would think with its bare concrete floors and creaky benches that the students would want new and modern furnishings. But it is the medieval ambiance of the chapel that seems to lend the space a spiritual quality. And well it should. The Chapel and the Rose Window have seen the course of human life as the generations of Lutes have come and moved on to other vocations in the world. The

required ingredient. This year, that ingredient is duck. Each chef has to prepare their duck in two classical cuts and, from there, what they do is up to them. Thinking resourcefully, chefs are to infuse their dish with local food available to them. This will change with the season and requires creativity and thought. These kinds of challenges are exactly what Blessum is looking for. “There’s so much you gain from it,” Blessum said. The judges will want to see improvisation and resourcefulness

, students could choose from four trips—and one “staycation.” Sending off Alternative Spring Break participants during a chapel service on March 19, the Rev. Dennis G. Sepper, university pastor, said, “We never know where the journey will lead us, whether or not it will change us. But it will.” Here’s a look at the trips: ● The local option: For the Parkland “staycation,” students will deal with food issues in the Parkland community and meet with community members. “The most important thing students will

-change facts / then measure and transform their carbon impacts.) Starting April 1, the video will be posted online here. Anyone can vote in the video competition, and everyone can cast one vote per day. In conjunction with the video competition, Second Nature will run an online feature on each of the 28 finalists, and their videos, two times throughout April: PLU is scheduled to be featured April 11 and April 24. Winners of the 2014 Second Nature Climate Leadership Awards will be notified in May

Competition of Southern California for the new documentary series “A World of Difference.”“A World of Difference,” which publicly premiered in Seattle on Feb. 17, investigates the shifting cultural landscapes of difference, diversity and inclusion. The film series, produced by a team of six PLU undergraduate students, received Accolade Awards of Merit in the following categories: Documentary Short, Use of Film/Video for Social Change, Original Score, Editing, Documentary Program/Series, and Contemporary