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  • This mask is in a darker color than the other Makonde facemask in the PLU Collection. On this mask the hairstyle is that of seven narrow, “shaved” spaces between each of eight rows of hair.

    : Bortolot, Alexander Ives. “A Language for Change: Creativity and Power in Mozambican Makonde Masked Performance, ca. 1900-2004.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 2007. _____.  Revolutions: A Century Of Makonde Masquerade In Mozambique. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2007. Israel, Paolo. In Step with the Times: Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2014.

  • Made of a soft and lightweight wood (ntene from the tree  ricinodendron rautanenii) and decorated with pigment, this makonma face mask (also called lipiko) is given a more authentic look by the

    Mozambique’s fight for freedom. Finally it should be noted that female feminist leaders started their own lipiko after the war using clay to make their masks. This didn’t fare as well as wood because clay is more fragile and therefore breaks easily, so they began using cloth. Women have only used clay and cloth as masks; there is no record of women using or wearing wooden masks. – Emma McCain ’17, Anthropology Sources: Bortolot, Alexander Ives. “A Language for Change: Creativity and Power in Mozambican

  • All Religion majors complete a major research project. Recent capstone projects completed by Religion majors are listed below.

    Religious Outcomes of Zion’s Camp Clayton Bracht, In the Huddle for Heaven: Tim Tebow, Sports, and American Christianity Megan Corbi, The Sins of the Innocent: Infant Baptism in Third Century North Africa Nicolas Alexander Crosby, The Balinese and their Blades: Keris and Locality Thomas Haines, Evolving the Creationist Debate: A Detailed Analysis of the Evolution/Creationism Debate Mark David Herzfeldt-Kamprath, Wining and Dining with Luke: Social Aspects of the Banquet Motif in the Lucan Narrative

  • 2010 PLU Athletic Hall of Fame THE 2010 PACIFIC LUTHERAN ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME CLASS, consisting of three national championship teams and three outstanding athletes who wore the black and gold, will be the 21st in the hall’s history. The list of inductees includes the…

    opponents 68-12 during the season and holding a 0.47 goals against average. The Lutes also placed three players on the NAIA All- American Team, with Wendy Johnson and Shari Rider making the first team, and Brenda Lichtenwalter earning second team honors. Cheryl Kragness led the Lutes in points, scoring 18 goals and adding 11 assists. The team would end the year in a familiar place – atop the national standings. Team members: Kim Alexander, Keri Allen, Shannon Arnim, Kirsten Brown, Rowena Fish, Robyn

  • If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart…

    In the Eye of the Beholder: Georgiana and her Portrait Posted by: ramosam / July 26, 2022 July 26, 2022 By Elsa Kienberger If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos) himself was the heinous family relation after Georgiana’s inheritance

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures  will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…

    documentary investigates how this powerful political gesture shaped the identities of the children, their sense of home, family and belonging by telling the story of 6 of those children.* Language: Spanish with English Subtitles FrancofoniaWednesday, Oct. 12 | 5:30 | Ingram 100 Francofonia is the great Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov’s heroically ambitious meditation on European culture and history as seen through the story of the Louvre museum in Paris, with a particular focus on its fortunes during

  • How to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. | March 7 | Chris Knutzen, Anderson University Center Who: Mónica Guzmán, Bridge-Builder, Journalist,

    Story?” (The NY Times November 4 2021), She is currently working on a performance piece entitled The N Word: Nature Revisited as part of a Mellon residency at the New York Botanical Gardens. Along with being the new columnist at the Earth Island Journal, she was recently awarded the Alexander and Ilse Melamid Medal from the American Geographical Society and is an artist-in-residence and the Environmental Studies Professor of Practice in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College.Bonnie

  • Carson J. Bergstrom, Senior Capstone Seminar A molecular library consisting of triazoles and benzotriazoles, functionalized with amides and nitriles in various substitutions was synthesized.

    pathway. Out of the selected genes, we have confirmed that SGTA does not positively regulate the pathway, while C8ORF33 showed the most potential in being a positive regulator. The other tested genes, stard8 and CPT1A, required further work to confirm their contribution to the novel pathway. Designing a Diene to use in a Thermocleavable Linkage for Affinity Chromatography Alexander R. Holter, Senior Capstone Seminar A thermocleavable linkage is designed as a method to reversibly bind ligands to

  • Name Aaron Bailey Ryan Bolen Shawn Brookins J Crosby Jackson Curtis Nicholas Demers Dawson Faker David Kidd Brock Knapp Tim Layton Yehun Lee Brock Martin Nathaniel McDonald John Molenda Alexander Moore Yahn Olson Elijah Singstad Kristopher Singstad Ian Svasand Title NamePhoneEmail Head CoachGreg Gutherless 206-755-1993guthergg@plu.edu Assistant CoachKevin Rose253-307-4339rosekc@plu.edu

  • different views of contemporary life are represented and performed through this masking tradition. Today the lipiko can be representative of a wide variety of characters including, animals, mythical characters, men, women, Makonde and outsiders (Bortolot).  However, this new approach to the mapiko has created some tension between the younger and older generations. According to Alexander Bortolot, the older generations believe the dance has diverged too much from tradition, while the younger generations