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or suspicious activity to Campus Safety or call 911 Pierce County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD). If you encounter: A disruptive or hostile individual  -Someone making threats (in person or on cyber/social media) -A person acting suspiciously -Harassing or threatening phone calls/text messages Contact the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) Dial 7911 from any campus phone Dial 911 from any other phone Provide the following information: Your location Description of events Description of

developed the groups social media at high levels of interaction, and developed and promoted the enormously successful events during Black History Month last year at PLU. Laura Hillis: BA in Anthropology & Global Studies Laura has the honor of being the first non-SOAC major or minor ever to receive the Dean’s Award. Laura was recommended for this award as one of the “finest student violinists” ever at PLU. Laura has performed a solo recital every year while at PLU – including the fall semester prior to

than the use of he face masks. When, in this male dominated part of Makonde culture, the men wear these masks, they take on not only their own identity – a man in a mask – but also the dramatic depiction of a character and the incarnation of an ancestral spirit. Men make the masks in secret and talk of them in public is prohibited in order to maintain the separation between reality and the spiritual realm of the mapiko. As a masculine artistic medium, mapiko deals with matters of gender and social

figures of females are also often white-washed with chalk and other sources of pigmentation, again, white being the color of the water spirit in Urhobo society. Additionally, chalk also can represent food and abundance, two things that come from the water spirits. The Urhobo put on giant masquerade-like spectacles to invite water spirits to come into the communities for a time while they honor the spirits, nature, elders, ancestors, and persons of social and spiritual prominence. At the end of these

Bernas, and Jane Davie 2023 Recipients: Kiah Miller & Nick Etzell 2022 Recipient: Sarah Nelson Congratulations! LEADERSHIP IN SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARDThis award recognizes a graduating student who has served as an agent of change. The individual receiving this award has contributed to increasing the PLU community’s capacity for the awareness and action necessary for justice; prioritized and engaged diversity and inclusion at PLU, local, regional, and/or global communities; and has committed to the