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: “That’s the popular understanding of this—that there were intense personal struggles involved and super-hero-like figures such as Bill Gates dominating the landscape. But if you look at it from an economic point of view, these industry executives and their companies were really collaborators working together to create successful business models and new products. The various companies seemingly locked in intense competition were really working together to create a new marketplace that would gradually

as it appears in our various discourses. There are various versions of the academic animal, but these abstract versions of the animal are I believe major barriers in our abilities to understand animals more fully and realize more clearly our obligations to the other creatures with whom we share this wonderful life. It should be clear that the animal movement has penetrated much more deeply into the popular imagination that it has into the academic mind. I say this as a person who writes

enters the world without the ability to critically examine and find relationships between seemingly opposite subjects like philosophy and physics. My PLU experience: One word enters my head when I think about my PLU experience: support. It has been an incredible experience that has challenged me to look beyond my culture, my understanding of my family, my friends and myself. Over the last four years, I have changed and grown as a person due to the relationships with mentors, professors and peers that

with undocumented student identities a lot, but it also intersects with so many of our other students on campus,” said Nicole Juliano, Assistant Director of the Diversity Center and task force member. The task force has also created financial support systems to help cover the cost of DACA renewal, and has set aside two Rieke Fellowships in the Diversity Center. “With things like this (the Rieke Fellowship) we are embedding in university culture that this is something we want to make sure doesn’t go

intimate bond built that someone who has not served will have a hard time understanding. This bond is built through teamwork, long hours, crappy assignments, complaining about everything together, and also enjoying the off time together. No matter someone’s background, culture, race, religion, or sex, the bond brings us all together. And humor is paramount to making it through all of the rough times. Tami Walsh Women’s Army Corps 1978-1980, Communications Specialist PLU Transcript Specialist, Office of

with strong bonds to fundamentalist and Pentecostal subcultures, many of which traditionally have focused their identity around intentional resistance to new ways of thinking. Secondly, the dominant student culture at PLU is relentlessly anti-intellectual. Both factors militate against the purposes of the liberal arts and the mission of the university. PLU’s credibility as a university in the twenty-first century will depend in large part on the way faculty, students, and administrators handle

| Exhibition Opening May 1 | 4:00 p.m. | Scandinavian Cultural Center Student curated exhibition about the Labor Rights Movement in the US and Scandinavia. Sex +: Q&A with the Sexperts! May 2 | 6:00 | Diversity Center Join Allena Gabosch, Director of the Center for Sex Positive Culture in Seattle, and Kim Riano, Director of PLU’s Health and Counseling Centers, for a no holds barred conversation answering ALL of your questions about sex and sexuality. There will be opportunities to submit your questions

.” The organization offers a moral response to the ecological destruction that accompanies climate change’s threats, particularly to vulnerable, frontline, and marginalized communities, Schwartz says. “So much of climate change is driven by science and research, without putting people, community and culture at the forefront. There are human impacts of climate change that need to have their story heard and represented.” Schwartz notes that nearly 70% of Black people live or have lived within 30 miles

feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in text that’s smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read.”–publisher’s description Hildegard of Bingen (ML410.H618M43 2018) “A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe’s elite, founded and led a noted women’s religious community, and

?” [emphasis mine], to which Georgiana responds with “Utterly”. Perhaps romantic on a surface level, the word “capture” juts out in a deeply unsettling way. As the late, influential bell hooks writes in Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics: “[l]ove in patriarchal culture was linked to notions of possession, to paradigms of domination and submission wherein it was assumed one person would give love and another person receive it” (101). Charles sets up this dichotomy through painting Georgiana: he