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. They all have found a passion for a vocation and are ready to engage the world. The students who share their stories here will join more than 850 students who will graduate from PLU this academic year. Bridgette Cooper – Bachelor of Arts in classical languages and political science   Bridgette Cooper ’11 – Bachelor of Arts in classical languages and political science.   Why PLU? I originally came to PLU thinking I wanted to be an Egyptologist. I had come hoping to work with Dr. Donald Ryan, major

notice that the whole center of the lawn is muddy, and they look down with disgust at their dirty shoes. You’ll laugh, and you’ll only feel a little badly about it. We’re now walking alongside Xavier Hall, which houses the social sciences. For you, this building is not nearly as interesting as the trees and plants across from it. If you’re thinking “those trees look good for slacklining,” you’re right. You will have several friends who will be more than willing to string their lines up during the

speaker I was surprised and happy. Thinking back to my own PLU commencement many years ago, I suspect that some of our graduates may not recall my remarks; but I hope they do remember the pride and respect we all feel for their outstanding accomplishments. Graduates, please join me in a standing ovation to your family and friends for all of the love and support they have provided to help you get here today. Now, I would like to take a few minutes to share my thoughts on how the PLU experience affected

the river to remove human influence. It was becoming increasingly clear that, as far as the Mississippi River was concerned, as a society, we have come too far with our technological advancements to ever go back. After this explanation, I remember thinking to myself there’s that ripple effect again. Saying thank you to Neal Day and Thebes Landing, we hopped back in the mini van and continued to Cairo, IL, a town several miles south. Cairo had experienced devastating flooding some years ago and had

information of the archaeological site to life with living people interacting in that space. Andrews: I came to PLU the same time when Stasinos got his tenure-track position, and that’s when we met. But I did not contact him until I met one of his students who was swiping people in at the front desk of the Names Fitness Center. The day I noticed she was drawing her hands, I asked who her professor was, and that is how I connected with Stasinos. I had been thinking for a while that I wanted to find

. I would also say that many of us are thinking about how to keep the special character of a residential liberal arts college community as vibrant as possible.  In my own experience, there’s a tipping point around 4,000 or so above which the community changes character and feels a little more city-like and less intimate. *Note: All comments are moderated PLU must focus on value and try to find a way to deliver and maintain value rather than trying to cut the cost of operations.I would argue that

. Kitchen, who passed away in 2014, was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU. She authored four essay collections: The Circus Train; Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate; Distance and Direction; and Only the Dance. She also wrote a novel, The House on Eccles Road, winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World. She also edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The

’ mother is also an intimate understanding of the U.S.-Mexican diaspora by the celebrated coeditor of the groundbreaking anthology This bridge called my back. Moraga’s memoir begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherríe and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own

to make a video like that, and I didn’t realize there was a bigger impact on the PLU community. That was also my first time in the Diversity Center, which led to me applying as a D-Center Advocate. That’s what helped bridge new paths in the PLU community. “Another one is my first volleyball practice as a Lute. We all just screamed and yelled everyone’s name in such high energy. It’s something you don’t expect as a first-year. I remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh; this is exactly where I want to be

. I’m a second-class citizen here with the set of struggles that come with that. To this day I experience racism essentially wherever I go in America. People making assumptions about me before they even meet me. Having this color of skin is a death sentence here when it comes to leading a normal American life. I can’t even go down the street on a nice day a lot of times without someone thinking I am a dangerous person. This color of skin isn’t associated with good things in America. Though David