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January 15, 2010 Olympic medalist turns the world’s attention to Darfur and human rights issues By Barbara Clements In 2006, international journalists gathered around a relatively unknown skater, preparing for the usual lines about the long journey to winning an Olympic gold medal and thanks to mom and dad and his coach for supporting him. But that’ not the speech they received from Joey Cheek. Joey Cheek, gold medalist and humanitarian, will speak at the Wang Center Symposium in March. Cheek
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July 7, 2008 Speakers tell PLU audiences to reach outside themselves Rich, diverse and often divergent voices came to PLU over the last year to challenge our outlook on life and our choices. Should one eat meat, or not? What of world hunger, the environment, corporate greed, genocide and women’s rights? What can one person do to address these issues? All speakers stressed that individual choices and actions do matter – even when faced with problems on a global scale. Last fall kicked off with
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Being a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-Scholar Posted by: alex.reed / May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 By Erin McKennaOriginally Published in 2014If you read the acknowledgements of the books that I’ve written, you will notice that I always thank some group of students for their help and insights. With The Task of Utopia, I thanked a particular class of students who were taking social and political philosophy with me as I made the final revisions on that book. While I did not teach the book itself, we
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February 24, 2012 Paul B. Thompson, the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University gave the keynote address for the Food Symposium. (Photo by Igor Strupinskiy ’14) Exploring food issues By Katie Scaff ’13 Food intersects with just about any social justice issue you’re interested in, according to PLU Philosophy Professor Erin McKenna. McKenna was one of more than a dozen experts and enthusiasts who shared their knowledge with PLU and the greater
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co-commissioner. Although gay rights are not at the top of national political discussion at the moment, more and more people are paying attention to what is going on, he added. “There’s a lot of people paying attention right now,” Fisher said. “We just want to make people aware of it.” Club members decided a visual display made the greatest statement about the issues they care about. On display at the event was a wedding dress with a groom’s jacket over it. Any one who wished to show their
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find a way to make it work,” said Daley, who earned his certification in 2016 and now teaches special education students at Mount Tahoma. He also works as an assistant football coach at PLU. Turning up for Saturday morning classes after a Friday night football game was challenging, Daley said. “It was chaos,” he said. “But I thrive in that kind of situation.” Ricky Daley FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Jasmine Skipworth ’17 brims with confidence as she enters her second year of teaching at Fruitland
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doesn’t exist! So tell your current students that!” Kelli Blechschmidt is using her double majors of Philosophy and Political Science working in municipal government in Seattle where she prides herself on working on teams focused on diversity, innovation and employees. McKenzie Williams writes, “Since graduating from PLU I have been working with the workforce education programs at a local community college. I have been accepted to graduate school, and plan on starting coursework towards a PhD in
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offer students. Tiffany Brown’11 – Bachelor of Business Administration (concentration in marketing) What’s next? Currently I am pursuing a career in the medical industry within marketing and business development. Timothy Hekili Guy – Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and political science Why PLU? The Library. I mean, aside from having grown up in the community south of the Lutedome, specifically the Spanaway and Graham area, I have been a frequent visitor to PLU since before NPCC had a stage. Yes
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Individualized Major Native American & Indigenous Studies Philosophy Political Science Publishing & Printing Arts Religion Sociology & Criminal Justice Graduate Rainer Writing Workshop (MFA in Creative Writing; low-residency graduate program)
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late 1990’s as a new faculty member out of graduate school.So what is going on at PLU? At PLU, many of our philosophy faculty have areas of research that relate to applied and public areas of concern (moral injury, biomedical ethics, ethics and economy, animal rights, food), teach in multi and interdisciplinary programs and work with other faculty, and staff across disciplines and areas of expertise. We also engage our students in student/faculty research and professional activities, participate in
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