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educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the Earth.” Many things have changed since Norwegian Lutheran pioneers founded PLU in 1890, but hospitality still is significant. For example, when a new student is accepted to PLU, they can expect a personal congratulatory phone call. “We do some old-school things that are now considered high customer service because you just aren’t used to it,” Ferguson said. Admission

mission statement embodies hospitality: “PLU seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the Earth.” Many things have changed since Norwegian Lutheran pioneers founded PLU in 1890, but hospitality still is significant. For example, when a new student is accepted to PLU, they can expect a personal congratulatory phone call. “We do some old-school things that are now considered high customer service because you

abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. “I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read

department.2012-2013 Visiting ScholarsBaoping Jin Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China Jin taught a summer course in Chinese painting, covering the materials, techniques, and history of Chinese painting. Lan Pang Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China Lan researched linguistics and cross-cultural communication with the Department of Languages and Literatures. Linfei Zhu Xidian University, Xi’an, China Linfei served as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) for the Chinese Studies

and good fortune in the coming year called suku or sigim-dam; it is celebrated with the brewing and drinking of millet beer (ram). – Adrian Mayoral ’15, History, and Molly Shade ’12, Anthropology and Hispanic Studies Sources: Christopher D. Roy. “The Art of Burkina Faso.” The University of Iowa. Art and Life in Africa. http://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/37?start=01 Christopher D. Roy. “Mossi.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordartonline.com

the revolution. This poses the possibility that it became common that not all Makonde masks were used for their original purpose, and that the depiction of persons on the masks would have been altered to appease the buyers, most likely from Western countries. It is therefore possible that the two Makonde face masks in the PLU Collection were not made for the purpose for which the Makonde made masks, to express their culture and history, but were produced as part of this way to financially support

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