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incredible new work, and count us among this great group of performing organizations,” Nance remarked. Ešenvalds will be in Tacoma for three days of rehearsal and performance. He will be a helpful guide in striking the right balance between choir and orchestra, giving advice on technical elements, and inspiring the students to their highest level of expression. The Nordic Light Symphony will form the second half of the concert. The University Symphony Orchestra will open the first half with a 22-minute
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my classes—especially economics—and how my professors taught me if I can survive complex economic concepts, I can survive a complex project. I’m forever thankful for them giving me a bar to strive for.Do you have any plans for after commencement? There are several opportunities I am entertaining for post-commencement. However, first and foremost, I will be taking a short break and solo traveling to somewhere sunny with good food. A recharge is needed before I pursue my next goals in life. Read
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. “After a few years of playing (jazz) everything fell into place,” McEntire said recently. He said he draws inspiration from professors, as well as classes, and has found a mentor in sax professor Robert Miller, who he met during his freshman and sophomore years. “I view him as a contemporary helping me along my path,” McEntire said. “He was, and still is, a mentor. Instead of just helping me with techniques and giving me tips to play better, he taught me about how one can view jazz as a parallel to
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is served – citing the case of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which continued the cleanup long after the television crews had gone home. “I really do believe the flood of grace is deeper, stronger, than the floods of destruction,” Stewart said. And how we view water, or the “metaphors by which we view water,” matter, he added. Giving his first example, Stewart cited a controversy surrounding the Chicago River, which flows through his home town. Big businesses regard the waterway as
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. Stephens says the outpouring of support she has received has been exhilarating. Much of her funding has come from her church in Seattle and workplace, where she says, “a guy who kind of knows about LVC gave a generous donation and is always asking me about how my training is going and giving me advice.” Although the climbers are not experienced mountaineers, they have all been training weekly to get in shape. Stephens has been running 5Ks, she says, while another member is getting ready to run a half
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wonderful, dynamic lives children and teens live. It’s a way of giving back, doing something of service that’s valuable.” The new grant will allow PLC to hire more student tutors and provide far more tutoring resources. In the past, PLC relied heavily on volunteers and a handful of paid student directors. The program will now be able to pay tutors and retain them year-round, which in turn will provide service consistency to the youth the center supports. This year around 25 tutor roles will be paid
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to support students and sees parallels between preparing to be an educator and the support she receives from scholarships. As she shares, the PLU community’s commitment to students like her “truly inspires me to work harder to achieve my goals. I plan to make the most out of my scholarships by giving back to my community.” Hayley Maqui ’24, BiologyIn addition to graduating this spring, Hayley Maqui ’24 just completed 300+ hours of clinical healthcare experience, including shifts in the ICU
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to be of service. To be part of something that is life giving for not just me, not just my family, but the whole of the living community in the area that I live.’” Robinson-Bertoni teaches her students to go beyond what they learn in the classroom. She says, “We can visit websites, but to actually go have my students practice pluralism and respectful engagement with others in the local community is a kind of conversational learning that can only happen outside of a classroom space.” One such
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tickets LollaPLUza May 9 at 1p.m. PLU Golf Course PLU’s annual music festival returns featuring artists: Fame Riot, Lemolo, Dude York and headliner Sol. The festival will incorporate the community of businesses on Garfield Street and all vendors have been invited to participate. Free admission, no tickets University Wind Ensemble May 10 at 3p.m. Lagerquist Concert Hall Dr. Edwin Powell and guest conductor Ron Gerhardstein will perform “The Star Wars Trilogy” by John Williams; “Symphony No. 4” by
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will be built up and tested. You will form intense and lasting friendships. You will also have great fun. We’re standing in the administration building, where we’ll begin the tour. It’s technically called Hauge Administration Building, but the only time you will call it that is when you are giving campus tours to prospective students and their families for your job at the admission office. You will lovingly refer to it, as all PLU students do, as simply “Admin.” To your right is the espresso cart
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