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ASPLU MeetingsWe hold open meetings every Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. Meetings are usually held in AUC 203, however if you’re planning to attend a meeting, you can confirm the location by emailing ASPLU@plu.edu. Members of the public are welcome to attend our meetings and make public comments. Want to share your perspective, but can’t make it to the meeting? We got you covered! Email your thoughts to asplu@plu.edu with the subject line “Public Comment.” Interested in talking about important

Public health concerns update Dear PLU Community, We are writing today to provide you with a follow up to the communication that you received on July 29, 2022. In that communication, we outlined fall protocols for both COVID-19 and MPX (previously referred to as Monkeypox). Now that more detailed… August 23, 2022

Today”. My tutor was a PhD candidate in the Refugee Studies Centre and had a background working on the ground with refugees in Uganda. Each week, we focused on a different element of forced migration, such as International Relations Theory, the role and makeup of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), burden-sharing in the International Refugee Regime, the paradox of humanitarian action and intervention, or the contemporary refugee crises abundant around the world. Each topic had a

propose that they turn it into a pro bono public service campaign.  The success of the billboard campaign then inspired a graduate of the class of 2015, Nicole Jordan, to take the campaign to students at neighboring Keithley Middle School.  And once again, Clear Channel created special billboards featuring Keithley students tearing up their own words, such as “Stupid,” “Go back to your own country,” “Poor Ghetto Kids,” and “You’re such a girl.” In fact, the middle schoolers managed to propose a few

problems and breaking them down to understand them better and ultimately to help solve them,” he says. Economics Major Presents at National Conference Nellie Moran’s capstone research project examines how political candidates’ expenditures affect the outcome of their campaigns. Learn More “Students who are drawn to Economics ask questions for which the answers aren’t easy—poverty, health care, education, unemployment, development, environmental degradation, international relations—but for which they

writer and photographer witnessed some PLU graduates in action and documented a slice of their lives of leadership, care and inquiry. Thu Nguyen '05 Political officer at U.S. Department of State I serve as a foreign service officer, what you’d call a diplomat in the old days. I’ve served three overseas tours in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Myanmar with tours in Washington, D.C., in between. I’m now working on the Vietnam desk, which means I cover U.S.-Vietnamese relations. In the past nine years, I’ve done