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intellectually intense, the competition is also physically grueling; students usually sleep no more than three hours a night. Despite frequent team runs to Bigfoot Java, Duffy, a third-year computer science major, got sleep paralysis twice in 24 hours. Yet the stress and the fun go hand in hand. Madeline, a second-year physics major, particularly loved waiting for the problems to open and for the timer to go off. “And then it’s just violent brainstorming,” she added. “Every single room has eight whiteboards
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La Land) Laura Osnes, Tony Award-nominated musical theatre actor (Grease, South Pacific, Bonnie and Clyde) Santino Jimenez, television actor and improvisor (Superstore, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Second City) The theatre and dance students were excited to have these unique opportunities to uplift their fall semester. The guest lectures were a time when students could explore and dream about life outside of the temporary little video boxes we have lived in this year.Student Quotes About Master
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May to the second week of June 2015, the Choir of the West will go on an international tour, performing concerts in Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Wittenberg (Germany), Prague (the Czech Republic) and Linz (Austria). In Linz, the choir will compete in the Anton Bruckner Choir Competition. The Choir of the West has been invited to perform as the featured choir for the National Collegiate Choral Organization at its national conference in Portland, Ore., in November 2015. The group will
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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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happenstance in 1992, the second by invitation in 2005. He visited the country a third time recently. His travels to China are evident in his band piece on water dragons, called, appropriately, “Three Dragons.” In the piece, the notes twist and undulate with a sinewy and slick undertone in the background. The image of a dragon gliding through water appears. “I guess a true composer, believes against all common sense, that making a piece of music is an important act,” Youtz mused. “It’s an important act
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May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants
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continue to grow. Although first-year retention rates are good, Anderson wants to them be better, up to 85 percent for the transition from first-year to second-year students. Key to this push will be first-year wings set up in all the residence halls, pairing new students with counselors and expanding the Career Planning Course. The long-range planning course of PLU 2020 will continue to push ahead and shape the university’s future. Some of the ideas coming forth from the study groups may be familiar
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Seven Early Songs. In May Meade was also honored with the 2011 Richard Tucker Award, conferred annually on a single artist who has reached a high level of artistic accomplishment and who, in the opinion of the panel, is on a the threshold of a major international career. Then a second prestigious award followed this year. She performed last June at Benaroya Hall in Seattle to Schubert’s Overture to Rosamunde, D. 644. T Meade said she had never been exposed to opera before she came to PLU. But once
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streamed at 1:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Faculty-led discussion will be led by professors Matt Smith (biology) and Gina Hames (history). March 10: Finally on Sunday, Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist will talk about safety and the rights of women and children in Yemen. She will be live streamed at 1:30 p.m. in room 133 of the Anderson University Center. She is the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Prize. Faculty-led discussion will be led by
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., so he can get his makeup done and costume on before the curtains go up at 7:30 p.m. “The good thing about La Boehme is that the chorus isn’t on until act two,” Marzano said. “I get to sit backstage and watch act one. I’m just trying to take in everything I possibly can from this experience.” Marzano, who plays a French soldier in the production that opened Feb. 23, comes on stage in the second act with another soldier to grab lunch in the town café, where he encounters the main character, the
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