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from Iraq when she was three-years-old. Her parents were a bit nervous about their daughter attending a private college that her family thought “might be filled with white Lutherans,” Alazadi laughed. Not really the case. About 25 percent of the student population at PLU classify themselves as Lutherans. Alazadi said she found the campus warm and accepting of her beliefs.   Ariel Madden ’13 wasn’t into the larger groups, but wanted to meet with fellow women of the Christian faith who wanted to

September 15, 2011 A blast of reality from the desert By Chris Albert As the rear doors of the airplane dropped, the white light of Iraq’s desert sun blinded Ed Hrivnak ’96. The wave of heat over took his senses and focusing took a minute. Ed Hrivnak ’96 was a panelist for a discussion on nursing for the School of Nursing’s 60th Anniversary during Homecoming this October. When the fog cleared, he saw it. A line of vehicles carrying injured United States military personnel. It was April 2003

of whether they’re publishing, writers who are really contributing to the literary world at large with public and private success.” Some of that success is especially public. Notable Rainier Writing Workshop alumni include: •    Kelli Russell Agodon ’07, whose third book of poems, Hourglass Museum, was published by White Pine Press. •    Nonfiction writer Jennifer Culkin ’07, author of the memoir A Final Arc of Sky and winner of the prestigious Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. •    2012-14

research project into the topic resulted first in the publication of the Bancroft Prize-winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 and, now, after five more years of research, A Generation Removed. “In this new book, I wanted to expand my focus into Canada as well, where generations of Indigenous children also experienced involuntary separation from their families,” Jacobs wrote. “In the

Firmly Committed: In Response to DACA decision Posted by: Lace M. Smith / September 6, 2017 Image: In the spring of 2016, students, staff and faculty joined in on the PLU4US: For and With Undocumented Students crowd funding campaign to raise over $30,000 for undocumented PLU students (Photo: PLU/Hansel Doan) September 6, 2017 Dear Campus Community: This morning, the White House announced a plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months. I want to affirm

, whether wearing naturally curly, in poofy ponytails or woven into braids or cornrows. As a mom, Lucas encourages her adventurous  daughter to embrace her natural hair texture and hairstyles. Lucas’s capstone also delves into problems in social work, citing research that indicates most white social workers and transracial foster and adoptive parents were ignorant about Black hair care needs. She notes some advances—for example, some salons are teaching adoptive and foster parents how to care for a