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Science Center in Seattle. “This is a rare opportunity to have these kinds of objects in Seattle,” said archaeologist Donald P. Ryan, director of the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Expedition. It’s been more than 30 years since Seattle has seen the wonders of the King Tut exhibit, and the current North American tour showcases twice as many artifacts as before, many of which have never been seen before in the United States. During a dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Don Ryan

July 2, 2013 Into the clouds By James Olson ’14 On the rare cloudless days, from PLU’s campus, Mt. Rainier can be witnessed asserting its sublime dominance over the Pacific Northwest. The day I met Allison Stephens ‘01 was not one of those days, but its call could still be heard, muffled and resilient. She told me that she would be climbing the mountain in August and that she was apprehensive about it. She also told me that she has never done anything like this before. The summit would be

. Rather it is something that exists within many words.” Hall worked with a tribal elder to come up with a phrase equivalent to the English word interconnectedness. “When I talked to my tribal elder and asked him if we had a word to explain interconnectedness, the first thing he said was -mixw, a suffix in our language that means life force or anything with life force in it, like the earth,” she said. “A lot of our words in our language have to do with life and the environment, and that is why there is

public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic changing of the climate? Monastic communities looked to the future, not the immediate

that no one grows hungry?  Alcuin LIbrary at Saint John’s University “How do we push public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic

of these ultra-runners and most of these people who are participating at the elite level of ultramarathoning are white middle to upper class women,” O’Brien said. Followers of Dark Green Religion display an increased willingness to advocate on behalf of the earth. Professor O’Brien believes that this framework which already lends itself to advocacy can work toward ecological and social justice simultaneously. “I think it would be remiss to assume that [Dark Green Religion], which is going to take

the newly launched pre-law minor to her workload. The pre-law minor complements Pacific Lutheran University’s pre-law advising program, which is designed to help students interested in attending law school, including assisting students in selecting a law school. The pre-law minor will offer courses from several disciplines to develop student’s skills in understanding the law, developing a sense of professional ethics, practicing analytical reasoning, growing in their written and oral communication

analytical reasoning, growing in their written and oral communication skills, and the ability to read and discern meaning from complex texts. “I’m really excited about the pre-law minor because it will bring more pre-law students to PLU,” she said. “I’m an environmental studies major, which is interdisciplinary, and the pre-law minor is set up to be like that too.”Dept. of Political SciencePre-Law MinorPreparation for law school at PLU is an advising system rather than a curriculum of prescribed major

backbone. Tell me about your two majors.  I first started as just a biology major. I pursued pre-med classes. In my junior year, I took analytical chemistry, and the professor [Brian Naasz] said, “You are pretty good at this. Why don’t you take that plus year and stick around for next year and get the major too?” Who are your mentors? I would say Dr. [Tina] Saxowsky, she sparked what I was most interested in. Dr. [Matt] Smith was my first biology professor. Dr. [Andrea] Munro helped me get the classes

analytical reasoning, growing in their written and oral communication skills, and the ability to read and discern meaning from complex texts.  “I’m really excited about the pre-law minor because it will bring more pre-law students to PLU,” she said. “I’m an environmental studies major, which is interdisciplinary, and the pre-law minor is set up to be like that too.” Whalen’s passion for nature stems from an early age when her parents gifted her a book on animal law. Around that time, she decided she