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clever thing to say.” Thank You! Joyce Barr ’76 Keynote speaker Spring Commencement 2008 Joyce Barr is currently the executive director of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. She previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Namibia from 2004 to 2007. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1979, Barr has served in posts around the world, in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Barr graduated magna cum laude from PLU with a Bachelor of Business

watching in frustration as many died from diseases that easily could have been prevented or treated in the United States or Europe. Generally speaking, it was a poorly funded, neglected field handled by a relatively small cadre of dedicated folks working on shoestring budgets. The answer to the “Why does it matter?” question was that, back then, all this really didn’t much matter – at least when measured in terms of money, political will or media attention. AIDS, of course, has been a big and highly

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in thought and feeling to those questions, is experienced —and often experienced as some kind of gift come ‘unawares.’” David Tracy, Analogical Imagination   “When the two-dimension figure in Flatland meets the three-dimensional sphere, it neither sees a sphere nor has any sense that there is more than what it sees —namely, a two-dimensional circle, that piece of a sphere its plane runs through.” Robert Kegan, ln Over Our Heads:The Mental Demands of Modern Life In the gap between Robert Kegan’s

modeled Rilke’s wisdom was the great Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl.  In 1939, he was conducting research along the coast of British Columbia in a effort to understand the northern Pacific ocean currents, when he as called home because WW II had broken out in Europe.  In 1998, 59 years later, and at age 83, Heyerdahl came to be our PLU commencement speaker, and he arrived three days early so that he could visit BC and continue his research.  Heyerdahl personified our great human

treatment is undoubtedly informed by a context where the concept of hysteria was very much in the zeitgeist. The word has more immediate relevance in history as well as other dialectic afterlives in current discourse, too. You need only look at the history of weaponized “hysteria” diagnosis up into the 1960s or the more modern trope of the “crazy ex-girlfriend” which is often in actuality a woman who is retaliating against male abuse only to be castigated for an account of male behavior that the man

anonymously. Powerless: A New Musical Revue May 6-7 | 8:00 p.m. | The Cave, Anderson University Center Presented by PLU’s Night of Musical Theatre, Powerless is a new revue that uses a variety of modern musical theatre numbers to outline a journey of personal empowerment. (Admission is free with donation.) University Symphony Orchestra May 10 | 8:00 p.m. | Lagerquist Concert Hall Featuring Shostakovitch Symphony No. 5, a piece written during a time that Shostakovitch was fearing for his life. His most