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done giving back to their country. It’s an outlet, I think, for the veterans to pass along what they have learned and to feel like they are the future of this country’s Army and making us better prepared to lead soldiers."- Jessica Mason '18 Mason helps organize monthly meet-ups for participants, where they talk about four-year plans, balancing school life with social life, homesickness during deployment, and how to keep up with your family during field training. For veterans, Farnum said, the
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world.”Early on, Mosa struggled at Foss High School in Tacoma and didn’t think college would be an option for him, so he set his sights on applying to be a seaman with the coast guard. Even with this plan, Mosa applied for college scholarships, at the encouragement of his high school counselors. Days before he enlisted into the Marines, Mosa learned he was the recipient of an Act Six Scholarship, a leadership program that connects local students with faith- and social justice-based colleges to equip
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technology skills and higher education knowledge, along with his desire to uplift others, and forge his own career path at PLU. We chatted with him to learn more.What do you love most about your job? Because my position is systems-focused, I get to look at and help contribute to PLU improving the student experience on campus. How do the PLU residential life teams support students with mental, physical and social health? Our whole Campus Life department does a lot to support students. Through our learning
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society. Men were the breadwinners, while women tended to cooking, children and the household. The men over-harvested the fish stock offshore of the island and the island’s economy fell apart. But with the fishing economy dead, the men refused to find new work, as their masculine pride was set on being fishermen. With the social structure of the island dismantled, some of the island’s women decided to become the breadwinners. Now, in 2020, women run many of their own businesses on the island and have
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Choir of the West International Tour 2019 Posted by: marshrl / May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 About the TourChoir of the West is currently on a performance tour of Scotland, England, and Germany from May 26-June 12, 2019. Cities along the way include Edinburgh, York, Cambridge, London, and Oxford in the UK – along with Marktoberdorf, Germany. Choir of the West will share concert performances and social interaction with the University of Edinburgh Chamber Choir, the Choir of Royal Holloway
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political messiness and social friction.” The other “takes the prettifications at face value and asks how they happened.” The push and pull between these two relationships to Austen is evident in the reactions to the newest version of Persuasion; reviewers crave an immersion in the world of Austen that they feel they’re denied even as many try to show how the prettification happened by focusing on recent Austen-adjacent productions. Dames’s formulations are powerfully illuminating. On one view they can
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demanding student-faculty research projects, and all of you receiving Bachelors degrees have survived your capstone projects. You have brought distinction to the University, and yourselves, as award winning musicians, accomplished thespians, outstanding student athletes, dedicated social advocates, and remarkable leaders. You have worked with us in building bridges with Tacoma and our greater South Sound community by serving in our schools, working in Boys and Girls Clubs, reaching out to our Lakewood
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poverty, in the U.S. and overseas. But she’s determined to try. “It would be a real disgrace to come back and do nothing,” she says. Barbara Clements Barbara Clements is the Content Development Director of PLU, and as such guides PLU’s storytelling through print, web, video and photography, as well as on the university’s social media platforms. She is the managing editor of Resolute and U magazines. Prior to PLU, she was a journalist for more than 20 years, winning numerous regional, state and
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Rebekah M. K. Mergenthal Associate Professor of History Phone: 253-535-7395 Email: mergenrm@plu.edu
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Past Bjug A. Harstad Memorial Lectures 2018-2019 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture “ Ibsen and Place
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