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How and why do you choose allyship even when it is unpopular? Katie Monsen ‘96 and Emily Davidson ‘98 (links to full interviews here and here)Katie Monsen ‘96 and Emily Davidson ‘98 were two allied PLU alumnae whom Beth recommended I contact. Though they didn’t overlap too much in their years at PLU, they both dedicated themselves to formal and informal allyship through student organizations and their social circles. Katie wrote a column in The Mast that she leveraged to combat the anti-queer
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Transportation to Pacific Lutheran University Lunch/snacks Check into residence hall and get PLU ID card Welcome Dinner September 2 – 4: Orientation and English proficiency testing Shopping trip(s) September 5 – 6: Free time and option PLU social activities September 7: Labor Day (holiday in the United States) – free time September 9 – 11: Orientation and English language instruction Visits to PLU departments like Outdoor Recreation and services like the Library Trip to downtown Tacoma for the farmer’s
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Internship with the Portland Pickles: 8 questions with Simon Luedtke ’24 Posted by: mhines / November 29, 2023 Image: Simon Luedtke ’24 spent the summer interning for the Portland Pickles, a collegiate wood-bat baseball team based out of Portland, OR. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) November 29, 2023 By Jeffrey RobertsPLU Marketing & Communications Simon Luedtke ’24 is a strategic communication major from Newberg, Oregon. His communication studies, combined with his part-time job with PLU Athletics
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Welcome to the Parkland Literacy CenterThe Parkland Literacy Center (PLC) is an organization at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) that establishes, implements, and conducts various programs that serve the academic needs of our local community. The PLC is composed of PLU student staff as well as student volunteers. The mission of the PLC is to serve the greater Parkland community through literacy training and academic support. Currently, we provide any subject of tutoring to K-12 students within
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Questioning Barriers: Angela Pierce-Ngo ’12 understands post-secondary success requires questions Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 3, 2022 November 3, 2022 By Lora ShinnResoLute Guest WriterWhile at PLU, Angela Pierce-Ngo ’12 was worried by a troubling pattern. After the first year of college, many peers and friends — especially classmates of color — left school or took an extremely long break.Even as she worked as a diversity advocate and progressed toward her degree in social work, she felt
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?Graduation is the official awarding of a PLU degree. PLU awards degrees four times per year, once per term. The Office of the Registrar manages graduation (degrees). Commencement is the ceremony celebrating the PLU experience. Participation in a commencement ceremony does not guarantee a degree will be awarded. The PLU Commencement Team manages the commencement ceremony (commencement@plu.edu, www.plu.edu/commencement).Evaluating Graduation/Degree Completion StatusStudents are able to evaluate their
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when searching for roommates. Optional field include: Upload a Photo An Elevator Pitch about Yourself: This can be similar to your tagline on your social media profile or a quick sentence about yourself. Example: New to PLU and lover of dogs and traveling! Care to Elaborate Section: This can be a brief paragraph about yourself, your interests, extracurriculars, etc. If you’re not sure what to put here, looking at your roommate questionnaire answers might help! Profile Fields: Look at the list of
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figures of females are also often white-washed with chalk and other sources of pigmentation, again, white being the color of the water spirit in Urhobo society. Additionally, chalk also can represent food and abundance, two things that come from the water spirits. The Urhobo put on giant masquerade-like spectacles to invite water spirits to come into the communities for a time while they honor the spirits, nature, elders, ancestors, and persons of social and spiritual prominence. At the end of these
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a solid foundation in social sciences as well as a lifelong appreciation and joy of music.Luke LatimerLuke came to PLU from Boulder, Colorado and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 2011. Luke’s passion has always been for the sciences, but he found himself increasingly interested in music during his time at PLU. Though not a Music major nor even a Music Scholarship Student, Luke performed in the University Symphony Orchestra every semester during his time at PLU, except the one
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think the value of literature and writing is even more paramount as we move forward, because it’s acting as kind of a resistance to forces in our culture that want to reduce or simplify experience,” Barot said. “What literature does is restore complexity to the things that people feel and do and think, and celebrate complex emotional, social, intellectual experiences.” As for the future of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Barot looks backward and forward, always with the founders’ vision—and
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