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practice, patience and a little perseverance you can do what you might have thought was impossible,” she said. Her suggestions for someone considering the class, even if you can’t picture yourself hanging on for dear life atop a 200-foot sandstone spire? Just go for it – you’ll be surprised what you are capable of conquering. Oh yeah, and trim your fingernails. Read Previous Recognized for top study away programs Read Next Polar adventure COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't

, gangs and poverty. “I think this is our last chance with them, not that it can’t happen at high school. But it’s a lot less likely.” 2:15 p.m. – Class dismissed Back to Class Acts Main Read Previous Biologist use Murdock grants to study birds, fish Read Next Looking into the laws behind adoption COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first

references in Mr. Herzberg’s accelerated class in high school. I am a mixture of feelings, between excited and anxious, and I am not sure if it will hit me until I am on the plane. Find out what Ted and other students are doing during their J-Term Study Away experience at the Sojourner Blog. Read Previous Hero Award Read Next Antarctica blog COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window

, speakers stressed at PLU’s annual Take Back the Night march. Hosted by PLU’s Women’s Center, the event featured speakers who stressed that each individual—men and women—has to decide to act. President Thomas W. Krise noted that one study found that 25 percent of college women have reported being sexually assaulted, and it’s a statistic the entire community should be concerned about, and work to change. Lt. Col. Kevin Keller, head of PLU’s ROTC program and professor of military science, said this issue

celebrate Women’s History Month by “commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.” (https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/). List of books on display: Hearts of Our People : Native Women Artists Kicking Center : Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer Jewish Radical Feminism : Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance Being Muslim : a Cultural History of Women

Summer Internships: Economics Posted by: vcraker / September 7, 2022 September 7, 2022 Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study. Through The Alumni & Student Connections

convivial was popularized by Ivan Illich in his 1973 book, Tools for Conviviality. It is still surprisingly relevant.) For high school students who become interested in computing, there are a wide range of subjects that they can study in college to think about the implications of computational thinking in industry and society. We’re really at the beginning of a surge in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, technical education, and the history and ethics of computing. Computer

was going to be my career, so I decided it was more practical for me to major in different things. I absolutely loved my Chinese class freshman year, and translation work interested me. I also wanted to study the Bible more, so I chose a second major in religion. My junior year, I went on the PLU exchange program to Chengdu and loved my time there, but really missed piano. When I came back to PLU, I still wasn’t able to play piano much because I was too busy with other classes. It was also at this

March 19, 2009 Senior capstone: ‘the toughest class they will ever take’ If Tosh Kakar has his way, James Crosetto, Jeremy Ellison and Seth Schwiethale will have spent most of their senior year trapped in a project room just off Morken 212.It is a state-of-the-art room adjacent to the electronics lab. This room is theirs for the year, where they will study and experiment – as well as nap on a beat-up couch, and work into the wee hours of the night, fueled on carbonated caffeine drinks and

funds supplemental salary for the Mayer Chair, research and travel related to scholarship, enhanced library resources, student-faculty research fellowship opportunities, coordination of the annual Lemkin Student Essay Contest and the Lemkin Lecture (named for Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”), as well as the annual Holocaust conference. At first glance, PLU might seem to be an unlikely place to be a center of Holocaust study and scholarship. But really, it embraces the Lutheran