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shaped their learning. 5.    America Reads. The chapter will support PLU’s America Reads program, which aims to improve childhood literacy through service in five area elementary schools as part of the schools’ reading programs. America Reads also supports Mortar Board’s national Reading is Leading initiative. In late November, word arrived that the petition had been granted. The next step is to build PLU’s chapter; the inaugural Mortar Board will be inducted in May 2014. Here’s how it works: Current

Studio Theater at 7 p.m. Focusing on water-related issues across North America, the film investigates how pressures on water, including drought, floods, population growth, and pollution, are resulting in new and innovative thinking. From Canada to Texas, and from Washington, D.C. to the Gulf of Mexico, the team discovered stories of drought, water mismanagement, and water scarcity in unexpected places. Kortney Scroger ‘14, a PLU senior communication major who served as the film’s chief videographer

University.The free, public showing will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in Xavier 201. Director Jesse Freeston, a video-journalist based in Montréal, Québec, will lead a post-film discussion. Resistencia explores the resistance to the 2009 Honduran coup d’état. The first in a generation in Central America, the overthrowing of the country’s president led to a nationwide resistance movement. The film focuses on a key element of the movement: the daring act of the farmers from the Aguan Valley to seize over

learned a great deal about her culture. Culture is a key theme of the program. Due largely to its colonial past, Trinidad and Tobago are home to a rich mix of religions and ethnicities, from African and East Indian to Chinese, Syrian and Portuguese. Trinidadians express great pride in their diversity through a variety of festivals. The PLU program is designed to explain the deeper historical roots that anchor these festivals, Temple-Thurston said. According to Hughes, the knowledge she gained in the

February 25, 2013 For the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Neil Foley, the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in American History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, spoke about immigration issues and realities. We’re like the Borg – We Swallow up Everybody By James Olson ’14 For the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Neil Foley was in fine form speaking with wit and sober candor on “The Hispanic Challenge and the Latinization of America,” before a crowd Feb. 25 in the

Privilege Conference (WPC) and The Privilege Institute (TPI), which engages people in research, education, action, and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships and relationships. The author of a new book titled “The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys,” Moore’s talk at the People’s Gathering will address the question “America is Changing: Are You Ready?” People’s Gathering participants will be challenged to examine and explore issues related to bias

programs, Europe will host four groups of students this winter. With a German Studies class going to Germany, an Education class to Hungary, and Literature and Religion classes to Greece, students will explore all corners of the continent. In Europe, students will experience everything from student teaching in Budapest to home-stays in Berlin and weekend trips to the Greek islands of Santorini and Rhodes. North America J-Term Study Away programs don’t always mean students are leaving the country; they

: Support middle and high school students in various STEM subjects through video explanations Gain professional experience Earn an income Further master STEM subject material through the practice of explanation. Here’s an example of one of our undergraduate educators creating video lessons as an intern. If you’re interested in applying please go sign up at this link. Read Previous Open Field Chemist Position at Veolia North America Read Next Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) LATEST

“living rough” in the United Kingdom, “street people” in the United States, “floating people” or furosha in Japan, “beggar tramps” or gepeng in Indonesia, “without shade” or sans-abri in France, or “without a roof” or sin techo in Latin America, the homeless are typically people whom mainstream society would prefer not to see. Although homeless people are often detached from the mainstream of society, they are far from antisocial. Homeless people everywhere have their own sets of skills, specialized

language of the unheard.” That poignant line is from a 1965 speech called “The Other America” and is about the Watts riots. And while King does not endorse riots, he says this: “[W]hat is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the