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important event to hold, she explained, because it reaches the 60 percent of PLU students who aren’t able to study away and exposes them to the food, dance and history of Trinidad and Tobago. In her own study away experience, Hughes spent a month researching the environmental impact of copper and nickel mines in Botswana’s villages. During the rest of the semester, she and 16 students from across the nation, lived in local villages, learned the San language and went on safaris. “I was able to cross the

October 20, 2008 Looking for that first job? Try the career fair. PLU’s annual career fairs will be filling up every inch of the UC beginning Oct. 28, and it’s a place where both employers and students can check each other out, and possibly help you find that all-important first job after graduation. Adam Geisler, a junior and history major, said that while he might not find his dream job in the many booths, he still likes attending and checking out which employers show up.“As a student you

night, not only as fun but a kind of a ride through the history of rock music. His band played to the sound of the blues greats like Muddy Waters, while “American Standard” covered hits from the 1960s and 70s, and “My Name Ain’t Skip” captured early alternative rock with covers and original pieces. “It was really kind of fun to watch,” Anderson said. For the PLU alumnus, it was also a step back in time. Anderson used to play acoustic songs on campus in the 70s. “So that was kind of a full circle

PLU.” “This play is really a story of a test of the human spirit,” Corbitt said. “It follows a family’s struggles to overcome major disasters in human and biblical history, and some of the situations presented in the play can be compared to our current economic situation.” Throughout the production process, Corbitt said that she has been, “Pleasantly surprised by people’s energy.” Things have been moving along smoothly. The cast members get along well, people have shown a genuine interest in

interview the son of a survivor of the Armenian genocide. “His input just opened this other dimension to my research,” Marks said. “It essentially brings history to life.” It may seem confusing why the systematic death of almost 600,000 Armenians took place. Through Marks own research she found the area to be quite “cosmopolitan.” But as the Ottoman Empire begin to recede into the desert, the rise of Turkish nationalism felt threatened by any different identity – especially the Armenians. While Marks

six years after graduating from PLU. But he said he is enjoying his new reality, and attributes much of his success to PLU. “The relationships you make with people are astounding and valuable,” he said. “Some of my closest friends are from PLU.” Rupprecht taught in the Clover Park School District for five years after graduating. His next stop was at the University of Washington-Tacoma, where he earned a master’s in education. Soon thereafter, he received a call from Forks, and the rest is history

commitment, passion and experience of the business school’s faculty and – in the global management category – also to PLU’s long history of getting our students abroad and welcoming international students to campus.” The Princeton Review compiled the lists using data from its national survey of 19,000 MBA students attending 301 business schools profiled in its book, Best 301 Business Schools: 2010 Edition, published in October 2009. The 80-question survey asked students to report on classroom and campus

university. That gift – almost $107,000 provided by 67 generous alums – sought to endow the Meant to Live program, part of PLU’s signature “Wild Hope Project.” “Meant to Live is the convergence of a gift from the Class of 1958 and homecoming, where an alumnus of the university can speak to students about his or her life’s work,” said Samuel Torvend, project director of the Wild Hope Project and professor of the history of Christianity. This was the first year that Meant to Live was officially associated

altogether. “That’s why I’m interested in making sure that there is always a professorship in Norwegian studies at PLU,” he said. He then turned to the crowd and issued a challenge- on the fourth annual Syttende Mai celebration, how about an announcement for an endowed chair? Only $1 million more to go, he said. “We’re half-way there,” he laughed. Currently PLU has three endowed chairs: The Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, the Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History and the Jolita

written about this time period, as far as examining its reach in developing Chinese society. According the the selection committee, they were “particularly impressed with the clarity of writing and the intellectual breadth of the dissertation, which necessitated dealing with a wide range of Chinese materials that span the entire history of Buddhism in China. The result is an impressive contribution to our knowledge of the complex responses by modern Chinese Buddhist teachers and intellectuals to