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the Fife school district. It has an important meaning to my family and me. I love Fife — it’s a great community. I am actually student teaching with my past fourth-grade teacher, so I have enjoyed seeing the other side of it. Fife just feels like home and that I have always been here,” Knapp said. After completing his practicum earlier this school year, Knapp will spend six weeks in a fifth grade general education classroom and nine weeks in a third through fifth grade special education resource

a lot. It’s had different connotations at different times over the years, both positive and some negative. Through the addition of a new minor, Innovation Studies, PLU students will now get to explore what the concept means conceptually, historically and as a process that builds businesses and unlocks human potential. “We study a range of fascinating topics but our main focus is on social innovation, which is all about making the world better,” said Michael Halvorson, Benson Family Chair and the

, what better way to follow the road-trip of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath than a Google Map? This map includes both quotes from the book and a short description of notable events that take place along each stop, helping to visualize the dramatic length and difficulty of the journey. The Joads’ long journey along Route 66. Click image to view larger. Language faculty may find it useful to help students visualize the diversity of locations where a language is spoken, as seen

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family. As musicians, we spend most of our time in our isolated world of personal practice and rehearsals. To make connections with this piece to the greater campus community is all the more special since that is really what the liberal arts, and Lutheran Higher Education, is all about.” Tickets to the April 23 concert can be purchased online, over the phone (253-535-7411) and at the door: $8 general admission, $5 senior citizen and alumni, free for PLU & 18 and younger. The Lyric Brass Quintet is

promptly used her new position to meet with organizers, where she was able to offer suggestions and work to implement them. For Relfe, now a continuing senior political science major who is considering PLU’s graduate program in Marriage and Family Therapy, this was a perfect opportunity to join her past experience on another campus with PLU’s focus on plugging students into situations where they can best succeed. “The chance to get involved and make real changes – that makes you feel powerful,” she

McGinnis, Bivens thought they wouldn’t listen to her. No chance. “It’s like they’re a part of your family – they’re looking out for you,” Bivens said. “I’ve been working with her (McGinnis) to make it a better dining experience for people with severe allergies and alternative diets. It’s really comforting to know that’s an option. It makes the entire college experience enriched.” PLU Top Chef Like the television cooking shows “Iron Chef” and “Top Chef,” PLU’s Dining and Culinary Services hosts its own

. Both JeanMarie and Jerry have been on the Parents Council since 2006. Why we Give to Q Club: “Living in Western Washington, we both knew about PLU but didn’t really know PLU. In 1995, our dad, Julian Foss, became interested in the new Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ installation and, after his death, the Foss family created an endowment in his name for its upkeep. We later met alumnus Darren Kerbs ’96 through our church and got to know a little more about the university. Our daughter Jillian, as a

birds. They are unpredictable, they don’t breed at a given time, they are nomadic, so you can’t find them in one area, but they have a wonderful song, they are colorful…and they are non-traditional.” Crossbills – a member of the finch family – get their name from their beaks, which cross at the tip, giving the bird the ability to extract seeds from closed conifer cones. Each bird might gobble up 1000s of the small seeds daily to maintain their high metabolism. When the pairs are mating, the

minister, would eventual become an advocate for civil rights, but much of his extended family saw Zellner as a traitor to his race. He recalled that before one march near his hometown in Mobile, Ala., his mother called and warned him not to go. His grandfather had threatened to shoot him if he saw him. Zellner’s journey into the civil rights movement began as a sociology student at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. As an assignment, he and his fellow students were asked to solve the race problem