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For the 2012-2013 academic year, 877 students will have graduated from PLU. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 26 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter…
for Northwest Cascade as they get ready to expand their operations. In July, I plan on joining Corelytics, a start-up company based in Bellevue, within their marketing department. During the summer, I am also getting married! We plan on moving near Bellevue/Redmond after the wedding. A lot of big changes will be happening this summer, but I am excited to see where life is taking me! Read Previous PLU Night at the Rainiers set for Aug. 16 Read Next The art of sustainability COMMENTS*Note: All
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In Times Challenging and Uncertain: Plans Change – Values and Mission Endure By President Loren J. Anderson Welcome to our 2009 University Fall Conference. This morning we gather and prepare to launch the 120th year in the life of Pacific Lutheran University. We do so with…
equity based salary adjustments, and now our 2% across-the-board salary increase this fall. In addition, all fringe benefit programs are being continued at their current level. And, I am especially pleased that we made the decision to continue filling core faculty positions with new tenure track appointments that are essential to assure the long-term excellence and vitality of our academic programs. Now I am very aware of economic stressors as well. Reducing the number of faculty and staff positions
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…
college and university campuses. Featured Films The Pearl ButtonWednesday, Sept. 28 | 5:30 | Ingram 100 Starting with the heartbreaking tale of the extermination of Patagonia’s native water nomads, Paris-based Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán traces the history of systemized murder in his country up to and including the ruthless dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet through a pearl button paid by an English expedition in 1830 to buy Patagonian native Jemmy Button and bring him back to England—or in
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Originally published in 2003 The daily headlines reflect the relentless march to war and violence: probable war in Iraq, continuing strife in the Middle East and the “war” on terror. Like other members of faith communities across the globe, I find myself wondering how I,…
betterment of humanity. All of these people shared common attitudes, commitments and acted upon them, but it was not necessary that the same ideas, understood in the same way, led them to these actions and commitments. Le Chambon was a faith community founded not so much based upon an explicitly shared theological doctrine, but on a shared sense of identity, on common perspectives that allowed them to work in concert without having to coordinate and agree on a plan of action in advance. Out of necessity
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As Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay on the discourse around Persuasion (2022) demonstrates, historical inaccuracy has been pegged as one of Carrie Cracknell’s unforgivable misdeeds, especially related to the use of contemporary language and even the protagonist’s bangs . Yet when I finally watched the film,…
/generalhistoryof01bewi/page/340/mode/2up?q=rabbit Carriera, Rosalba. “Girl with a Rabbit” (n.d). The Huntington Art Museum Collections Catalog, https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/22835/girl-with-a-rabbit;jsessionid=A43CC5AAE8657EF23242273574625504. Accessed 8 Aug. 2022. Cracknell, Carrie, director. Persuasion. Screenplay by Alice Victoria Winslow (based on the novel “Persuasion” by Jane Austen), Netflix, 2022. Greuze, Jean-Baptiste. “A Girl with a Dead Canary” (1765). National Galleries Scotland, https
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TACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. Along the way, through education, counseling, mentoring and even celebration, its staff, volunteers and community have…
the Feminist Student Union “The Women’s Center encouraged me to come into my identity as a feminist and taught me the importance of challenging sexist ideas that perpetuate a system of gender-based violence and hierarchy in our society.” Mycal Ford ’12 Former Women’s Center intern “The Women’s Center was truly my entrance into active student engagement, and what a way to enter! Through the Women’s Center I found a remarkable community of support, the courage to express my opinions, a safe space to
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On the Path to Peace Communication Professor Amanda Feller’s peace-building cohort, all graduating in 2014, comes together at PLU. From left: Caitlin Zimmerman, Lauren Corboy, Sydney Barry, Kendall Daugherty, Rachel Samardich, Rachel Espasandin, Jessica Sandler and Anna McCracken. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Eight Graduating Women Give…
. “The goal is to develop relationships, not a missionary model,” she said. “By accompanying a congregation in the community you’re serving, it’s based on human interaction: ‘All right. I’m here. What do you want me to do?’” After 12 months of service, she plans to attend law school and focus on issues of water scarcity and natural resource management. “Working on these issues with a peace-building mindset will enable me to serve people about resources as well as about community to decrease the
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Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…
should prevent one from looking at the evidence, or from reacting to that evidence. There is, in fact, reason to think that beliefs central to one’s worldview, religious or not, are not and should not be subject to a roller-coaster ride based on the latest epistemic perturbations. The factor of personal allegiance peculiar to theistic religious faith need not be a major culprit here. I conclude that there is nothing about the nature of religious belief that should prevent a more careful exploration
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For the 2012-2013 academic year, 877 students will have graduated from PLU. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 26 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter…
economics, and am interested in teaching, research and consultation work. Anna Reiman ’13 is from Puyallup, Wash. Anthony Markuson, Bachelor of Science in biology Anthony Markuson ’13 is from Chester, Mont. Why PLU? My campus visit made the difference because of PLU’s warm and welcoming community. After visiting PLU, no other campus could truly compare. Nevertheless, I needed numerical data to support a decision. In an Excel spreadsheet, I assigned points to universities based on 29 categories. After
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The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…
Fine Arts in Graphic Design at Pacific Lutheran University. In her free time she loves to experiment with painting, drawing, photography and graphic design. She hopes to further develop her illustration skills as a graphic designer and looks forward to what the future has in store after college. ARTIST STATEMENT I am a graphic artist based out of the Pacific Northwest Region. I gain inspiration from the connections that are discovered within nature. For me this is my happy place, my center, my
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