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,” said Kristi Floyd ‘19, who graduated from Franklin Pierce and grew up less than two miles from PLU’s campus. “Parkland is an amazingly diverse community that is full of incredibly generous people.”Parkland Gallery With a 55 percent transiency rate and Joint Base Lewis-McChord a stone’s throw to the west, it’s a high-turnover population dominated by rental homes that somehow still boasts deep community roots. And it’s that connection between citizen and community that’s become Parkland’s calling

and it’s not exactly rage. It’s targeted satire and frankness. There is nothing I can do about it at this point. That’s who I am. That’s what you get. Campus Voice: Why are you visiting PLU? Cary Nelson: This is actually part of a West Coast tour. I started in Los Angeles, flew up to Berkeley, went over to San Francisco, came up here to speak with you folks today and I’ll be at the University of Washington tomorrow. I’m interested in the PLU chapter because it has been revived. You have 12.5

he came to PLU, where he now instructs students and performs on the famous Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, the largest one west of the Mississippi River. Taking care of the Earth is something that Tegels prioritizes, and feels it is something that many people lack the motivation to do. “We don’t treat humans badly, we don’t treat animals badly and we shouldn’t treat the Earth badly,” he said. “When you get involved more, you start thinking about it more.” Tegels recently invested in an effort

research project into the topic resulted first in the publication of the Bancroft Prize-winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 and, now, after five more years of research, A Generation Removed. “In this new book, I wanted to expand my focus into Canada as well, where generations of Indigenous children also experienced involuntary separation from their families,” Jacobs wrote. “In the

education, for the challenge and discipline it taught me. PLU served me well.” And she advises current PLU students to go with the flow of life, wherever it leads. “Life is what happens when you are making other plans,” she said. “Keep open to opportunities as they present themselves. I didn’t give up. I determined I would be successful in whatever I did, whether teaching English, cleaning houses or drawing.” Read Previous PLU Named a ‘Best in the West’ University by The Princeton Review Read Next Being

clever thing to say.” Thank You! Joyce Barr ’76 Keynote speaker Spring Commencement 2008 Joyce Barr is currently the executive director of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. She previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Namibia from 2004 to 2007. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1979, Barr has served in posts around the world, in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Barr graduated magna cum laude from PLU with a Bachelor of Business