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Washington School of Medicine, I traveled extensively before starting school in July of this year. What are some of your fondest memories from PLU? IB: I was on the PLU Men’s rowing team for three years. The sunrises and the foggy mornings on American Lake are very memorable. Other moments like running on the golf course, eating dinner with my friends in Red Square in the fall, and the PLU Christmas concert are also up there. In my first year, it snowed just enough, so my friends and I built a jump and

apparent differences have led us, more often than not, to believe ourselves more important than other species. “At CHCI I learned to care for the family of four chimpanzees who live there: Washoe, Tatu, Loulis and Dar. All are famous for acquiring elements of American Sign Language, which they use on a regular basis to communicate with each other and with their human companions. Washoe, Tatu and Dar were raised as deaf human children by human ‘parents,’ while Loulis learned from other chimpanzees

compared with the current numbers of Latino graduates. The number of African-American graduates will increase by 7 percent, while the increase in Asian and Pacific Islanders students will increase by 40 percent. Meanwhile, the number of Caucasian high school graduates will decrease by 14 percent, noted Stumo. It’s important that PLU’s ethnic diversity begin to reflect this growing trend, he said. Currently, students of color comprise 17 percent of the student body at PLU. Both Stumo and Melannie Denise

Nestled in the heart of Tacoma, Wright Park is a great place to walk around and hangout, according to Frank and Jill. The park is home to a beautiful botanical conservatory as well as several sculptures and even a cannon from the Spanish-American War. The botanical conservatory at Wright Park. Point Defiance Park & Zoo The Point Defiance Park and Zoo is the only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest. (15.3 miles from campus) 5400 N. Pearl Street Tacoma, WA 98407 The couple also enjoys

of all I wanted be an astronomer. Dad was a physicist. I grew up with telescopes and I still read Scientific American every month. I still follow that stuff avidly,” Youtz says. “I wanted to be a philosopher, I wanted be a historian, I love anthropology, of course I have no formal training in any of these. “Music just kept pulling me back.” “My music is essentially dramatic, it’s story telling. Because I’ve spent so much time doing so many different things, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about

good favor, I decided to pursue other things and leave the soccer team.” Might have been one of the best decisions of his life (though there are several contenders). Lutes on the Professional Pitch Andrew Croft isn’t the only Lute soccer player who’s found success on the professional pitch. “We have three alums in the professional ranks,” PLU head coach John Yorke said. “They get paid to play soccer!” •    Joe Rayburn ’14, a 2013 Second-Team Academic All-American at PLU, plays keeper for the U-23

in Tacoma, where students of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, more than 80 percent of the district’s teachers are white. Egenes has her students at Lincoln explore historical issues in education through an equity lens. Some of the topics they’ve researched include the history of Native American schools, the link between historic neighborhood redlining and school segregation, bilingual education and more. She asks her students to assess their own learning styles and ask

themselves to the welfare of those in their care and do their part in curtailing this deadly virus.   To learn more about how you can support PLU students visit plu.edu/advancement. A PLU nursing student walks a patient through a pre-vaccination form. More from PLU Read Previous Standing with our Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander community members Read Next PLU announces plans for virtual spring commencement 2021 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you

course and led students through the Holocaust, Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan and Native American genocides. Each genocide is its own unit with its own texts, explored both individually and comparatively, through a combination of historical texts, films, memoirs, and first-person testimonies. This fall, Marcus and Griech-Polelle had funding to invite survivors and/or descendants of survivors from each genocide studied in the course, thus giving students a more personal and immediate way to think about