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it will be housed in the Mortvedt Library until Sept. 24.I Am Psyched! is a multimedia initiative launched by the American Psychological Association Women’s Programs Office to explore the history and contemporary contributions of women of color in psychology as they engage in psychological science, practice and social justice. The I am Psyched! National Tour got started in early 2017 with an installation at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The exhibit traveled across America to 12

year’s Alternative Spring Break trip. Students will have the opportunity to travel to the south and learn about social movements through the program titled American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This program is a civil rights tour designed to educate students about how the social movement began, what that meant for society and what it still means for society today. “It’s really an exploration of social change and how social change occurs,” said Amber Baillon, assistant director of

she’s adding to both categories with one prestigious honor. Moran, who met President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during her summer internship with the Democratic National Committee, is one of 10 newly minted members of the National Student Advisory Council (SAC). SAC calls its 2014-15 councilmembers “10 Campus Women to Watch Out For,” and with good reason: The council, convened by The American Association of University Women (AAUW), is a select group of inspiring women who demonstrate

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

of a tuition waver for Native Americans. He did not plan to play collegiate basketball. His journey took a tragic turn, however, when his father drowned in July 2006, a month before he was set to leave for college. He still left for college. But after nearly two months, he decided to leave Fort Lewis College. “It was too soon after my father’s death to be away from home,” he recalled. “I needed some time with my family.” It was the Spanish teacher at Bristol Bay High School who convinced Zach’s

Gates Sr. were looking for something to do with all that extra money. The Gates family had looked into supporting various philanthropic efforts in education, libraries and, on the global scale, population issues. But ultimately it was the simple vaccine – or more accurately, the lack of childhood immunizations across much of the world – that gave the Gates Foundation its primary mission. And so the revolution in global health began. Dr. William Foege ’57, former director of the U.S. Centers for

Willamette University, Seattle University and Gonzaga University. In the Spanish Worlds division, Matt Aust and Kaitlyn Hall won third and second speaker, respectively, while in English Worlds, Tori Sullivan took sixth speaker and partner Mariah Collier won fourth speaker. PLU debate continues their competitive season at the Pan American Championships  March 9-13 in Los Angeles, Calif. Additionally, PLU will host the United States Universities Western Regionals Championships March 25-27, 2017.  Read

where six women gather and lead the audience through both good and bad life events of the next three years. Audience members may have seen the film adaption starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field and Dolly Parton, which was produced in 1989. “This play is well known and cherished by American audiences, “ Director Lori Lee Wallace says. “I think the challenge of producing this play is breathing fresh life into it in order to give the audience a unique experience.” Staging the play in the Studio Theater

Post-American World.”Wheat and oil prices reached record levels, straining the budgets of U.S. families with both higher energy and food costs this last year, he noted. Conflicts are still occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, and new outbreaks of hostilities are occurring in former Soviet states. “And natural disasters remind us that the planet is fragile and the forces of nature far exceed our own,” Anderson said. Yet, Anderson said he was proud of the graduates who go out into the world to take

book has stayed on the New York Times best seller list for 18 weeks, Young told a packed audience last month at the Garfield Book Company that God is using the book, and the story, in ways he never dreamed of. Drawing on pain he experienced in his own life over an 11-year span between 1994 and 2005, Young told the rapt crowd at the book signing that he picked a large African American woman to be God to blow away preconceived notions. “I don’t want my kids growing up thinking that God is Gandalf