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September 15, 2009 Giving a people a voice, a face Filmmaker Neda Sarmast stood in front of more than 200 attending PLU students preparing for the screening of her documentary. Her film, “Nobody’s Enemy: Youth Culture in Iran,” takes the viewer into Iran to learn about, listen to and meet the youth of Iran. The size of the crowd was impressive, exciting to Sarmast. “I was just so moved to see how powerful you are and how powerful your international programs are,” she told the crowd about her

Disarming Polarization: PLU symposium to address national, global divisiveness Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 25, 2020 Image: The Wang Center Symposium takes up the issue of heightened political and societal polarization within the U.S. and globally as well as its primary consequence, the increasing inability to communicate and collaborate. February 25, 2020 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 25, 2020) — Noted academics, activists and practitioners whose

office after dropping out of the University of Oregon in 2010. The decision to enlist, she says, was “a bit of a last resort” to get her family and friends to stop asking what she was doing with her life. “There I was signing my life away feeling relieved that this will get me at least four years to become someone others weren’t worried about all of the time,” she says. Three years later, Raven Lopez ’22 realized that after one year at the University of Arizona, she wouldn’t be able to afford college

January 1, 2010 Heroes by permanent marker In December 2009, PLU students, and co-founders of the Progress Club, Harold Leraas and Andrew McGuiness on behalf of the club accepted the 2009 Hero Award from the Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. The co-founders of the PLU club said the efforts by the members of Progress have raised more than $13,000 for the children’s hospital’s Free Care Fund, which helps pay for care for uninsured children. Leraas and McGuinness took some time to

October 31, 2013 An African Grey Parrot takes stock of a photographer. (Photo provided by PLU Prof. Charles Bergman.) Free as a bird  — at last PLU Professor and Student Journey to Jane Goodall’s Famed Sanctuary for First-Ever Release of Rescued African Grey Parrots By Barbara Clements, Scene Managing Editor; Photos by Professor Charles Bergman and Nevis Granum ’14 So much for the photo opp. Professor Charles Bergman had been camouflaged in a blind for hours, waiting for a flock of 17 African

PLU Community Encouraged to Attend Listening Session Regarding JBLM Personnel Cuts Posted by: Zach Powers / January 16, 2015 Image: (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) January 16, 2015 By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 16, 2015)—PLU community members are encouraged to attend a “community listening session” regarding proposed cuts of 11,000-16,000 active-duty and civilian positions from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The session will take place at the McGavick Conference Center

July 14, 2014 Another Historic Harstad Hike From left, Carol Yenish of Mankato, Minn., the Beckers’ daughter and great-great-grandchild of PLU founder Bjug Harstad; Vance and Linda (Harstad) Becker of North Mankato; and Mark Harstad of Mankato display electronic and typed records of their ancestor’s journey to Yukon Territory in search of gold. (Photo: Amanda Dyslin/courtesy of The Free Press of Mankato) Founder’s descendants retrace 1898 Gold Rush quest to save PLU By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU