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  • Todd Sheridan Perry ’92 worked on many of the Gollum scenes in the second Lord of the Rings movie. How Todd Sheridan rose from PLU to become one of Hollywood’s most successful special effects wizards By Barbara Clements Remember the scene in the “The Lord…

    captured his imagination and took him to a land, far, far away. “I was always drawing stop-motion movies and little drawings and cartoons in the sides of my textbooks and stuff like that,” he said. “And I was always borrowing my Dad’s video camera.” In high school, Perry took every art class he could find. And when he ran out of art classes, he started crafting coursework through independent study. He did the same thing at Pierce College, and then transferred to PLU. It was here his future career got

  • PLU Makes Strong Showing at National Race & Pedagogy Conference By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications The 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma Sept. 25-27 features more than 2,000 local, regional, national and international participants—including a large contingent from Pacific Lutheran…

    in schools over the last 30 years. “The question is asked: ‘Does a focus on test scores and graduation rates adequately represent the consequences of racial segregation in our schools?'” Cunningham said. The session also will present the results of a 10-year study of a school district that had its desegregation order lifted in 1999 and then stage a critical conversation between the authors of the study and a panel of critical scholars and civic leaders about questions raised by the study. Drawing

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…

    the student exhibit ignited a curiosity to dive deeper into Munch’s background beyond “The Scream.” “You get an immediate visceral, emotional reaction,” he said of Munch’s art. “It punches forward.” Iverson’s work is emotional, but more complex — drawing on lots of details to evoke feeling. “I tried to pare it down to make it more simplistic,” he said. He is submitting two pieces, one he previously finished and another he is still working on. The works are meant to convey grief. One is

  • PLU mathematics professor Jessica Sklar is one of 23 collaborators creating a notable work of art, soon touring the nation. Called Mathemalchemy, the installation celebrates the beauty and creativity of mathematics. The finished piece will be about 16 x 8 feet in area and 9…

    testament to creativity, problem-solving, and dedication. Many of us don’t realize that art or math works aren’t typically creations of instant genius. Instead, drawing the perfect nose or proving a new mathematical result may take hours, days, or years of learning, effort, and repeated attempts. Sklar was inspired to work on the project by her interest in humanistic mathematics: “The notion that mathematics is, at heart, a human endeavor.” She also got involved as part of a lifelong mission to

  • Gaslighting is the through line and ultimate source of tension in season two of Sanditon . This psychological manipulation is present in Captain Lennox’s abuse of Mr. Parker’s trust and the financial entrapment that threatens to sap Sanditon dry, one more in a series of…

    replaced her fertility tincture with in a particularly cruel move to a woman already grappling with trouble conceiving. In addition to drugging her, Edward makes routine references to her insanity and also steals her husband’s correspondence to further isolate his victim and to make her question her belief in her own spouse’s affection. Esther is initially resistant to Edward’s attempts to destroy and discredit her as seen in an exchange between them in the drawing room with Lady Denham and Clara in

  • In honor of Women’s History Month, we are “commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.” ( https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/ ). This exhibit includes a short list of just a few women’s first achievements in the past six…

    the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser–the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series–masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder’s tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose

  • If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart…

    to edit it out of the episode. Crystal Clarke shared the drawing, which depicts a blurry ménage à trois, to her Twitter afterwards (her tweet is no longer available except as a reference in her interview with The Pemberley Podcast). This exemplifies Georgiana’s humor and strong perspective, and it also shows how she is often censored. In Regency society, it is easier for her to be a muse than to be a creator. Meanwhile, it is socially acceptable for Charles to have her sit for hours while he

  • Melodramatic, selfish, pouty Mary Musgrove is the only Persuasion (2022) character who says anything meaningful about Regency womanhood that is congruous with gender expectations today. Her lines in Carrie Cracknell’s adaptation are like Reductress captions, with just a little less of the same satirical punch.…

    UK filtered through Cracknell’s twentieth-century film bears the imprint of a similar ideology. Mary’s persuasive genius is that she makes audiences laugh while drawing attention to power imbalances. If she makes us laugh, we need to ask: are we laughing at her or with her. Then we need to ask why, not childishly, but with open-eyed curiosity. Read Previous “You assume just because I hate something I don’t want to do it?” LATEST POSTS “You assume just because I hate something I don’t want to do

  • 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,…

    religious and historical tradition of Lutheranism, this does not and cannot mean that we all have to understand these ideas in the same way. Like the non-Huguenot villages of Le Chambon, some of us at PLU may connect and identify with these ties that bind drawing on our own experiences, histories, traditions and spiritual views. Nevertheless we, as a faith community, do share these commitments even if we act on them differently. Maintaining these ties that bind will also mean being attentive to our

  • Originally Published 1996 Introduction Like other disciplines such as English and Sociology, Foreign Languages also have a history in the United States which is linked to the changing values of society as a whole. The discipline of foreign language teaching has evolved over the last…

    personalization of language study brought about by the emphasis on communication in recent years, a traditional instructional relationship still dominates. In the foreign language classroom, the teacher’s language competence, reinforced by the students’ relative linguistic incompetence, can lead to the teacher’s over-controlling the production of meaning. Teachers must actively resist this tendency. Feminist pedagogy can inform the practice of foreign language teaching by drawing on cooperation rather than