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Miller, Artistic Director of Music of Remembrance The Chris Knutzen Room (Anderson University Center) The Current Crisis: The Dehumanization of Refugee Children in the U.S. 3:45p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In 2014, thousands of children made the dangerous trek from Central America to the U.S., traveling without adult family members and facing violence, exploitation, and sexual assault. How was their plight described in various U.S. commentaries and why were these children not welcomed as refugees? This panel
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prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award in Broadcast Journalism (sharing the documentary award with Ken Burns’ The Civil War series). The film received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S. A 25th-anniversary edition of the film, revised and remastered will be released in 2014. Sauvage’s 2013 documentary Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The film provides the challenging and eloquent testimony of Peter Bergson, a
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Miller, Artistic Director of Music of Remembrance The Chris Knutzen Room (Anderson University Center) The Current Crisis: The Dehumanization of Refugee Children in the U.S. 3:45p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In 2014, thousands of children made the dangerous trek from Central America to the U.S., traveling without adult family members and facing violence, exploitation, and sexual assault. How was their plight described in various U.S. commentaries and why were these children not welcomed as refugees? This panel
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, & Anti-Semitism: British & Soviet Spy Ops Against Boston’s Christian Front Organization, 1940-1945Dr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College spoke about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and Soviet spy networks in Boston during World War II.Congratulations to 2018’s Raphael Lemkin Essay Contest winners! First place: Teresa Hackler for her essay “It is Nice in a Developed Country Like America
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. You don’t get that at a big university and especially not in NYC,” Chrissy says. The couple’s message? “We want to tell our Lutes to stay home, stay hopeful and stay healthy. We got this!” Read Previous Renzhi Cao innovates in the classroom Read Next PLU’s Lathiena Nervo discusses her work and being named one of the “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America” LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24
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the city, a nearby slum called Namuwongo, and teach life and leadership skills in the process? The director of the Global Youth Partnership stateside, Jeremy Goldberg was interested in the idea. So working with a local contact, Ocitti Joseph, Kennedy set up a tournament involving 15 teams, interspersed with leadership meetings two times a week. Kennedy knew that there was no way that he, a white man from America, could sell the idea of a tournament and leadership classes to a group of 54,000
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more global, teach more graduate students and seek new efficiencies in all that we do. FAITH AND HOPE As I begin my 19th year here, I honestly believe that no college or university in America is any better positioned than Pacific Lutheran University to affirm and consolidate our strengths, to address the challenges of this second decade of the third millennium, and to emerge in 2020 as a stronger and even more excellent university. I believe this is the case because we stand on and within the great
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years. The village, largely comprised of French Huguenots, banded together to feed, hide and shelter the Jews that came singly and by groups into the village. On Friday, Wilkens shared his experience during the Rwandan genocide. Even though scholars study the Holocaust and unbelievable numbers surround the murdered, it is the stories of the people that make it real. “I promised them when I came back to America I would share their story,” Wilkens told the crowd. “Nothing compares to stories.” During
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work of repertoire in North America. They get to work with one of the world’s best-known conductors and one of the best-known composers of modern repertoire. There is great value in learning to collaborate on such a large scale and in such a visible setting. And I believe ultimately all the performers will be moved by the music and its connection to the story. The SOAC focus this year is on storytelling. What do you think this concert has to say about the art of communicating? We’re telling the
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chances have grown again, this time to about 62 percent. It shouldn’t be hard to guess the political affiliations in a Seattle newsroom or a liberal arts college in Washington state. I talk to the reporter next to me about election-data entry becoming obsolete. “You know,” he says, “automation will replace 35 percent jobs in America. We’re lucky as journalists that computers won’t come for us until later.” I spend the next 20 minutes nervously chewing on stale pizza. Amid the results, one of my team
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