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create surges of culture that inspire human connections. For example, both world wars inspired poetry and fiction that brought peoples together. These cultural products changed people, created new connections, and led to more cultural change. “And that really shapes a lot of history…the stories that come out of [crisis],  how people reacted, helps us to understand yourself now.” “Humanities [are] how we define ourselves and make ourselves and relate to one another.” Schroder continued. “Think about

harmonic color of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Artie Shaw; we like the fun of Fats Waller and the theatricality of Cab Calloway; and we like being a team, playing together as one with dynamics and esprit d’ corps. We are delighted to return this season and bring the rhythm of hot dance bands and the romance of music ‘under the stars’.Learn MoreJULY 14: Keith Henson OctetThe Keith Henson Octet is an eight piece, five horn band featuring arrangements of jazz and popular danceable and

in agriculture, cattle ranching, and now roses. The rose, once the most poetic and seductive of flowers, is now on the defensive, and the cloud of pesticides suggest why. Long the symbol of love, irresistible desire, and ephemeral beauty, the prickliest of flowers has never been so popular, so lucrative–or so toxic for the environment. Every year, Americans buy about 1.5 billion roses, almost all of them from Latin America. The petals-and-pesticides story is retold every Valentine’s Day, and it

significant role in changing the teams’ nickname from Knights to Lutes and his popular “Old Time Prices Night” promotion at basketball games. Kittilsby also returned PLU football and men’s basketball to the radio and handled play-by-play duties for Lute baseball from 1983-85. He was named PLU Distinguished Alumnus in Sports in 1980 and The News Tribune’s Puget Sound Athletic Administrator of the Year in 1978. As Sports Information Director, he won three “best in nation” awards for his recruiting books and

. Leftovers are braided into dog and cat toys, or stuffing for cat and dog beds. Garabedian is a canine fan, and shares her home with three rescues — a labradoodle, lab-great Dane, and lab-German shorthaired pointer mix. While fleece tie blankets are made throughout the year, there’s usually a big push starting on Black Friday weekend that continues through January. Garabedian uses crowdfunded and traditional donations to buy the fabric from Joann Fabrics. Popular blankets include Disney princesses and

applying to graduate school. The paper has also been accepted to be presented at a UW Tacoma conference and at the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference. Have you continued your research from the fellowship in another way, capstone or otherwise? I have been really interested in how the Israeli occupation works and how Palestine resists it. For my capstone, I am examining how historiography has changed over time. One of the popular Arabic terms for the ongoing occupation is “al-Nakba al-Mustamera,” which