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, predictable enrollment. Our student/faculty ratio is part of the decision about how best to accomplish our mission. We are currently at about 12.7:1, up from a low of about 12:3. For most of the last two decades, we have been at about 14:1. Personally, I don’t put much stock in student/faculty ratio as a measure of comparison between universities, since it doesn’t address the issue of teaching load. Many large public research universities have low student-faculty ratios, but they still have huge section

challenging thing hasn’t come yet."- Thomas Horn Horn also traveled to Holden Village in central Washington for a J-Term philosophy course. “There was no technology and 300 inches of snow on the ground,” he said. “Taking a class in that environment was pretty phenomenal.” Horn recently interviewed with AmeriCorps, a nonprofit organization focused on engaging adults in acts of public service. If accepted, he will be working in Seattle with the program College Access Now, helping to coach, mentor and

bed feeling kind of terrible. So that was also weird. But then I spent the day being a lazy lump in bed reading and napping, so that was a nice little reward. The Minnesota Book Award was even weirder. I couldn’t believe a group of Midwestern librarians and book people would nominate, much less vote to win, a book called Sex & Violence. I’m really thankful that they did; these are the same people who stock this book in their Teen collections and face potential public scrutiny about such choices

encourage each other as they navigate the world of theater together. Their friendship, after all, began with a challenge, all those years ago at PLU: “If you audition for Sally Bowles, you’re going to be cast as Sally Bowles.” Read Previous The People’s Librarian: Brian Bannon’s passion for democratizing information led him to the New York Public Library Read Next PLU launches new Master of Social Work (MSW) degree COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might

contemporary philosophical critique of history’s pretensions to truth anticipated in the work of a French Romantic author who wrote a century and a half earlier. In the late 1820s, Alfred de Vigney wrote Cinq-Mars, a historical novel set in the seventeenth century about an unsuccessful plot against the Cardinal Richelieu. The novel was well received by the public, but critics raised a variety of objections to the distortions the historical record underwent in Vigny’s hands. The philosophically minded

difference in the world—many of whom are here in this hall with us today. Imagine yourself following in the footsteps of the Honorable Joyce Anne Barr, Class of 1976, who was just appointed United States Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, capping a distinguished Foreign Service career that included serving as U.S. Ambassador to Namibia. Your fellow Lutes include Brian Bannon, Class of 1997, who was recently appointed head of the country’s second largest library system, the Chicago Public

” their professors had been describing. “This class is taught in theory and we certainly saw that in practice,” Sorensen said. “We saw peaceful protests and we also saw people lighting things on fire. It made me think about the debates that have been ongoing for centuries over what constitutes protest that people have a right to, and what constitutes protest that is a danger to the public.” × × × A few hours after the inauguration, the groups reunited at a pizzeria to discuss the momentous day. As