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PLU Music Professor Plays Instrumental Role in Chinese President’s Visit to Tacoma Posted by: Sandy Dunham / September 17, 2015 Image: PLU Professor of Music Greg Youtz (back row, second from left) joins elected officials and community leaders in welcoming the Honorable Qiu Yuan Ping, Minister of Overseas Chinese Commission (front row, fourth from left), to Tacoma’s Chinese Reconciliation Park. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 17, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing

women’s health into conversation when so many people are scared to talk about it,” Gould said. In addition to holding two shows at PLU, the cast will also be taking “The Monologues” to the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor. There, PLU students will be doing two performances, one for the staff and a second for the inmates. It’s an opportunity made possible by the IF Project, an organization that works to help inmates share their own stories through theater. Smith said proceeds from

great Mediterranean and American cuisine. Located at 2214 Second Ave.PLU Jazz StudiesLearn more here.Live In-Studio at KPLUWednesday, April 29 at 2 p.m.The Jazz Sound Trio and students Zach Miller and Brandon Lee Cierley will perform a live studio session on KPLU to showcase PLU jazz and promote PLU Jazz Day at Tula’s. Read Previous Student Organizes April 24 Salary-Negotiation Workshop to Combat Gender Wage Gap Read Next PLU Presents Service Awards to Students, Staff and Community COMMENTS*Note

campus life—and present a moving, enlightening evening of personal storytelling and public debate. The four students are part of iDebate Rwanda, a nongovernmental organization that uses debate to give young East Africans the tools to change their world by teaching them how to think critically, solve problems creatively and impact their society. PLU is the second stop on the group’s 2015 U.S. tour, “Voices from the Post-Genocide Generation’’—and one of only two on the West Coast. The students’ visit

East, on the other hand, continues down its war-torn path. This time, however, the war from the Middle East knocks on Europe’s door. Daily, waves of refugees wash out in the shores of the Greek islands along the coast of Turkey. People of every age are trying to escape the violence of ISIS. Their numbers have already exceeded the number of refugees during the Second World War. Greece keeps sinking in the abyss of her widely publicized bankruptcy, and Greek citizens are doing their very best to help

Leadership residential learning communities, that also utilize linked courses to partner with students in their learning and success,” she said. “This engagement also is reflected in the presence of FYEP faculty across the first year, beginning with new student orientation and following through to other key points in the experience, including follow-up in the second semester and attention to student success as a whole.” Read Previous A Silent Story: PLU Faculty Member is a Witness to Refugee Crisis Read

in this kind of way. I always tell people, “Once the worst thing happens to you in life, you don’t really have a lot of fear about what else is going to go wrong.” That gives you a lot to live for and it gives you a different perspective. That motivates me every day to wake up and say, “Okay, I have a second chance, how can I make this world better?” Within this advocacy and public speaking work that you’ve been doing, what are some of the things that you consider a success or mean the most to

people’s stories. The idea that there isn’t one story, (instead) that there are many stories. She uses the example of Americans coming to Nigeria, where she’s from, and asking if they have things like cell phones. So she’s talking about how everyone calls things “first-world problems,” and she wants to challenge the conception of what it means to be first, or third, or second world. The other one is by Neuroanatomist and Professor Jill Bolte Taylor, who realized she was having a stroke while in the