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steadily over the decades. With music written as early as in the 1930s and as recently as five years ago, this concert will span many eras and iterations of jazz, from swing era “popular” music to bold, modern works. Cassio Vianna, Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Music, assembled the concert repertoire for the benefit of both the music students and the community. “I wanted to challenge our students and create a new listening opportunity for audiences. One of the added benefits is
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,” Wade said. “It was a tremendous learning opportunity. It gave us the sense that we were charting a course.” When he graduated, Wade left OR with 10 trained volunteer trip leaders – the next generation of caretakers for a program finally starting to flourish. Current Outdoor RecSnowshoeing in the mountains. Current Outdoor RecHiking in the hills. Current Outdoor RecClimbing a cliff wall. Current Outdoor RecPosing for a photo while on a hike. Twenty years later, the modern-day version of Outdoor Rec
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enjoyed my time here, I trust that I am prepared to take my next steps; steps that will reflect PLU and the life experience and knowledge that I have collected here. What’s next? After graduation I will be flying to Baden-Württemberg, Germany to assistant-teach English through the Fulbright program for a year. I am unbelievably excited to begin this adventure and I look forward to seeing where it leads. It may lead to graduate school at the University of Oregon to pursue a degree in either Linguistics
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communities. It really is all about community.” JESSICA SADLER Hometown: Mesa, Ariz. Major: Philosophy and Environmental Studies. Graduation date: May 2014 Peace-building experience: Sadler studied away in England, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland, where she built relationships with her fellow travelers—and cohort members. “To see common experiences and how beautiful people are—all these girls on the trip—we learned so much about the human condition and how we work with the world
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- Implications of Transcription on Adaptive Mutagenesis Using dst1 Knockout Cell Lines of S. cerevisiae Jorge Velasquez, Senior Capstone Seminar Drug resistance in cells has been of great interest because it can render certain treatments for diseases ineffective, presenting a major problem to modern medicine. Cells experiencing growth arrest due to drug selective pressure are capable of acquiring mutations that confer resistance via adaptive mutagenesis. Under such conditions, replication does not occur, but
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McGill. A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Professor Jeff A. Clapp.Other ProductionsLullaby of Broadway: A Night of Musical Theatre. Directed by Clare Marie Edgerton ‘10. The APO One-Act Play Festival: World Premieres. Rocko’s Post-Modern Life, by Paul Elvis Richter ‘10. Directed by Rose Gonzales ‘10. Robbing Midnight, by Angie Tennant ‘12. Directed by Abigail Pishaw ‘12. Straight Date, by Justin Huertas ’09. Directed by David Alan Ellis ‘11. Vpstart Crow Presents: bash
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, and the policies and practices of professional organizations, such as the Modern Language Association, reveal the ways in which the image of the profession has been manipulated to fit other ideological agendas. Such issues have also affected the relative prestige of individual languages (the popularity of Russian in the space-age “Sputnik” era, for example, or the current popularity of Spanish linked to shifts in the U.S. demographic trends) as well as the rising and falling popularity of various
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Guirgis. Directed by Travis Clark Morris ‘10. The Cripple of Inishmaan, by Martin McDonagh. Directed by Professor Brian Desmond. Dance 2010. Directed by Professor Maureen McGill. A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Professor Jeff A. Clapp.Other ProductionsLullaby of Broadway: A Night of Musical Theatre. Directed by Clare Marie Edgerton ‘10. The APO One-Act Play Festival: World Premieres. Rocko’s Post-Modern Life, by Paul Elvis Richter ‘10. Directed by Rose Gonzales ‘10
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,” she recalled of her January 2015 study away experience. “That really moved me.” Mahr, then a wide-eyed first-year student, participated in a study away course in Germany alongside the family of Kurt Mayer, the late Holocaust survivor and educator whose name informs one of Pacific Lutheran University’s most distinguished programs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Though she didn’t know it at the time, that emotional glimpse into the past helped inspire later research and her overarching vocational
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, sailors of color needed places to eat and sleep. “Neighbors always said they knew when the ships came in because of our house,” Franklin says, “because of the music.” The dreams of her cosmopolitan upbringing were realized in Germany, where her husband served two stints with the army. She camped on the Riviera, visited museums and bicycled around Europe, traveling with other spouses when her husband couldn’t join her. She was in Munich when John F. Kennedy spoke at the Berlin Wall, and found herself
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