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Jordan Levy: Anthropology and a Just Society Posted by: Zach Powers / November 15, 2019 Image: Professor Jordan Levy in front of the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Tacoma. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 15, 2019 By Lora ShinnGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsWhen Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system.He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer

January 31, 2013 Cambodia: A reflection on the genocide by Khmer Rouge and coverage by US media by Kathryn Perkins ’13 In 1975 over one-fourth of the Cambodian people were murdered. Not by foreign aggressors or malicious diseases, but by their own people. The Khmer Rouge, a communist regime with a Utopian dream, decimated its own country. Like the Holocaust, the history of Cambodia needs to be remembered.   The Cambodian genocide is part of a larger story of human atrocities in the 20th century

the PLU music department LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

Lutheran University history professor and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, says. “It’s filthy, violent, degrading, and the worst of humanity.” Yet Griech-Polelle says the study and discussion of these atrocities are crucial to stopping them in the future.PLU was the first university in the Pacific Northwest to offer a minor in Holocaust and genocide studies, beginning in 2014. It also hosts the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. For many PLU students, exploration and

-square-foot facility boasts an innovative closed-loop, geothermal energy system to create a sustainable, energy-efficient building. Multiple benches contain different growing spaces, with infrastructure that can help regulate temperatures and light. Dr. Romey Haberle, one of Laurie-Berry’s colleagues, maintains a collection demonstrating evolutionary plant history and diversity. Cacti, carnivorous plants, corpse flowers and tropical trees all flourish within the greenhouse. Angles and answersLaurie

February 25, 2013 For the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Neil Foley, the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in American History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, spoke about immigration issues and realities. We’re like the Borg – We Swallow up Everybody By James Olson ’14 For the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Neil Foley was in fine form speaking with wit and sober candor on “The Hispanic Challenge and the Latinization of America,” before a crowd Feb. 25 in the

-foot facility boasts an innovative closed-loop, geothermal energy system to create a sustainable, energy-efficient building. Multiple benches contain different growing spaces, with infrastructure that can help regulate temperatures and light. Dr. Romey Haberle, one of Laurie-Berry’s colleagues, maintains a collection demonstrating evolutionary plant history and diversity. Cacti, carnivorous plants, corpse flowers and tropical trees all flourish within the greenhouse.  Angles and answersLaurie