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paper, “The Unacknowledged and Underfunded Fight for Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia,” covers her research and interviews on domestic violence, sexual assault, and abortion within Yogyakarta, Indonesia. While researching, she also interned at a women’s interfaith organization through the School for International Training (SIT) study abroad program.The Person Behind the ProjectBeeson is an experienced traveler, having spent most of her summers with family in Taiwan. Beeson formed a bond with an
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Americans reconcile their past. The Minidoka National Historic Site houses what remains of the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho. The camp operated from 1942-45 and held more than 9,000 Japanese Americans, in concordance with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order that initiated the incarcerations. The annual Minidoka Pilgrimage invites former incarcerees to join their family and friends on a journey to the site, where they reflect on the impact of Japanese internment on the
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for the “Will Washington Be Next” rally protesting gun violence on March 14. Her mother passed out posters on the sidewalk. Her father stood on the capitol steps with the crowd. Her sister read a poem. “All of us are personally affected by this,” Anderson said. “All of us are in schools and on school campuses every day, so it’s a family gig. But also a family fear.” Anderson, a first-year student at PLU, created “Will We Be Next,” the student movement meant to raise awareness of the threat of gun
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– have guided the ranch to produce mainly organic beef, as well as organic chicken, pork, lamb and turkey. Thundering Hooves provides meat to food clubs in the Seattle area – and to PLU. The organic beef is just one of the many organic and local food items that have made their way into The Commons as roast beef sandwiches, pot roast and French dip. Joel Huesby recounted the “holy cow” moment 10 years ago that prompted the family decision to go organic: The ranch had received a cow that was barren
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relocate the family to his native Australia to hopefully make his recuperation process a bit easier. Now, Nicole, Paul, and their two young daughters live in Ocean Grove on the Southeast coast of Australia near Melbourne. Their moving process was documented on a recent episode of HGTV’s House Hunters International, but the process of moving and filming a TV show, while fun, wasn’t always easy.How did you get involved with HGTV, and what was the pre-filming process like? We spent our last three weeks
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Fargo. Proceeds from the sale allowed the Bensons to first fund the chair in business and economic history and then, this year, fund the chair in elementary education. “Yes. I would say that it is true that PLU now has ‘his’ and ‘hers’ endowed chairs from the Benson family,” Jolita said. “But you know, we haven’t taken advantage of our financial position to enhance our own lifestyle,” she said. “I was raised to be a modest person. My grandfather was a Lutheran pastor. My great aunt was a missionary
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evaluated the proposal. “Artificial intelligence and human resources are a location where ethics, technology, and business intersect dramatically,” Halvorson said. “We are excited about the research that this innovative team is engaging in, and I look forward to their presentation during Spring 2021 when we can consider what they have discovered. I am grateful to the Benson Family Foundation for funding this innovative project.” Ben Merrill will be a senior at PLU in the Fall, majoring in Business
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about disability through a wider lens—not just one person’s disabled body, but how disease or illness can disable an entire family system or community. A woman’s breast cancer could lead to physical pain and an attempt at removal—which might also then lead to an infant’s malnourishment or lack of employment if the woman worked as a wet nurse. Major events to celebrate the new work included November 24, 2023’s Night at the Museum event. In a full-circle experience, Llewellyn Ihssen was one of the
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August 10, 2011 The renovation to the Tower Chapel, now known as The Ness Family Chapel, will begin in 2012. (Photo by John Froschauer) The PLU ‘Imaginarium’ By Chris Albert With continuing construction and updates at the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, PLU is quickly becoming the home of the premier theater venue in the South Sound. This year, Phase II construction will begin on the center, which will include work on Eastvold Auditorium and the renamed Ness Family Chapel
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students? “Everything just felt so nice – everyone was so welcoming,” she said. Alazadi values community – it is an essential component of her family life and her Muslim faith. Her family fled Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 1990 after a failed uprising and a subsequent crackdown from dictator Saddam Hussein. After four years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia, she and her family landed in Everett, Wash. She was only four. The tight-knit Iraqi community of 100- or-so families has sustained her ever since. Alazadi’s
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