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Mycal Ford ’12 has spent the year teaching in Taiwan on a Student Fulbright Fellowship. Mycal Ford ’12: A journey of discovery leads this Lute to China and Taiwan By Barbara Clements University Communications Mycal Ford eyed the skewer of fried scorpions he held at…
again. “China did change my life, and it changed me and offered me a chance to look deep within myself and accept that invitation to think differently and feel differently about my world and myself, Ford said.“In China, I didn’t speak Chinese, know anything about the philosophy, history or culture, but I told myself, I was going to take a risk, even if it means trying something I didn’t want to do.” Looking back, two years later, Ford is so glad he did. He’s now six months into his Fulbright
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Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him.
Army, Gunovich said. “It is important to keep Brian’s memory alive so that others may know what excellence looks like, so that they might emulate him. … If we can help lift someone up like Brian would, then we will undoubtedly be able to do more good in the world.” – Sgt. 1st Class Michael Farnum, director of military outreach at PLU “Brian was that kind of guy,” he said. “Those are the ones who can affect change.” Calata is proof of that philosophy, the result of a chain reaction of Bradshaw’s
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Originally Published in 1992 I thought I was used to medicine’s ever-expanding horizons, but I wasn’t prepared for this one. “We’ve got a dilemma we want some philosophers to help with,” said a pediatric endocrinologist on the other end of the line. As I quickly…
believe that the regimen of thrice-a-week shots in the bum for years on end is only likely to exacerbate a child’s perceptions that shortness is a problem. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Paul Menzel Indeed the pediatric specialists —only board certified endocrinologists— who are so far allowed access to GH by Genentech seem right in not viewing the “disease” of GH-deficiency as the relevant line. If a human need is served (or at least human “benefit” delivered) by adding three or four inches to the
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Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…
quest for wisdom —shaping powerful words that free us and move us— this is what the Humanist pursues. Though Plato once wrote that “there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry” (Republic 607b5–6), today, poetry and wisdom’s love provide in rapprochement the fruitful grounds for a renewed Humanistic Way. Wallace Stevens put this poetically, As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in which We more than awaken, sit on
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Sources: Christopher D. Roy. “The Art of Burkina Faso.” The University of Iowa. Art and Life in Africa. http://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/37?start=01 Christopher D. Roy. Mossi.
these compounds comprise a budu, with the oldest male of that collection known as the budukasma. Although these compounds are grouped in a neighborhood, they are not clustered together, but are instead separated by fields of crops. The families of the village political chief are more closely spaced around his location. Mossi marry outside their budu, with the exception being the blacksmiths (saaba) who are an occupational class. Masks are known as wango (wan-go), which share that name with the mask
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Are you brave or are you insane for coming out at a Lutheran university in the 90s… or are you just doing the right thing? Beth Kraig (full oral history interviews part one, part two, and part
example, with helping him learn “how to think not only at the sort of philosophical or political righteous level, but also how to roll up your sleeves and do the hard work of making institutions actually the best versions of themselves.” Colleen Hacker and Nikki Plaid both conveyed their awe over Beth’s decision to live as an openly queer faculty member. For Colleen, Beth’s choice was “so brave.” For Nikki, her decision took on an even deeper significance as Nikki grew up and understood the
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Friday, May 3rd Join the Mathematics Department in Morken 214 and Morken 216 to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you're unable to join us in-person, we welcome you to attend via Zoom.
it works and how we can use it to fold a heptagon. 3:30pm – Mathematical Assessments of Gerrymandering: Making Your Vote Matter Clayton Wise The manipulation of voting district borders is a fact of the American political system that can and has been used, intentionally or not, to repress and bolster certain voting demographics. Despite this known and studied fact, methods for identifying unequal district maps have only recently been developed and used in practice. In this paper, we seek to
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Friday, May 3rd Join the Mathematics Department in Morken 214 and Morken 216 to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you're unable to join us in-person, we welcome you to attend via Zoom.
it works and how we can use it to fold a heptagon. 3:30pm – Mathematical Assessments of Gerrymandering: Making Your Vote Matter Clayton Wise The manipulation of voting district borders is a fact of the American political system that can and has been used, intentionally or not, to repress and bolster certain voting demographics. Despite this known and studied fact, methods for identifying unequal district maps have only recently been developed and used in practice. In this paper, we seek to
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Former Lute Soccer Star Kicks Off New Professional League Andrew Croft ’09 played soccer for a year with the Tacoma Stars. (Photo: ©Wilson Tsoi/goalWA.net) Andrew Croft ’09 is a Goalkeeper for the New Seattle Impact FC, Which Debuts in Kent Nov. 8 By Sandy Deneau…
City Councilmember is a Double-Major at PLU Read Next Highly Decorated U.S. Army Veteran Shares His Journey From Service to Political Science at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in
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By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s, an estimated 25 to 35…
the Schnackenberg Lecture Dr. Walter C. Schnackenberg (1917-73) graduated from Pacific Lutheran College in 1937 and taught at PLU from 1942 until 1944. He returned to Pacific Lutheran University in 1952 as Associate Professor of History and Political Science and became Professor of History in 1958. He was chairman of the Department of History from 1963 until 1973 and served as faculty representative to the Board of Regents during the 1972-73 academic year. He was author of The Lamp and the Cross
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