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The Full Monty By Kari Plog ’11 Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Department is taking on a traditional musical that director Jeff Clapp said is something everyone can relate to. The Full Monty, PLU’s final student production of the theatre season, opens May 12. This was…
club featuring “real men.” The strip-tease side job forces the men into a exposed situation, where they struggle with their own identity in a society where an individual’s job is everything. The PLU Theatre department’s production of The Full Monty takes on identity as laid-off mill workers find strength in performing as male strippers. “What’s more vulnerable,” Clapp said, “taking your clothes off in front of people or losing your identity?” This is the first time PLU has ever produced The Full
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Speakers tell PLU audiences to reach outside themselves Rich, diverse and often divergent voices came to PLU over the last year to challenge our outlook on life and our choices. Should one eat meat, or not? What of world hunger, the environment, corporate greed, genocide…
July 7, 2008 Speakers tell PLU audiences to reach outside themselves Rich, diverse and often divergent voices came to PLU over the last year to challenge our outlook on life and our choices. Should one eat meat, or not? What of world hunger, the environment, corporate greed, genocide and women’s rights? What can one person do to address these issues? All speakers stressed that individual choices and actions do matter – even when faced with problems on a global scale. Last fall kicked off with
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The Press is named in honor of T. Leslie Elliott, a retired editor and bookseller who in 1974 began teaching a course in the English Department entitled “The World of the Book.
of type, many intricately carved ornaments, and stamps depicting everything from dental charts to 1920s roadsters.The History of the Elliott PressThe Press is named in honor of T. Leslie Elliott, a retired editor and bookseller who in 1974 began teaching a course in the English Department entitled “The World of the Book.” Thanks to Elliott’s efforts, PLU was offered its first gift of letterpress equipment in the late 1970s. Over the years, other gifts of presses, type, and related materials
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Pål Brekke giving a lecture at the Smithsonian Institution earlier this year. He will lecture at PLU on Thursday at noon about the connection between the Sun and the Northern Lights. Photo: Hanna Pincus Gjertsen Our Explosive Sun — A scientist’s look at the source…
, senior advisor the Norwegian Space Centre. With stunning space video clips, Brekke’s fascinating sun-aurora presentation attends to all interest levels. His astrophysics-research credentials, international collaborations, peer-reviewed articles, university teaching, prestigious awards, Photograph by Bjorn Anders Nymoen, An aurora over Nesoddtangen, Norway, billows out into the distance on October 9. and popular IMAX theater appearances promise vibrant material for scientists and non-scientists alike
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Free Summer Jazz Series Brings Stars—and the Community—to PLU A crowd enjoys the music at a 2013 Jazz Under the Stars concert at PLU. (Photo: PLU student John Struzenberg ’15) 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU…
June 8, 2014 Free Summer Jazz Series Brings Stars—and the Community—to PLU A crowd enjoys the music at a 2013 Jazz Under the Stars concert at PLU. (Photo: PLU student John Struzenberg ’15) 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communication As a gift to the community—and really, to everyone who attends—the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music kicks off its free summer concert series, Jazz Under the Stars, on July 10. The 2014
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TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 5, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s Human Resources Department kicked off the move-in season early on Aug. 3 when it became the first occupant of retail space in the brand-new Garfield Station. The new space, minus the futons and movie posters expected from a…
PLU Human Resources Moves Into Garfield Station Posted by: Sandy Dunham / August 5, 2015 Image: Garfield Station will house two PLU departments. (Photo: John Froschauer, PLU) August 5, 2015 By Matthew Salzano ’18PLU Student Writer TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 5, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s Human Resources Department kicked off the move-in season early on Aug. 3 when it became the first occupant of retail space in the brand-new Garfield Station. The new space, minus the futons and movie posters
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After applying as a cellist for the Broadway musical Spring Awakening , just for fun, Justin Huertas ’09 found himself on a national tour and is working on turning the experience into his own show. (Photo by Kristina R. Corbitt) Pursuing the Dream By Leah…
October 2, 2012 After applying as a cellist for the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, just for fun, Justin Huertas ’09 found himself on a national tour and is working on turning the experience into his own show. (Photo by Kristina R. Corbitt) Pursuing the Dream By Leah Traxel ’14 Justin Huertas ’09 was ready to “break up” with acting and playing the cello to pursue a steadier paycheck, when fate stepped in. Huertas, who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from PLU, had worked fairly steadily
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD9U3jPRdE This past year a group of PLU students, as part of the award-winning MediaLab, dove into the topic of anti-Islamic sentiment in America. This is a first account shared by one of the project leaders JuliAnne Rose ’13. The topic took them across America…
April 1, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD9U3jPRdE This past year a group of PLU students, as part of the award-winning MediaLab, dove into the topic of anti-Islamic sentiment in America. This is a first account shared by one of the project leaders JuliAnne Rose ’13. The topic took them across America on a mission of understanding the complexities of the issues at hand. Diving into Islamophobia in America By JuliAnne Rose ’13 Strapped with massive camera equipment, we struggled off the
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Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, 2018-present David Deacon-Joyner, Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, 2000-2018 David Robbins, former Chair, PLU Music
, then Dean of Summer Sessions, was already overseeing several summer “berry” festivals and scholarly conferences on campus and wanted to add other activities to the PLU summer calendar and showcase the new facilities.With an intimate outdoor amphitheater now built into the hillside and nestled in the “U” of the three wings of the music building, Judy and former music department chair David Robbins collaborated to host a concert there in the summer of 1998. The idea of using gypsy jazz group Pearl
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