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April 12, 2012 Earth Day – Connecting to Everything on Earth: Its Land, Waters, and Peoples (Plant, Animal, and Human) PLU’s 2012 Earth Day lecture will be by Michael Pavel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Pavel is a professor of education studies at the University of Oregon, he carries the traditional name of ChiXapkaid and is an enrolled member of the Skokomish Tribe Nation. He is an honored 2007 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award finalist for his work as
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August 15, 2012 Blue (and green) heaven By Steve Hansen Back in high school, Erica Boyle was on her way to a soccer tournament in Alaska when she looked out the window of her plane. “That’s a lot of water down there,” she thought to herself. “I should check that out.” Below was Puget Sound. For someone who loved to hike and explore the arid slopes of the Rocky Mountains near her hometown of Lakewood, Colo., the lush green mountains and the shimmering blue water had an undeniable appeal. Erica
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Naval Post Graduate School and research associate at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Strawser has taken the, some may call, controversial position on the use of predator drones: “Strawser has plunged into the churning, anguished debate by arguing the US is not only entitled but morally obliged to use drones. ‘It’s all upside. There’s no downside. Both ethically and normatively, there’s a tremendous value,’ he says. ‘You’re not risking the pilot. The pilot is safe
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that you are fully prepared. Gather your belongings. If you have an emergency kit in your office, take it with you. Shut the door behind you. Leave the building from the exit nearest the room you are leaving. Go to the Evacuation Assembly Area for the building you are leaving and check in with the Emergency Building Coordinator (EBC), Resident Assistant or your class instructor. Faculty who are in class during the drill should lead their class out of the nearest, unblocked exit to the evacuation
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the Anderson University Center. She is the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Prize. Faculty-led discussion will be led by Professor Giovanna Urdangarain (Hispanic Studies). Discussion will also be led by the student organization Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management. For those who can’t make it to the PLU campus, the Peace Forum is being Livestreamed. Read Previous PLU students to take part in Nobel Peace Prize Forum Read Next MediaLab returns with a new
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lights our lives: hope, mercy, purity, dedication, and faith. The first candle is the candle of hope. Lucia represents the hope of the coming Christmas season, bringing the birth of a small babe who would be the Light of the World. His birth, life, death, and resurrection bring hope for all time. May this candle of hope burn bright through the Christmas season and throughout the year. We light the second candle, the candle of mercy. The legend of Lucia commemorates showing mercy to all of God’s
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world, from Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood to Tanzania. And every year, PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education holds a student photo contest to showcase evocative images from the students’ travels and experiences. The 12 winning photos were framed and displayed in PLU’s Mortvedt Library through mid-May, then moved to the Anderson University Center, where they will be on display through early June. For the first time, we’ve compiled all the winning images in an interactive feature below, where you can
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continue to speak. Mary Oliver’s words are as common in our community as the scriptures themselves. Her “Instructions for Living a Life” are the armature of our liturgy. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. These same words have formed my own personal liturgy. For almost two decades they were posted above my desk or on the first page of my journal. Her words were painted on an exterior door that leads from my back yard to the alley. A reminder to me every time I crossed that threshold that my
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Lace M. Smith EDITORIAL OFFICES Neeb Center 253-535-8410 resolute@plu.edu www.plu.edu/resolute PLU OFFICERS Allan Belton President Joanna Gregson, Ph.D. Provost Daniel J. Lee Vice President for University Relations Teri Phillips Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Joanna C. Royce-Davis, Ph.D. Vice President for Student Life Melody Ferguson Associate Dean of Admissions OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND CONSTITUENT ENGAGEMENT Mary Duvall Associate Vice President for University Relations Jessica Pagel ’08
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photo galleries from the weekend online. Save the date for Homecoming 2016: Oct. 14-16. Everyone is invited to come back to campus to celebrate their ties to the Lute family. All of the exciting details are still being worked out, but Choir of the West alumni should plan on being at homecoming to celebrate 90 years of COW! Want to get involved? We are looking for decade captains for the Choir of the West reunion. If you would like to help rally your choir friends to come back and sing with you
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