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others,” explained Rebecca Richardson. The upper-division Norwegian language course has only four students – far fewer than most of the other languages offered at PLU. Along with Richardson, the filmmakers included Britta Helm, Christy Olsen and Ryan Hoskins, with help from special guests along the way. “We were fortunate that our professor, Troy Storfjell, designed the class around film,” Olsen said. All semester long, they learned the art of filmmaking by watching Norwegian films and learning about

developed their global awareness by learning about the society, culture, history, politics and environmental concerns of this island nation. SCOTLAND Social Psychology of Ghosts and Hauntings As one of Great Britain’s most haunted cities, Edinburgh, Scotland, is an ideal place to apply social psychological principles to paranormal occurrences. Through knowledge of social psychological concepts and theories, PLU students constructed accounts for the seemingly “unexplainable” at places such as Edinburgh

has been a big part of their lives for as long as they can remember. Grahe remembers how he went from playing French horn in a brass quintet, to playing trumpet at open mic nights, to learning how to play guitar and starting to record original music. “Somewhere the guitar took over more than the French horn and more than the trumpet,” he said. His group, “My Name Ain’t Skip,” actually formed in response to the PLU rock event. “It’s actually refreshing being in a band,” Grahe said. Anderson saw the

because of the recession, the transition is taking place over two years, versus ten, he said. “This is a time to try things,” Guzman said. The world still needs journalist, she said, and learning all there is about the new ways of reporting is essential, even if there is not a clear vision of what a “newspaper” is going to look like down the road. Cartoonist thinks the art will survive Chris Britt, an editorial cartoonist for The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., said that he sees a place

, PLU’s new director of The Center for Community Engagement and Service, at James Sales Elementary School, one of three schools where he is developing a mentoring program. Zylstra is PLU’s new director of The Center for Community Engagement and Service, which operates under the Career Connections department. His job, basically, is to connect PLU to the community, be it through working with faculty to support service-learning in a class, or talking with community leaders about opportunities and

major, decided that he was done with playing it safe. His real passion was the theater. So he switched and hasn’t looked back since. “Life is too short to do something you don’t love,” he said. On taking risks, Hobson stressed that is was better to fail spectacularly, rather than simply turn in mediocre work. “It’s better to attempt to be brilliant and fail, than just accept being mediocre,” he said. Read Previous Share your Zipcar experience for a chance to win! Read Next Learning about the next

as a part-time professor in Fall 2006, Todd now shares her passion for glaciers and rocks with her students. She takes advantage of PLU’s location, bringing students’ learning outside the classroom to places like Mount Rainier, where she takes her students snowshoeing in winter months and studying melt water through research projects over the summer. “During the summer months my students and I are clambering all over the mountain, collecting melt water samples and trying to learn more about

life—to Markuson, that means care for others—and he continues to do so today. “After being at PLU for four years and taking that to heart, I think what I am doing now is caring for a community, and it is greater depth of understanding what that means, and there is empowerment in that,” Markuson said. Recently accepted to medical school at the University of Washington, Markuson is eager to apply what he’s learning over this year of service. “Now I have this year where I’m not caught up in the

this mantra from Mark Twain: “Irreverence is the champion of liberty.” Paulson believes we can become disinterested in simply learning about global tragedies, and in today’s world of constant connectedness and coffee shop Wi-Fi, a lack of awareness no longer works as an excuse to ignore them. “Maybe,” Paulson says, “curiosity is what we need to stimulate.” Read Previous Choreography and Costumes Read Next Study Away Shots Taken ‘Round the World COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the

fellowships, which were awarded in March. Work began in June. She and other student researchers will be presenting the findings of their research at the Poster & Oral Presentation Session, Sept. 23 in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, and subsequently during the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust-sponsored Twenty-Third Regional Conference on Undergraduate Research of the Murdock College Science Research Program in November. Eventually, Deane would like to go to medical school, and research like