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April 11, 2008 World expert addresses masculinity, violence Silence is not golden. That was the message from Sut Jhally, founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation. Jhally’s address last Thursday marked the beginning of PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program conference that examined men’s role in ending violence against women. “The men who commit violence against women are a small percentage of men,” Jhally conceded. “However, the reason the violence goes on is the
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an integral part of the opera,” Van Mechelen said. After a taste of this, Van Mechelen knows that singing is what she wants to do with her life. She arrived at PLU as a transfer student. “I went into audition for the music program and the faculty was so warm and inviting … It just felt like home,” she said. Marlette Buchannan Hall, a vocal studies lecturer at PLU, said she showed up for the first day of rehearsals this last summer and realized a few of her students were right along side her. Hall
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, enforce and track the final solution. IBM’s Hollerith punch-card machines (which Black spotted in the museum) gave the Nazi’s a new tool to catalogue, find and round up millions of victims. “They co-planned and co-organized all six phases of the Holocaust,” Black said in an interview from New York City earlier this month. The company’s enthusiastic participation started in 1933 and continued through the war, he said. As part of the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies program, author and journalist
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kids are already in the weight room and stuff,” Dickerson said. “They’re not eating oats or anything like that.” Read Previous MediaLab Film Wins Major National Award Read Next PLU Sustainability Program is a Finalist in Nationwide Competition 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 PLU move-in day 2024 September 4, 2024 PLU Director of Athletics and Recreation
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lifelong learner, something highly valued by the staff and faculty at PLU, and he’s committed to always bettering himself and the program — and we could see that in his work at his previous institution.” “I have been fortunate to learn, grow, and lead across multiple NCAA Division III institutions in my career,” said Snyder. “My stops at Oberlin College and Illinois College have been incredibly valuable, as they have molded my education and understanding of Division III athletics and have prepared me
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Scheduling Best PracticesThe weekly schedule of classes is too important to all members of the University (faculty, students, student life, and others) to not have agreed upon best practices. The scheduling process requires input from, and interaction among, all corners of the university and involves consideration of academic program needs, faculty availability and preferences, facility limits, finance and budget planning, and processes of the Registrar’s office. Because faculty best
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Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 When the principal of N/a’an ku sê, a rural school in Namibia that serves the San people, asked PLU music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 to expand their existing music program to include children in junior primary (grades K-3), she initially felt daunted at… April 16, 2024 Research & AcademicsResoLute
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students to reflect on the kind of media consumer that they are—“Click baiter,” “Web surfer,” or “Critical thinker.” My project aims to help students identify as different readers and consumers in order to evaluate their position in society in comparison to the readers and consumers seen in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The learning outcome of this lesson is for students to look at readers in history in order to become more responsible consumers of current media. Engl 427: Seminar in Poetry, Prof
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at Augustana University in Sioux Falls studying religion, Pastor Jen did not anticipate being able to pursue ministry. She went on to Pacific School of Religion for their Master of Divinity program, where she began connecting with out queer pastors who shared her frustration with the ELCA rules against ordaining openly (non-celibate) queer people—she calls the group who shared that frustration “rogue Lutherans,” and they formed a group known as Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. She explained to
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sport you’ve never done before,” said Schlenker. “Even at the top of the line programs around the country, the powerhouse programs, half their novice program will be walk-ons that have never touched an oar before in their life—they are the swimmers, the cross-country runners, the wrestlers.” Rystrom was the swimmer. “I’m really, really slow–I’m a terrible runner, so I did swim in high school and then I was like, ‘ I want to try something that you don’t have to run for and can still be good at
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