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  • The impact of eating By Kari Plog ’11 Ethics is not normally the first thing that comes to mind when dishing up your dinner plate, but for Beth Ann Johnson ethics is vital in making dietary choices. The conference will explore the ethics of eating.…

    “What’s on Our Plate and Why it Matters: Exploring the Ethics of Eating” which takes place at Trinity Lutheran from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15 and from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16 in PLU’s CK Hall in the UC. The symposium will serve to educate PLU students and the community about how their choices impact the environment and the global food production process. “They’re going to learn more about choices they have, advocacy and how to be a voice for the voiceless,” Johnson said. “This event’s

  • The grant was an initiative created in 2021 by Bryant Bartlett, the former Impact Art Director, with ASPLU and Diversity Center.

    The Impact GrantThe grant was an initiative created in 2021 by Bryant Bartlett, the former Impact Art Director, with ASPLU and Diversity Center. As applications come in Impact gathers members from all of the organizations mentioned to choose one student organization with high community impact to receive advertising materials from us, free of charge. The selectee is graded upon the following criteria: Overall PLU community impact and the organization’s financial constraints. Expanding a bit

  • Visiting Writer’s Series – No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Face the Global Economy Author Wendy Call will be on campus Feb. 22. Award winning author Wendy Call will talk about her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Face the Global Economy…

    : “Call is never dry or academic; rather, she writes lively narrative, detailed description, and engaging scenes that render her subjects – a schoolteacher, fisherman, activists-three-dimensional. By relating the lives and concerns of isthmus dwellers and the struggles they face, the author raises awareness of globalization’s effects on the village economy.” Read Previous Technology opens more collaborative possibilities Read Next Terje Tvedt talks about the sociopolitical nature of water COMMENTS

  • Since the delivery of a college education was significantly disrupted and altered by the covid-19 pandemic, PLU has been attempting to mitigate its financial impact on our students.  Beginning first with the waiving of some fees and providing refunds on diminished or discontinued services, PLU began offering students emergency funds for expenses incurred or incomes...

    Since the delivery of a college education was significantly disrupted and altered by the covid-19 pandemic, PLU has been attempting to mitigate its financial impact on our students.  Beginning first with the waiving of some fees and providing refunds on diminished or discontinued services, PLU began offering students emergency funds for expenses incurred or incomes reduced which made paying for college even more challenging.  A second phase of funding is now available for up to $1,000 per

  • Since the delivery of a college education was significantly disrupted and altered by the covid-19 pandemic, PLU has been attempting to mitigate its financial impact on our students.  Beginning first with the waiving of some fees and providing refunds on diminished or discontinued services, PLU began offering students emergency funds for expenses incurred or incomes...

    Since the delivery of a college education was significantly disrupted and altered by the covid-19 pandemic, PLU has been attempting to mitigate its financial impact on our students.  Beginning first with the waiving of some fees and providing refunds on diminished or discontinued services, PLU began offering students emergency funds for expenses incurred or incomes reduced which made paying for college even more challenging.  A second phase of funding is now available for up to $1,000 per

  • Economist Arthur Laffer discusses U.S. economy Economist and consultant Arthur Laffer visited PLU to offer his view on the current climate of recession, deficits and tax stimulus packages. Known as “the father of supply-side economics,” Laffer was a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory…

    March 7, 2008 Economist Arthur Laffer discusses U.S. economy Economist and consultant Arthur Laffer visited PLU to offer his view on the current climate of recession, deficits and tax stimulus packages. Known as “the father of supply-side economics,” Laffer was a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board. In that position, he helped guide U.S. economic policy in the 1980s. He proposed that reductions in federal taxes on businesses and individuals would lead to increased

  • 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…

    the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist. [6] The Humanist tradition began with ancient ideals and searching discussions. During the Renaissance it took on rhetorical and metaphorical wings. Maybe it was once only for the rich, but now it belongs to us all. Valor and beauty, the search for the true and the good, the examined life. These are very deep values in this tradition, and they have empowered humanistic education ever since. This is an

  • “The Other Side of Immigration” examines the impact migration has on the families that stay behind. “The Other Side of Immigration” By Katie Baumann ’14 PLU welcomed Roy Germano to campus this fall as part of the 2012 Department of Language and Literature Film Festival…

    November 12, 2012 “The Other Side of Immigration” examines the impact migration has on the families that stay behind. “The Other Side of Immigration” By Katie Baumann ’14 PLU welcomed Roy Germano to campus this fall as part of the 2012 Department of Language and Literature Film Festival Series, to show his documentary, ‘The Other Side of Immigration.” This film explores why so many Mexicans leave their homes to migrate to the United States and explores another side of the issues surrounding

  • Deirdre N. McCloskey – distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago – spoke about the value of the middle-class during the annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) The…

    University of Illinois at Chicago. “We must acknowledge our middle-class bourgeois character and embrace it and perfect it. Greed is not good. We should take our roles as innovators — the market judges of innovators — and court it the respect it’s due,” McCloskey said. McCloskey presented a lecture entitled, “Bourgeois Virtue? Why being Middle-Class is Good for us,” on Monday, October 15, at the 8th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The annual lecture series was established

  • Since the delivery of a college education was significantly disrupted and altered by the covid-19 pandemic, PLU has been attempting to mitigate its financial impact on our students.  Beginning first with the waiving of some fees and providing refunds on diminished or discontinued services, PLU began offering students emergency funds for expenses incurred or incomes...

    Since the delivery of a college education was significantly disrupted and altered by the covid-19 pandemic, PLU has been attempting to mitigate its financial impact on our students.  Beginning first with the waiving of some fees and providing refunds on diminished or discontinued services, PLU began offering students emergency funds for expenses incurred or incomes reduced which made paying for college even more challenging.  A second phase of funding is now available for up to $1,000 per