Pacific Lutheran University

Students, make an appointment with your advisor for help with class selection for J-term/Spring 2010.

First day to add a 2nd half semester class with instructor signature.

This All Saints Chapel is a celebration and remembrance of those who had died in the previous year. The name of those remembered will be read and the Choir of the West will participate in this special worship service.

Weekly team meeting with film session. All sessions meeting in Leraas EXCEPT the first session - SEPT 14, which will meet in XAVIER 201.

FB Staff Meetings. ------- Meetings on Nov 2 and Nov 9 meet in Morken 137 & 138. Meetings on Nov 3 and Nov 10 meet in Rieke 103 Leraas.

Registration information and instructions for first-year students.

Auditions for The Vagina Monologues is coming up on the 3rd and 4th, so please drop by for more information.

Tabling to recruit participants for a psychology experiment attached to the psychology department and Dr. Grahe's social psychology lab. The experiment is funded by a Severtson grant (sponsored by the Department of Social Sciences) awarded to Emily Hoppler Treichler.

Join us Monday November 2nd at 6:30 to discuss Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson In this quiet but compelling novel, Trond Sander, a widower nearing seventy, moves to a bare house in remote eastern Norway, seeking the life of quiet contemplation that he has always longed for. A chance encounter with a neighbor—the brother, as it happens, of his childhood friend Jon—causes him to ruminate on the summer of 1948, the last he spent with his adored father, who abandoned the family soon afterward. Trond’s recollections center on a single afternoon, when he and Jon set out to take some horses from a nearby farm; what began as an exhilarating adventure ended abruptly and traumatically in an act of unexpected cruelty. Petterson’s spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force, and the narrative gains further power from the artful interplay of Trond’s childhood and adult perspectives. Loss is conveyed with all the intensity of a boy’s perception, but acquires new resonance in the brooding consciousness of the older man.

We will be teaching and practicing unicycling. Meets in CK West EXCEPT for the following dates in East Campus gym: SEPT 21, SEPT 28, OCT 5, OCT 12, and NOV 23.

Annal Frenz, Visiting Instructor of Religion at PLU, primarily teaches in the areas of New Testament and Early Christianity, centering it in the Greco-Roman and ancient Mediterranean religious environment. Trained as both a Biblical scholar and a cultural historian, her areas of interest include social formations in early Christianity, religions of the Roman Empire, gender and sexuality, and especially the impact of cultural constructs of the body on religious expression. This lecture will address questions about how religious thought in the Greco-Roman world used the concept of virginity to explore ideas about sexuality and the divine world. While male and female sexual activity could be seen as a barrier to the divine, virginity offered a complex access point for both divine and human connections. How that access was related to sexual identity in the ancient Mediterranean world has had a profound impact on both the development of religious thought through the centuries and on our modern understanding of virginity and sexuality.

Weekly swing dance lessons and a dance at the end of the month!