Pacific Lutheran University

All Saints Day will be celebrated at this worship service. The Choir of the West will be participating in the service.

Studio Series: Mary Baker Russell Music Scholars Recital

Study session for Kate Luther's 101 SOCI students.

Come for some final review of our dance to perform next week!

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!

Veteran Rosemaler Marilyn Hanson will teach a series of three classes. Rosemaling is one of the most popular forms of folk art throughout Norway. Beginners to advanced painters are welcome.

Director's meeting for Ramstad Common's. -- Meetings take place in UC-205 with the exception of OCT 6th; Location to be determined.

TA Sessions taking place every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the fall term.

ASPLU senators and directors meet to conduct legislation for the student body. Meetings are held every Tuesday at 6:15pm and are open to campus. Students are encouraged to attend. Meetings held in UC-133 with the following exceptions: SEPT 22 in UC-171 (SIL Multi-Purpose Room) and SEPT 29 in UC-201.

12th Annual Harstad Memorial Lecture will feature international reporter, documentary director, and writer Sigrun Slapgard. Her lecture entitled, "Sigrid Undset and Her Writing Compatriots: Norwegian Voices of Dissent" will focus on Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928)

Want to study away with PLU? Learn about the programs that the Wang Center can offer YOU! Presented by the Sojourner Advocates

Join us Tuesday November 3rd at 7pm to discuss The Time Machine by H.G. Wells When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity—the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist’s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.

Calling students, staff, and faculty women! Auditions for PLU's production of the "The Vagina Monologues" will be held in November. Any interested woman is welcome to audition, regardless of previous acting experience. Be part of the show and enjoy a relaxing environment where you can meet other women and join together in promoting awareness of an important cause. Are you a man interested in supporting or being involved with "The Vagina Monologues?" Men are invited to usher and greet audience members, help backstage and provide technical expertise (e.g. lighting, etc). Please contact us if you want to get involved with this year's production.

Crunch time! Even if you've missed a lot of practices, come on down to learn the dance so you can perform with us! (Don't forget shirt money if you haven' t paid yet!)

Planning meeting.

Delta Iota Chi Meeting.

Rank and Tenure Committee Meetings. NOTE: OCT 28th meets in UC-134; NOV 11th to be determined.

University Chapel is a time and place for the PLU community to come together to reflect and be challenged. Our worship and chapel speakers encompasses the diverse religious expressions on campus.

Discussion preceding a vote to establish Learning Objectives for the 101 and 190 FYEP seminars.

Transfer students are invited to chat about life at PLU, January and Spring registration, and future events.

United Way Kick-Off

Robert Marcovitch, President of K2 Sports, will be the third speaker in the Fall 2009 State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series.

Join us Wednesday November 4th at 6:30 to discuss the Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis The world of this confident, insightful debut novel is the tightly knit Orthodox Jewish community of Memphis, Tenn., a social structure that unravels when an unconventional New York convert settles there with her five-year-old daughter. Newly widowed Batsheva Jacobs is both shockingly modern and fervently spiritual. She lovingly raises her daughter, Ayala, in the Orthodox tradition, but she sings loudly and enthusiastically at shul (perhaps a sign of unseemly ego), visits the mikvah to cleanse herself (an act that raises eyebrows, since she has no husband), and she wears flowing clothes that show her figureAall of which is noted suspiciously by the local women whose common goal is to preserve tradition. Taking a job as art teacher at the girls' school, blonde, green-eyed Batsheva is soon a beloved confidante of the community's female teenagers, but when she allows them to wear makeup and miniskirts on a ski trip, and becomes close to the Rabbi's beloved 22-year-old son, she's the subject of cruel gossip. After one of her students runs away with a non-Jewish, older boyfriend, Batsheva is blamed. Caught in the middle are Ayala and the respected and goodhearted Mimi Rubin, the rabbi's wife, who begins to believe rumors about her son's attachment to Batsheva, and panics. Generous with humor and compassion, Mirvis paints tenderly nuanced portraits of strong female characters while scrutinizing an entrenched religious subculture whose traditions are threatened by modern temptations. Guilt, passion, prejudice, loneliness and independence common themes in Jewish literature are explored with sensitivity in a gentle story that captures its milieu with tolerant understanding, and plucks the heartstrings

Want to study away with PLU? Learn about the programs that the Wang Center can offer YOU! Presented by the Sojourner Advocates

Planning Meeting

ROTC will be administering written land navigation exams to approximately 75-100 students.

Faculty Affairs Committee meetings. All meetings take place in UC-212 with the following exceptions: OCT 1, OCT 8, and OCt 29 which will take place in Admin 211A.

Workshop for PSYC 113 students on the topic of Vocation. Open to all students to attend. --- Workshops held in CK West at three different times: 8:45am-9:45am, 10:00am-11:00am, and 4:30pm-5:30pm.

Garfield Book Company - 3:30pm - "The Writer's Story". PLU University Center Regency Room - 5:30pm - Reading. ------- Award winning poets Oscar De la Paz and Jason Koo will read from their work. Oscar De la Paz is the author of two collections of poetry. “Names Above Houses” and “Furious Lullaby,” both published by Southern Illinois University Press. He chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, and in anthologies such as “Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation.” He teaches at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Jason Koo is the author of “Man on Extremely Small Island,” winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize. He holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review, and The Missouri Review. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Edtior of “Low Rent.”

Toefl readiness test.

PLU Kendo Club meeting and practice.

RHA hosts monthly a forum open to all students to come and discuss issues related to on-campus living.

Holger Teschke is a German playwright and director who will speak on: “On Earthquakes, Tsunamis and the Natural History Of Politics: An Artist’s Perspective on German Unification”

Last day to drop a 2nd half class without an administrative fee.

U-shape head table

Lunch and workshop for academic department and program chairs.

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall, performance of "Money," a farce in one act, written and directed by Holger Teschke. "Money," written in 1996, in the heady aftermath of German unification, takes a biting look at the cost of consumerism and brutal credit markets. Although written in a distinct historical moment, it has striking relevance to our current financial crisis.

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NEW LOCATION!!! Free workshops to any and all students interested in learning more about IMPROVisational theatre! Everything in improv is completely made up, like a play or scenes without a script. The CLAY CROWs, PLU's improv troupe, make improv accessible and fun for everyone. This workshop series will cover basic principles and improv styles - applicable on stage or in life. Workshops will be held in Eastvold Classroom #227.

Student a cappela ensembles

Student Ensembles

Christine Prindle is a senior Bachelor of Music in Education student.