CLU Magazine - December 2018

CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY

DECEMBER 2018

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JOURNEYS IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

QUILTS FOR HUMANITY BUBBLES THE PIG MARIACHI DEBUT HOTTEST STARS IN THE UNIVERSE TENNIS LESSONS

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fter break-ins, thefts and shattered glass in May and June – and an assault on the church facilities manager, who was not injured seriously – the string of petty crimes at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, outside the nation’s capital in Fairfax, Virginia, took an unexpected, terrible turn.

Near the end of June, one or more intruders attacked the sanctuary, writing swastikas, anti-black and -Semitic slurs, and “You're all going to hell” on the walls behind the pulpit, breaking more glass, and slicing deep gashes into the upholstery of every seat.

The Rev. Dan Roschke ’00, MDiv, saw the display of hatred at his new church right after his move from San Diego with Heather (Embree ’97) Roschke and their two children. The words could not be unseen. At least one member of the congregation was too terrified to return for a time. At least one family couldn’t explain 2 CLU MAGAZINE

the events to their children and also stayed away. Everyone wondered what might come next.

“Hatred is real, and it’s closer to us than we’d like to or always acknowledge,” said the seventh-generation pastor, a biology graduate who intended to become a doctor before deciding on Lutheran seminary.

As a white person, said Roschke, “I can’t ever fully know exactly what that must feel like, to be targeted in that way.

It certainly has been powerful and eyeopening for us here as a community.”

As word of the crime spread, the church was overwhelmed with support and cards from neighbors who had also been targeted since 2016, including the Jewish community center next door, Jewish and Muslim leaders, and a United Church of Christ youth group. Roschke responded to the many offers of help with an idea: “How about sending us some quilts, so we can cover the pews

instead of having to look at these horrible gashes?”

The quilts began to arrive in many colors and shapes. There were new quilts, tattered quilts with only one use left in them, and even a set of long quilts specially manufactured to cover church pews. Quilts also hang on the walls that were defaced.

“Someone described the quilts as like receiving a giant hug, and I feel that too,” Roschke said. “There’s so much color. It’s a powerful image of unity and diversity and love overcoming hate.”

Once the pews can be repaired, the quilts in good condition will be donated to people in need. “It’s going to be sad to see them go.” —Kevin Matthews Since the defacing of the sanctuary, Lutheran Social Services has set up its regional office to support immigrants and refugees inside the church building.

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Lynda Paige Fulford, MPA ’97 EDITOR

Kevin Matthews ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Peggy L. Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Bree M. Montanarello CONTRIBUTORS

Tony Biasotti, Colleen Cason, Karin Grennan, Jana Weber PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Stethem ’84 EDITORIAL BOARD

Jonathan Gonzales ’04, MS ’07 Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, MS ’03 Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, PhD

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14 TENNIS LESSONS

How Ventura County Superior Court Justice Ronda McKaig ’94 came to trust her own abilities.

4 BUBBLES AND THE BIRDS

Interest in animal behavior sends a student on two new collaborations.

6 HIGHLIGHTS

$6M gift for School of Management • Grants: $6.5M for Latina/o success, $1M to keep pastors from burnout • Program to diversify pool of people with doctorates • Mariachi musical group ready for campus debut.

9 IN MEMORIAM 10 Q&A: MARY OKSALA

This observational stellar physicist tells the life stories of massive stars.

Bruce Stevenson ’80, PhD Stacy (Reuss ’91) Swanson VOLUME 26, NUMBER 2

DECEMBER 2018 2 OUT IN FRONT

Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, MPA ’90, EdD ’12

18 THEIR JOURNEYS AND OURS

As the university commits itself to internationalizing, top students are arriving from more countries.

The views expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of Cal Lutheran or the magazine staff.

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ON THE COVER

Maramawit Gizaw Bereda of Ethiopia (left), Erik Arias of Ecuador, Khuslen Munkhbayar of Mongolia and Michelle Handal of El Salvador are recipients, as Global Scholars, of newly established merit-based awards.

Photograph by Brian Stethem ’84

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p in Moorpark and then 3,000 miles away in Costa Rica, biology major Angelika Pasion spent much of the spring and summer on research projects about animal behavior. In the process, the Philippineborn, first-generation college student helped to kick off two new Cal Lutheran academic collaborations.

As a McNair Scholar looking ahead to doctoral research, Pasion made 13 trips to America’s Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College to see two Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. Former pets from separate homes, Bubbles and Eleanor do not get along, but they seem to enjoy their solo demonstrations for zoo visitors. Pasion watched them before and after live shows to note changes in affect and any signs of stress.

America's Teaching Zoo and the worldwide School for Field Studies are new research partners.

As a STEM Scholar this summer, she went to Costa Rica for four weeks to conduct environmental and behavioral research with the School for Field Studies, which saw to it that the fellowships fully paid tuition, housing, and flights for seven CLU students in science, math, and technology. Staying at a sustainable farm that grows mangos and oranges, Pasion worked on a project comparing the amplitude and frequency of bird calls in two forests. She didn’t tour San Juan, going instead to a national park, a beach, trails and a cool cloud forest.

See News Briefs on Page 7, "Tearing down barriers to doctorates," for more about the $1.16 million Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program.

Bubbles accepts food and praise from Angelika Pasion.

She made time for photos with encouragement from her trainer Katie Adams, a Moorpark College student in exotic animal training and management.

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ormer Hughes Electronics Vice Chairman Steve Dorfman in October signed his name to the largest single gift in the history of Cal Lutheran, pledging $6 million toward the construction of a building for the School of Management. The two-story, 27,000-square-foot Steven D. Dorfman Center will bring most School of Management faculty offices and classrooms together under one roof for the first time.

Dorfman recognized that as a need during his service for several years on the school’s Advisory Council.

“I’ve always been interested in education, and I saw an opportunity for me to make a significant difference at Cal Lutheran by sponsoring an attractive new School of Management building located right in the center, centralizing operations and enhancing the look and feel of the campus,” said Dorfman, who lives across the street in University Village Thousand Oaks. “This will enable the School of Management to move to the next level and on its way to become one of the leading business schools on the West Coast.”

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During his time at Hughes, Dorfman served as CEO of Hughes Space and Communications Co., Hughes Telecommunications and Space, and Hughes Communications. He directed the landing of five probes on Venus and helped to create DirecTV. Dorfman has served on corporate boards of Hughes, Raytheon and other companies and on advisory committees to NASA, the Air Force, the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Transportation, among others. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award. After his retirement in 1999, he taught as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

With Dorfman’s gift and about $500,000 already committed from other donors, Cal Lutheran has begun public fundraising and planning. The campaign is running alongside the ongoing effort to bring in the final dollars for the $34 million Swenson Science Center, which will open in the fall of 2020.

To be built where Nygreen Hall has stood since 1973, the Steven D. Dorfman Center will have six classrooms, a large lecture hall, a computer lab, a community room and gathering spaces on both floors. In the photo, Dorfman (center) meets with President Chris Kimball (left) and Gerhard Apfelthaler, dean of the school, for a signing ceremony.

AUTISTIC AND COLLEGE-BOUND More than 350 people attended an October event designed to aid the growing population of students on the autism spectrum who are in or bound for higher education. This is the third year that the Autism and Communication Center has organized its Spectrum of Opportunity Conference, which featured a drum circle for all ages on the evening before the talks and workshops.

Presenters included a number of students with autism, including Cal Lutheran freshman Dillan Barmache, who types to communicate.

“It’s important for parents and educators to hear and learn from their first-hand experiences. They are the autism experts, after all,” said Edlyn Peña, director of the center.

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MONKEY TALK ON ‘SCIENCE FRIDAY’ Assistant professor of biology Anita Stone (right) was one of the guests interviewed by “Science Friday" host Ira Flatow when the two-hour public radio show came to KCLU’s Paulucci Studios in October. KCLU Radio brought Flatow and his crew to campus for the broadcast and to the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza for a special presentation that included science demonstrations by students.

On the air, Stone discussed field observations of tiny squirrel monkeys that she’s conducted since 2002 in her native Brazil, research that was also featured in a CLU Magazine Q&A in December 2016.

News briefs $6.5 MILLION IN HISPANICSERVING GRANTS Under its designation as a Hispanic-serving institution, Cal Lutheran has been awarded $6.5 million in federal grants to implement two new programs – one to increase the number of underrepresented students who graduate from college and another to increase the number who earn teaching credentials.

The U.S. Department of Education funded a $3.75 million joint effort with Moorpark College to boost transfer, retention and graduation rates for students who are Latina/o, low-income or the first in their families to attend college. The second, a $2.7 million grant, will address a Latina/o teacher shortage. Nearly one out of four public school students are Latina/o, but fewer than 8 percent of teachers are.

LILLY GRANT TO AID ELCA PASTORS Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the university and its Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley nearly $1 million to help pastors and church leaders throughout 14 western states to avoid burnout and thrive in their ministries.

Declining church attendance and funding, changing parishioner expectations and today's diverse communities have added to pastors’ responsibilities and created challenges.

Church leaders may suffer from dissatisfaction, anxiety, fear, spiritual depletion and loneliness as they work to revitalize their congregations.

The five-year grant supports the university’s Thriving Leadership Formation program, which will strengthen practical leadership skills not covered in seminaries for about 150 pastors and other church leaders in 11 synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

PACT TO WELCOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS A key player in striking the agreement, Cal Lutheran has joined with 35 other independent, four-year institutions in California to guarantee a pathway for students to transfer from community colleges.

Announced in July, the agreement will help the state fill the need for workers with bachelor’s degrees. The Public Policy Institute of California forecasts a statewide shortage of 1.1 million qualified workers by 2030.

TEARING DOWN BARRIERS TO DOCTORATES A five-year, $1.16 million effort to diversify the pool of people with doctorates launched this summer with federal funding.

The Ronald E. McNair PostBaccalaureate Achievement Program is for high-achieving undergraduates who are lowincome, first-generation or in a group that has been underrepresented in graduate education.

Research experience is key to preparing for doctoral studies, and Cal Lutheran’s 21 McNair Scholars received five-week summer residential fellowships to work under faculty mentors.

“We just need to support them as they overcome systemic barriers so they can maximize their potential, realize their goals and develop into change agents,” said Janet Awokoya, a former McNair Scholar who became the director of Cal Lutheran’s program in June.

LEADER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT The university’s first associate provost for global engagement, Christina Sanchez, PhD, begins work Nov. 19. She leads the new Center for Global Engagement, which houses Study Abroad, services for Cal Lutheran’s international students and, broadly, efforts to bring global perspectives to learning across all academic majors. For the last seven years, Sanchez was associate director of international programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Chris Kimball, PhD President Leanne Neilson, PsyD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Regina D. Biddings-Muro, EdD Vice President for University Advancement Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Vice President for Administration and Finance Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, MDiv ’81 Vice President for Mission and Identity Melinda Roper, EdD Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Matthew Ward, PhD Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing Gerhard Apfelthaler, PhD Dean of the School of Management Michael Hillis, PhD Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard Holigrocki, PhD Dean of the Graduate School of Psychology Jessica Lavariega Monforti, PhD Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Raymond Pickett, PhD Rector of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Rev. Alicia Vargas, MDiv ’95, PhD Dwean of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary BOARD OF REGENTS Susan Lundeen-Smuck ’88, Chair Jim Overton, Vice Chair Bill Camarillo, Secretary Linda Baumhefner Glen Becerra The Rev. Jim Bessey ’66 Ann Boynton ’83 Wallace Brohaugh Andrew Castro ’16 Sue Chadwick Dennis Erickson, PhD Randall Foster Rod Gilbert, H’16 The Rev. Mark Hanson The Rev. Mark Holmerud Jon Irwin Chris Kimball, PhD Judy Larsen, PhD Jill Lederer Rick Lemmo Malcolm McNeil The Rev. David Nagler, MDiv ’93 The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70, MDiv ’74 Carrie Nebens Kären Olson ’83 Debra Papageorge ’12 Dennis Robbins ’86 Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 Mike Soules Mark Stegemoeller Nick Steinwender ’19 Deborah Sweeney Allison Wee, PhD Russell Young ’71 CAL LUTHERAN MISSION The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

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Mariachi Ensemble to make campus debut Students devoted to the Mexican musical tradition will play on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Overton Hall.

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V Students Valeria Garcia of Oxnard and Jacob Wolfrey of Camarillo are two of the first members of the Mariachi Ensemble, which includes a core group of Cal Lutheran students and members from high school, community colleges and the community.

aleria Garcia, a senior majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, is a first-generation college student and the first in her family to go crazy for musical instruments.

She started violin when she was little because her name also started with a “V.” Growing up hearing rancheras and standards of the mariachi genre, she later picked up the guitarrón, vihuela and guitar to become nearly a one-woman band, lacking mainly the trumpet in her mariachi repertoire.

Though only 21, Garcia is on a mariachi journey that has already lasted 10 years. She’s played weddings, birthday parties and quinceañeras, baptisms, bar mitzvahs and corporate parties. She started learning at a community center in Oxnard, launched a mariachi group as a student at Rio Mesa High School, and played with UCLA’s Mariachi de Uclatlán under the direction of Jesús “Chuy” Guzman.

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A daily commuter to Cal Lutheran pursuing a minor in music, Garcia began a Cal Lutheran mariachi club in the spring, after hearing through the department that the recently hired dean of the College of Arts and Sciences wanted a student ensemble.

Not everyone in the new Mariachi Ensemble has this level of experience, but in little time a core group of six or seven student performers has run through its set and learned to interpret mariachi’s emotional range, covering the main instruments and bringing in singers from the CLU Choir.

“I feel like a true musician wants to know a little bit of everything. They really want to get to know world music,” said Garcia, who recruited for the group.

The ensemble is directed by a classically trained professional who is teaching at a university for the first time this semester. A violinist and violist who grew up in Oxnard and trained at USC’s Thornton School of Music, Rocio Marron helped to launch the USC Mariachi when she was a student. Among many career highlights, she played solo violin on “Proud Corazón” for the 2017 animated film Coco.

The Dec. 6 performance will take place in Overton Hall where the ensemble rehearses, like an open house.

“Come by,” says Garcia, whose younger sisters Dariana and Brisa are also active in the group. “Come by and listen to us. A lot of people are serious about mariachi, and a lot of people don’t really know what mariachi is. It’s quite a complex genre. I think people should come by and dance along, cry along, whatever. We have sones. We have rancheras. We have boleros. A little bit of everything for everyone.” —Kevin Matthews

In Memoriam Mark A. Mathews

Oct. 3, 1926 – Oct. 27, 2018 Former Cal Lutheran President Mark Mathews died in Santa Barbara, California, at 92.

Mathews was chair of the Business Administration and Economics Department when he was first asked to serve as acting president in 1971. He declined.

When the acting president asked Mathews again in 1972 and told him he would recommend the college shut down if he did not accept, Mathews acquiesced.

Five months later, the Board of Regents appointed him Cal Lutheran’s third president.

Over the next eight years, he used his business savvy to strengthen the university’s financial position. He fostered relationships with the business and civic communities and guided the university as it doubled its annual budget, increased enrollment, approved a new master plan, added facilities and expanded graduate programs.

He advocated participatory management, and the student body president became a voting member of the Board of Regents during his tenure.

Mathews, who earned a doctorate in business administration from University of Southern California, began teaching at Cal Lutheran in 1970. He organized a classroom seminar that year that became the Mathews Leadership Forum, an annual event that continues to connect students with business and civic leaders.

Longing to return to the classroom, he resigned from the presidency and taught business until he retired in 1990. He called those years of teaching the most fulfilling of his life. He received Cal Lutheran’s Honorary Alumni Award in 1992. He and his wife, Jean, continued to support the university long after his retirement. The CLU Community

Leaders Association established an endowed scholarship in their honor for students who excel academically and serve their communities.

The Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce named Mathews “Man of the Year” in 1985 in recognition of his service to many community organizations including Habitat for Humanity, the Conejo Future Foundation and Hospice of the Conejo.

Mathews is survived by his wife of 72 years, three children including Pamela ’72 Sutphen, 10 grandchildren including Christy (Sutphen ’08/’11, MBA ’09) Douglass, and 11 great-grandchildren. A daughter preceded him in death.

Donations in Mathews’ memory to the newly announced Steven D. Dorfman Center for the School of Management may be sent to 60 W. Olsen Road #1625, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 or made online at CalLutheran.edu/memorialgift.

For information, contact Lana Clark at 805-493-3163 or lclark@ CalLutheran.edu.

Thomas J. Maxwell Jr.

June 22, 1924 – Oct. 9, 2018 Cal Lutheran professor emeritus Tom Maxwell died in Thousand Oaks, California, at age 94.

Maxwell came to Cal Lutheran in 1965 and served as a professor of anthropology for 21 years.

He was a strong believer in the power of education to change lives and, in 1995, established with his wife the Ruth and Thomas Maxwell Scholarship for International Students.

Maxwell sought to expand understanding by getting to know people of other cultures.

He traveled to 60 countries on five continents and visited 49 states. He earned a doctorate in ethnology, archaeology and physical anthropology at Indiana University in 1962 then studied in Lima, Peru, and on a Fulbright

grant in India. He was educational director of Lisle Fellowship in Cali, Colombia, participated in archaeological projects in Belize, Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, Majorca, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, and volunteered with medical missions in Honduras, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Mexico.

He authored several books on archaeology and ethno-history.

Maxwell is survived by three children including Linda ’73 Case, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and one sister. His wife of 58 years died in 2009.

Thomas McCambridge

May 8, 1941 – Sept. 14, 2018 Thomas McCambridge came to Cal Lutheran in 1997 as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education.

He taught full time as an assistant professor from 1998 to 2006 and as an associate professor from 2006 to 2011. He then served two years as an adjunct professor in the Philosophy Department, teaching the philosophy of education.

James Swenson

April 18, 1937 – Oct. 5, 2018 James Swenson, one of Cal Lutheran’s most generous donors and a longtime regent, died peacefully at his home in Dana Point, California, from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 81.

Swenson, a former research chemist, and his wife, Sue, established Swenson Science Summer Research Fellowships in 2006, giving a huge boost to the research program and providing nearly 200 students with almost

$1 million in funding. Swenson loved his annual visits to hear student researchers’ presentations and attend Swenson Scholar dinners, where he encouraged recipients to leverage their successes to reward others.

Swenson credited a $900 loan that he received as a struggling college student for enabling him to be successful. After graduating from University of Minnesota, Duluth, with a degree in chemistry in 1959, he worked for several large corporations before launching his own circuit board technology company.

Starting with four employees and a $15,000 second mortgage on the family’s house, Details Inc. became the fastest quickturn-around engineering prototype circuit board shop in the United States, with 500 employees and a client list that included Apple, IBM, Motorola and Compaq. After selling the company in 1996, he and Sue established the Swenson Family Foundation.

The Dana Point couple told their pastor they wanted to fund scholarships at a Lutheran college, and he pointed them to Cal Lutheran. Since 1998, the Swenson Scholars program has provided nearly $4 million in scholarships to 120 students.

The Swensons also gave $12 million to university building campaigns. The Swenson Center for the Social and Behavioral Sciences bears their name, and the Board of Regents decided shortly before his death to name the building currently under construction the Swenson Science Center. A dedicated member of the Board of Regents for 18 years, Swenson had taken only one year off since joining in 1999. He and Sue received Cal Lutheran’s Christus Award in 2013 and the Honorary Alumni Award in 2012.

Swenson is survived by his high school sweetheart and wife of 59 years, three children, eight grandchildren including Sarah (Lentz ’14, TC ’15) Miller, and three brothers.

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Biographer

OF THE STARS

As an observational stellar astrophysicist, assistant professor Mary Oksala uses telescopes located around the globe to tell the full life stories of the biggest, hottest stars.

With my stars, the very most massive stars, lifetimes are short.

A star like that is going to live for a million years or three million years.

That sounds like a lot of time, but it’s not, cosmically speaking.

How did you get into astronomy? My sappy story is: When I was a kid in suburban Philadelphia, my teacher Mrs. Miller took us on a field trip to the local university and they had a planetarium. I was just absolutely mesmerized by space and the stars and wanted to know anything about space.

I came home that day and told my parents – I’m like 9 – I want to be an astronomer! and they were like, O-kay. I got my bachelor’s degree in the same public university, and the lab part of my first astronomy class took place in that planetarium.

I also had two awesome high school teachers who made me realize that to really study space, you have to be a physicist.

One was the only physics teacher I ever had who was a woman.

What do you do now? I study the area around the most massive magnetic stars. We try to see how a star changes over its whole lifetime. When does it get its magnetic field? How does it change as it gets older? How does its magnetic field play into its evolution?

One of the challenges with my stars, the very most massive stars, is that their lifetimes are very short. A star like that is going to live for a million years or three million years.

That sounds like a lot of time, but it’s really not, cosmically speaking.

So one of the things I would like to start to study is what happens to these most massive stars when they’re babies, when they’re still dynamically forming. By the time all this sorts itself out, and it’s finally like, Hello, I’m here, and it clears away all the gas, we’ve missed a really important part of its evolution.

Why have we been missing that? Stars in star-forming regions are hard to observe. They’re hiding. One tool we use for looking into those places is infrared light. That’s a whole field of study now. With infrared, we can see through gas and dust into places like the galactic center where there are a lot more stars, or where the stars are a lot younger.

How do you observe a magnetic field that far away?

I study the material around the outer part of the star. For example, when you see those little loops in pictures of the sun, that’s a little bit of a magnetic field that’s come out. The sun actually produces its own magnetic field due to its different layers moving at different speeds. That field makes storms and outbursts and flares and sunspots and things like that. It’s very dynamic.

How that magnetic field forms for my stars is very different.

But once it’s formed, it’s stable, just like you stuck a bar magnet in the middle and left it alone. There will be some decay over time, but for the most part it just stays there.

Why are they so different from the sun? Massive stars have a higher gravity, so the layers of gas are held together better and rotate at the same rate. You don’t get that difference in rotation rate that produces the sun’s magnetism.

Until they found the first one in 1978, nobody actually figured that massive stars would have magnetic fields at all.

Do they usually? Based on survey studies that some of my colleagues have done, if you gave me 10 massive stars, I would expect one of them to have a magnetic field – that we could measure. Remember that all of what we know about the interior of stars comes from studying how it affects the exterior.

It’s complicated but it’s so cool.

It is cool. Space, right? That’s why I took Russian in college. I was like, What if I become an astronaut and I have to speak to my Russian cosmonaut friends? It made sense to me at the time. Um, I’m claustrophobic. And I get motion sickness.

Sally Ride is a personal hero of mine; she was really inspiring to me. Traveling to space, risking everything to try to explore the unknown – it’s an amazing idea.

We’re so little and everything’s so far from us. On the first day of astronomy class, I show my students a picture of Earth from the moon. Do you feel small right now?

Does that change your perspective about not running to class?

And then I show them the Pale Blue Dot photo from Voyager.

Seriously: insignificant. Tiny.

But you feel connected to that bigger cosmos. You keep saying ‘my stars.’ We become very attached to stars. I’m part of a survey team, and if you’ve done a lot of work on a particular star, people will talk about Mary’s star or Mark’s star.

What’s your star? My star is Sigma Orionis E. It’s in the Orion constellation, in the sword. It’s the first massive star discovered to have a magnetic field, and I worked in my thesis on making a new analysis of that. We came up with a new map of what the magnetic field looks like and it’s really beautiful.

Is it bright too? That one’s not so bright, but it’s my baby.

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DID NOT GO TO WASTE Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ronda McKaig came to trust her own abilities during college, and not first of all in the classroom.

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ours into a packed docket of misdemeanor and DUI cases on a recent afternoon, Superior Court Judge Ronda McKaig ’94 listened as a defendant declared herself unable to afford fines for a minor traffic infraction. The penalties piled up after she failed to appear on a previous date because she was in the hospital, she told the judge.

As the bailiff handed the weeping woman a tissue, the softspoken McKaig reduced the amount owed.

Mercy, observes Shakespeare’s Portia, blesses those who give it and those who take it. Since the consequences are not certain, the granting of mercy requires a high degree of self-confidence.

“Giving second chances can have disasters, but when I don’t think there is risk, I try to find a way,” McKaig said.

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responsibility is given to few. Of more than 168,700 licensed attorneys in California, just over 1,500 are selected as judges for the state’s superior courts.

Of all the lessons McKaig learned at Cal Lutheran, belief in herself may have been the toughest and most enduring.

During her girlhood in Santa Paula, no one doubted she was destined for high achievement, said civic activist and businessman John Nichols. She raised prize pigs in 4-H, made the cheerleading squad and argued for Santa Paula High in the county’s mock trial competition, earning the best prosecutor honor in her senior year.

But she doubted herself. In college, she did not consider herself an exceptional student, though she would graduate magna cum laude. After some 25 years, emeritus professor Nathan Tierney remembers her as a “stellar” departmental assistant.

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The coach said she was tall and strong, could hit the ball, but was afraid of winning – not just on the tennis court but in life – and made her challenge the mindset.

Detail from the Kairos yearbook of 1993, with McKaig at left

Perhaps she had cause to doubt herself in collegiate tennis, not having played the sport in high school. But that was the arena where she clearly recalls learning to trust her abilities.

McKaig credits coach Carla DuPuis, whom she recalls as “a little firecracker,” with imparting that lesson.

DuPuis assessed the freshman this way: She was tall and strong, could hit the ball, but was afraid of winning – not just on the court but in life.

DuPuis made the rookie player challenge that mindset. The Regals had just one conference win in her first season, but for McKaig it outweighed the defeats. By her senior year she won a team honor for most inspirational player.

McKaig cast about for five years between Cal Lutheran and law school, working in the IT department at Boeing and feeling unfulfilled and “fairly miserable.” But upon graduation from Loyola, she passed California’s bar exam on her first try.

Suddenly, the girl from a farming town was enmeshed in fastpaced, high-dollar cases where she had to “bend, change, mess up and accept criticism.”

After litigating securities cases, she shifted into white-collar crime defense. “It was easier to devote myself to fighting for someone’s liberty,” she said.

Five years ago, she won a statewide award for her successful pro bono defense of Planned Parenthood against a complaint seeking damages of more than $600 million.

In 2014, she and her husband left the lights and bustle of Hollywood and moved back to Santa Paula to raise their two sons. Her new boss, Ventura County Counsel Leroy Smith, initially worried she might not fit in after litigating highprofile cases. His qualms quickly faded.

“What made her stand out was her collegiality. She came in as 16 CLU MAGAZINE

a team player, very humble and willing to contribute,” he said.

One day she might be arguing a constitutional case in front of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the next she’s defending a dog catcher, Smith said.

At the urging of local jurists, McKaig applied to fill an opening on the Ventura County Superior Court, a grueling process that begins with a 40-page application. She submitted the names of every judge and opposing litigator she had encountered. The local bar association and, ultimately, the governor’s judicial appointment staff interviewed her to assess her fitness.

Almost a year after applying, she received the happy news in July. McKaig left the County Counsel’s Office on a Friday and the following Monday donned a black robe to preside over one of the county’s busier courtrooms.

To keep her seat after her current term expires in two years, McKaig must place her name on the ballot. Registered without party preference, she lacks experience in the political rough and tumble.

“Don’t let her politeness fool you,” said Smith, the former boss. “She is very tough. You can’t intimidate her because she is always prepared.”

During the yearlong judicial vetting process, McKaig often recalled coach DuPuis’ courtside lessons when her old selfdoubts surfaced.

“She made me challenge the belief that I didn’t deserve to win,” McKaig said. “That is the magic of CLU.” Colleen Cason is an award-winning journalist and longtime columnist for the Ventura County Star. A Thousand Oaks resident, she has served as adviser to The Echo student newspaper and currently edits Central Coast Farm & Ranch magazine.

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Their journeys and ours

Under new scholarships, high-achieving undergraduates from foreign countries are broadening the range of perspectives on campus. It’s all part of a redoubling of the university’s commitment to internationalization.

BY TONY BIASOTTI // PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

Rama Youssef grew up with war, but was still shocked when it came to her country.

The freshman biology major was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1999. When she was 3 years old, the United States invaded Iraq, and a few years later, Iraqi refugees were in a mass exit across the border to Syria. Youssef’s family was relatively well off, and they did what they could to help. Her mother had an unused one-bedroom apartment, and she let a family of refugees live there for free.

“I grew up seeing refugees from other countries in my own country,” Youssef said. “I would hear about war, but I didn’t really understand what it was. I never thought I would be one of those people, that I would become a refugee.”

The civil war in Syria started when Youssef was 12. One of the catalyzing events was the torture and death of a boy just a year older, after he was arrested while protesting President Bashar Assad’s government.

The next year, in the spring of 2012, a car bomb exploded about a mile from Rama’s middle school. “My whole school shook. The windows in my classroom broke,” she said. “My teacher was screaming, ‘Get under the tables,’ and everybody went under the tables and started crying.”

That was enough for Rama’s mother, whose other three daughters had already left Syria. A few months after that bombing, she left with Rama, her youngest.

Youssef’s road out of Damascus took her first to Jordan, then to San Diego and Portland, Oregon, and finally to Thousand Oaks. She is the only Syrian refugee enrolled at Cal Lutheran, and one of well over 500 international students, counting

From left are sophomore political science major Susanna Zdolsek of Sweden, senior political science major Erik Arias of Ecuador, freshman biology major Rama Youssef of Syria and junior music major Tamar Haddad, who was born in Jerusalem and has studied in the West Bank and South Korea. They hold scholarships from three different programs created since 2015.

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372 on student visas and smaller numbers of U.S. permanent residents and dual citizens. The university is responsible for additional visitors in internships and work placements.

‘Part of our mission’

The actively enrolled students come to Cal Lutheran from 49 countries, not typically fleeing a crisis, but always bringing rich experiences and cultural knowledge. One of the university’s goals through 2022 is to internationalize more rapidly so that all students, whether living close to campus or studying abroad, are building confidence about interacting with multicultural teams, clients and audiences. This year, the university has established a Center for Global Engagement to coordinate study abroad, student recruitment and more (see Page 7).

International student numbers have been growing, though the future is uncertain due to economic and political developments beyond Cal Lutheran’s control. For the 2018-19 school year, the university has 101 undergraduates who are enrolled on student visas; that’s up about 10 percent from 10 years ago, said Dane Rowley ’04, MS ’08, the university’s director of international admission.

The number of international graduate students fluctuates much more. It's risen markedly over the last decade but is now in decline.

Rowley was hired as the first director of international admission five years ago when the university was sharpening its focus on international students. He recruits students from around the world and helps them to apply and then acclimate.

One reason Rowley has this job full time is that competition for international students is fiercer than ever. Universities in the United States and around the world now recruit globally. On top of that, countries that export large numbers of college students, such as China, are improving their own university systems and giving their students reason to stay home for college.

Cal Lutheran has always attracted foreign students. The first ones came from Norway, Sweden, and other countries with a cultural or religious connection to CLU. Over the past few decades, the university has become truly global. The countries with the greatest representation are China, Austria, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, India, Thailand, Norway, Qatar, Japan and Turkey.

“Throughout CLU’s history there’s been a really rich diversity,” Rowley said. “It’s part of our mission. It wasn’t just in the last five years when ‘global education’ became more of a buzzword. Our mission has always been educating the leaders of a global society.”

Nationwide, the number of international students at universities peaked in 2016 at around 840,000, and dropped by 4 percent in 2017, according to an analysis of Department of Homeland Security data by the National Foundation for American Policy, an immigration and trade policy think tank.

Competition from other countries has played a part in the shift, Rowley said, along with a decline in the popularity of 20 CLU MAGAZINE

graduate business programs. U.S. government policy is also a factor. More student visa applications are being denied, and more prospective students are asking Rowley if they’re really welcome in the United States.

“We had students from Ghana, Nigeria and Bangladesh who are not here because they couldn’t get visas, and there was really no good reason given,” Rowley said. “It has definitely affected the conversations I’ve had with students.”

‘A whole lecture hall’

By at least one measure, Cal Lutheran is more diverse than many universities with larger pools of international undergraduates. At the University of Southern California, for example, around half of the 11,000 international students come from one country: China. At CLU, no single country has sent more than 20 of the currently enrolled undergraduates; typically, the number is less than five per country. That creates a community among the international students that is crosscultural, with students of different races who speak many languages.

“We are alone here in the United States, so we try to stick together,” said Erik Arias, a political science major from Ecuador who is in his senior year. “We have something in common just by being international students. We’re all here to support each other.”

Arias is a peer mentor for other international students, a program offered through International Student Services. Part of the Center for Global Engagement, that office also coordinates student groups that bring international and American students together, helps international students with visas and immigration issues, and holds an orientation every summer for the new class of international students.

“I was surprised coming to orientation,” said sophomore Susanna Zdolsek, a political science major and intercollegiate water polo player from Sweden. “It was a whole lecture hall filled with international students. I didn’t think there were going to be so many.”

At orientation, Zdolsek met her roommate, who is from Norway, and she was quickly adopted into a group of friends that consists of three Swedes and three Norwegians.

Not everyone has the opportunity for that kind of social group. Youssef is the only Syrian to enroll this year. Another member of the class of 2022, Khuslen Munkhbayar, is the university’s first undergraduate from Mongolia.

“At a very young age I knew I wanted to come here,” Munkhbayar said. “I grew up watching American movies and American television. It was my dream to come here. … Whenever I think that it’s hard or something, I think about how I’m the first undergraduate student here at CLU from my country, and it makes me cheer up. I feel like I’m opening a door for Mongolian students.”

‘CLU showed me that they cared’

Munkhbayar is from a middle-class family in Ulaanbaatar, a city of more than 1 million people and the capital. Being in Southern California, she said, is like “being in a movie. It’s like seeing everything in HD. It’s all so vivid.”

The location is a plus when it comes to recruiting international students. “We have that proximity to L.A., and we have access to what everyone loves about California, but we’re smaller and quieter, and we’re very safe, and that resonates with parents,” Rowley said. “The way I talk about it with students is, you’re not going to find a nightlife here in Thousand Oaks, but we’re 45 minutes from Hollywood.”

Small class size is a selling point. A Cal Lutheran student can tell her professor about her particular struggles with English. At, say, UCLA, that student might not say a word to professors over the duration of an academic year.

The intimacy of a small university can help international students feel welcome when they’re thousands of miles from home. “CLU is in a very nice place in California, but also it was the only college that replied to me and showed me that they cared about me,” Youssef said.

Youssef is the first Cal Lutheran recipient of a scholarship through Books Not Bombs, a nonprofit that helps Syrian students apply to U.S. colleges and secure scholarships.

The full-tuition scholarship is funded by the university.

About 97 percent of CLU’s international students are on some type of scholarship, with 90 percent of them earning merit-based scholarships, Rowley said. The average merit award is $18,000.

The typical international student comes from a family “with some means,” Rowley said, but most still need help paying for college. They’re not eligible for the loans and grants that American-born students can obtain, and in many countries, even a relatively high salary falls far short of the cost of attending an American private university. A year of tuition and fees at CLU is $42,692.

“If I didn’t have a scholarship, I wouldn’t be here,” said Arias, who described his family in Ecuador as upper middle class.

Arias, Zdolsek and Munkhbayar are all part of the university’s Global Scholars Program, which awards merit-based scholarships of up to $30,000 per year to new students and $25,000 to transfer students. Another new program, the International Women’s Leadership Scholarship, covers all direct costs of attendance through a combination of funding from Cal Lutheran and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

All of these awards have been established since 2015 to target high-achieving students.

‘I got the email, and I just cried’

A refrain among international students is that CLU chose them as much as they chose CLU. That’s certainly Youssef’s story: She met a university representative at a college fair at her high school in Portland and was interested, but didn’t know how she’d pay for college. She discovered Books Not Bombs on her own and started calling the financial aid offices of universities listed as participants on the group’s website.

“CLU was the only school that had specific information about how to contact them,” she said. “I called financial offices of these schools and they’d put me on hold for 15 minutes and say, ‘We don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

Munkhbayar, too, felt chosen. One day in Ulaanbaatar she read an article about international business that quoted Gerhard Apfelthaler, the dean of the School of Management. She was impressed and decided to apply.

“Before I got my acceptance, I went to a fortune teller and asked if I would make it in, and she said yes,” she said. “Then three or four days later, at 1 a.m., I got the email, and I just cried. I woke my mother up and we both cried.”

A business major, Munkhbayar wants to see more of the country for graduate school, preferably New York City. Someday, she expects to move back to Mongolia and contribute to its economic development.

Youssef also wants to help her country, though she doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to go back. Only her father is left in Syria. Her mother left the United States not long after bringing her here, and now lives in Egypt with one of Youssef’s older sisters.

“I really miss my country, but I miss my old country, not the new one,” Youssef said. “I know even if the war is to end, it will never be the same…. I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon, but when I’m older I want to go back and help out. I want to be part of fixing my country.”

She plans to become a dentist first, and then to travel the world with a nonprofit or a United Nations group to give dental care to children in war zones and poor countries.

None of that seemed possible when she was a child, when the only future she saw was getting married young and having children, as her sisters had done. Then the war came, and though it scattered her family and left her alone in a new country, it opened her world.

“Every day when I wake up, I think, I want to be the role model that breaks every Middle Eastern stereotype about women,” Youssef said. “I’ve been doing that so far, I think.”

“Whenever it’s hard, I think about how I’m the first student at CLU from my country, and it makes me cheer up.”

Tony Biasotti is a freelance journalist who lives in Ventura. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Ventura County Star and Pacific Coast Business Times.

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Um aut ut autas pla qui cum que nus sandeles mo cum est essus invenihit dolupta turesto tem quam duciis ad mostrum facil inulparum fugit pligni berume nonsequaspit id qui ium quibus exceperit peritet essit iniet qui quo verro eni omnis ressim aut qui am, omnia aut liquibusam aut velendis aut ut ut audis asperov iducium nient, quis et od ex esequis dolum facita ex evenisci dercid ma que enis et praepe alit, ani cone es quia doluptatur?

Quis doluptur, ut aspellaboris doleni que aborem dolo volor sit ditatur rest omnis et eos ad quat ea vernate nihilitium a nis ea doloremque estem a net arciure lam, tectestrum adi ditia voluptatium ad que nimpore ptatusant harum fuga. Nequia pera ernatur molo et faccupta ped magnimil et offic tempell oribuscia am aut ut eum comnim ex eatqui bero dollanis et officia prorrum reptiusciis dolumet et quassite voluptatur? Qui vit a volluptatate volorest dipsa nim ipitas quas esciusa pitatibusam ius minumquunt etur, ipsaper iossimi, sit et quae sunt.

Me pos eium lignimi, totat assimilibus arioreribust et essitate postrunt eossum ipiet, comni untur re parum et harchil luptatem que sum vellaut la vention porem erat restion sequae magnatium quid el estio et fugitas dolorec tiores et quasit odit faccus maximinulpa id molupturia voluptatias qui

dollupta peditis truptatendi consendi il invent dolessint.

Sam iumqui ressunt quo te doleceat.

Natemquid quamusani ut volenti quid quidi quiates vitium quam aut enihillab ipsamus poratet veniendebit volore nat eiusciu ntusciamus, se natur si bea sim sitiis veliqui que laborumenda nosaperae in et que est ut quam enempos nusam sunt pore parition est ut omni dolum ad utet laborep erorem hil ipsam de sunt postotas eliti nos aut ma que et estotatquame parum sus senihit, cus soluptam, sequam, ut occusa pore ped eni as de sit pratum fugiam lam fuga. Olendi tem ad expelitate sitaquo consequunt apis et voluptatur, voloratem quatium, cupitas eium acia dolorepro ea sit aperum illestota volupit omnient volupidit exera desequi aspitat emporempore nimet aut explabo ritiberiam liqui init ut audanda exerum fuga. Nem nest volorit dolectore, volut parum volore sitat etur anihita con cusda quidunt etur ma cone molupis eos explabo. Net, quia delectae inciet ipsantio beriti reruptio invendae vel ipsanda volo tem quaessenim il ium voloreratur, sincta debit dollatistio. Neque lab inti sintur as videm incilit offic te reiusto reprehe nditest enisquunt eatisti usandist aut exerupti utasi cus enis dit, omnis es antus, nus, qui berio te omnis eum vidusda esecae. Ut evenderate re non re, estionet venimust esediat atia delendi re peresenis as rem nos am volestr uptions eriasit iasperum qui cus moloriatur? Qui cuptur sitem

volupta sam nihilit ationet qui con repudio quaspel essimus, quae. Cupta dunda evel imus remporum atur sitatis quae iur sequia est, seque voluptur sinciant ipit quostissum evendi doloribus est veneceptam vellacearum et velenda nonsed eaquam fugitam que lant quoditiissit liquis moluptatem resequa tusdae. Ore landi berenda mentori tatemporrum eumquod itatior aut fugit fugiasi omni dolorit ut lit ad excepereped quibeat rae nistiun teculla borios consequ odipsae consequae ressit

volupta sam nihilit ationet qui con repudio quaspel essimus, quae. Cupta dunda evel imus remporum atur sitatis quae iur sequia est, seque voluptur sinciant ipit quostissum evendi doloribus est veneceptam vellacearum et velenda nonsed eaquam fugitam que lant quoditiissit liquis moluptatem resequa tusdae. Ore landi berenda mentori tatemporrum eumquod itatior aut fugit fugiasi omni dolorit ut lit ad excepereped quibeat rae nistiun teculla borios consequ odipsae consequae ressit laccaborem voluptiore DECEMBER 2018

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Class Notes nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur?

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maximo odita voloria disquo velectur ma simolorem dercill anducil magnaturion pelestiis illent apid ut anti sintor ad quias aspeditam quatem. Mus et quis eatemqu iamenda simagnat et eniment, ut et, eum re lab inci cuscium, nobis et odiciur?

Uciam as aut a id miliquosti alictat uriatur ad eum fugia autaspel imint etur minullis alita qui iditem voluptata sum quidus pori vendunt iaspis mi, si ut ea dolupture repudigent, tem quia voleseditis exerio que sam voluptin conecto officae dolorere reprem sunt optur, iliquat iuscim qui cuptaeptio. Nam, qui dit et ut inulpa nis enda nonecta sperspi endiciet quat.

Solore porestemque con et fugiam aut volores trunto blaboria voluptu ribero et et aut quibus simagnis ent quas eum que quatem volore voloremquiae parciam voluptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur?

Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur?

Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo.

Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae

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Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant.

Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat.

Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si optamet moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quosani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat.

Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat.

Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur?

Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat. maximo odita voloria disquo velectur ma simolorem dercill anducil magnaturion pelestiis illent apid ut anti sintor ad quias aspeditam quatem. Mus et quis eatemqu iamenda simagnat et eniment, ut et, eum re lab inci cuscium, nobis et odiciur?

Uciam as aut a id miliquosti alictat uriatur ad eum fugia autaspel imint etur minullis alita qui iditem voluptata sum quidus pori vendunt iaspis mi, si ut ea dolupture repudigent, tem quia voleseditis exerio que sam voluptin conecto officae dolorere reprem sunt optur, iliquat iuscim qui cuptaeptio. Nam, qui dit et ut inulpa nis enda nonecta sperspi endiciet quat.

Solore porestemque con et fugiam aut volores trunto blaboria voluptu ribero et et aut quibus simagnis ent quas eum que quatem volore voloremquiae parciam voluptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur?

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Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo. Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur?

Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant.

Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat.

Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si

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optamet moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quosani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat.

Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat.

Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur?

Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt

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Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur?

et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat.

Seque porum et arundit, occum lanturit doles ipiendi sectur ratur rehendestem sinum qui dolupiti ationserit unte suntios escias earibus qui consecto et officip issequatae am el min cusaectam, ant eveni quaeperorae volendest, invelignihic temoluptatis sumqui dolent molum endaepedi voles nienihita volupta velendusam rehenis est velendere parum, simendi voloriandae conse prat.

Itaturitatin conem qui tessusaperio maximil luptas molupis et adis pro eostium excestrum que volorro voluptaquo duciam voluptium facessus sin plibus apidell aborend itiaerorro officilla soloreriatem remporem ipsam, quistiae pero cuptasp erspisitatur adipsum ex eatesti acipsa qui quo ma conestest, simillo corem fugia vident ant il endis et laccaep elenim eturiam dolupidelita dolorer natiuntiunt que velesequae. Itatist otatis autem ra cum quo temquidem ad quianim perunt od quam, es et endustrum destrum fuga. Rionserati sequi dolor si cus as dolupta volupta ipsantiisqui ra aut ea volorit haritinistis si conseque mosapit invent optia simus mo volorep eribus seris incium voloruntum culpa quiae rem eatemquid quame volorrum aut omnis id quossimint.

Busaper ferovides mollorum quae nobita nonempost, coruptasi quostium sinturibusam quisqui omnihil il ium volupti abo-

‘KILLER SHARK,’ REST IN PEACE On Sept. 30, head coach Ben McEnroe tweeted the sad news: “@CLUFootball lost our #1 fan & dear friend this weekend, Ronald Sharkey. Killer Shark was a blessing to all the Luballers over the years, he is loved & will be missed by us all.”

According to The Echo, Sharkey died of heart complications at 83. A retired banker and former Division III player from Pennsylvania, he lived in Los Angeles for 30 years after coming out “and deciding he never wanted to leave.” He befriended coaches and players and had monthly phone calls with pro wide receiver Eric Rogers ’13.

reic tentori tecatur sin rehendae perum aligenimpos ma consendaes quatiame illecti si accate siminciur?

Aborehentius andionsed mi, ipiet untisci umquidis dolest, eossimust, et lab illest audae dolore praturi quis rerias alique optaero ma dolore, suntem. Sum voluptus, si corro conseditas eaquis et ellecup tatios que nos quist, qui blaborrunt quias seri cust, occae que idit eumet adi consecus nobitaturio. Arit dolupta vit reste reria venistiberi recullu ptatur, te nis nusam vellati orepror amus secus explatestiis aut velloria nosa as quiatist anti reseribus accae. Ut eaquiae pliquisitia cus quam voluptur sitatem. Itatur re aut alita eos eate nihil ero id modipsunt ut assi dit late mos nobis magnis imoluptur, quia pernat fuga.

Nam que enis nullore vellatiis accumquid quati sime verum nus ut modipsandunt quam di officiatur minia nostrum eum eoste sinulla tioriatur ante occaborro qui nam doloribus ut verite vent harum dolluptatur ant ist, as ea prernati ut quam cone il idi beruptatur, aut restiost, venti ut ut vid que renihil inctist eveliqu ibusamus,

GRADUATE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio.

Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit

hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae labor aut as volupta tiorion corrum quate verioss itecto tem ipit iustrum in conetur arumquam autatque nonsequunt.

Aceris solesti atemolorae vendam doluptaquae nulparc hillaut facipicimolo quiatem cus sequi sunt.

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

Ab ipsaerernat lique cus volo beriatumqui asperum quidusa menimpore nimi, volorum nos quiatum quo ma corioresende velicimos reprovidi aut eostiorro quas expe nonse et excearum imus deribus ad unt volupta volorum vendaes prorrum am laboribusam sentis debitib ustrumquo et fugia que voluptiae essusdae voluptaepere nost, omnis mintis maximpo raeped utas nonsequi alis eos aut lanisitis etur? Aditam sitatus.

Ihilis aliquas pedisci psaessint eictatem alis a sequunt laborpo rehenimpos ventibus es aute occum et utentiis dolut maio. Et est, volorum ea aliquae paruptat audionsedio volorrunt ped ma alibus doluptati di andit autam as qui blat eaqui custota estotatur, que enihillorro cum quiam, temporia dist, conem aut rem re, asped es nos estrum eum eaturibus sentur mi, omnias ad quo arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni

vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio.

Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae labor aut as volupta tiorion corrum quate verioss itecto tem ipit iustrum in conetur arumquam autatque nonsequunt.

Aceris solesti atemolorae vendam doluptaquae nulparc hillaut facipicimolo quiatem cus sequi sunt.

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

Ab ipsaerernat lique cus volo beriatumqui asperum quidusa menimpore nimi, volorum nos quiatum quo ma corioresende velicimos reprovidi aut eostiorro quas expe nonse et excearum imus deribus ad unt volupta volorum vendaes prorrum am laboribusam sentis debitib ustrumquo et fugia que voluptiae essusdae voluptaepere nost, omnis mintis maximpo raeped utas nonsequi alis eos aut lanisitis etur? Aditam sitatus.

Ihilis aliquas pedisci psaessint eictatem alis a sequunt laborpo rehenimpos ventibus es aute occum et utentiis dolut maio. Et est, volorum ea aliquae paruptat audionsedio volorrunt ped ma alibus doluptati di andit autam as qui blat eaqui custota estotatur, que enihillorro cum quiam, temporia dist, conem aut rem re, asped es nos estrum eum eaturibus

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Class Notes sentur mi, omnias ad quo arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae. Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio. Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro

offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae labor aut as volupta tiorion corrum quate verioss itecto tem ipit iustrum in conetur arumquam autatque nonsequunt.

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Aceris solesti atemolorae vendam doluptaquae nulparc hillaut facipicimolo quiatem cus sequi sunt.

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

Ab ipsaerernat lique cus volo beriatumqui asperum quidusa menimpore nimi, volorum nos quiatum quo ma corioresende velicimos reprovidi aut eostiorro quas expe nonse et excearum imus deribus ad unt volupta volorum vendaes prorrum am laboribusam sentis debitib ustrumquo et fugia que voluptiae essusdae voluptaepere nost, omnis mintis maximpo raeped utas nonsequi alis eos aut lanisitis etur? Aditam sitatus.

Ihilis aliquas pedisci psaessint eictatem alis a sequunt laborpo rehenimpos ventibus es aute occum et utentiis dolut maio. Et est, volorum ea aliquae paruptat audionsedio volorrunt ped ma alibus doluptati di andit autam as qui blat eaqui custota estotatur, que enihillorro cum quiam, temporia dist, conem aut rem re, asped es nos estrum eum eaturibus sentur mi, omnias ad quo arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio.

Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

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HONORARY ALUMNI AWARD Each year, the Cal Lutheran Alumni Board of Directors recognizes individuals who bring honor and distinction to the university. The Honorary Alumni Award is bestowed on non-graduates who have demonstrated achievement in service to Cal Lutheran.

Siri Eliason Honorary alumna

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Learning to be more open and accepting – and strong in one’s beliefs – is important for every student’s future.

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An importer of Scandinavian furniture for decades, Siri Eliason brought her business acumen to the Board of Regents from 1994 to 2003 and served as chair from 1998 to 2000. The sale of land for University Village was completed under her leadership, providing funds for the growth of north campus. Eliason was also instrumental in the development of the Strategic Plan and the success of the $93 million “Now is the Time” capital campaign, which allowed the university to build the athletics complex and other facilities while creating programs, centers, endowed professorships and scholarships.

Eliason has immense pride in Cal Lutheran’s development over the years, and believes the university’s diverse environment is excellent preparation for life after graduation.

For more of Siri’s story and other Alumni Profiles, visit CalLutheran.edu/alumni.

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Alumni Board of Directors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 President and Regent Representative Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon Vice President, Alumni Involvement and Recognition Julie (Heller ’89) Herder Vice President, University Relations Andrew Brown ’09 Vice President, Development

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Jean Helm, MBA ’00 Secretary

Office of Alumni & Family Relations

VOTING MEMBERS Mark Marius ’92; Kami Niebank, MBA ’15; Joanne (Satrum ’67) Cornelius, MA ’74; Karsten Lundring ’65; Sal Sandoval ’78; Jeff Ruby ’84

Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren

REPRESENTATIVES Nick Steinwender ’19, ASCLU-G President

Carrie (Kelley ’09, MPPA ’11) Barnett

Tanya Hardisty ’20, GASC Representative

Jana Weber

Herb Gooch, Faculty Representative

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Some learn compassion early

I’ve had the privilege to interview children on the streets of Egypt.

BY HSUEHLI (SHIRLEY) WANG ’10 // PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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cars are life’s battle wounds that serve as a testament of our strength and endurance. Some wear them with pride while others conceal them.

In 2012, I interviewed Rasha, an Egyptian street girl, as part of my master’s thesis research on street children and children’s rights. Rasha seemed no older than 11 or 12 and there was nothing particularly special about her appearance except for the seven or so linear scars that were carelessly etched across her face.

When asked how she had acquired those, she spoke with a strength and command that still ripples through me: “I won!

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I defeated the bad man and saved my friend. These scars are proof that I, a girl, am stronger than any man!”

On the day of this event, Rasha and her fellow girl comrades were roaming the streets of Cairo as usual, begging and exchanging tissues for spare cash or food. A man pulled up in a car and tried to kidnap one of the smaller girls. Through pure compassion for her comrade, Rasha immediately ran over, pulled on his hair, scratched at his eyes and hit him. Her comrade escaped and the man pushed and kicked her back into the street before driving away. When the other girls came to her, she realized she had been slashed multiple times across the face with an unknown object.

HsuehLi (Shirley) Wang ’10 teaches at Narmer American College, a private high school in Cairo, and is a children’s rights and education researcher and consultant. Her master’s degree in gender and women’s studies and professional certifications are from the American University in Cairo. For more of her writing, visit wanghsuehli.wordpress.com.

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To understand Rasha’s compassion and strength, one must first acknowledge that she was not born or abandoned in the streets; she chose to live there. Her journey started at home, where her father forbade her to wear jeans and finally forced her to marry an older man so that she became the target of sexual assault. As a result, she fled the seeming comfort of her home to live in the streets, where she dreams of one day building a home for her family – the street children. The street is her comfort, her safe haven, her freedom.

Through Rasha, I see remnants of my childhood friends, of the students in my high school classroom, of the sea of faces of children who roam the streets, and of myself. I recognize the rebellion that festers within us. We vehemently try to escape, only to be squashed by the voices of surrounding adults. I feel the desperation of a child wanting to become herself, only to be stifled by social, cultural and familial assumptions and expectations. And I am left to wonder, what legacy are we, as humans, passing down?

I also wonder, as a researcher and educator, what is my role?

As my students look to me in the classroom, I look at the world around me and contemplate what I am to leave behind. The scars that I bear from my life, specifically from my childhood, also surface and I am reminded of the mistakes I have made because of them. I decided to drink and take various drugs as a means to escape emotional and psychological traumas. I chose to sneak out of the house against my mother’s orders, putting me at the wrong place at the wrong time and resulting in a sexual assault from which I have never truly, fully recovered.

But I am also reminded of the decisions I’m proud of. I changed my career from engineering to social research and education. I left my family in Taiwan and California in order to learn from the street kids in Cairo and find myself. I decided to become a stranger in foreign lands in order to discover the layers of what it means to be human.

My story is neither unique nor extraordinary; it is merely a thread in a tapestry of human beings, each of us with our individual stories, each of us bearing scars. What is important is not the quantity of scars but rather the dialogue that we have with them: how we go about understanding and making ourselves in a never-ending journey. More importantly, our turning our scars into actions and change, hopefully driven by compassion, is not only empowering but also contagious.

As I reflect on my own scars, on Rasha and the other street children that I have the privilege of knowing, and on my more privileged students, I realize we are not all that different. We are all trying to survive, trying to find others to relate to, trying to find purpose. In whatever we choose to do or become, we can remember to add a little bit of compassion for one another. To listen with both ears and to see with our eyes and heart: This is what I hope to leave behind.

In the 11th year of sending freshmen and entering transfer students out together to do service in August, “it wasn’t hard to select a project,” wrote the Ventura County Star. As Cal Lutheran welcomed nearly 700 freshmen, the largest class ever, the region was still recovering from last year’s Thomas Fire. So, for their turn at “You Got Served,” as the annual project is known, the new students took away trash and weeds and added mulch on a charred hillside in Ventura. In the past, first-years have ripped out invasive plants and cleaned up at a camp built by homeless people.

Fiscal year 2017-2018, which wrapped up at the end of May, gets a close look in the new Annual Report available at CalLutheran.edu. Among many highlights, the William Rolland Art Center opened, and Cal Lutheran launched the first formal, centralized exchange for landowners to buy and sell groundwater.

Coming Up Pyrometric: Earth and Ash in the Anthropocene Through Jan. 10 Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture

A look at the destructive and transformative sides of fire, and some ways in which people respond, this exhibition features ceramics and two-dimensional works.

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Bringing the World to Cal Lutheran As a university that educates leaders for a global society, we are committed to giving international students access to a life-changing Cal Lutheran education, made possible through transformative scholarship programs.

Rama Youssef is one of those amazing students. At 18, she fled Syria with her mother after a bomb went off five miles from her middle school. After arriving in the United States on her own, she became an active supporter of human rights and women’s rights groups, and worked to become the first in her family to go to college. She is the first recipient of Cal Lutheran’s International Leaders Scholarship, created in partnership with the organization Books Not Bombs.

Other Cal Lutheran scholarships, including the Global Scholars Award and ELCA International Women Leaders, are awarded to top students from around the world who embody the university’s mission.

To find out how you can support these students by contributing to international student scholarships, please contact University Advancement at (805) 493-3158 or development@CalLutheran.edu.

“Everyone deserves the right to an education. I aspire to fight for human rights in any way possible and help create similar opportunities for those with less access. I believe that with education, anything becomes possible.”

Rama Youssef ’22 First recipient of the International Leaders Scholarship

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