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ota ry International Fellowships Vicki Welch of Olympia, a sopho more at Pacific Lutheran U nivers I t y , has been awarded a Rotary I nternation a l Fellowsh i p for a year of u n d e r g r a d u a te s t u d y i n Germany. M s . Welch. a Ge rma n and com m u n ications major at PLU, p l a n s to atte nd J o h a n n -Wolfgang Goethe U n iversity in Frankfu r t The yea r ' s study. l ivi ng. travel, a n d i n cidental expenses. p l u s two months of i n en sive German l a n g uage study a re paid for by Rota ry I nterna tion a l . Accord ing to Welch. scholar s h i ps were based on sch olastics a nd activitIes. At PLU she has served as assistant editor of SAGA. the PLU yearbook. and as resident assistant i n Foss H a l l . Eva l uations were al so made on the basis of an interview, where she disc ussed cu rrent events a n d her views on the U .s . Although she will live in a dor mitory at the u n i versity. Ms. Welch will also have a Germa n Rotarian sponsor fa mily. She will serve as "an ambassador of good wil l . " spea king to German Rotary clubs. For a year after her return to the U . s . , Welch must be available for
Rota ry s pe a k i n g engag ements here. Ms. Wel c h . who leaves for Ger many In Aug ust, will study inte n sive German for two months. then p l a n s to take cou rses i n graphic a rts, busi ness. a n d America n his tory. "It should be interesting to study our h istory from their point of view , " she sa i d . Welch adm its some a p p rehen sion about the experience; she i n dicated that the Ger m a n classes are structu red differently, req u i r ing one to be " h ig h ly motivated . " " I ca n 't i magine stu dYI ng i n a foreign language," she sa id. "But I would like to become biling u a l , and t h i s is the best way to do it, " she added . Bilingual a b i l ities a re im porta nt for h e r career goal of i nternational public relati o n s . Pea rl Rose, a part-time student at PLU during the fa ll semester, is a lso a Rotary Scholar this yea r. A 1 97 6 g rad uate of Evergreen State College in O lympia, she is a coor di nator of special needs students at Fort Steilacoom Commu n ity College. This coming yea r she will study education of the handica pped at t h e U niversity of Goth enb urg in Sweden .
Nation a l Competition, Ra n king Highlights Of Debate Tea m Yea r Mi ke Bu ndick, a so p h o m o r e from Puya l l u p , a n d Pat Madden a ' senior from Gig Ha rbor, we re PLU's first rep resentatives in a decade at the National I ntercol l eg iate Debate Tou rna ment April 2-5. The p a i r compiled a 3 - 5 w i n - loss record at the tou rnament held at Florida State U n iversity. T eir vic tories came at the expense of Iowa State, Texas-A rli ngton and Nort h east O klahoma . "Their showing was very cred ible as it req u i res seasoning to be
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successful at the national level, " PLU de bate coach Michael Ba rta nen expla i n e d . P L U a l s o finis hed 1 8th i n the nation in final ran k i ngs of the national Cross- Exa mi nati o n D e bate Associatio n . UCLA fin ished first. It was PLU's secon d highest CEDA finish ever. In add itio n , PLU was one of o n ly two schools in the cou ntry (along with the U niversity of Wyom i ng), which both finis hed in CEDA's top 20 a nd was repre sented at the national debate tou rna ment.
Pearl Rose
Hula Dancing On 'Real People' One Highlight Of student's senior Year By Lise voss
Male h u la dancers, ta n and bare chested, move d ramatica lly , yet g racefully to the even cha nting of deep male voices, their bare feet slapping rhyth mically on the floor. The sce ne is the filming of a seg m ent for NBC's " Rea l People" this past seaso n , and one of the d a n c e r s i s Scott K a l i u l a o k a l a Galute r i a , a P L U s e n i o r f r o m Ka nehoe, Hawaii. The gro u p , called the Halau w h ich m ea n s h u l a s c h o o l i n Hawaiian - i s a sel ect g roup of dedicated Hawaiian m e n . Scott thi nks that they were featured on " Real People" because it was felt that a g ro u p of their type was somewhat u nique Actu ally, in a n cient Hawa i i , only males danced a s a part of relig ious ceremon ies, Scott expl a i n ed . " R eal People" i nterviewed a n u mber of dancers d u ri ng the prog ra m , and Scott says he was picked as "the token student. " When asked his occupatio n , Scott proudly repl ied, ' ' I ' m a student at Pacific Lutheran Un iversity in Taco ma, Was h i ngto n . " The rest of the cross section i nterviewed i ncl uded a banker, a stock b roker, and a waiter. Scott, a co m m u nications major, was one of over 40 students from all over the Hawaiian islands e n roll ed at PLU this yea r . They were the stu dents that walked a ro u nd cam p u s i n bare feet during the fall and spring, while wi nter found them under layer upon layer of clothes, drea ming of home. They ' re the fi rst ones out to p lay in new snow and the last to say goodbye to fading ta ns.
Scott, who was a featured danc er with the PLU Da nce Ensemble this spring, would like to work i n public relati ons in a major center for the a rts like New Y ork, Sa n Francisco, o r Dallas Alth ough h e defin itely plans to keep u p dance (modern and jazz as well as h u la), Scott woul d like to be employed by a company "that works with cu ltu re as a whole . " Scott Galuteria