Topic: pacifism
Students provide aid, promote peace for Brazilian orphans
30 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—The most fragile residents of an impoverished Brazilian community will receive an influx of support this summer from four Lewis & Clark students and grants totaling $12,500. Sixty children and adolescents, many of whom were abandoned out of economic desperation, inhabit the humble Criamar orphanage in Ceilândia, Brazil, where the Lewis & Clark students [...]
Poet Laureate’s archive placed with Lewis & Clark
28 April 2008
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—The family of poet William Stafford has generously given his papers to Lewis & Clark College, where they will be in the care of Special Collections at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Stafford, who passed away in 1993, was Oregon’s poet laureate from 1975 to 1990, and a professor at Lewis & Clark for [...]