* Ellen Brisch, Biology, awarded $2,000 to study with biology students the regulation of microtubule assembly by MAPK activity.

* Linda Winkler and Amanda Shastri, Physics; and Don Krogstad, Chemistry awarded $1,200 to present a public physical science demonstration show and a series of demonstration shows for introductory science courses.

* Jennifer Higgs, Community Services Coordinator, awarded $500 to fund the additional tutors in the MSU Moorhead America Reads Program.

* Dieter Berninger and Rupa Mitra,  Multidisciplinary Studies, and
Yoke-Sim Gunaratne, awarded $2,000 to sponsor a Cultural Competency Workshop during the Cultural Diversity Awareness Week.

* Jim Bartruff, Theatre , awarded $1,200 to bring guest theatre artist to support the production of his play "I Love to Tell the Story"

* Alison Wallace, Biology, awarded $2,300 to fund her proposal "Prairie Planting Partnerships."

* Kimberly Gillette, International Student Affairs, and Melissa Torpen, Honor’s Apprentice, International Programs, awarded $3,000 to fund "International Classroom Connection," a program that brings MSU Moorhead international students to Minnesota elementary and secondary classrooms.
* Masaki Shigeta, an International student here, awarded $700 to publish an MSU Moorhead international student greeting book on the Internet.

The Dille Fund for Excellence annually seeks proposals from the campus community for innovative projects that raise the quality of education at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Questions should be directed to Susanne Williams, assistant to the president, at willmssu@mnstate.edu or 236-2090.
 
TAMMARO SELECTED TO GIVE
ANNUAL DILLE FACULTY LECTURE
Thom Tammaro, AN MSUM professor of multidisciplinary studies, has been selected to receive the 2000-2001 Roland and Beth Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.

 Tammaro presents the annual lecture Thursday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m. in 109 Center for Business.

The title of his lecture is "Drinking from the Well by the Lake of Memory."

This completes the fifth set of awards funded by the Dille Fund for Excellence, a permanent endowment honoring former MSU Moorhead President Roland Dille and his wife Beth. For 2000-2001, eight grants totaling $12,900 were awarded to fund proposals by faculty, staff, and students.

Tammaro has taught writing and humanities in the New Center for Multidsciplinary Studies since 1983. He is also a member of the faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at MSU Moorhead, where he teaches poetry writing. He has authored two books, and edited or co-edited six books including his most recent book, "Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson"(University of Iowa Press, 2000), co-edited with Sheila Coghill.

His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and periodicals. He is the recipient of fellowships in poetry from the Minnesota State Arts Board (1985 and 1991), a Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry (1995), and most recently a Jerome Foundation Travel Fellowship to Italy (1998).

PERFORMING ARTS SERIES FEATURES
'THE DANCNG WHEELS" ON JAN. 18
"The Dancing Wheels," a pioneering modern dance company comprised of dancers with and without disabilities, is on stage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18 in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. The company has created a unique artistry integrating handicapped dancers—using their movement on wheel chairs—with non-impaired dancers. (For ticket information, call 236-2271.)
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Formerly called the Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, the company enjoys a strong national reputation for innovation, artistic quality, and an ability to inform audiences and the general public about the potential for movement and expression attainable by individuals with disabilities.

The MSUM Performing Arts Series is presenting this event with support from The Freedom Resource Center for Independent Living of Fargo-Moorhead (an organization specializing in working for individuals with disabilities and educating our community about issues affecting them).
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Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on performance weekdays, and noon until 6:30 p.m. on performance Saturdays.  Charge your tickets by phone: (218) 236-2271, Email: tickets@mnstate.edu, FAX: 218-236-4612, or mail to: PO Box 335, MSUM, Moorhead, MN  56563.

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM OFFERED
Three courses which are part of the newly-created MSUM Teaching with Technology Certificate Program, are being offered Spring Semester 2001:

ED 419/519 Creating Web-Based Curriculum Materials (2 cr.)
LI 222  and Online (Web)
Th, Jan. 11 - 6:30-9:30pm; Sat., Jan. 20 - 9am-2:30pm, Th, Feb. 1
(optional) - 6:30-9:30pm; Sat, Feb. 10 - 9am-2:30pm; Th, Feb. 22 -
6:30-9:30pm
This course will help educators design and implement a classroom web site to communicate with students and parents.  Participants will design and implement a plan for a student-created web project.  Educators will learn how to create web-based classroom materials and how to utilize a classroom web site for publication of student work. Dr. Rhonda Ficek, Instructor

ED 422/522 Electronic Resources: Issues and Practice (2 cr.)
Jan 10, 2001 - March 12, 2001
Days of week:  Ongoing -- Online, Asynchronous    Location: Online
Optional face-to-face (non-online) training sessions:
Jan. 11 -- 4:30-6:30 pm -- Location: TBA, Introduction to Web CT &
online troubleshooting; introductions;  Sat. Jan. 27 -- 10:00am-12:30pm
-- LIT Ctr., MSUM Library, Rm. 222 - Internet Searching and Evaluating
In an increasingly web-enhanced teaching environment, K-12 teachers need to understand Internet resources-their value, potential, and limitations. This course will prepare K-12 teachers to be more skilled Internet searchers, evaluators, and better consumers/providers of information. Modules willinclude:  Internet Search Techniques; Evaluating Internet Resources; Copyright in Cyberspace; and Privacy in the Electronic Age. Brittney Goodman, Instructor

ED 425/525 Methods of Computer Mediated Communications in Education (2
cr.)
Dates & Times: (Face-to-face meetings) Th, Mar. 22 - 6:30-9:30pm; Th,
Apr.5 & 26 - 6:30-9:30pm.
Location:  MSUM Campus, room TBA; & Online (Web)

The certificate program, offered for both undergraduate and graduate credit, focuses on the use of technology in teaching and learning and is designed for K-12 teachers & administrators, teacher education students and higher education faculty.

There is limited space in these courses and faculty are encouraged to consider taking one or more of the courses for professional development.  For those wishing to learn more about the program and courses, there is an informational meeting at the MSUM Library Porch next Wed., Dec. 20th from 4-5 pm.  If you cannot attend the meeting, please contact either Jan Flack, Continuing Studies, ph. 2395, flackjan@mnstate.edu, or Dr. Rhonda Ficek, Instructional Technology, ph. 2339, ficek@mnstate.edu .

MSUM RECYCLING COUNT FOR NOVEMBER
*400 pounds of confidential shredding.
*2,318 pounds of high grade paper.
*1,550 pounds of cardboard
*170 pounds of magazines.
*820 pounds of newspapers.
*210 pounds of plastic
*770 pounds of mixed paper.
*195 pounds of aluminium.

TAI CHI CHIH OFFERED SPRING SEMESTER
Human Resources, in conjunction with its Health Promotion series, is offering MSUM employees an opportunity to enroll, via Tuition Waiver, in a 1 credit T’AI CHI CHIH  class, a series of 19 simple non-strenuous movements and 1 pose that relax the body and refresh the mind, taught by  Ms. Christeen McLain, Certified T’ai Chi Chih Instructor.

The one-credit class will be held on Mondays & Wednesdays from noon to 12:50 p.m., beginning Monday, January 15, 2001, and will run through April 25,
with some make-up classes to be held on Fridays. The Subject is PE 189. It will be held in OWENS LOUNGE and is limited to 20 individuals. (Note: A list will be compiled for additional classes in the Summer.) NOTE: All applicable fees will be waived for this class. A textbook will be required at a discounted cost of $6.40, which may be picked up at the HR office prior to the first day of class. Please call Deb Lewis, Human Resources at 2158 for more information or to register.
T’AI CHI CHIH - Joy Thru Movement
To know Chi is to know one of the greatest secrets of life......
WHAT IS IT?  T’ai Chi Chih (pronounced Tie Chee Chuh) is a series of slow, soft movements that help to circulate energy throughout the body. When done regularly, it can produce relaxation, create more energy, and improve physical and mental health. For many, it promotes weight loss, increased joint movement, blood pressure reduction, and improvements in mental clarity.
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?  T’ai Chi Chih was created over a 10-year period by Justin Stone. Mr. Stone, a native of the United States, has been a teacher of Oriental philosophy and a recognized authority on many Oriental disciplines. A master of T’ai Chi Ch’uan (the classic 108-movement form), Mr. Stone developed 20 movements based on ancient healing principles that balance energy.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM IT?  Anyone who is interested in a healthier body, mind,, or spirit would enjoy the benefits of T’ai Chi Chih. It is easy to learn, and individuals can practice T’ai Chi Chih sitting as well as standing. T’ai Chi Chih can be done by anyone from 4 years old to 104 years old. It does not require any special equipment, clothing, or practice space. The form is easy to learn and the benefits are experienced soon after beginning the practice. It can be performed by anyone regardless of age or physical condition.
WHAT ARE THE CLASSES LIKE? You can learn the 20 movements in approximately 15 hours of instruction. At each session, several new movements are demonstrated and then practiced as a group. Class size is limited so that personal instruction can be given.
STUDENTS TALK ABOUT T’AI CHI CHIH.....
"When I’m feeling "off course’, a few minutes of T’ai Chi Chih practice brings me right back to center. I don’t know of any other form of meditation which does this so quickly, so dependably, and so strongly." REV. K.B.
"I seem to need less sleep, but have more energy during the day." S.P. (after 2 lessons)
"My arthritis doesn’t bother me as long as I practice regularly." T.H.
"I skeptically tried a few of the movements on my lunch break when I was feeling especially dragged out, and I couldn’t believe how calm, relaxed and completely renewed of energy I felst after 10 minutes of practice." L.H. (after 1 lesson)
"I lost eight pounds in six weeks." L.B.

OPINION SOUGHT ABOUT  STATE’S OPEN
ENROLLMENT FOR EMPLOYEE INSURANCE
If you took part in Open Enrollment 2000 ­ the process under which you may have made selections regarding your state employee insurance benefits last October ­ we want your opinion. We’d like to know what you think about the Open Enrollment materials and information you received, the Open Enrollment services you used, and the electronic (telephone and Internet) enrollment procedures that the Department of Employee Relations (DOER) has established to serve you.

That’s why we invite you to take the State Employee Group Insurance Program (SEGIP) Open Enrollment Survey ­ your chance to offer comments, suggestions or complaints about this very important aspect of the employee insurance service that DOER provides to you.

The SEGIP Open Enrollment Survey is easy to complete. Simply use your personal computer and Internet/web browser to visit the DOER Home Page at http://www.doer.state.mn.us/, click on the ? (question mark). Type in your answers/comments online and hit the "submit" button. It only takes about ten minutes, your response can be anonymous, and your completed survey will be sent directly to DOER.

Your Completed SEGIP Open Enrollment Survey Will Be Accepted Through December 22, 2000.

Thanks for sharing your opinions with us.

Mary Bishop
Customer Service Representative Sr.
DOER Employee Insurance Division
 

(Dec. 13, 2000 issue)

TWO LONG-TIME MSUM
PROFESSORS RETIRE
Two long-time MSUM professors will retire in December: Ellen Cromwell-Cercle and A. Clyde Vollmers.
Cromwell-Cercle, an assistant professor of Health and Physical Education, came to MSUM in 1968 after earning her undergraduate degree at Slippery Rock (Pa.) University and a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma. A specialist in dance who coached women's track here earlier in her career, she founded the university's Heritage Dancers in 1977. The group performs a variety of ethnic and folk dances for special events throughout the region.
Cromwell-Cercle was named Minnesota's Dance Educator of the Year in 1977 and last year earned the Lou Kellar Award from the Minnesota Association of Health, Physical Education and Dance for her outstanding service to the profession.
Originally from western Pennsylvania, she plans to retire with her husband at their home in Cormorant Lake where she expects to pursue community volunteer work.
Vollmers, a professor of business administration, came to MSUM in 1979 and soon became chair of the department and director of Tri-College University's Center for Economic Education. He left in 1985 to help develop an MBA program at the Chisholm Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, then taught briefly at California Polytechnic State University before returning to MSUM.
Originally from Wheaton, Minn., he holds an undergraduate and master's degree in agricultural economics from North Dakota State University and a doctorate from Michigan State University. A marketing consultant to a variety of agribusiness and business firms, he currently chairs the university's business administration department.
Vollmers and his wife Kathy will move to Denver where they'll serve as chief operating officers for Marriage Ministries International, a non-profit with 30,000 volunteers in 80 countries.

DONATIONS FOR
CINDY SOGN
The campus community has started a benefit fund for Cindy Sogn, the parking office coordinator at MSUM. She was flown by air ambulance to Rochester Mayo last week, where she began treatment for a serious heart ailment. She has already had two surgeries and is assisted by a heart machine. Mayo physicians are attempting to prepare her to be a candidate for a heart transplant.
Her family is with her at this time, and will likely need to remain in Rochester for an extended period.
Donations will be accepted at the State Bank of Moorhead-1333 8th Street South-or at the MSUM Administrative Affairs Office in Owens Hall.
Contributions by check should be made payable to the Cynthia Sogn Benefit Fund.

N.D. TEACHER OF THE
YEAR DEITZ TO SPEAK AT MSUM GRADUATION
Ginger Deitz, North Dakota's 2001 Teacher of the Year from Madison Elementary School in Fargo, will give the commencement address at
2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 22 during Minnesota State University Moorhead's winter graduation ceremony in Nemzek Hall Fieldhouse.
The university will award degrees to 352 graduates.
A 1971 MSUM graduate, Deitz began her career teaching special education at the Wahpeton Indian School. She joined the Fargo School district in 1974 as a special education teacher at the self-contained learning disabilities program at Hawthorne Elementary School.
Three years after earning her master's degree in reading from MSUM in 1977, she started teaching at Madison Elementary School. This is her 29th year in the classroom. She teaches a second- and third-grade class at Madison, now one of the district's most multi-cultural schools.
In 1988 she helped launch Literacy of the HEART, a nationally recognized program to improve reading skills among refugee families in the Madison neighborhood. She was also named Fargo Teacher of the Year this fall.
A reception will follow.

NEW MNSCU CHANCELLOR NAMED
James McCormick, chancellor of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, was selected last week as the next chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities in a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees.
"I am extremely pleased that we have found a leader who will bring people together to develop a vision for the system and articulate it well, a person who has high energy and creativity," said Michael Vekich, chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees. Vekich noted that McCormick had flown into the state Friday and in two days had visited 24 of the MnSCU system campuses (which included MSUM) before the final interviews were conducted.
McCormick told the board he could begin July 1. He will succeed Morris Anderson as chancellor of the 35-institution system with an enrollment of 153,000.
"I am excited, indeed gratified, to be given the opportunity to lead the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities," McCormick said. "I look forward to the tremendous challenges that lie ahead, but I am realistically sobered by them, too. I will need to be vigorous in my actions and draw upon all of my experiences in higher education to provide the best leadership possible for the people of Minnesota."
McCormick, 62, has been chancellor of the State System of Higher Education for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since the system was created in 1983. The Pennsylvania system is similar in scope to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities with 14 universities, 95,000 students, four two-year branch campuses and an annual operating budget of $1 billion.
McCormick was president for Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in Bloomsburg from 1973 to 1983 and served as a professor and administrator for Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania for the previous eight years.  Prior to this, he worked as an assistant superintendent, high school administrator and teacher in Pennsylvania public schools.
McCormick earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania.  He holds a master's of education and a doctorate in education administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
After being named, McCormick told the MnSCU Board of Trustees, the campus presidents and staff he will work to make a smooth transition. "

POTENTIAL MILLIONAIRES SHOULD
WATCH FOR CUES FROM REGIS, MSUM STUDY CONCLUDES
Whether he knows it or not, Regis Philbin, host of ABC television’s hit game show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," may be helping his contestants choose the correct answers.
How? With paralinguistic cues.
That's what a team of MSUM students concluded from an independent project in psychological research.
So here's your question: Paralinguistic cues are…
A) telepathic communications;
B) hand signs;
C) vocal behaviors;
D) paradoxes.
Final answer: C) vocal behaviors.
"Paralinguistic cues are vocal behaviors such as tone, pitch, pauses, or inflections that may affect the meaning of the words," says Gary Nickell, a Minnesota State University Moorhead psychology professor who advised the student research team with colleague Elizabeth Nawrot. "They determine how language is interpreted or perceived."
If, for example, Regis says, "Is that your final answer?" immediately after a contestant on the "hot seat" makes a choice, does that suggest the answer is more likely to be right than if he paused longer with his prompt?
"That's the kind of variations the students have been examining," says Nawrot. "Sometimes it matters less what we say than how or when we say it."
The project, which began last summer, concluded that Regis does seem to help contestants when he prompts them to either change or not change their final answer.
"Whether it's conscious or not," says MSUM senior Sonia Balliet, the primary investigator on the team, "we discovered that Regis does give paralinguistic cues to contestants that may help them select the correct answer."
Initially, Balliet said, the team started its research hypothesizing that contestants could select the correct answers just by interpreting Regis's tone of voice when he reads each question's four multiple choice answers aloud.
"We thought something in the way he read the answers--tone, pitch, loudness--would give the contestants a clue," Balliet said. "We were wrong."
The researchers tested their theory on 60 MSUM undergraduates, who did no better than chance when trying to interpret possible paralinguistic cues that Regis might be giving in the way he reads multiple choice questions.
The second part of their research was more productive. It focused on how Regis prompted contestants following their initial answer to a question.
"We hypothesized that the longer the delay between each contestant's first response to the question and Regis's reply, the more likely that Regis would prompt the contestant to change his or her answer with comments such as, "Are you sure?" or "Maybe you'd like to try a lifeline?"
The team reviewed randomly selected taped episodes of the "Millionaire" and recorded the delay between each contestant's initial response and the nature of the prompt from Regis.
"Our results showed that the shorter the delay between the contestant's response and Regis's reply, the more likely he'll prompt them to stick with the answer. The longer the delay, the more likely he'll prompt them to change their answer."
That assumes, of course, Regis knows the answer to the questions. "But even if he didn't," Balliet said, "he may be subconsciously helping contestants by offering his own guess at the question."
In any case, after determining the delayed prompt was a reliable predictor, the team tested their hypothesis.
"In our first test, we got 10 of 10 questions correct after using the paralinguisic cues we targeted," Balliet said. "When Regis used a short delay in his prompt, we kept answer. When his delay was longer, we took the hint and changed our answer. So far our theory has worked 100 percent."
The research, which the student team will continue to refine, was an exercise in psychological research methods for the students.
"The cues are available if you look for them," Balliet said. "It enforces the notion that we communicate with each other using a variety of ways other than words."
The researchers considered looking at body language as part of the equation, but decided not to because they weren't sure how the show was edited.
An abstract of the research has been submitted to the Midwest Psychological Association for its spring conference. It will also be presented at both the Red River Psychological Association conference and MSUM's student academic research conference next year.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
EDITORS' CHOICES AT MSUM LIBRARY
The Sunday, December 3 New York Times Book Review featured the Editors' Choice selections for 2000, and MSUM's Livingston Lord Library has a healthy chunk of them, waiting to be read by the next person in line. Those in the library's collection are: Beowulf a new verse translation, by Nobellist Seamus Heaney.  PE1583 .H43 2000."
Heaney writes an introduction explaining that he decided to give the poem the voice of the Northern Irish men he'd grown up with, making his work as a translator a wrestling with the great poem as a personal recapitulation of the whole Irish struggle he has achieved a faithful rendering of the epic that is also an original, captivating poem in its own right."
Gertrude and Claudius, by John Updike.  PS3571.P4 G47 2000.  "Updike's language is as rich as any Elizabethan's, and as sensuous as any he has ever written, when he conjures up this woman in love."
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers.  CT275.E37 A3 2000. "When Dave Eggers was 21 both of his parents died within 32 days, leaving him the accidental parent of his 8-year-old brother. [H]e argues, not theoretically since he seems to know no theory, that experiencing the unthinkable, while it brings terror and a sorrow that is unspeakable, is also the source of a liberation into a world of responsibility that is unimaginably exhilirating."
Way out there in the blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the end of the Cold War, by Frances FitzGerald.  E876 .F58 2000."The combat between Secretary of State George Schultz (he's the good guy) and Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense, over American strategy is brought to life the way good novels are:  through surprising, and sometimes appalling, evocations of the personalities of these men and of the defense industry lobbyists, bureaucrats and freelance policy outriders attached to them."
White teeth: a novel, by Zadie Smith. PR6069.M59 W47 2000.".her lightness and humility are all her own; her art is one of glances and smiles, not arm-wrestling. Above all, her ear is miraculously attuned to the voices of different races, generations, and dispositions."
Other titles on the list are Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters, by Matt Ridley (at Concordia); The human stain, by Philip Roth (at Concordia and NDSU); One Palestine complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev (at Concordia); and Rimbaud, by Graham Robb (at 5 PALS libraries).

TECHNOLOGY REACCREDITED
MSUM'S Industrial Technology program with options in industrial distribution and industrial management, construction management and general technology was recently reaccredited for six years by the National Association of Industrial Technology. The notice was signed by '55 MSUM industrial education grad Alvin Rudisill, now executive director of the NAIT.

ST. CLOUD STATE TO PAY $600,000
SETTLEMENT TO WOMEN FACULTY
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system has reached a tentative settlement agreement with women faculty members at St. Cloud State University who alleged that they had been paid less than male faculty members.
U.S. District Court Judge Donovan Frank today gave preliminary approval to a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by the women. Under the agreement, St. Cloud State University will pay  $600,000 in back pay to 250 women who were on the faculty between 1992 and 1998.
Sixty of the women who are current faculty members also will receive prospective pay increases totaling $170,786 per year.
The agreement follows extensive mediation discussions between the parties.
"Although we disagree that women were paid less because of discrimination, we are pleased to have this faculty dispute resolved. We know that all the parties would rather devote their full attention to the benefit of our students," said Gail Olson, MnSCU's legal counsel. "We feel that it is in the university community's best interest to have this matter settled."
Olson said no acts of intentional discrimination were shown in the case.
"A trial would have resulted in a battle of experts over statistics on the salaries of hundreds of faculty members hired over a number of years and in a variety of departments," she said. "We wanted to avoid negative impact that a lengthy trial, probably lasting several months, would have had on the campus. This settlement allows us to move forward in a positive environment."
Five women faculty members filed a federal lawsuit against St. Cloud State University in March 1996 and were later joined by other faculty members. Their case was subsequently certified as a class-action lawsuit by the federal court.  Four of the original plaintiffs in the case will recover an additional $60,000, bringing the total amount of the settlement agreement to $830,786.
Under the proposed settlement, St. Cloud State University will provide to all new faculty information about how their salaries will be determined.  Still unresolved is the plaintiffs' demand for attorney's fees.  That issue will be resolved in additional hearings before the district court.
Under a schedule outlined in the agreement, written notices will be mailed to members of the class and other interested parties Jan. 5, 2001. A period for filing objections to the agreement would end Feb. 9, with a final hearing on the proposed settlement set for March 16. Payments to eligible faculty would be made after final court approval.
Claims brought by several individual women faculty on other state university campuses are unaffected by this settlement.

'DANCING WHEELS' PERFORMANCE
FREE TO MSUM COMMUNITY JAN. 16
On Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the Hansen Theatre of the Center for the Arts, the MSUM Quality Council, in concert with the MSUM ADA Committee, is offering a special educational/entertainment event to the university community. The MSUM Performing Arts Series presents the professional touring company, The Dancing Wheels, comprised of dancers with and without disabilities. Their program focuses on the ability of all people and how the community at large can promote, support and create a living environment and cultural environment that is accessible to and integrated with people of disability. We are offering the afternoon event at no charge (normally a ticket goes for $22). There will also be a reception in the Hansen lobby following the event.

GRADUATION ON THE WEB
For the first time, MSU Moorhead will broadcast commencement live on the Internet. It will be audio only; no video.  If you have friends or relatives who cannot make the trip to Moorhead, tell them they may listen on the Internet. The broadcast is accessible via this web page:http://dragoncast.mnstate.edu Instructions are available on the page. Listeners must have an audio player. The supported players are listed on the web page along with a download link for each.
Graduation is scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 22.
The webcast was developed by Chris Radi, a senior computer science major.

JIM STEVENS DIES
Jim Stevens, 77, a professor of humanities and languages here who retired in 1989 after 23 years on the faculty, died Oct. 23 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn. He is survived by his wife Edith, also a long-time faculty member here, and their children, Wendy and Gavin.

GRAPHIC COMM FESTIVAL HERE DEC. 19
The Graphic Communication's Fall Animation Festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.19. in Hagen 105 Auditorium. Presentations from Intermediate 3D Animation and the Advanced 3D Animation will be shown. Also, included will be multimedia presentations from the Advanced MM class and the final project of Kaname Ohgara. Plus, as a special AURAL-VISUAL Experience: Jim Harley's "Spangled" with computer visual interpretation by Mike Ruth will be shown.    Reception to follow.

STUDENT ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
FOR STUDENT PRESENTERS
The 3rd Annual Student Academic Conference is currently accepting nominations for student presenters at the conference.  The purpose of the Student Academic Conference is to showcase the work and talent of MSUM students in the various disciplines through presentations, posters,  and creative works at the one-day conference at MSUM on April 11, 2001.
Nomination forms are being sent to the department chairs. All faculty are encouraged to submit names to your department chair of students who  you think would be good candidates to be encouraged to present at the  conference.  Nomination forms are due on Monday, December 11, 2000. You can also e-mail your nominations to acconf@mnstate.edu. For more information regarding the conference please visit the conference web site: www.mnstate.edu/acadconf

MSUM CHOIRS PERFORM
‘MIDNIGHT MASS FOR CHRISTMAS’
The MSUM Concert Choir and Festival Mixed Choir will present two performances of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s "Midnight Mass for Christmas" on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium. MSUM faculty members and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony will accompany the Mass.
In addition, The Concert Choir will perform works by Folstrom, Hassler, Praetorius, and Victoria. The choirs are under the direction of Charles E. Ruzicka and Rod Rothlisberger.
The concerts are free and open to the public.
 

CERAMICS SALE WEDNESDAY
AND THURSDAY
The MSUM Art Department will hold a ceramics sale on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 13 and 14 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Flora Frick-MacLean connection. A variety of ceramics will be for sale.

COUNCIL ON STAFF AFFAIRS
SPONSORS HOLIDAY SOCIAL
Plan on spending your morning coffee break on Thursday, December 14 in the Flora Frick Dragon Den! The Council on Staff Affairs will host their annual Holiday Social from 8:30 ? 10:30 a.m. offering FREE coffee, cider, cookies and other goodies for everyone’s enjoyment.
Receive a chance to win a handcrafted rocking horse donated by Marlowe Kulish with each $1.00 donation!
CSA will also introduce their new khaki shirt with MSUM name and dragon logo along with the ever-popular denim shirt. Both shirts can be purchased or ordered at the Social for $28 each. Regular price following the Holiday Social will be $32.00. What great a great holiday present!
Proceeds go toward the Council on Staff Affairs Scholarship Fund.
Check out both shirts and rocking horse at www.mnstate.edu/csa

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN AVAILABLE
MSUM's 2000-2002 Affirmative Action Plan has been approved and is on reserve at Livingston Lord Library. The reserve ID number is LIB-319. The plan is also available at the Affirmative Action Office (Owens 214) and the Human Resources Office (Owens 210). In addition, the plan is available on the Affirmative Action Office Website at www.mnstate.edu/affirm.

LIBRARY RESERVES
All materials placed on reserve for Fall Semester will be taken off reserve during semester break, unless the Library has been instructed otherwise. If you wish to keep those materials on reserve for classes during Spring semester, please call Kay Erickson in the Cataloging Department, ext. 2342 or E-Mail, erickk@mnstate.edu, by Tuesday, Dec 18, 2000.
Materials taken off reserve will be delivered to departments during the first week of Spring Semester. If you prefer, Reserve materials may be picked up at the Circulation Desk beginning Tuesday, January 9. Please call ext. 2342 or E-mail, erickk@mnstate.edu so that materials will be held for you.
If you plan to put materials on reserve for Spring Semester, please submit them as soon as possible. Reserve forms are now available online at the library website:  http://www.mnstate.edu/library/ or at the Circulation Desk in the library. The library will be open Jan. 8 ?9 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Please allow 2-3 days at the beginning of the session before making assignments using these materials.
If you have any questions or problems call Kay Erickson, Catalog/Reserves Technician, ext. 2342 or Pam Werre, Circulation Librarian, ext. 5818.

CMU HOLIDAY HOURS
CMU will have reduced hours over Christmas break on Dec. 22, Jan. 2-5, and Jan. 8. A limited food menu will be available and the Etcetera Shop will be open 10-2. Offices will have normal business hours.
CMU will be CLOSED from Saturday, Dec. 23 through Monday, Jan. 1. This includes all offices and services housed in the union.
CMU Service Areas (The Compass, Copies Plus, and Rec and Outing Center) will close early on Thursday, Dec 21 and remain closed until Tuesday, Jan. 9.
Please check posted hours or call the CMU Main Office at 2261 with any questions.
Attention Professors
Copies Plus in the CMU will be open to accept your packets on Monday, January 8 from 9-4. Regular business hours will resume on Tuesday, January 9.
Please get your packets in early as Copies Plus will complete them on a first come, first served basis. Thank you!

HALF PRICE LUNCH
Donate a non-perishable food item to help the hungry in our community. Bring a non perishable food item into Union City on December 13 and receive half off your meal between 11am-2 p.m. Feel free to donate anytime from now until the end of the semester.

MSUM FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR
TO RECORD EXPERIENCES
Jen Montgomery, a recent graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead, is concurrently in Israel on a Fulbright Scholarship. Ms. Montgomery is doing an anthropological study of the women’s movement in Israel. She has agreed to share her experiences with us by keeping an online journal of her studies and adventures in Israel. In her journals, she not only discusses her feminist studies, but how she must alter her life to avoid the fighting in Israel. A link to her journal entries can be found on MSUM’s Women’s Studies Program homepage or by entering http://www.mnstate.edu/women/wsjenjournal.htm

THE MSU MOORHEAD BOOKSTORE
The MSUM Bookstore would like to thank everyone who helped to make our Customer Appreciation Days a big success. We enjoyed seeing and visiting with you. A special thank you to Dr. Ruzicka and the Chamber Singers for providing entertainment. We would also like to congratulate the winners of the drawings. A list of the winners can be found in the bookstore's display window.

MSUM TEAMS UP WITH AFFINITY PLUS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
TO BRING BANKING SERVICES TO CAMPUS
Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union will host a grand opening celebration for the new full service campus location December 13-15 at Comstock Memorial Union, Room 104. The official ribbon cutting ceremony will be Wednesday, December 13 at 1:30 p.m. Affinity Plus will serve refreshments and give away Affinity Plus coolers, an MSUM sweatshirt and $25 gift certificate to Bennigans. Join us at our grand opening celebration and learn the advantages of membership with Affinity Plus. As a member, you can receive free Internet and telephone banking, student loans, free VISA cards, student VISAs and some of the best rates in town for checking and savings accounts. Affinity Plus is open to faculty and students of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.

OFFICE CLOSED FOR REMODELING
The office of Scholarship and Financial Aid will be closed from December 22 through January 2 for remodeling.  We will be able to serve you on January 3. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.

YEAR END PAYROLL INFORMATION
The final check for tax year 2000 will be on December 29. Remember to save this pay stub to assist you with completing your 2000 Income Tax Forms. Deadline for Employee Address Changes for 2000 W-2's Wage and Tax Statements (W-2 forms) for calendar year 2000 will be mailed out from the Department of Finance, Statewide Payroll Services directly to an employee’s home address. If you have an address change, you must notify the Human Resources Office. The correct address must be entered in our Payroll System by December 29 to ensure that your W-2 goes to the correct address.
Classified Timesheets during the Holiday Break Timesheets for the pay period ending January 2, 2001, can be turned in early if you do not plan to be here on December 29, or they must be turned in right away on the morning of January 2, 2001. If you plan on being gone during the Holiday break, please turn in your timesheets early.
Student Payroll Information If your student employees will not be here on December 29 to pick up their payroll check, please ask them to send a self addressed stamped envelope to the Payroll Office. It would really help if they would include their student ID number on the inside of the envelope. Direct deposit forms are available in the Payroll Office, and direct deposit will be in effect on December 29 for all forms turned in before December 12. Students who will be working during finals can pick up their December 15 check at the Student Union. The December 29 checks will be handed out at the Business Office windows in Owens Hall. Please turn in timesheets for the December 19 pay period as soon as the student is done working, or by noon on Wednesday, December 20. The Payroll Office will print student timesheets for the January 2 pay period end on December 27.

VACANCY NOTICE
Position:Assistant/ Associate Professor of Marketing(pending funding)
Qualifications: Required: PhD in Marketing or PhD in Business Administration with major coursework in marketing.  ABD considered. Desirable: Experience teaching marketing courses.
Work experience and/or coursework and/or teaching experience in e-business/e-commerce
Responsibilities: Teaching is the primary mission at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM).  The successful candidate must provide quality instruction in marketing and will be expected to pursue scholarly activities, advising, and institutional/community service.  Teaching assignments typically involve twelve (12) semester credits each semester.
Apply to: Dr. M. Wayne Alexander, Chair, Marketing Search Committee, Department of Business  Administration, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN  56563. Telephone: 218.236.4650.  Fax: 218.236.2238
e-mail: alexandr@mnstate.eduWeb page: www.mnstate.edu
Mass Communications: Minnesota State University Moorhead invites applications for position #0133P, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications, tenure track. PhD, ABD with firm completion date, MFA or an appropriate terminal degree in Mass communications or a related discipline is required. Terminal degree required for appointment to the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful applicant must be legally able to begin work on August 23, 2001. The position involves teaching courses in online publishing, digital editing, Web design, new media, as well as introductory mass communication courses using Macintosh computers. Expertise and experience teaching online publishing required and prefer similar expertise and teaching experience in digital editing, copyright and courses involving advertising, public relations, and news online. The successful applicant must also demonstrate a working knowledge of Web authoring software and digital tools like Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Flash, Pagemaker, and Dreamweaver. Excellent classroom communication skills are required, as well as Web proficiency. Industry experience is preferred. Deadline for receipt of cover letter, resume, educational transcripts, standard application forms and letters of reference is January 3, 2001. Screening will continue until the position is filled. Send materials to: Dr. C.T. Hanson, Department of Mass Communications, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1104 7th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56563. Direct inquiries or questions to hansonc@mnstate.edu, call 218-236-4036 or fax inquiries to 218-291-4333. Minnesota State University Moorhead is an AA/EOE Employer.

MISCELLANEA
* Lynn Peterson and Julie Poseley from the Hendrix Health Center attended the National Bacchus & Gamma Peer Education Conference in St. Louis, Mo. on Nov. 16- 19. The conference provides peer educators and their supervisors opportunity to network, exchange programming information and learn more ways to make our campus environments as safe and healthy as possible.
* Rita Egan, foundations professor in education, presented two papers at the annual meeting of the American Education Studies Association held in Vancouver in November. The first paper was a joint presentation with Paul Brawdy of St. Bonaventure, New York, titled, "Intellectual Inquiry and After-Dinner Gossip: Reclaiming the Public Face of Educational Debate" and the second was titled, "Through a Glass Darkly: Sharpening the Philosophical Lens of Student Observers." Dr. Egan also gave a seminar at the Justice Institute of British Columbia on "International perspectives of Democratic Process and Election Mechanisms."
* Vinod Lall, business administration, presented a paper titled "Material Planning in SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning System" at the Decision Sciences Institute 2000 Annual Meeting held in Orlando, Fla., November 18 ? 21, 2000.  SAP R/3 is a software suite that integrates the various functional areas of a business enterprise. The paper was based on procedures related to identifying and solving a material planning problem faced by a regional electrical sales and distribution company that implemented SAP R/3 in 1999.
* George Davis, Regional Science Center, David Cline, elementary and early childhood education, Alison Wallace, biology and Teresa Shume, teacher education, have been awarded a $10,518 grant from SciMathMN of Roseville, Minn. to participate in a study of new K-12 science teachers. This study is in its third year and involves 10 teacher education programs in Minnesota. The MSUM group will be studying eight K-12 science teachers in their first three years of teaching.
* Magdalene H. Chalikia, psychology, and her students Fredrik Leinfelt and Meredith Haugen, attended the 140th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Newport Beach, Calif. The following posters were presented, with abstracts published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2000, Volume 108: Magdalene H. Chalikia, Angeline M. Norberg (from MSUM), and Lena. Paterakis (The American College of Greece)  "Greek bilingual listeners perceive the tritone stimuli differently from speakers of English." Magdalene H. Chalikia and Fredrik Leinfelt "Listeners in Sweden perceive tritone stimuli in a manner different from that of Americans and similar to that of British listeners". Meredith Haugen and Magdalene H. Chalikia "The perception of tritone stimuli by listeners in the Midwest."
* Mark Chekola, philosophy, has been appointed by the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association as Chair of its Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the Profession.

With apartments catering to upperclass,
married students…
UNIVERSITY PLANS TO BUILD
2 OR 3 RESIDENCE HALLS
MSUM plans to build two or three on-campus apartment buildings for upper-class, married and older-than-average students, based on recommendations from a Washington, D.C.-based consultant and a university residence hall task force.
The proposed residence halls would help replace the nearly 400 beds lost when Neumaier Hall was imploded and accommodate projected enrollment increases.
Sites discussed for the new buildings, announced at a University Forum last month, are 1) east of Murray Commons, including the former site of Neumaier Hall; 2) The K parking lot north of Nemzek; and 3) the tennis court area on the corner of 17th Street and Ninth Avenue.
The Minnesota legislature last spring approved a bill allowing MSUM to build student housing using third party financing. In other words, a developer would fund the building and the university would provide the land and management. No tax dollars would be involved.
The next step involves searching for a developer to fund the project and then discussions with architects. The first hall is expected to be finished by the fall of 2002.
At the University Forum, attended by only about 35 people including media, Vice President Warren Wiese said that updating residence halls is an important recruitment tool in a changing student culture. He said students today expect more privacy.
A university survey showed that freshmen and sophomores prefer living on campus in double or single rooms more so than upper-class students, who prefer more privacy.
According to the 1999 consultant's report, the campus, which now has 1,704 beds, could support 500 more beds if they're built like apartments that would appeal to upper class, married and older-than-average students. The buildings may include underground parking, cable television hookups and full kitchens along with other conveniences.
Because the plan is also linked to projected enrollment increases, MSUM intends to build the new residence halls in at least two stages. Current projections have enrollment jumping to 7,716 students by the fall of 2004. If the number of people living in campus housing increases at the same rate, a minimum of 269 new beds would be needed.

MSUM LECTURE EXPLORES
THE MATRIX QUESTION OF
REALITY ON DEC. 6
Exploring a centuries old theory about the nature of reality and imagination that recently resurfaced in the Keanu Reeves science fiction movie "The Matrix," philosopher Matthias Steup will present a public lecture on "Do I Know I'm Not a Brain in a Vat?" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6 in King Biology Hall auditorium.
Steup, a nationally known philosophy professor at St. Cloud State University, will examine ideas that question our knowledge of the external world. He believes, however, that skeptical arguments fail to undermine our conviction that we do in fact have knowledge of the external world.
 The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the MSUM philosophy department with support from the university's Alumni Foundation.

3 MSUM JUNIORS
AWARDED 3M
SCHOLARSHIPS
Three MSUM juniors will receive more than $7,000 each in scholarships and paid internships under the Minority Exposure to Corporate America Program funded by the 3M Corporation.
The three are among 15 Minnesota State Universities students selected to receive the award.
They are:
Sarah Jo Eklund, an accounting major from Glyndon and the daughter of Bernadette Malm and Richard Kraft. She's a 1996 graduate of Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton High School.
Amy Halvorson, a mass communications major from Mahnomen and the daughter of Robert and Paulette Halvorson. She's a 1997 graduate of Mahnomen High School.
Jennifer Kolden, a business administration major from Douglas, N.D., and the daughter of Kent and Mary Lou Kolden. She's a 1998 graduate of Max High School.
The program, started in 1989, is funded by a grant from the 3M Corporation to the Minnesota State Universities. It's intended to encourage minority students to pursue studies and careers in business related fields.
Besides receiving $1,000 scholarships in both their junior and senior years, the students will be paid $450 a week to participate in a 13-week internship next summer arranged by the 3M Corporation. They will also meet quarterly for leadership and skill training activities led by minority role models from the business community.

TOUR SPAIN
James Weckler from the Department of Languages is leading a tour of Spain, May 21-29, 2001! This trip is open to faculty, staff, students and anyone in the community. We'll visit Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Seville, Malaga and the Costa del Sol. There's even a day trip to Morocco! The tour includes round-trip airfare from Fargo, 7 nights in hotels, breakfast and dinner daily, 4 sightseeing tours, 8 visits to special attractions and 2 walking tours.  (For an additional fee, you can even earn college credit by taking Spanish 290 or Spanish 390, Special Topics in Spanish Culture, to be offered as part of the tour for interested students.) The cost for students is approximately $2000; add another $200 if you are over 25 yrs.
IMPORTANT DATES: Feb 5th, 2001-the VERY LAST day to get in ALL fees for this trip! BUT, you should get your Application (available in Office of International Programs, 151 Flora Frick) filled-out and submitted AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Thirty days after EF Tours receives your application, the first $400 of your program fee must be paid to EF Tours; ninety-nine days prior to departure, the balance of the program fee needs to be received by EF Tours. Your BEST BET is to pay everything AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!! For more info you may go to the Office of International Programs, e-mail Dr. Weckler: weckler@mnstate.edu or see our website at: http://www.eftours.com/GLWebSite.asp?TourID=653003
I hope ALL of you can come! This will be an EXCELLENT TRIP!!!

'THE HAYMAKERS' AUTHOR
HOFFBECK READS AT
BARNES AND NOBLE DEC. 10
Stephen Hoffbeck, author of "The Haymakers," a new book that traces the labor and heartache of five Minnesota farm families struggling to grow hay to feed their livestock, will  read selections from his documentary from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10 at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Fargo. He'll also sign copies of his book.
The 224-page tribute ($24.95), published this month by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, is as much about grass, alfalfa and clover as it is about sweat, fear, toil and loss.
Through diaries, agricultural guidebooks and personal interviews, Hoffbeck takes a lyrical look at 150 years of haymaking, what he calls "just about the hardest work on a farm."
The book is currently for sale at bookstores and on-line, and is on the Top Ten sales list for Minnesota on Amazon.com. It is also featured on "The November 25" list from Ruminator Books in St. Paul.

POPULAR MSUM FILM STUDIES PROFESSOR TED LARSON DIES
Ted Larson, 60, a popular MSUM film specialist who's been teaching at the university since 1968, died last Wednesday evening at his home.
Larson is best known for his presentations of classical film festivals, seminars and movie series events at colleges, theatres and arts centers throughout the region. He was named a Distinguished Alumni of the university in 1998 for his contributions to students and film studies.
The funeral was held Sunday at the Fargo Theatre.
A Glyndon, Minn., native (Glyndon High School Class of 1958 salutatorian), Larson graduated from MSU in 1962 with speech/theatre and English degrees and taught at Benjamin Franklin Junior High School in Fargo for six years. He then joined the speech and theatre arts faculty at MSUM, where he taught for 32 years. He has directed MSUM’s International Film Festival and Summer Cinema Film Series more than 20 years. He also holds a master's degree in speech and drama from the University of Kansas.
Born July 5, 1940 in Fargo, Larson was preceded in death by his father and mother. His sister, Jean Johnson and her husband, Dave, live in Monticello, Minn.
A long-time member of the Fargo Theatre's board of directors, he was one of the initiators and co-producers of its Silent Movie Night, which began in 1974. He's also collaborated with symphonies in Butte, Mont., and Billings, Mont., as a guest scholar.
Through his work in locating, restoring and reconstructing lost and rare films, he's made donations of valuable motion pictures to The Library of Congress, The George Eastman House, The UCLA film and Television Archive and The Museum of Modern Art. He also administers the Colleen Moore Film Grant program at the university, which funds projects for student filmmakers.
He's also provided Kevin Brownlow, British film documentarian, with rare film footage for his television productions "Universal Horror" and "Lon Chaney."
Among his many achievements, Larson has helped a number of talented young filmmakers develop careers. For example: Andy Zilch was recently chosen to work at Warner Bros. Studios with Steven Spielberg's production of AI (Artificial Intelligence) based on a script by Stanley Kubrick. Another of his former students, Jay Johnson, works for David Letterman productions. Another is Julie Selbo, who's worked with George Lucas on the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. She also became a producer and writer for the television series "Life Goes On."

TRI-COLLEGE SCHOOLS' IMPACT
APPROACHES $1 BILLION
The combined economic impact of the three Tri-College schools, including secondary effects, is more than $900 million.
Recent data calculates direct expenditures for one year at $329.7 million ($51.7 million at Concordia College, $63 million at Minnesota State University Moorhead and $215 million at North Dakota State University). Expenditures include a combined $150.4 million in wages and salaries, in addition to operational expenses, goods and services, and student expenditures.
NDSU used the North Dakota Input-Output model, developed and tested by their agricultural economists, to calculate a total economic impact that estimates secondary effects. The other two institutions used similar models to calculate their total impacts. Combined total economic impact of the three schools is $921.2 million ($141.2 million at Concordia; $182 million at MSUM; and $598 million at NDSU).
The three schools currently employ more than 5,000 people (including full- and part-time, student and temporary staff). Using the North Dakota Input-Output model, these total expenditures are estimated to generate within the economy about 10,000 additional jobs.

DRAGON WINTER SPORTS ARE HERE!
Join other MSUM boosters for lunch to hear from Dragon head coaches and athletic staff about the performances of our student-athletes. The luncheons take place on Wednesdays at noon at the Knights of Columbus in Moorhead. Dates for the upcoming luncheons are December 27 along with January 10 and 24. Mark your calendars!

Upcoming MSUM music…
MSUM FESTIVAL CHOIRS, CHAMBER
SINGERS IN CONCERT DEC. 5;
FLUTE CHOIR PERFORMS DEC. 6
A choral concert featuring the Minnesota State University Moorhead Festival Women’s Choir, Festival Mixed Choir and Chamber Singers will be presented Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium.
It’s free and open to the public.
The Festival Women’s Choir will perform works by David Gonzol, Felix Mendelssohln, and Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival Mixed Choir will perform works by Randall Thompson, Richard Farrant and Harry Robert Wilson. Rod Rothlisberger directs the Festival Choirs
The Chamber Singers, directed by Charles Ruzicka, will perform works by Robert Walker, Kenneth Jennings and R. Vaughan Williams.
The MSUM Flute Choir, directed by Debora Harris, will perform Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. the Center for the Arts Fox Recital. (This is a change from previously published information.)
The Flute Choir will perform works by Gabriel Fauré, James Hook, Rodney Oakes, and Cmaille Saint-Säens, among others. The Flute Choir is comprised of Teresa Brenden, Jennifer Kulawczyk, Denelle Mitchell, Sarah Olsonawski, Missy Riewer, and Kelsey Tande.
Other upcoming MSUM music…
(all events are in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium unless otherwise noted)
* Wind Ensemble, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10
* Junior recital featuring Phillip Hermann, tenor, accompanied by Michael Olson on piano, Thursday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Fox Recital Hall. He’ll perform works by Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, among others.

MSUM CHOIRS PERFORM
‘MIDNIGHT MASS FOR CHRISTMAS’
The Minnesota State University Moorhead Concert Choir and Festival Mixed Choir will present two performances of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s "Midnight Mass for Christmas" on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium. MSUM faculty members and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony will accompany the Mass.
In addition, The Concert Choir will perform works by Folstrom, Hassler, Praetorius, and Victoria. The choirs are under the direction of Charles E. Ruzicka and Rod Rothlisberger.
The concerts are free and open to the public.

MSUM ART SHOWS
THROUGH DEC. 15
An MSUM student art exhibit will run through Dec. 15 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts gallery.
A variety of art is being showcased featuring MSUM students Erin Holscher, Steve Husby, Steve Klein and Chad Olmsted. The exhibit is in partial fulfillment of a bachelor of fine arts degree.
Upcoming BFA graphic design & BA art history shows…
(all presentations are in the Center for the Arts room 165)
* Barrett Haroldson, Thursday, Dec. 7 at 5 p.m.
* Brad Lacher, Wednesday, Dec. 13 at  5 p.m.

SUMMER STUDY TOURS FOR STUDENTS
Faculty-led tours this summer include the following. Please let your students know about these opportunities.
Culture and Ecology in Modern Kenya, led by Dr. Bruce Roberts, Anthropology, May 14-June 3 (tentative dates). Registration deadline March 1. Dr. Roberts has been traveling to Kenya since 1988 and has led students groups in '98, '99 and '00. Call 236-2043 or email: robertsb@mnstate.edu for more information.
Tour of Spain, led by Dr. James Weckler, Languages, May 21-29, visiting Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Seville, Malaga and the Costa del Sol with a day trip to Morocco. For more information, see the website at www.eftours.com/GLWebSite.asp?TourID=653003.
Tour of Italy, led by Professors Kathleen Enz Finken and Carl Oltvedt, Art, May 16-30, with stays in Rome, Todi and Florence. This tour is already full. Students must contact Prof. Enz Finken about the possibility of being placed on the waiting list.
Norwegian Society and Culture, run through NDSU's International Programs Office, July 15-Aug. 10. Students will be hosted by Hedmark University, Campus Evenstad, Norway.
All tours are offered for credit, and financial aid may be available to qualified students. For further information, contact International Programs at 2956.

BEA LEWIS DIES
Beatrice E. Lewis, 91, died Sunday, Nov. 26. An account technician in the Business Office for 38 years, she retired in 1972 and "Bea Lewis Day" was held the day of her retirement. She was also honored in 1979 when MSUM named a birthday scholarship in her honor.

NEED CLOTHES? NEED GIFTS?
The MSUM Alumni Foundation has some top quality discontinued Moorhead State University merchandise for sale at 40% off!!!! The sale will be December 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Flora Frick-MacLean connection. Buy yourself a present.

VACANCY NOTICE
Position: Instructor or Assistant Professor, Health Education. Tenure track or fixed term position (one year) depending on qualifications.
Qualifications: Preference is for tenure track hiring. Minimal qualifications for a fixed term hiring: A Master’s Degree in Health Education or related field is required. A minimum of three years of full time teaching experience in health education at the middle or secondary level required, teaching experience at the college level is preferred. Additional qualifications for tenure track position: ABD or doctorate preferred; doctorate required for tenure. Supervisory experiences preferred.
Apply to:  Richard Bynum, Ed.D, Chair, Search Committee, HPE Department, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN 56563, 218-236-2307; e-mail: bynum@mnstate.edu; MSUM web site www.mnstate.edu

WOMEN’S CENTER DIRECTOR POSITION
The Women’s Center is seeking applications for the position of Director for the coming spring semester 2001. This is a half-time position (20 hours per week) and pays $9.00 per hour. The Director currently reports to the Dean of Arts and Humanities. Duties include the following: Promote the goals and activities of the Women’s Center; develop appropriate programming; coordinate programs, events and meetings; assist in the goal development for the Center; develop instruments to measure the quality of services provided; organize resource materials; conduct Women’s Center Advisory Committee meetings; maintain regular hours of operation for the Center; serve on the Women’s Studies Committee; supervise student workers and volunteers. Qualifications: Candidate must be a student currently enrolled in a graduate program at Minnesota State University Moorhead and have a knowledge of and commitment to women’s issues. Functional knowledge of the Macintosh computer system preferred. To apply, submit letter of application, indicating interest and qualifications, and a current resume to the address below. Deadline for receipt of applications is due January 5, 2000. Virginia Klenk, Dean College of Arts and Humanities 1104 7th Avenue S Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead MN 56563 218-236-2764

APAC MINUTES
November 14, 2000
Members present:  Midgarden, chairperson; Borchers, Borgeson, Conteh, Edvenson, Goodman, Gracyk, Sanderson, Shimabukuro, Shreve, Weckler.
1. Tri-College University Nursing Master’s Degree (Action)
(The Graduate Studies Committee approved this proposal at their 9/18/00 meeting. A hearing was held regarding this proposal at the 10/24/00 APAC Meeting.)
Conteh moved.Goodman seconded to approve this degree.
The committee briefly reviewed the proposal. Barb Vellenga was present to answer questions.
Motion carried unanimously.
2. Health and Physical Education
New course:
Shreve moved. Sanderson seconded to approve the new course:
HLTH 335:  Health Education and the Middle Level Adolescent (2 cr.)
Kari Berg was at the meeting to answer questions regarding this course. She stated that this course meets Board of Teaching regulations. This course will be offered once a year to meet teacher education needs. The number of total class meeting hours (30) per semester or session was added to the course proposal form.
Motion carried unanimously.
Health Education Major: Teaching
Borchers moved. Welken seconded to approve the following:
Add HLTH 335 as a major requirement to this major. Credits will increase from 27 to 29. (PE 211 was dropped from the HPE curriculum at the 5/2/00 APAC meeting.)
Motion carried unanimously.
Elementary & Early Childhood Education
Sarah Smedman and Solveig Bartz were present to answer questions.
The committee had no concerns with this Minor Change:
Increase credits of EECE 623: Special Topics in Literature for Young Readers, from 2 to 3 credits.
Major Changes:
New Course:
Welken moved. Borgeson seconded to approve this new course:
EECE 662: Folkloric Patterns in Literature for Young Readers (3 cr.)
(The Graduate Studies Committee approved this course at their 10/19/00 meeting.)
explained that students who have completed a bachelor’s degree who do not want to enter the master’s degree program, but want graduate credit can complete these courses and receive this certificate. Students may, after receiving the certificate, enter into the M.S. in Reading program. Graduate students may also add this certificate to their Master of Science Degree in Reading.
Motion carried unanimously.
Shreve moved. Edvenson seconded to approve the Graduate Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. (The Graduate Studies Committee approved this certificate at their 10/19/00 meeting.)
Tandberg stated that the graduate catalog states that at least 22 credits must be taken after program admission to study for the master’s degree. Smedman said that students must be made aware of that requirement during advising. Midgarden stated that the Graduate Studies Committee should review that requirement at least in the case of students who have completed an MSUM graduate certificate. Smedman stated that 6 credits of this certificate would be offered in July in 3 concentrated weeks. The other two courses would be offered on alternate years. EECE 662 may also be taken as an elective for students in the MLA and C&I programs.
Conteh asked if APAC should expect other certificate proposals. Midgarden stated that that non-degree course work was recently discussed at the November IFO Meet and Confer. Demand for certificate option will increase; regional employers are beginning to advertise for specific competencies rather than degrees. This will be discussed further at the college meetings in January. The MnSCU approval process for non-degree programs is not finalized but a process should be in place soon. The Teaching certificate programs approved by APAC last spring are not yet approved by MnSCU. The committee discussed ideas for other certificate programs.
Motion carried unanimously.
Meeting adjourned at 4:50 p.m.
Gloria Riopelle

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR
GRADUATING SENIORS
The Center for Leadership and Organizations and The Counseling Center are proud to announce a new opportunity for graduating seniors at MSUM. The Senior Year Experience is intended to address issues specific to a MSUM senior’s transition from student to professional. By drawing upon both campus and community resources for course facilitation and carefully designing course curriculum to match relevant concerns, the Senior Year Experience program will be an engaging opportunity for seniors to reflect upon their MSUM experience and become productive and confident MSUM alumni. The Senior Year Experience pilot program will consist of eight sessions. Participants will meet on Monday evenings from 6:00 p.m. ? 8:30 p.m., January 22 ? March 19, 2001. The class will be limited to 25 participants, enrolled on a first-come / first-serve basis. Please encourage your graduating seniors to sign up for this class soon, as it will fill quickly. Applications and more information are available in The Center for Leadership and Organizations, CMU 225 or by contacting Teresa Helfter Glover at 236-2524 or gloverte@mnstate.edu.
MISCELLANEA
* Suzanne Hungerford, Bruce Hanson, and Patrick Coppens, speech/language/hearing, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention in Washington D.C. last month. The following second year graduate students were also in attendance: Chandra Anderson, Jena Anderson, Kristy Arens, Megan Berg, Trudy Dahl, Val Gibb, Kari Greer, Jenni Hagen, Jodi Jensen, Rhonda Johnson, Stacey  Misko, Karen Pustay, Nancy Suelflow, and Tracy Zaun.
* Patricia Neuman has joined the faculty in the graduate program for Counseling and Student Affairs. Previously a counselor in the Counseling Center here, Neuman is a full professor; co-authored one of the first books for counselors on eating disorders; is the recipient of the first award for meritorious service bestowed by the American College Counseling Association in 1998; and previously served as interim director of the Counseling and Student Affairs Program. The Community Counseling and the Student Affairs in Higher Education program at MSUM have been granted an additional specialized accreditation by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, a distinction held by fewer than 30 percent of counseling graduate programs.
* Connie Abrahamson, June Franzen and Lynn Peterson, Hendrix Health Center, attended the North Central College Health Association Conference, Controversies in College Health" in Bloomington Oct. 11-13. Sessions covered topics such as, Meningococcal Infections, STD's, Expecting Differences, Health Care Issues for GLBT College Students, Depression in College Students, Alternative Therapies, Club Drugs and Credit Card Risks.
* Wes Erwin, Counseling and Student Affairs, was author of an article entitled, "Supervisor Moral Sensitivity" which was published in the journal Counselor Education and Supervision (Vol. 40, 2000).
* Alison Wallace, biology, attended a Minnesota Education Policy Seminar" Shaping the Future of Science and Mathematics Education" in St. Paul on Nov. 28. Six panelists presented information pertinent to the recently released report by the National Education Goals Panel, "Exploring High Achievement in Eighth Grade Science". Attendees discussed strategies that can guide teachers, administrators, and policy makers in implementing best practices in our schools.
* Peter Geib, business administration, has had a paper accepted for presentation at the March meeting of the Midwest Academy of International Business in Chicago. The title of the paper is "The Impact of Globalization on Business Culture: The Case of Indonesia."

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