MSUM student included… (Sept. 26)
MNSCU CHANCELLOR NAMES
30-MEMBER ADVISORY COMMISSION
Chancellor James H. McCormick last week announced the members of the new Citizens Advisory Commission that will help guide strategic planning for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities—including MSUM legal studies major Jan Krasny, who is also the current vice-chair of the Minnesota State University Student Assocation.

The 30-member commission, which met for the first time Friday, includes top state legislative leaders Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, DFL-Erskine, and House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon.

The commission will hold six monthly meetings and three public forums to gather ideas and formulate recommendations for the future of the 34-institution MnSCU system, which serves about 216,500 students annually in credit-based courses.

 "This stellar group of leaders is generously offering its time, experience and wisdom to help Minnesota State Colleges and Universities shape a strategy for achieving goals that best serve this great state," Chancellor James H. McCormick said.

Krasny, a junior, is a 1998 graduate of Blaine High School. (More on this story and the entire list of commission members inside this issue)

ENROLLMENT APPROACHES 7,500 GOAL
Enrollment figures as of the 20th day of classes: head count totals 7,423 (up 1.2 percent); new entering freshmen total 1,258 (up 4.1 percent); and the new entering transfers total 694 (up 2.1 percent). Meanwhile, total  credit hours taken by students is up 1.7 percent.

Registrar John Tandberg predicts, based on last year’s increases between the 20th day totals and the final count, that enrollment here fall semester will hit 7,504—about what’s been expected.

Final head count last fall semester was 7,418.

MSUM COMMUNITY DONATES
$1,778 NY RED CROSS FUND
The MSUM Community contribution $1,778 to the Red Cross New York City disaster fund drive last week, which will be sent directly to New York City for assistance to victims affected by the national tragedy.  We appreciate also the many messages penned by the campus.  Five banners measuring 10 feet in length are being sent to the office of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

--Teresa Helfter Glover, Student Activities
--Sandi Schuette, Counseling Center
 
 

“The Turtle Mountain String Quartet” opens MSUM’s Performing Arts Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Auditorium. Fusing classical string quartet esthetics with 20th century American pop styles, the ensemble redefines traditional chamber instruments (violin, viola and cello) by adapting them to jazz, bluegrass, rock and blues into their repertoire. For ticket information, call the MSUM box office at 218-236-2271.

MSUM THEATRE PRESENTS  LORCA’S
‘BLOOD WEDDING’ OCT. 9-13
A tragedy takes place in a small Spanish village at the turn of the century. Just after her wedding, a bride runs away with another man. When her new husband finds the couple, the men kill each other and all others are left to mourn.  Federico Garcia Lorca’s play, based on a true story, is filled with a poetic intensity that explores human nature, its perceptions of reality, society, life and death.
“Blood Wedding” is being presented on the Gaede Stage of the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus.  Performances are Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 9-13, at 7:30 p.m.

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.

The cast of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” is: Jared Kolles, Albertville, MN, as the Bridegroom; Therese Noel, Crookston, MN, as the Bride; Phyllis Morgan, Moorhead, MN, as the Mother; Pam Goebel, Freeport, MN, as the Mother-in-Law; Adam Sidler, Apple Valley, MN, as the Father; Sam Heyn, Princeton, MN, as Leonardo; Christina Lein, Prior Lake, MN, as the Wife; Nancy Rowe, Dickinson, ND, as the Neighbor; Karla Jean Frederick, Milnor, ND, as the Girl; Emily Wendell, Great Falls, MT, as the Maid; Reed Halvorson, Dickinson, ND, as the Male Guest; Jannette Serckpor, Maple Grove, MN, as the Beggar Woman; and Jenny Reider, Blaine, MN, as the Moon.  Playing various Girls, Women, Wedding Guests, and Neighbors are Laura Dandurand, Moorhead, MN, Lezlie LeeAnn Johnson, Fargo, ND, Tera Kilbride, Grand Forks, ND, Jill Samuelson, New York Mills, MN, CarriAnn Schuman, Faribault, MN, Natasha Woitzel, West Fargo, ND. Playing Male Guests, Dancers, and Woodcutters are Justin Akers, Fargo, ND, Cole Flaat, Fisher, MN, and Ben Mattson, Bemidji, MN.

“Blood Wedding” is directed by Theresa Carson. Roray Hedges is production manager, Jeff Brown is set/lighting designer and technical director, and Peter Vandervort is costume designer.  Production assistant director and stage manager is Darcy Bakkegard.

“Blood Wedding” is the first production of the 2001-2002 academic theatre season.   Other shows this year will be: The Children’s Theatre production of “Schoolhouse Rock Live!” November 17 at 2 and 7 p.m.; The classic musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, “Oklahoma!” February 19-22 at 7:30 p.m.; and the final production of the season is the comedy, “Fuddy Meers,” April 19-20 and 25-27 at 7:30 p.m.
 
 
 

An organizational meeting for the course is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in King Hall 217. For more details, visit this web site: www.mnstate.edu/wisenden/TropicalFieldBiology/TFB.htm.

BLOOD DRIVE HERE OCT. 9
FOR TERRORIST VICTIMS
To help victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings last week, United Blood Services will have a blood drive on campus Tuesday, Oct. 9. in the Comstock room of the student union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sign up for a specific time by calling United Blood Services - 293-9453.

MSUM OFFERS TROPICAL
BIOLOGY FIELD TRIP TO
COSTA RICA THIS SPRING
A spring break trip to the forests of Costa Rica will be part of a field course in tropical biology offered next semester through the MSUM biology department.

It will include weekly two-hour lectures spring semester, plus a 10-day field trip March 8-17 to field stations in the cloud forests near  San Luis and the tropical dry forest on the Pacific coast at Cabo Blanco.

MSUM biology professors Brian Wisenden and Donna Bruns Stockrahm, both experienced tropical field researchers, will present the lectures and lead the trip.

Costs will range from $2,000 to $2,300, which includes airfare, accommodations and food, entrance fees to all parks and the services of guides and naturalists. Tuition isn’t included.

It’s open to all students in the Tri-College System and to members of the community. For details, contact Wisenden at 287-5001 or Bruns Stockrahm at 236-2576.

TALLGRASS ART INSTITUTE
SILENT ART AUCTION CONTINUES
The Fifth Annual MSUM Tallgrass Art Institute will hold a silent art auction of art donated by artists and art galleries in the Fargo-Moorhead area to raise funds to support the Institute.

The art auction will be displayed in the north hallway just off the lobby of the MSUM Gaede Thrust Stage Theatre. The auction will run from 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24th to 5 p.m. Sept. 29th.

The funds raised from the silent auction are used to support the MSUM Tallgrass Art Institute.  The Institute is a program of the MSUM Department of Art and Design, the MSUM Regional Science Center and the art program of the Moorhead Public Schools.

Each year the Institute provides a guest artist who teaches technique classes in landscape art to MSUM art students, plus Moorhead high school and junior high art students. Included in the program is the opportunity for all art students to spend a day at the Science Center's Buffalo River Site creating landscape art.  This year's guest art is Robert Crawford Crowe.

OXFORD PROF TALKS ON
ORIGIN OF COSMOLOGY
HERE ON SEPT. 27
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University in England, presents a lecture  on “Angels, Infinity and the Big Bang: Origins of Modern Cosmology” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 in King Hall Auditorium.

Chapman, a social historian and member of the Royal Astronomical Society Club, is a faculty member at Oxford’s Wadham College and frequently appears on BBC television specials  about  the history of astronomy. A specialist in the history of early medicine, he’s been  a Hastings Memorial Lecturer  at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Tea and cookies will be served following his talk.

During his visit to campus, Chapman will also talk to students interested in studying at Oxford next year  under MSUM’s Eurospring program: at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Bridges 264. For details, or if you wish to have Chapman visit your class, contact Jill Holsen at the university’s International Programs office, 236-2956.

COMEDIAN POSTPONED
Comedian Francis Dilaranzo's performance here scheduled Sept.  26 has been postponed until Oct. 22.

DIABETES IN THE HISPANIC
POPULATION TOPIC OF CONFERENCE
Enhancing care for the Hispanic population: Folk healing traditions in contemporary health practices” is the topic of a diabetes management conference Oct. 5-6 at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

It will address the health needs of the diabetic Hispanic population as it relates to
exercise, medication, and long- and short-term care. Professionals with expertise in diabetes management and the Hispanic population will speak.

Dr. Eliseo Torress, who has studied Mexican folk medicine and folk healing for more than 20 years, will talk about harmful and harmless healing traditions and folk healing practices used to address specific ailments. He also exhibits a unique display on Mexican folk medicine and folk healing.

Internationally acclaimed poet, author and speaker on multicultural issues, Dr. Carmen Tafolla, will present a medley of voices “With our very own names: Voices from our multicultural world.” She’s published four books of poetry, seven television screenplays, and numerous stories, articles and children’s works. A native of San Antonio, Texas, she has just completed a movie script for a feature-length comedy entitled “REAL MEN…and other miracles.”

Dr. Richard Zoucha, an associate professor at Duquesne University School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pa., will talk about the health and well being of Mexican American and African American communities. He’s currently involved with a Participative Action Study in the African American community.

Registration for the pre-conference diabetes crash course, which runs 5-10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, is $15 and includes dinner. The Saturday conference fee of $25 includes refreshments and lunch. Registration for both days is $40. Registrations are due to the MSUM Continuing Studies Office, Box 318, Moorhead, MN 56563 or fax 218-287-5030. For more information, call 218-236-2183 or e-mail contstdy@mnstate.edu

The conference is sponsored by Migrant Health Services, Inc. Continuing Studies and Department of Nursing at MSU Moorhead, University of North Dakota College of Nursing, and funded through a grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation.

MSUM student included…
MNSCU CHANCELLOR NAMES
30-MEMBER ADVISORY COMMISSION
Chancellor James H. McCormick last week announced the members of the new Citizens Advisory Commission that will help guide strategic planning for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities—including MSUM legal studies major Jan Krasny, who is also the current vice-chair of the Minnesota State University Student Assocation.

The 30-member commission, which will meet for the first time Friday, includes top state legislative leaders Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, DFL-Erskine, and House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon.

The commission will hold six monthly meetings and three public forums to gather ideas and formulate recommendations for the future of the 34-institution MnSCU system, which serves about 216,500 students annually in credit-based courses.

 "This stellar group of leaders are generously offering their time, experience and wisdom to help Minnesota State Colleges and Universities shape a strategy for achieving goals that best serve this great state," Chancellor James H. McCormick said.

Minnesota business leaders Vance Opperman and Glen Taylor are co-chairing the broad-based commission. The members were asked to serve based on their leadership in business, K-12 and higher education, foundations, government, communities of color, and urban and rural communities.

"We appreciate the willingness of these very busy citizens to participate, and we anticipate they will provide sound, forward-looking advice," MnSCU Board of Trustees Chair Mary Choate said. "Their commitment shows a deep belief in the importance of higher education and the MnSCU system."

Commission members include two MnSCU trustees, Andrew Boss and Michael Vekich, the former board chair. Choate will serve as an ex officio member.

The commission's first meeting last Friday was in International Hall, on the fourth floor of the World Trade Center, which is the MnSCU system headquarters. All commission meetings will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays, with future meetings set for Oct. 19, Nov. 30, Dec. 21, Jan. 18 and Feb. 22 at locations still to be determined.

The charge to the commission is as follows:

"The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Citizens Advisory Commission is charged to advise the Chancellor on behalf of the Board of Trustees on strategic directions for the future of public higher education in the state and to:
 
* Determine the most critical strategic choices facing public higher education and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities;

* Examine the issues facing the state and their impact on higher education opportunities for Minnesotans at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities including but not limited to quality, accessibility, affordability, economic development, and citizenship;

* Recommend what role the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities should play in enhancing the state's economic vitality, quality of life, and the development of the workforce."

Public forums to gather ideas from regional residents about the future of higher education will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on these dates and campuses:

* Sept. 27 in the Itasca Community College Theater in Grand Rapids
* Oct. 9 at Normandale Community College in Bloomington
* Oct. 30 at Southwest State University in Marshall

Public opinion is sought on what people care about most at this time, how higher education can address those high priorities and concerns, and what role the MnSCU institutions can and should do to help in the future.

The creation of a Citizens Advisory Commission is a key part of the chancellor's first-year work plan, which the Board of Trustees unanimously approved in July.

McCormick has launched an unprecedented effort to gather public opinion through visits with every legislator in his or her home district and visits to every one of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities by the end of this year. So far, he has met with more than 115 legislators and visited eight campuses.

Opperman, commission co-chair, is the president and chief executive officer of Key Investment, Inc.; former president of West Publishing Company; and owner and general counsel of Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. In 2000, he served as chair of the MnSCU Search Advisory Committee in a search that led to the appointment of McCormick as chancellor.

Co-chair Taylor is chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Taylor Corporation, Mankato, and owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA basketball team and the Minnesota Lynx WNBA women's basketball team.  He graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and was a state senator from 1980 to 1990, serving as assistant minority leader and minority leader.

McCormick said he expects the commission will be able to forward recommendations to him by spring 2002. He plans to submit a strategic plan to the MnSCU Board of Trustees in April 2002.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is made up of state universities, community colleges, technical colleges and comprehensive community and technical colleges in 46 Minnesota communities.

MnSCU Citizens Advisory Commission members
* Vance Opperman, co-chair, Minneapolis, CEO of Key Investment, Inc.
* Glen Taylor, co-chair, North Mankato, CEO of Taylor Corporation
* Joanne E. Benson, White Bear Lake, CEO of the Minnesota Business Academy in St. Paul and former lieutenant governor
* Julie Bleyhl, Madison, legislative director of AFSCME Council 6, past member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and the former Minnesota State Universities Board
* Andrew Boss, St. Paul, member of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, retired chief executive officer and chair of St. Anthony Park Bank
* Wilson Bradshaw, St. Paul, president of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and Minneapolis, a MnSCU institution
* Cheryl Dickson, St. Paul, former president of the Minnesota
Humanities Commission
* Nancy Domaille, Rochester, CEO of Domaille Engineering of Rochester, immediate past chair of Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
and member of Greater Rochester Area University Center Board of Directors
* John Frobenius, St. Cloud, president of St. Cloud Hospital and co-president of Centracare Health System
* Jack M. Geller, Mankato, president of the Center for Rural Policy and Development at Minnesota State University, Mankato
* Carol R. Johnson, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Public Schools superintendent
* Reatha Clark King, Minneapolis, president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation, vice president of General Mills Inc., former president of Metropolitan State University
* Brad Krasaway, Virginia, student at Mesabi Range Community and Technical College, a MnSCU institution; and president, Minnesota State College Student Association
* Jan Krasny, Moorhead, student at Minnesota State University Moorhead and vice chair, Minnesota State University Student Association
* Sen. Roger Moe, Erskine, Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate
* Greg Mulcahy, St. Paul, co-treasurer of Minnesota State College Faculty
* Kathleen Nelson, Duluth, president of Lake Superior College of Duluth, a MnSCU institution
* Collins W. Oakgrove, Red Lake, former teacher in Minneapolis Public Schools and at the University of Minnesota, and director of education for the Red Lake Tribal Council
* David Olson, Minnetonka, president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
* Paul M. Olson, Grand Rapids, president and CEO of the Blandin Foundation and chair of the Minnesota Center for Rural Policy and Development
* James Pehler, St. Cloud, president of the Inter Faculty Organization and a former state representative and senator
* Hazel Reinhardt, Minneapolis, consultant and former Minnesota state demographer
* Ed Schones, St. Paul, co-president of Minnesota State College Faculty, former president of United Technical College Educators
* Patricia Spence, Rice, immediate past chair of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and former Little Falls mayor, teacher and
business owner
* Rep. Steve Sviggum, Kenyon, Speaker, Minnesota House of Representatives
* Elsa Vega-Perez, St. Paul, program officer for the Otto Bremer Foundation
* Michael Vekich, St. Louis Park, member and immediate past chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, business and financial consultant
* Ray Waldron, South St. Paul, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO
* Tom Westerhaus, Cold Spring, superintendent of the ROCORI Area Schools and adjunct professor at St. Cloud State University
* Lee Pao Xiong, St. Paul, president and CEO of the Urban Coalition, Metropolitan Council representative, former director of government and community relations at Concordia University

Mary Choate, Bloomington, chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, is an ex officio member of the commission. She and her husband own and operate seven McDonald's restaurants.

DIABETES IN THE HISPANIC
POPULATION TOPIC OF CONFERENCE
“Enhancing care for the Hispanic population: Folk healing traditions in contemporary health practices” is the topic of a diabetes management conference Oct. 5-6 at MSU Moorhead.

It will address the health needs of the diabetic Hispanic population as it relates to
exercise, medication, and long- and short-term care. Professionals with expertise in diabetes management and the Hispanic population will speak.

Dr. Eliseo Torress, who has studied Mexican folk medicine and folk healing for more than 20 years, will talk about harmful and harmless healing traditions and folk healing practices used to address specific ailments. He also exhibits a unique display on Mexican folk medicine and folk healing.

Internationally acclaimed poet, author and speaker on multicultural issues, Dr. Carmen Tafolla, will present a medley of voices “With our very own names: Voices from our multicultural world.” She’s published four books of poetry, seven television screenplays, and numerous stories, articles and children’s works. A native of San Antonio, Texas, she has just completed a movie script for a feature-length comedy entitled “REAL MEN…and other miracles.”

Dr. Richard Zoucha, an associate professor at Duquesne University School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pa., will talk about the health and well being of Mexican American and African American communities. He’s currently involved with a Participative Action Study in the African American community.

Registration for the pre-conference diabetes crash course, which runs 5-10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, is $15 and includes dinner. The Saturday conference fee of $25 includes refreshments and lunch. Registration for both days is $40. Registrations are due to the MSUM Continuing Studies Office, Box 318, Moorhead, MN 56563 or fax 218-287-5030. For more information, call 218-236-2183 or e-mail contstdy@mnstate.edu

The conference is sponsored by Migrant Health Services, Inc., Continuing Studies and Department of Nursing at MSU Moorhead, University of North Dakota College of Nursing, and funded through a grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation.

ARTIST’S DRAWINGS FEATURE
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF
BATAAN DEATH MARCH
An art exhibit featuring the drawings of Ben Steele, a prisoner of war who survived the Bataan Death March, will show at the MSUM Center for the Arts gallery through Oct. 5.

Ben Steel was stationed in the Philippines during World War II, and on April 9, 1942, Brigadier General Edward King, commanding officer at Bataan Pennisula on the island of Luzan, surrendered to the Japanese. Steele was one of 10,000 Americans and 65,000 Filipinos who were captured and forced to march 100 kilometers in blazing heat from Mariveles to San Fernando, a walk subsequently named the Bataan Death March. It is estimated that half of the marchers died from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition or execution. Ben Steele survived.

He worked as a slave laborer until he became too ill to work. He was sent to Bilibid Prison, where he first began to draw.

“I used to sit there day after day. I thought I’d lose my damn mind. I wanted something to do, so I started drawing with anything I could find to draw with,” Steele explained. “I'd draw on walls. People around me said, ‘why don’t you draw the guys? You know, there are no photographs taken of this stuff.’ So I started drawing stuff around the camp and sketches of people and portraits as close as I could. I wasn’t very skillful.”

Unschooled in drawing, Steele used charcoal from open fires to draw on the backside of Japanese custom papers, producing a series of 70 drawings. Most of the original drawings were destroyed.

The MSUM exhibit features three phases of Steele’s drawings, including two original drawings he completed after being transferred to Japan. A second phase includes  re-created drawings that were made during post-war rehabilitation, which are similar in execution and spirit as the originals. The final phase of drawings were made in 1952, after Steele graduated from Cleveland Institute of Art.

MSUM gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

MSUM SCIENCE CENTER
HOSTS ‘FALL FANTASY’
The MSU Moorhead Regional Science Center will host its annual “Fall Fantasy” from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Buffalo River Site.

It will feature storytellers around campfires and on the Center trails talking about some of the popular nocturnal animals of our area such as owls, bats and wolves.  Telescopes will also be set out for observing the night sky.

This program is free and open to the public. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

The Buffalo River Site is located 15 miles east of Moorhead on Highway 10, adjacent to the Buffalo River State Park. For more information, call
218-236-2904.

Upcoming Music…
The MSUM Orchestra will present a concert Friday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium.

An MSUM Choirs Concert will be presented Thursday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. at Our Redeemer Church, 1000 14th St. S., Moorhead.

On Sunday, Oct 21, the MSUM Wind Ensemble will perform a 3 p.m. concert in Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium.

NEW LIBRARY TITLES
The Livingston Lord Library is pleased to announce the presence of the following new titles on its shelves:

*Smith, Joseph.  Historical dictionary of the Cold War.  REF. D843 .S547 2000
*Moseley, Edward H.  Historical dictionary of the United States-Mexican War.  REF. E404 .M84 1997
*Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.).  Thesaurus of ERIC descriptors.  14th ed.  REF. LB15 .E3 2001
*Money for graduate students in the physical & earth sciences.  REF. LB2337.2 .M6662
*Bloom, Ken.  American song : the complete companion to Tin Pan Alley song.  REF. ML128.P63 B55 2001
*Corominas, Joan.  Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana.  3. ed. muy rev. y mejorada.  REF. PC4580 .C58 1973
*Drug interaction facts.  2001 [ed.].  REF. RM302 .D78 2001
*Popper's Open society after fifty years : the continuing relevance of Karl Popper.  B63 .P6 1999
*Flower, Linda.  Studying cognition in context : introduction to the study.  OVERSIZE BF311 .F552 1989
*Stein, Victoria.  Exploring the cognition of reading-to-write.  OVERSIZE BF311 .S6776 1989
*Ackerman, John.  Students' self-analyses and judges' perceptions : where do they agree?  OVERSIZE BF456.W8 A24 1989
*Hart, Peter.  The I.R.A. and its enemies : violence and community in Cork, 1916-1923.  DA960 .H36 1999
*Cleere, Henry.  Southern France : an Oxford archaeological guide.  DC607.4 .C54 2001
*Briggs, Jean L.  Inuit morality play : the emotional education of a three-year-old.  E99 .E7 B744 1998
*Thomas, Jerry R.  Research methods in physical activity.  4th ed.   GV361 .T47 2001
*Wood, Ean.  The Josephine Baker story.  GV1785 .B3 W66 2000
*Mn @ 2010 : how technology, globalization & changing demographics are reshaping our world, and what Minnesota should do to compete in the evolving 21st century economy.  OVERSIZE HC107.M6 M574 2001
*Ensuring health and income security for an aging workforce.  HD6280 .E63 2001
*Ethical trade-offs in consumer decision making.  Cultural psychology.  HF5387 .E8 1999
*50-state property tax comparison study : executive summary : payable year 2000.  OVERSIZE HJ4120 .A19 2001
*The new social theory reader : contemporary debates.  HM585 .N46 2001
*Mbaku, John Mukum.  Bureaucratic and political corruption in Africa : the public choice perspective.  Original ed.  JQ1875 .A55 C639 2000
*Kess, Sidney.  CPE credit service : tax aspects of certain investment products.  KF6280 .A2 C629 2001
*Educational documentation, research and decision-making : national case studies.  LB1028 .E283 1999
*Hull, Glynda A.  Rethinking remediation : toward a social-cognitive understanding of problematic reading and writing.  OVERSIZE LB1050.5 .H84 1989
*Gilbert, Jeremy.  Discographies : dance music, culture, and the politics of sound.  ML3406 .G55 1999
*Oldham, Andrew Loog.  Stoned.  ML3534 .O43 2001
*Studwell, William E.  The classic rock and roll reader : rock music from its beginnings to the mid-1970s.  ML3534 .S82 1999
*Beattie, Donna Kay.  Assessment in art education.  N85 .B43 1997
*Lanier, James S.  The complete Lanier : a professional profile.  N89.2 .L36 l998
*Apocalypse : beauty and horror in contemporary art.  OVERSIZE N6490 .A663 2000
*Buch neuer Künstler.  OVERSIZE N6490 .U3815 1991
*Munch, Edvard.  Edvard Munch : psyche, symbol and expression.  N7073 .M8 A4 2001
*Saville, Jenny.  Jenny Saville  : territories.  OVERSIZE ND1329.S29 A4 1999
*Constructions : design Intégral Ruedi Baur & associés.  NK 1010 .I54 C65 1998
*Veshch' : mezhdunarodnoe obozrenie sovremennogo iskusstva = Objet : revue internationale de l'art moderne = Gegenstand : internationale Rundschau der Kunst der Gegenwart.  OVERSIZE NX1.A1 V48 1994
*Media & democracy in Asia.  P95.82 .A78 M435 2000
*Kantz, Margaret.  Written rhetorical syntheses : processes and products.  OVERSIZE P301.5.P75 K34 1989
*Entwistle, William J.  Las lenguas de España : castellano, catalán, vasco y gallego-portugués.  PC4075 .E518 1969
*El Español de América.  PC4821 .E8 1982 Ackerman, John.  Translating context into action.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .A24 1989
*Dyson, Anne Haas.  Negotiating among multiple worlds : the space/time dimensions of young children's composing.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .D9 1988
*Freedman, Sarah Warshauer.  National surveys of successful teachers of writing and their students : the United Kingdom and the United States.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .F72 1988
*Kantz, Margaret.  Forms of writing and rereading from writing : a preliminary report.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .K3 1989
*Kantz, Margaret.  Promises of coherence, weak content, and strong organization : an analysis of the student texts.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .K36 1989
*Nelson, Jennie.  How the writing context shapes college students' strategies for writing from sources.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .N44 1988
*Peck, Wayne C.  The effects of prompts upon revision : a glimpse of the gap between planning and performance.  PE1404 .P42 1989
*Spivey, Nancy Nelson.  Readers as writers : composing from sources.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .S752 1989
*Stein, Victoria.  Elaboration : using what you know.  OVERSIZE PE1404 .S79 1989
*Press and politics in Africa.  PN5450 .P69 2000
*Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.  El viejo celoso and El celoso extremeno.  PQ6325 .V5 2001
*Women writers of the 1930s : gender, politics, and history.  PR116 .W66 1999
*Women, revolution, and the novels of the 1790s.  PR858 .W6 W66 1999
*Sundog highway : writing from Saskatchewan.  PR9198.2 .S22 S8 2000
*Salinger, J. D.  The catcher in the rye.  PS3537 .A426 C34 1951b
*Roers, Walter J.  The pact : a novel.  PS3568 .O364 P34 2000
*Geometry at work : a collection of papers showing applications of geometry.  QA446 .G45 2000
*The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society centennial issue : selected fundamental papers published this century in the Astronomical Journal and the Astrophysical Journal.  OVERSIZE QB32 .A87 1999
*Planets outside the solar system : theory and observations.  QB820 .P55 1999
*Classroom guide to exploring the biomedical revolution.  OVERSIZE QH307.2 .E96 1999 Guide
*Anderson, Ann.  Snake oil, hustlers and hambones : the American medicine show.  R730 .A54 2000
*2001 MCAT : complete preparation for the Medical College Admission Test.  R838.5 .C65 2001
*Leeper, Linda H.  Allyn and Bacon quick guide to the Internet for speech-language pathology and audiology.  1999 ed.  RC423 .L413 1999
*Regan, Ciaran.  Intoxicating minds : how drugs work.  RM315 .R447 2001
*Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.  Culpeper's complete herbal & English physician, enlarged.  RS81 .C9 1990
* Bushy, Angeline.  Orientation to nursing in the rural community.  RT120 .R87 B87 2000
*Kehde, Karl.  Smart land development : how you can improve proposed projects.  3rd ed.  TD163 .S62 2000
*Picturing us : African American identity in photography.  TR680 .P53 1994
*Lewand, Robert.  Cryptological mathematics.  Z103 .L46 2000
*Lipow, Anne Grodzins.  Establishing a virtual reference service : VRD training manual, LSSI's VRD (Virtual Reference Desk) software, service policies and guidelines, design and content of screens.  Z711.45 .L56 2001

SABATTICAL AND SUMMER RESEARCH
OPPORTUNITIES FOR FACULTY
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine -- National Research Council offers research fellowships for research in residence at U.S. Government laboratories.  There are three programs: postdoctoral research awards, senior research awards, and summer faculty fellowships. They are available at over 120 participating laboratories.  The awards may  be renewable for up to three years; they may also be used as sabbatical experiences.  Deadlines for applications are January 15, April 15, and August 15.   For information and application materials, visit www.national-academies.org/rap. On the website there is a searchable index  by region of the country, program name (laboratory and agency), research adviser, and keywords.

PRES. BARDEN’S MOTHER PASSES
The final services for Sena F. Barden, mother of President Barden, will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in McGregor, ND.  Mrs. Barden died on Friday, Sept. 21, in Bozeman, MT.

MISCELLANIA
* Henry Gwiazda and Elizabeth Larsen, music, received standard awards this year from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. The cash awards are granted by a panel and are based on the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions. They are designed to encourage writers of serious music.
* Art professor Allen Sheets was selected to design the annual report for MSUM, a new collaboration involving President Barden and the Alumni Foundation. Doug Hamilton, executive director of the Alumni Foundation, said that the talented graphic design faculty and alumni would be involved in the creation of this publication in the years to come.
* Lisa Hauge-Stoffel, art and design, received a $20,000 grant from the NEA Challenge America Funds and the North Dakota Council on the Arts. The funds will be used to develop and implement a folk arts-based art therapy program in partnership with Pioneer House Assisted Living for Seniors in Fargo. The program will serve as a pilot project for future programs that integrate traditional/folk art and fine arts into the lives of the elderly population in the region.
* Zhimin Guan, art, gave three lectures at Dalian University, Dalian Artist Association and Dalian International Institute of Art and Design during his July trip to China. Three of his paintings received Best of Show at the 2001 Lincoln Avenue Fine Arts Festival at the Center of Arts Gallery in Fergus Falls. Guan has another painting featured in the Autumn Auction at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, N.D., showing through November
* Art department faculty and students’ works have been selected into the 42nd Midwestern Exhibition at the Rourke Art Museum. They are Carl Oltvedt, Zhimin Guan, Trygve Olson Nathan Mastrud, Guy Nelson and Fawzia Khan. Guan’s painting received Honorable Mention Award voted by exhibited artists at the show.
*Jim Kaplan, languages, attended the Board Meeting of MnSCU's Center for Teaching and Learning held in St. Paul on Sept. 20.

CLASSIFIEDS
* Professor and spouse wish to rent living quarters in FM for the winter months, length negotiable. Call 2665 or e-mail retzlaff@mnstate.edu
* Wanted - reasonable lake lot (does not need to be cleared), call Kathy Scott at 236-2174.
* Wanted - In-home cleaning jobs during the day - (references available) Call Rena's Cleaning Service, 581-2341.

Steel was stationed in the Philippines during World War II, and on April 9, 1942, Brigadier General Edward King, commanding officer at Bataan Pennisula on the island of Luzan, surrendered to the Japanese. Steele was one of  10,000 Americans and 65,000 Filipinos who were captured and forced to march 100 kilometers in blazing heat from Mariveles to San Fernando, a walk subsequently named the Bataan Death March. It is estimated that half of the marchers died from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition or execution. Ben Steele survived.

He worked as a slave laborer until he became too ill to work. He was sent to Bilibid Prison, where he first began to draw.

“I used to sit there day after day. I thought I’d lose my damn mind. I wanted something to do, so I started drawing with anything I could find to draw with,” Steele explained. “I'd draw on walls. People around me said, ‘why don’t you draw the guys? You know, there are no photographs taken of this stuff.’ So I started drawing stuff around the camp and sketches of people and portraits as close as I could. I wasn’t very skillful.”

Unschooled in drawing, Steele used charcoal from open fires to draw on the backside of Japanese custom papers, producing a series of 70 drawings. Most of the original drawings were destroyed.

The MSUM exhibit features three phases of Steele’s drawings, including two original drawings he completed after being transferred to Japan. A second phase includes re-created drawings that were made during post-war rehabilitation, which are similar in execution and spirit as the originals. The
 

final phase of drawings were made in 1952, after Steele graduated from Cleveland Institute of Art.
MSUM gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

BLOOD DRIVE HERE OCT. 9
FOR TERRORIST VICTIMS
To help victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings last week, United Blood Services will have a blood drive on campus on Tuesday, Oct. 9. in the Comstock room of the student union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sign up for a specific time by calling United Blood Services - 293-9453.

OXFORD PROF TALKS ON
ORIGIN OF COSMOLOGY
HERE ON SEPT. 27
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University in England, presents a lecture  on “Angles, Infinity and the Big Bang: Origins of Modern Cosmology” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 in King Hall Auditorium.

Chapman, a social historian and member of the Royal Astronomical Society Club, is a faculty member at Oxford’s Wadham College and frequently appears on BBC television  specials  about  the history of astronomy. A specialist in the history of early medicine,  he’s been  a Hastings Memorial Lecturer  at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Tea and cookies will be served following his talk.

During his visit to campus, Chapman will also talk to students interested in studying at Oxford next year  under MSUM’s Eurospring program: at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Bridges 264. For details, or if you wish to have Chapman visit your class, contact Jill Holsen at the university’s International Programs office, 236-2956.
 
 
 
 

PULITZER PRIZE NOMINATED
AUTHOR ALISON MCGHEE
READS HERE SEPT. 20
Alison McGhee, author of two Minnesota Book Award novels, “Rainlight” and “Shadow Baby,” will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20 in King Hall Auditorium as a feature of  the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.

She’ll also talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. that day, also in King Hall Auditorium.

McGhee’s novel “Rainlight” was named one of Library Journal’s 1998 Best First Novels and her “Shadow Baby” was not only nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, but was also named one of the eight best novels of 2000 by Kirkus Reviews. Her third novel, “Was it Beautiful?” and first children’s book, “Velcro Girl,” will be published in 2002.

McGhee was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and currently lives in south Minneapolis, where she teaches part time at Metropolitan State University. She regularly contributes essays and reviews to the Star Tribune.

VISITING SCHOLAR TALKS ABOUT
AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
THROUGH LITERATURE SEPT. 20
Michael Strickland, author of “African American Writers: A Dictionary” and “A to Z of African American History,” will talk about “Exploring the African American Experience through Literature, Poetry and Writing” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Sept. 20 in King Biology Hall Auditorium.

Strickland, an assistant professor of literacy education at New Jersey City University, has an ear for poetry that strikes a chord with readers.  In his first book, the critically acclaimed "Poems That Sing To You,” he offers 55 selections that communicate the sometimes subtle, sometimes unmistakable music of poetry. He then collaborated with his mother, Dr. Dorothy S. Strickland, a professor of reading at Rutgers University, on an anthology of 23 poems entitled "Families: Poems Celebrating the African American Experience."

His collection of biographies of African American poets was published in 1996 by Enslow, Inc.
Strickland also published "My Own Song: And Other Poems to Groove To," the sequel to his first book, and, most recently, a picture book about a trip to the barber shop, entitled "Haircuts at Sleepy Sam's."

Strickland  has been a Paul Robeson Fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities Education and a teaching/research fellow at Washington State University.  He is currently a trustee of the Maurice R. Robinson Fund, a foundation that awards grants to grassroots projects that directly affect the lives of children.

An international traveler and a native of Orange, N.J., Strickland conducts school presentations that focus on multicultural poetry as material for language instruction and as a means of self-expression.

MSUM ALUM’S NOVEL 18TH
ON NY TIMES FICTION LIST
MSUM alum Leif Enger’s novel, “Peace Like a River,” this week is 18th on the New York Times Best-Seller list for hardcover fiction. Enger is a 1986 MSUM graduate, who majored in English and mass communications.

FIBER ARTIST CHILDREN’S
BOOK ILLUSTRATOR
SPEAKS HERE  SEPT. 19
Salley Mavor, a fiber artist and illustrator of children’s books, will speak on “Telling Stories with Needle and Thread” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19 in King Hall Auditorium.

It’s a slide-lecture based on her fabric relief art work. She’ll also have on display her original fabric art pieces used to illustrate her picture books.

She’ll also discuss her experiences in the publishing world from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 in Comstock Memorial Union 205.

Influenced by 17th-century stumpwork that she discovered during visits to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Mavor has developed her own contemporary interpretations of fabric relief.

Every item in her fabric relief art is dyed, embroidered and sewn by hand. Her three-dimensional pieces are made from covered and stuffed cardboard shapes, wrapped wire figures, beach stones, driftwood, and swatches of fabric. The pieces are then placed on a detailed cloth background and photographed to become the pages of a picture book.

Since 1991, she has had six books published: “The Way Home” by Judith Benét Richardson, “Come to My Party” by Judith Benét Richardson, “Mary Had A Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale, “You and Me: Poems of Friendship,” “The Holly Hock Wall” by Martin Waddell and “In the Heart” by Ann Turner.

Mavor lives in Woods Hole, Mass., with her family.

Her visit is co-sponsored by MSUM through Multicultural Funds and the Comstock Visiting Scholar Fund, and and by the Northern Lights Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and the Minnesota Reading Association.

TALLGRASS ART INSTITUTE
OPENS ITS 5TH SEASON
The MSUM Regional Science Center, the department of art and design and the Moorhead Public Schools art program will hold its fifth annual Tallgrass Art Institute September 24-29.

The Tallgrass Art Institute is a program that features a guest artist that works with art students from MSUM and the Moorhead Public Schools in the area of landscape art.  Technique classes are held for MSUM painting and drawing students, Moorhead High school art students and about 20 eighth grade art students from Moorhead Junior High.

This year the guest artist is Robert Crawford Crowe.  Equipped with new techniques, each group of art students spends a day at the MSUM Regional Science Center's Buffalo River Site creating landscape art.  On Saturday September 29th from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Dille Center for the Arts room 168, an art show of student art created during the week will be displayed.  The show is free and open to the public.

In addition, the Institute holds a silent art auction of art donated by artists and art galleries in the Fargo-Moorhead area to raise funds to support the Institute.  The art auction is displayed in the north hallway just off the lobby of the MSUM Thrust Stage Theatre.

Additional support has been provided by the MSUM Department of Art and Design, the MSUM Alumni Foundation and the MSUM Regional Science Center.

NURSING SHORTAGE TOPIC OF
DEANS’ LECTURE SEPT. 19
* Graduate student Judith Dulski will talk on “The Nursing Shortage: A Crisis in the Making” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19 in the Center for Business 109 as a feature of the MSUM Deans’ Lecture Series. (free)

MSUM FAMILY DAY: SEPT. 22
MSUM’S annual Family Day will take place Saturday, Sept. 22. Here’s a schedule of events:

9:45 am Registration - Comstock Memorial Union, Main Lounge

9:45 am - 10:30 am   Welcome Reception
Refreshments provided by the MSUM Alumni Foundation.

10:30 am - 12 Noon  Program Options
(sessions include MSUM Professors:  Up Close and Personal; From Honolulu to New York, Europe to Asia, An Array of Exchange Programs; and Theatre Clips)

12 Noon Lunch - Comstock Memorial Union, Ballroom

1:30 pm  Football Game - Nemzek Stadium, MSUM versus Winona State

If you plan on attending the luncheon, remit $6 payable to MSUM Family Day and return to Kathy Scott, P.O. Box 416.

MSUM COMEDIAN DISCUSSION
POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER
The discussion by comedian Maria Falzone scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Minnesota State University Moorhead's student union ballroom, has been postponed until November. Details about the rescheduled event will be sent closer to that date.

TRI-COLLEGE GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL
SCHOOL DAY AT MSUM OCT. 3
Tri-College University’s graduate/professional school day will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 in MSUM’s student union.

This event is free, requires no advance sign-up, and is open to all Tri-College students — freshmen through graduate level and alumni. If you are currently attending MSUM, North Dakota State University or Concordia College, a graduate of one of the Tri-College Universities, or a current resident of the Fargo-Moorhead area, you’re invited to attend to learn more about graduate and professional school opportunities.

Details can be found at this Web site: www.mnstate.edu/career/Index3.htm

MSUM OFFERS TALENTED
YOUTH MATH PROJECT
MSUM is offering an advanced mathematics program for students in west central Minnesota. The program, The Minnesota Talented Youth Math Project, is designed to provide a challenging experience for students who display a high aptitude and interest in mathematics.

This year students in grades six through nine can participate by taking Beginning/Intermediate Algebra. The program offers six years of mathematics beginning with Beginning/Intermediate Algebra in year one, Geometry in year two, Advanced Algebra/Precalculus in year three, followed by Calculus I, II and III in years four, five and six.

High school credit is granted for the Algebra, Geometry and Precalculus classes; university credit is granted for the Calculus courses.

Students may start as early as grade six, but may enter later with the first course or any of the other succeeding courses after prerequisites have been met. The program will be offered in Moorhead, Fergus Falls and Alexandria for students in Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse or Wilkin Counties.

Qualification tests will be give at the following locations:

September 19 4:30 p.m. Minnesota State University Moorhead  Bridges 269

September 20 4:30 p.m. Lakes Country Service Cooperative- Eagle Room Fergus Falls

September 20 4:30 p.m.Discovery Middle School, Room D244 Alexandria

September 22 10:30 a.m.Minnesota State University Moorhead Bridges 269

For more information, contact Dennis Rhoads, regional coordinator, MSUM department of mathematics, at 218-236-4017 or rhoads@mnstate.edu

BARB HOPPE JOINES IT STAFF
Rhonda Ficek, director of Instructional Technology, is pleased to announce that Barb Hoppe has joined the staff. Barb will be providing support for MSUM's WebCT environment, and has extensive experience in this area.  Barb has been an instructional and informational technology specialist with a MNSCU project called MnInstruct which served a 16 campus consortium in helping to integrate technology into the classroom.

NEW BOOKSTORE ACQUISITIONS
Here’s a sampling of new acquisitions now available in the trade (general)
books department of the MSUM Bookstore:

Peace Like a River—hot novel set in Minnesota and North Dakota by MSUM alumnus, Leif Enger, $24.
Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure—exploring the rich and vivid territory of Hemingway’s life—Michael Palin, $17.95.
Stories from Where We Live: The Great American Prairie—stories, essays, poems, songs and letters to convey the natural heritage of the Midwestern prairie, Sara St. Antoine, $19.95.
Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II—humor that went to war with the GI’s, Charles Osgood, $22.95.
The Map That Changed the World—story of the man obsesses with creating the world’s first geological map and ultimately became the father of American geology, Simon Winchester, $25.
Good People…from an Author’s Life—a celebrated Minnesota novelist explores relationships that have enriched his life—John Hassler, $12.95.
The Prairie in Her Eyes—eloquently written personal memoir about life on a South Dakota ranch, Ann Daum,  $17.95.
The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield—a fascinating investigation of the changing cultural attitudes toward cats and the ways they have been depicted in literature and art, Katharine Rogers, $17.95.
The Read-Aloud Handbook—emphasizes the importance of reading aloud to children, Jim Trelease, $15.
Writers on Writing—collected essays from the New York Times, $23.
Moving Lives: 20th-Century Women’s Travel Writing, narratives on how women mastered the new modes of travel and left behind the cultural idea of femininity as sedentary, subordinate and constrained, Sidonie Smith, $17.95.
While the Locust Slept--memoir about starting life’s journey as an orphan at the State Public School in Owatonna, Peter Razor, $19.95.
The Boy’s House--Minnesota author’s stories about childhood on the farm, Jim Heynen, $19.95.
The Man Who Heard the Land: a novel of an odyssey of discovery pursued by a Minnesota man who hears the land, Diane Glancy, $19.95.
Reading Myself and Others—interviews, essays and articles over 25 years by a Pulitzer Prize author, Philip Roth, $14.
The Unauthorized Teacher’s Survival Guide—insights into important issues and frustrations facing teachers today, Jack Warner and Clyde Bryan, $14.95.
Me Talk Pretty One Day—storytelling with a lunacy of language, David Sedaris, $14.95.
Home and Away—NPR journalist’s memoir connecting his youth and professional sports, Scott Simon, $14.
Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine—socialpsychological
of the Columbine High School massacre and discussion of a root cause solution, Elliot Aronson, $12.95.
The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life—literary essays and a
novella based on a famous anecdote about Hemingway’s first wife losing a suitcase full of his early work, Nicholas Delbanco, $17.95.
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America—a sincere call to face the unpleasant truths behind black underachievement, John McWhorter, $13.
Passing the Word: Writers on their Mentors—a sense of what beginning writers might actually learn from established writers who teach for a living, Jeffrey Skinner and Lee Martin, $16.95.
Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence—traces the story of the emergency of life and intelligence right through the complex evolutionary history of the universe, Armand Delsemme, $14.95.
Roads: Driving America’s Great Highways—Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist crisscrosses America in search of the present, past and himself, Larry McMurtry, $13.
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man—a novelist sifts through the detritus of his life in an effort to settle on a subject for his final work, Joseph Heller, $13.
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946—captures the unfolding drama through the work of a remarkable generation of reporters, preface by Stephen Ambrose, $18.95.
An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist—biography that traces a rich and often tormented journey out of a middle-class existence, John Nichols, $14.
The Red Tent—a novel that reveals the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood, Anita Diamant, $14.95.
Kavalier & Clay—winner of the Pulitizer Prize for fiction, Michael Chabon, $15.
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob—a dirty deal to bring down the Italian mob, Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, $14.
Road Angels: Searching for Home of America’s Coast of Dreams—author at middle age escapes Minnesota winter  by driving the Pacific coast, Kent Nerburn, $24.
The general books department is on the main floor of the MSUM Bookstore in
MacLean Hall.

(The following two poems by Professor Emeriti Mary Pryor were read at MSUM’s opening faculty banquet.)
THE COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE
The college of the future is the web,
already is, some claim.
Does ivy wither? Do traditions ebb?
A video-game
takes over, classes virtual and met
whatever time of day
the students please, downloading from the net
"materials" always there to read…or play
on audio…or hologram, perhaps.
No raising hands, just e-mail to inquire.
And if the student naps,
who knows? Do lessons baffle or inspire?
To leap ahead, repeat, or to explain—
adjustments classroom atmosphere suggests?
What atmosphere?
They think they know or think it’s all inane.
What do they really hear?
And will they hire a friend to take the tests?

Professors of the future, all undaunted
by bits and bytes and worms
and viruses, will deal with real or vaunted
"improvements" on their terms.
Teachers embrace the future and the past.
Alert, they strive
to learn, discover, reassess, recast
the mind’s domain, keep brain and heart alive.
Teachers incite rebellion, contradiction,
wake students’ curiosity and passion.
Sparks rise from friction.
Eluding trends, the tyranny of fashion,
they scuttle nonsense, champion the true
match arts with sciences—cross cultivation.
They grill surmise.
Sound lexicographers, who add a slew
of words, still prize
archaic terms. Hail, liberal education!

Mary A. Pryor

CAMPUS CROWS
Our campus crows have tenure. They need not
matriculate. They have the system down
pat. In academic, cap and gown,
The crows evaluate the latest lot

of faculty. Have crows, perhaps, retired
in decades past? And now their contribution
upholds the standards of the institution
as they pass judgment on the newly hired?

Offer them popcorn, caramel rolls, ice cream,
or half a hot dog. They will not object.
This is their campus. Treat them with respect,
our guardians, mentors, crows of academe.

Mary A. Pryor

MISCELLANIA
* David Ferreira, music , Mark Vinz, English, and Bill Law, execxutive director of the FM Symphony,  gave a jazz and poetry performance at the Blue Cloud Abbey (SD) Literary Festival Sept. 8.
* Jim Bense, English, participated in a six-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on "Nature, Art, and Politics after Kant: A Reevaluation of Early German Romanticism" at Colorado State University. In addition to the general course of institute readings and lectures, Bense participated in focus groups on Kant and Schleiermacher, and received helpful comments from members of the institute in response to his writing on Emerson and Kant.
* SuEllen Shaw, English/Write Site Director, co-chaired the Midwest Writing Centers Association 20th Annual Conference at the University of Iowa,September 13-14, 2001.  The conference theme was "Looking Back, Leaping
Forward:  Writing Centers in the 21st Century."  During the conference, Shaw was elected Association chair for the coming year.
* Deanne Borgeson, special education, recently returned from San Diego where she participated in a collaborative effort as a Field Reviewer for the Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education, the CLAS Institue identifies, evaluates, and promotes effective and appropriate early intervention and preschool practices that are sensitive and respectful to children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Reviews and other related information are available on the CLAS web site at http://clas.uiuc.edu/
* LaRae McGillivray, coordinator of the Speech Language Pathology graduate program, announces scholarships awarded to three MSUM graduate students. Tracy Haus received the $1000 David Lutes Scholarship which is awarded to first year graduate students; Darcy Frisinger received the $750 Virgil Black scholarship which is awarded each year to second year graduate students; and Renee Rodgers received a bursary of $7,000 from the Saskatchewan Health Department.  Renee will provide one year of clinical service to the province in return for this generous support.
* Peter Geib, business administration, presented a paper at the international conference of the Academy of Business Administration in Lisbon. The title of the paper is "China: Markets, Reform and the WTO."
CLASSIFIEDS
* Fully Furnished Apartment Adjacent to Concordia College Heat, utilities, cable tv included $750 Call Lynnette at 581-4002.
* FAMILY DAY MSU MOORHEAD BOOKSTORE: Friday, Sept. 21-Saturday, Sept 22, 20% off and 50% off certain We'll be open from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22

BARDEN TO DETAIL (Sept. 12 issue)
BUDGET TIGHTENING
PLAN ON THURSDAY
This will be a belt-tightening year for MSUM’s budget, Pres. Barden will explain at a 3:30 p.m. open campus forum Thursday, Sept. 13 in Center for Business 111.
“Last year’s budget was good because we had a surge in enrollment and about a $750,000 carry-forward,” he said. “As a result, we spent more than we earned. And we made lots of improvements on campus. But we’re not going to have those same conditions this year, so we’ll have to reduce our expenditures.”
By about $1 million.
“No jobs will be affected,” Barden said. “We’ll just have to make some corrections. Our appetites can’t exceed our means.”
Barden will detail his plans at this Thursday’s forum. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.

PULITZER PRIZE NOMINATED
AUTHOR ALISON MCGHEE
READS HERE SEPT. 20
Alison McGhee, author of two Minnesota Book Award novels, “Rainlight” and “Shadow Baby,” will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20 in King Hall Auditorium as a feature of  the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.
She’ll also talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. that day, also in King Hall Auditorium.
McGhee’s novel “Rainlight” was named one of Library Journal’s 1998 Best First Novels and her “Shadow Baby” was not only nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, but was also named one of the eight best novels of 2000 by Kirkus Reviews. Her third novel, “Was it Beautiful?” and first children’s book, “Velcro Girl,” will be published in 2002.
McGhee was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and currently lives in south Minneapolis, where she teaches part time at Metropolitan State University. She regularly contributes essays and reviews to the Star Tribune.
 FIBER ARTIST, CHILDREN’S
BOOK ILLUSTRATOR
SPEAKS HERE SEPT. 19
Salley Mavor, a fiber artist and illustrator of children’s books, will speak on “Telling Stories with Needle and Thread” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19 in King Hall Auditorium.
It’s a slide-lecture based on her fabric relief art work. She’ll also have on display her original fabric art pieces used to illustrate her picture books.
She’ll also discuss her experiences in the publishing world from 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 22 in Comstock Memorial Union 205.
Influenced by 17th-century stumpwork that she discovered during visits to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Mavor has developed her own contemporary interpretations of fabric relief.
Every item in her fabric relief art is dyed, embroidered and sewn by hand. Her three-dimensional pieces are made from covered and stuffed cardboard shapes, wrapped wire figures, beach stones, driftwood, and swatches of fabric. The pieces are then placed on a detailed cloth background and photographed to become the pages of a picture book.
Since 1991, she has had six books published; “The Way Home” by Judith Benét Richardson, “Come to My Party” by Judith Benét Richardson, “Mary Had A Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale, “You and Me: Poems of Friendship,” “The Holly Hock Wall” by Martin Waddell and “In the Heart” by Ann Turner
Mavor lives in Woods Hole, Mass., with her family.
Her visit is co-sponsored by MSUM through Multicultural Funds and the Comstock Visiting Scholar Fund, and and by the Northern Lights Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America and the Minnesota Reading Association.
 He was once Pee Wee Herman’s body guard…
ALUM’S COMEDY TROUPE
PERFORMS HERE SEPT. 12
MSUM alum Stevie Ray and his comedy troupe from Minneapolis present an evening of improvisational comedy in a free program at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 in the student union Underground.
All the performers, who react entirely to audience suggestions, come from the School of Improv in Minneapolis, a year-round training center for the general public.
Stevie Ray (Rentfrow), who earned an individualized major at MSUM in theory and performance of comedy in 1982, holds the distinction of once being Pee Wee Herman’s body guard. He’s head of the comedy troupe and runs the School of Improv.
The troupe will also host two free improvisation workshops, one at noon that day in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts green room (for MSUM students), another at 3 p.m. that day at the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre (for the public). The events are sponsored by the Campus Activities Board.

COMEDIAN CHALLENGES
SEXUAL STEREOTYPES
SEPT. 18 AT MSUM
Comedian Maria Falzone presents “Sex Rules!” a frank and funny discussion about how sex affects our lives, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18 in the student union ballroom.
A Campus Activities Board event it is free and open to the public.
Falzone, a stand-up comedian for 12 years, challenges her audience’s attitudes about body image, date rape, sexually transmitted diseases, safer sex and sexual harassment.
A third-place finisher at the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, Falzone has appeared on television’s “Evening at The Improv,” “Friday Nite Videos,” “Full Frontal Comedy” and “The Tony Danza Show.”

OTHER EVENTS COMING UP:
NURSING SHORTAGE, AFRICAN
AMERICANS THROUGH LIBERATURE
* Graduate student Judith Dulski will talk on “The Nursing Shortage: A Crisis in the Making” at
3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19 in the Center for Business 109 as a feature of the MSUM Deans’ Lecture Series. (free)
* Michael Strickland, author of “African American Writers: A Dictionary” and “A to Z of African American History,” will talk about “Exploring the African American Experience through Literature, Poetry and Writing” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Sept. 20 in King Biology Hall Auditorium. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from New York University and teaches at the Hunting Learning Center in Livingston, N.J., and at New Jersey City University. (free)

OXFORD PROF TALKS ON
ORIGIN OF COSMOLOGY
HERE ON SEPT. 27
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University in England, presents a lecture  on “Angels, Infinity and the Big Bang: Origins of Modern Cosmology” at
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 in King Hall Auditorium.
Chapman, a social historian and member of the Royal Astronomical Society Club, is a faculty member at Oxford’s Wadham College and frequently appears on BBC television specials about the history of astronomy. A specialist in the history of early medicine, he’s been a Hastings Memorial Lecturer  at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Tea and cookies will be served following his talk.
During his visit to campus, Chapman will also talk to students interested in studying at Oxford next year under MSUM’s Eurospring program: at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Bridges 264. For details, or if you wish to have Chapman visit your class, contact Jill Holsen at the university’s International Programs office, 236-2956.

FACULTY SEMINARS OVERSEAS
The Council on International Educational Exchange, of which MSUM is a member, offers intensive one- to two-week overseas experiences, which stimulate campus initiatives toward internationalization. Each program features lectures, site visits, and discussion with overseas colleagues.  University faculty and administrators are eligible to participate.
International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS) usually take place early summer. Seminar fees, which include the academic program, double occupancy accommodations, breakfast and lunch daily, welcome and farewell receptions, ground transportation to scheduled activities, entrances fees, airport transfers, and the International Teacher Identity Card (ITIC), usually run around $1,900.  The fee does not include airfare, most dinners, passport and visa fees, and incidental expenses.  CIEE expects participants to receive part or all of the funding from their home institution.
Seminars for 2002 will be held in Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, England, Ghana, Hungary & the Czech Republic, India, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, and Vietnam. For topics and further information, please contact International Programs at 236-2956, FF151, call CIEE, toll-free at 1-800-40-STUDY (ext. 2782) or email IFDS@CIEE.org.  The web site is www.ciee.org/ifds or link through IOP's site at www.mnstate.edu/intl.

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INTERNATIONAL ED WEEK IN
NOVEMBER CELEBRATED HERE
U.S. Department of State Secretary Colin L. Powell issued a statement recently announcing International Education Week: During International Education Week, Nov. 12-16, the Department of State recognizes the role that international education and exchange play in strengthening our nation and our relations with other countries."
He went on to say, "International education prepares our citizens to live, work, and compete in the global economy, and promotes tolerance and the reduction of conflict. In November 2001, U.S. embassies around the world will carry out activities in support of International Education Week. I encourage schools, businesses and communities to join with us in commemorating International Education Week."
The MSUM Office of International Programs plans to coordinate a number of events during that week in celebration of this, the second annual international education week.  We encourage departments, clubs and organizations to participate in any way.  Last year, universities around the nation held events, such as a celebration of different cultures, participation in community round table discussions about global issues, hosting of international visitors/speakers, promotion of study abroad opportunities, collaboration with K-12 schools, organization of essay and photograph competitions, and a host of other activities.
International Programs looks forward to helping coordinate your event in celebration of International Education Week, Nov. 12-16, 2001. Please contact us at 236-2956 or email intrnatl@mnstate.edu.  We'll also post information on our web site at www.mnstate.edu/intl.

RETIRING, BUT DON’T WANT
TO GIVE UP TEACHING?
An article in Transitions Abroad about working for Programs Afloat College Education (PACE) explained how faculty teach lower-division college courses aboard Navy ships, usually offering 48 hours of classroom instruction for eight weeks.
When the ship's in port, so are you! PACE is actively recruiting in English, math, history, political science, sociology, psychology, and speech, according to the article.
The program is run by Central Texas College. There was no Web address, but contacts are Ken Austin in Norfolk VA at 800-457-2619 or Mary Anne Acosta in San Diego at 800-784-5470. The author of the article, Ron Hamm can be contacted at rhamm@gilanet.com.
For a copy of the article, call International Programs, 2956.

THE ACADEMIC POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, September 18 at 3:30 p.m. in the Comstock Memorial Union, Room 205.
AGENDA
1. Introduction of members
2. 2001/2002 APAC Meeting Schedule
3. APAC Website:  http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff
4. Role of the Academic Policy Advisory Committee

SEPTEMBER 19, WOMEN'S CENTER OPEN HOUSE, MACLEAN 171, 1-3 p.m.
September 20, 4:00 Hagen 105 - "Twenty Years of Research on Women and Alcohol: What Have We Learned?"  Dr Sharon Wilsnack, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of neuroscience at the UND medical school will present a one-hour lecture with question and answer session following. She is a world renown researcher on the subject of gender and alcohol.
October 25, 7:00 Weld Theater, Ann Reed Live! Reed is an award-winning Minnesota singer/songwriter from Minneapolis. She has a unique philosophy and perspective, which she shares with song.
November 8, 7:00 Weld Theater, Kathy Ray presents the one woman play "Coya Knutson" about the former Minnesota congresswoman from this district. She was responsible for introducing legislation for low interest student loans for college students in the 50's.

NEW LIBRARY TITLES
Toman, Walter.  Family constellation : its effects on personality and social behavior.  4th ed.  BF723 .B5 T6 1993
*Carroll, James, 1943-.  Constantine's sword : the church and the Jews : a history.  BM535 .C37 2001
*Islam : opposing viewpoints.  BP163 .I7327 2000
*Morrison, Jack G.  Ravensbrück : everyday life in a women's concentration camp, 1939-45.  D805 .G3 M6143 2000
*Cogan, Frances B.  Captured : the Japanese internment of American civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945.  D805 .P6 C63 2000
*Mermier, Guy R.  France : past and present.  DC33 .M447 2000
*Lieven, Anatol.  Ukraine & Russia : a fraternal rivalry.  DK508.57 .R9 L54 1999
*Tichauer, Eva.  I was number 20832 at Auschwitz.  DS135 .F9 T5313 2000
*The Tiananmen papers.  DS779.32 .T537 2001
*Berlo, Janet Catherine.  Spirit beings and sun dancers : Black Hawk's vision of the Lakota world.  OVERSIZE E99.S217 B47 2000
*Race relations : opposing viewpoints.  E184 .A1 R316 2001
*Black and multiracial politics in America.  E185.615 .B537 2000
*Jacobson, Matthew Frye.  Barbarian virtues : the United States encounters foreign peoples at home and abroad, 1876-1917.  E661 .J34 2000
*The human tradition in the World War II era.  E806 .H8657 2000
*Reagan, Ronald.  Reagan, in his own hand : the writings of Ronald Reagan that reveal his revolutionary vision for America.  E838.5 .R432 2001a
*Anderson, Mark Cronlund.  Pancho Villa's revolution by headlines.  F1234 .A547 2000
*Women in the wild : true stories of adventure and connection.  G151 .W66 1998
*Testosterone planet : true stories from a man's world.  G525 .T39 1999
*Wolf, Eric R.  Pathways of power : building an anthropology of the modern world.  GN345 .W643 2001
*Morgan, George A.  SPSS for Windows : an introduction to use and interpretation in research.  HA32 .M667 2001
*Koop, Gary.  Analysis of economic data.  HB141 .K644 2000
*Judge, Guy.  Computing skills for economists.  HB143.5 .J83 2000
*Boar, Bernard H.  The art of strategic planning for information technology.  2nd ed.  HD30.28 .B63 2001
*Parmerlee, David.  Developing successful marketing strategies.  New ed.  HF5415.13 .P3245 2000
*Parmerlee, David.  Preparing the marketing plan.  New Edition.  HF5415.13 .P3248 2000
*Scalzi, John.  The rough guide to money online.  HG151.8 .S26 2000
*Teenage sexuality : opposing viewpoints.  HQ27 .T38 2001
*The American woman, 2001-2002 : getting to the top.  HQ1421 .A475 2001
*Feminism : opposing viewpoints.  HQ1421 .F46 2001
*Lancaster, Carol.  Aid to Africa : so much to do, so little done.  HV640.4 .A35 L36 1999
*Accessible computer technology : meeting the needs of people with disabilities.  HV1569.5 .A334 1999
*Gangs : opposing viewpoints.  HV6439 .U5 G364 2001
*Beattie, L. Elisabeth.  Sisters in pain : battered women fight back.  HV6626.22 .K4 B43 2000
*Sugarmann, Josh.  Every handgun is aimed at you : the case for banning handguns.  HV7436 .S835 2001
*Police brutality : opposing viewpoints.  HV8141 .P57 2001
*Public and private : legal, political and philosophical perspectives.  JC596 .P833 2000
*Political scandals : opposing viewpoints.  JK2249 .P648 2001
*Russia : opposing viewpoints.  JN6699 .A15 R87 2001
*Popkin, William D.  Statutes in court : the history and theory of statutory interpretation.  KF425 .P67 1999
*Silences & images : the social history of the classroom.  LA128 .S55 1999
*Tolstoy, Leo.  Tolstoy as teacher : Leo Tolstoy's writings on education.  LB675 .T62 T65 2000
*Perspectives in critical thinking : essays by teachers in theory and practice.  LB1590.3 .P476 2000
*Brock, Stephen E.  Preparing for crises in the schools : a manual for building school crisis response teams.  2nd ed.  LB2866.5 .B76 2001
*Implementing the 1997 IDEA : new challenges and opportunities for serving students with emotional/behavior disorders : highlights from the Forum on the 1997 IDEA.  LC4802 .I47 1998
*Handbook of adult and continuing education.  LC5215 .H25 1989
*Boccagna, David L.  Musical terminology : a practical compendium in four languages.  ML108 .B55 1999
*Johnson, Julian.  Webern and the transformation of nature.  ML410 .W33 J64 1999
*Art and its histories : a reader.  N5300 .A682 1999
*Sen, Krishna.  Media, culture, and politics in Indonesia.  P95.82 .I5 S46 2000
*Micklethwait, David.  Noah Webster and the American dictionary.  PE65 .W5 M53 2000
*Royster, Jacqueline Jones.  Traces of a stream : literacy and social change among African American women.  PE1405 .U6 R68 2000
*Kolitz, Zvi.  Yosl Rakover talks to God.  PJ5129 .K549 Y6713 1999
*Shaw, W. David.  Origins of the monologue : the hidden God.  PN1530 .S45 1999
*Caughie, John.  Television drama : realism, modernism, and British culture.  PN1992.65 .C38 2000
*Freedman, Carl Howard.  Critical theory and science fiction.  PN3433.5 .F74 2000
*Lewis, Pericles.  Modernism, nationalism, and the novel.  PN3503 .L39 2000
*Forging a new medium : the comic strip in the nineteenth century.  PN6710 .F64 1997
*Wiggins, Martin.  Shakespeare and the drama of his time.  PR651 .W49 2000
*Geoffrey Chaucer : the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.  PR1868 .P9 G44 2000
*The Cambridge companion to Ben Jonson.  PR2631 .C35 2000
*William Shakespeare, Richard II.  PR2820 .W56 1999
*Smith, Bruce R.  Shakespeare and masculinity.  PR2992 .M28 S65 2000
*Miola, Robert S.  Shakespeare's reading.  PR3069 .B6 M56 2000
*Emily Bronté : Wuthering Heights.  PR4172 .W73 W88 2000
*Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.  PR5397 .F73 M365 2000
*Joseph Conrad : Heart of darkness.  PR6005 .O4 H4768 1999
*James Joyce, Ulysses, a portrait of the artist as a young man.  PR6019 .O9 P6454 1998
*Attridge, Derek.  Joyce effects on language, theory, and history.  PR6019 .O9 Z525647 2000
*Meyers, Jeffrey.  Orwell : wintry conscience of a generation.  PR6029 .R8 Z736 2000
*Virginia Woolf, To the lighthouse, The waves.  PR6045 .O72 T628 1998
*Dunnett, Dorothy.  The game of kings.  PR6054 .U56 G36 1997
*Dunnett, Dorothy.  Queens' play.  PR6054 .U56 Q4 1997
*Fitzgerald, Penelope.  The means of escape.  PR6056 .I86 M43 2000
*García, Nasario.  Pláticas : conversations with Hispano writers of New Mexico.  PS283 .N6 G37 2000
*Coupe, Lynda Wolfe.  Images of the hunter in American life and literature.  PS173 .H85 C68 2000
*Boeckmann, Cathy.  A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912.  PS374 .R34 B64 2000
*Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope all story.  PS648 .S5 F73 2000
*Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.  PS1306 .M37 1999
*Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter.  PS1868 .N38 2000
*Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.  PS2384 .M62 H47 1999
*William Faulkner : The sound and the fury ; As I lay dying.  PS3511 .A86 S86 2000
*F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby.  PS3511 .I9 G837 1999
*Boulton, Agnes.  A wind is rising : the correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O'Neill.  PS3529 .N5 Z572 2000
*Carver, Raymond.  Call if you need me : the uncollected fiction and other prose.  PS3553 .A7894 C26 2001
*Gilchrist, Ellen.  Collected stories.  PS3557 .I34258 A6 2000
*Suri, Manil.  The death of Vishnu.  PS3569 .U725 D43 2001
*Martin, Danny Bernard.  Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth : the roles of sociohistorical context, community forces, school influence, and individual agency.  QA13 .M145 2000
*Jesseph, Douglas Michael.  Squaring the circle : the war between Hobbes and Wallis.  QA29 .H58 J47 1999
*Claridge, Timothy D. W.  High-resolution NMR techniques in organic chemistry.  OVERSIZE QD272.S6 C53 1999
*Endangered species : opposing viewpoints.  QH75 .E66 2001
*Genetic engineering : opposing viewpoints.  QH442 .G4432 2001
*Avian research at the Savannah River Site : a model for integrating basic research and long-term management : [papers from a workshop].  QL684 .S6 A95 2000
*Gertz, S. David.  Liebman's neuroanatomy made easy and understandable.  6th ed.  QM451 .G42 1999
*Terminal illness.  R726.8 .T4646 2001
*Posttraumatic stress disorder : a comprehensive text.  RC552 .P67 P664 1999
*Waltz, Mitzi.  Pervasive developmental disorders : finding a diagnosis and getting help.  RJ506 .D47 W34 1999
*Waltz, Mitzi.  Obsessive-compulsive disorder : help for children and adolescents.  RJ506 .O25 W35 2000
*American Holistic Nurses' Association.  AHNA standards of holistic nursing practice : guidelines for caring and healing.  RT42 .A425 2000
*McQuiston, Faye C.  Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning : analysis and design.  5th ed.  TH7222 .M26 2000
*Guy, Simon.  The sociology of energy, buildings and the environment : constructing knowledge, designing practice.  TJ163.3 .G79 2000
*Understanding WAP : wireless applications, devices, and services.  TK5103.2 .U53 2000
*Davis, Gary D.  The sound reinforcement handbook.  2nd ed.  TK7881.4 .D385 1989

FULBRIGHT-HAYS PROGRAMS: FACULTY RESEARCH ABROAD FELLOWSHIPS AND GROUP PROJECTS ABROAD*
Applications for the Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships Program and the Group Projects Abroad Program are sought. The programs support research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. Under the Faculty Research program, proposals are due by October 29, 2001; approximately $1.4 million will be available to make 30 fellowship awards. Under the Group Projects program, proposals are due by October 22, 2001; approximately $3.5 million will be available to fund 48 awards. See http:wwww.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/fra.html, and http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/gpa.html for further information. Or, contact, for the Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program, Eliza Washington, 202/502-7633. E-mail: eliza.washington@ed.gov; and for the Group Projects Abroad Program, Lungching Chiao, 202/502-7624. E-mail:lungching.chiao@ed.gov.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH
AND STUDIES PROGRAM
Applications are invited under the International Research and Studies Program, which supports research and studies to improve and strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, area studies, and other international fields. Proposals are due by November 5, 2001.  Applications will be available beginning September 10, 2001. Approximately $4.5 million will be available to support an estimated 19 FY 02 awards. See http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/irs.html for further information or contact Jose Martinez, 202/502-7635. E-mail:jose.martinez@ed.gov.

MISCELLANEA
* John Benson, elementary and early childhood education, had an article published in the June 2001 issue (52-12) of the journal Social Science And Medicine. The article is titled "The Impact of Privatization on Access in Tanzania." The article examines the impact the Structural Adjustment policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund had on the location of new health facilities in an urban and rural district of northern Tanzania.
* Doris Walker-Dalhouse, EECE, attended the Children’s Literature New England Institute, July 28-August 4 in Toronto, Canada. The weeklong institute consisted of core lectures, presentations by noted children’s authors, and small group discussions of adolescent literature centered around the theme “Considering Boundaries”. The institute culminated with a fieldtrip to the Osborne Collection location at the Toronto Public Library. The Osborne Collection is a historic collection of children’s literature dating from the 14th century to the present.
* Doris Walker-Dalhouse, EECE, and A. Derick Dalhouse, psychology, had an article published in the July 2001 issue of Young Children  (Vol. 56, No. 4), a journal published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The article is entitled “Parent-School Relations: Communicating more effectively with African-American Parents.”
* The special education department at MSUM has received a generous donation of  language teaching materials from Super Duper Publications.  This company sponsors a Super Duper Special Education University Partner Program, in which they donate materials to accredited university Special Education programs across the U.S. and Canada. These materials will be used in teaching classes and will be distributed to graduate students in the program.
* Anna Arnar, art and design, received a Minnesota Humanities Commission Grant to conduct research for a publication "The 'Popular Modern Poem': Stéphane Mallarmé and Mass Media." The research will also be presented in a public lecture at the Plains Art Museum later this year.
* Sue Severson, special education, presented at the Michigan Transition Institute in Gaylord, on July 23. The presentation focused on the Enderle-Severson Transition Rating Scale of which she is co-author.
* Carol Hanson Sibley, library, had her essay, "Imamu's Search for Mother in Rosa Guy's The Disappearance," included in the book, The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, 1995-1999, published by Scarecrow Press, 2001. She also presented a Phoenix paper entitled "Scapula as Feminist Symbol in Peter Dickinson's A Bone from a Dry Sea," at the Children's Literature Association Conference in Buffalo, New York in June 2001. This paper will be published in an upcoming Phoenix book.
* James Kaplan, languages, will present a lecture series in Lindsborg, KS, from Oct. 9 - 12 sponsored by the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery and funded by the Kansas Humanities Council. The series is presented in conjunction with the town's Svensk Hyllningsfest, a biennial celebration of Swedish heritage and culture. On Oct. 9 at 7:30 PM at the Bank of America Community Room,. Kaplan will speak on "Elsa Brandstrom: The Swedish Angel of Siberia." The program is under the auspices of the American Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains. On Oct. 10, Kaplan will speak to the Lindsborg Rotary Club at the United Methodist Church at on "Birger Sandzen as Author in the Swedish-American Press." On Oct. 11 at noon at the Swedish Crown Restaurant, Kaplan will present a program of readings from his translations of the essays of Birger Sandzen. The event is sponsored by the Lindsborg Kiwanis Club. On Oct. 12, Kaplan will present a public lecture "Birger Sandzen: Landscapes of America" at the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery. For further information contact the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery at 785-227-2220.
* Steve Hoffbeck, history, published an article in Minnesota History, Summer 2001 issue, titled, “Without Careful Consideration: Why Carp Swim in Minnesota’s Waters,” chronicling the history of these exotic fish in the state.
 

MSUM PAINTED TURTLE STUDY
FORESHADOWS CHINA’S APPETITE
China’s appetite for turtles is voracious.
The nation of 1.2 billion people has nearly decimated its turtle population by
eating them and grinding them up for folk medicines.
That’s one reason about half of the 270 turtle species around the world are in deep trouble. And why a recent international conference on the “turtle crisis” concluded that China’s pursuit for turtles beyond its borders may bring several species to the edge of extinction.
Donna Bruns Stockrahm, a biology professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead, and senior biology students Deanna Thompson and Candice Zemlicka, are marking and radio-tracking painted turtles near Rollag, Minn., a study the Minnesota DNR is interested in partly because of the international turtle market’s potential.
“We just don’t know how this pressure on the world turtle populations will eventually affect the ecosystem here,” Bruns Stockrahm said.
Already more than seven million turtles are exported from the United States every year for food, folk medicine or pets.
But Bruns Stockrahm also wants to know if the decline in wetlands, the increase in pollution, and the infringement of human activity on sandy shores—where turtles often prefer to lay their eggs—may also have an impact on turtle populations.
“Not many people in Minnesota are studying turtles,” she said.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources agrees.
“The painted turtle isn’t a listed species yet,” said Carrol Henderson, supervisor of the non-game wildlife program with the Minnesota DNR. “But in the last few years there has been pressure from commercial turtle trappers to increase their take so they can be sold on commercial markets.”
He said many are being exported to the Orient as food because turtle populations there have already been depleted, extirpated or endangered by the demand for turtle meat.
Painted turtles, the most widespread turtles in Minnesota and North Dakota, are found across the northern half of the United States and southern Canada. They’re often seen basking in the sun on logs, rocks or stumps in lakes and ponds—sometimes by the dozen.
Basking, Bruns Stockrahm said, allows them to maintain their body temperature and synthesize essential vitamins, while the sun's ultraviolet rays help eliminate skin parasites.
Their name comes from the brightly colored yellow, red, and green markings on their bodies and their orange, yellow and black patterned undersides (or plastrons).
They prefer soft-bottomed ponds, lakes, swamps, ditches and slow-moving streams with lots of aquatic vegetation.
“Which makes them perfect for undergraduate research,” Bruns Stockrahm said. “The other turtle we could have studied here is the snapper. But it’s just too dangerous to handle.”
Zemlicka, a senior from Highmore, S.D., began live-trapping turtles this summer at two sloughs by Bruns Stockrahm’s farmstead in Rollag as part of a wildlife research project funded in part by the MSUM Alumni Foundation. She invented her own trap: a floating net with an attached see-saw plank. When a turtle climbs up the plank to bask in the sun, its weight tilts the board downward, dumping the turtle into the trap.
Zemlicka paddles her makeshift canoe out to her traps daily to check the catch. Then she marks each turtle by notching the shell using a numerical system. After weighing and measuring them, then determining their sex and recording the data, she releases them back into the slough.
So far Zemlicka has marked more than 250 turtles. She’s also equipped three with radio transmitters.
“All together we have 10 transmitters,” Bruns Stockrahm said, “We intend to put them all on females, to try to find out where they lay their eggs and where they hibernate.”
Their goal is to learn more about turtle habitat, populations, reproduction and survival.
“We’re being pressured by some turtle trappers to further liberalize the regulations,” said the DNR’s Henderson. “But we do not have adequate information on turtle populations, on the ecology of unexploited turtle populations or on lakes where turtles are being trapped and removed. We have just begun the process of doing studies that will help us answer those questions.”
Henderson said that Wisconsin has banned all commercial trade in turtles. But Minnesota’s turtle harvest laws are still very general and not very restrictive.
Turtles first emerged on the evolutionary spectrum more than 200 million years ago, sharing the stage with the first mammals, dinosaurs and frogs.
Today, China’s rich eat them as delicacies, their poor eat them for subsistence, and their hopeful believe consuming turtle parts can assure long life, cure cancer and boost athletic performance.
“While it doesn’t seem likely now,” Henderson said, ”who knows if this appetite will some day extend to Minnesota.”

DRAGONFEST SHOWCASE SEPT. 12
DragonFest 2001, a showcase of talent and involvement at MSUM, runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 on the campus mall. Included will be carnival games, large inflatable novelty games, art student sales, bingo, student activity booths, other entertainment and food vendors.

He was once Pee Wee Herman’s body guard…
ALUM’S COMEDY TROUPE
PERFORMS HERE SEPT. 12
MSUM alum Stevie Ray and his comedy troupe from Minneapolis present an evening of improvisational comedy for a free program at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 in the student union Underground.
All the performers, who react entirely to audience suggestions, come from the School of Improv in Minneapolis, a year-round training center for the general public.
Stevie Ray (Rentfrow), who earned an individualized major at MSUM in theory and performance of comedy in 1982, holds the distinction of once being Pee Wee Herman’s body guard. He’s head of the comedy troupe and runs the School of Improv.
The troupe will also host two free improvisation workshops, one at noon that day in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts green room (for MSUM students), another at 3 p.m. that day at the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre (for the public). The events are sponsored by the Campus Activities Board.

PROMOTE YOUR CULTURAL EVENTS
Housing & Residential Life is developing an incentive program and schedule of activities to promote cultural awareness through Residence Hall Olympics. A Web page has been developed for this program: http://www.mnstate.edu/housing/olympic
Each residence hall floor has been assigned a country to represent throughout the year and will participate in activities and attend MSUM cultural programs (such as cultural awareness weeks, Celebration of Nations, Mid Autumn Chinese festival, etc.)  Through participation in these events a floor (country) will earn points and the floor (country) with the most points at the end of the year will receive a prize. See what countries have been assigned by checking out the Web page below (if you have any expertise on these topics and would be willing to be a guest speaker for a floor program please let us know): http://www.mnstate.edu/housing/olympic/countries.html
Check out the schedule of activities currently listed on the Hall Olympics Web page (If you know of another event we should add, please let us know). Also if an event your department sponsors is listed on our schedule, we look forward to working with you to see how we can validate participation in the events to ensure we are awarding points to only those floors (countries) that attend your events.        http://www.mnstate.edu/housing/olympic/events.html

MNSCU INVITES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
IN DIVERSITY CONFERENCE OCT. 3
College retention for Native Americans, teaching students of color to manage a perceived hostile environment and the development of international businesses will be among topics at a diversity conference Wednesday, Oct. 3, sponsored by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.
The conference, "Business, Community, Education: A Common Path," is planned for educators, employers and other interested Minnesotans to learn about and discuss new strategies for managing and encouraging diversity. Workshop topics also include disabilities in the workforce, a woman's perspective on business and corporate diversity.
Featured speakers include Reatha Clark King, president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation, vice president of General Mills Inc. and a former president of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul; and Derald Wing Sue, Columbia University, an author and psychologist who specializes in multicultural training. Luncheon speaker is Toni Reams, a Twin Cities poet and community coordinator.
The MnSCU Equal Opportunity and Diversity Division is hosting the conference at the Edinburgh USA Event and Conference Center, 8700 Edinbrook Crossing, Brooklyn Park, Minn.  Conference information and registration is available on the MnSCU Equal Opportunity and Diversity Division Web site, www.eod.mnscu.edu, or by calling (651) 296-3907. Cost is $90 per person or $45 per student, breakfast and lunch included.

AUDIO / VIDEO STREAMING
SERVICE AVAILABLE
MSUM's Instructional Technology Department and the Student Tech Team (STT), coordinated by Rhonda Ficek, will be providing a new Internet service starting immediately. The service is audio/video streaming. A RealServer has been set up that will enable interested parties to add audio/video toWeb content. MSUM's Lead Faculty Group provided the funding for the hardware and licensing. The server will be capable of streaming both Real and Quicktime formated media.
For details on utilizing this service, please contact a member of STT or Rhonda Ficek (E-Mail:  ficek@mnstate.edu, Phone 236-2339). The Student Technology Team can assist with creating audio and video files for delivery via the Web.
A MESSAGE FROM THE COUNSELING CENTER
It is normal for students to experience stress in the following areas during September:
*Homesickness, especially for first year students.
*Values crises; students are confronted with questions of conscience over value conflict areas of race, drugs, and alcohol experimentation, morality, religion, and social expectations.
*Feelings of inadequacy and inferiority develop because of the discrepancy between high school status and grades and initial college performance.
*“In Loco Parentis” blues; students feel depressed because of real or perceived restrictive sense of confusion, vulnerability, and lack of any advocate in power positions.
If you know of a student struggling with these, or other issues, please have them call or stop by the Counseling & Personal Growth Center in Bridges 260.

GOT AN IDEA?
SEND IT IN…
The Publications Office is in the process of updating the MSUM Facts Brochure for 2001-02. (It’s the black foldout brochure with student information, selected faculty highlights and marks of distinction, etc.)
If you have any suggestions for this revised issue, please forward your comments to Kristi Monson, Publications Office, Box 324, or email monson@mnstate.edu

MSUM OFFERS SPRING
CHINA TOUR MAY 14-JUNE 1
Minnesota State University Moorhead will offer a 19-day study tour to China May 14-June 1, 2002, led by MSUM languages professor Jenny Lin.  An information meeting about the tour will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 in MacLean Hall 261 on the MSUM campus.
Lin has traveled extensively in China and led a study tour there two years ago. Scheduled stops include the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Yungang Grottoes, Stone Forest and the Tera Cotta Museum. Lin, a native speaker of Chinese, has taught Chinese language and culture at MSUM since 1985.
The tour is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public on a space available basis.  Credit is available for Chinese 390 during spring semester. Students can apply for financial aid.
Approximate tour cost is $3,995, which includes an international programs fee, round-trip airfare from Fargo, all airfare and ground transportation in China, entrance fees, local tour guides, accommodations in four-star hotels, and meals.
For more information, contact Jenny Lin, 218-236-2913, linjj@mnstate.edu, MacLean Hall 271L; or Jill Holsen, 218-236-2956, holsenj@mnstate.edu, Flora Frick Hall 151.

LIBRARY OFFERS NEW DATABASE
Library offers new database supplied by our consortia, Minitex!! Please don't be fooled by the title, there are many subject areas covered in ScienceDirect. see the subjects covered below. To access the database, go to http://www.mnstate.edu/library/electronic_database_indexes.htm and look for the ScienceDirect link. If you have questions, contact Stacy Voeller at 2348 or email voeller@mnstate.edu
ScienceDirect The solution of choice for institutions the essential information resource for researchers
ScienceDirect® is the premier electronic information service for the interdisciplinary research needs of academic, corporate and educational institutions, offering comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science. Designed to serve needs of the researcher, ScienceDirect is the unsurpassed single source for scientific, technical and medical information on the Internet. Researchers can access a critical mass of the world's STM journal titles and full-text articles (today over 1.2 million articles), search the leading STM abstract and indexing databases (providing coverage of over 30 million records) and link out to articles from an array of STM publishers - all through a variety of platforms.
More Choice in Content
ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry
Biological Sciences
Business & Management Science
Chemistry
Clinical Medicine
Earth Sciences
Economics
Engineering & Technology
Environmental Science
Materials Science
Mathematics & Computer science
Microbiology & Immunology
Neurosciences
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Physics
Social Sciences

DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S ONLINE
AT MSU MOORHEAD?
Did you know that you could request work orders, see what is scheduled in a building or room, listen to university events, and even change your email password all through the MSU Moorhead Web site? Come see what services are available to you via the MSU Moorhead Web site. JoDee Haugrud and Amanda Stegmaier will conduct the information sessions. Here's the schedule, or you may click on http://www.mnstate.edu/comcen/workshops/training.htm for this and other computer training opportunities.
Sept 4, 2001 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm in CB 109
Sept 5, 2001 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm in LI 103
Sept 6, 2001 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm in CB 109
Sept 7, 2001 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm in LI 103

POWER BOWL III
The Dragons and Cobbers 71st installment of their gridiron rivalry takes place this Saturday in Power Bowl III at Concordia College. The 1:30 p.m. kickoff caps a weekend of citywide festivities, including a parade and pre-game tailgating party in downtown Moorhead. It's a matter of school pride- support your Dragons this Saturday as they try to make it four in a row over the Cobbers in Moorhead's biggest sporting event of the year!

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS-INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Rhonda Ficek (Director of Instructional Technology) will present a series of workshops during Fall semester. The workshops for the month of September are listed below.
Location: All Workshops will be held in the Library (LI 222).
REGISTRATION: The workshops are free for faculty and staff at MSUM. Please register for the workshops using the online form at http://www.mnstate.edu/ficek/Workshops.
Creating Web Pages with Dreamweaver -Parts I, II, and III. (Mondays at noon-Sept 10, 17, 24)
WebCT (Instructional Management System)-Part I Introduction, Part II Online Tests/Surveys, Part III Bulletin Board, Chat. Wednesdays at 3 p.m.-Sept 12, 19, 26) Creating Online Forms with Adobe Acrobat-Friday, Sept 14 at 2 p.m.
Tips and Tricks for Using Online Discussion Environments (listservs, electronic bulletin boards, chat). Friday, Sept 21 at 2PM.
Excel Spreadsheets Parts I,II, and III. (Wednesdays at 8 a.m.-Sept 12, 19, 26).
Additional workshops will be offered in October and November. Information will be posted on the website (http://www.mnstate.edu/ficek/IT/calendar.htm) and in Continews.
Some of the upcoming Workshops are:
Creating Web Pages with FrontPage
Designing Accessible Web Sites
Plagarism and the Web-What Can Be Done?
Designing an Online Course
PowerPoint (Part I Introduction, Part II Adding Sound and Video, Part III Advanced Features)

STUDENT TECHNOLOGY TEAM
MSUM's Student Technology Team is available in LI 114E.  We are welcoming some new members to the team and encourage you to contact them for assistance.  Here are some of the things they can assist with:
* creating Web sites for faculty and departments
* creating online data collection environments
* WebCT questions and training
* creating interactive CD-ROM materials
* creating multimedia materials for online delivery
* assistance with digital cameras, camcorders, scanners, and electronic whiteboards
* assistance with using the Instructional Technology's new streaming media server
* creating virtual tours of your department
The team is available Monday through Friday.  Most hours of the day are covered (from 9-4:30). They can be reached at 236-2125 or by contacting Rhonda Ficek (236-2339, e-mail: ficek@mnstate.edu).

NEW LIBRARY TITLES
The Livingston Lord Library at MSU announces the availability of the following titles (among many others):
*Magel, Charles R. Several events in the life of Charles R. Magel. CT275.M33 S4 2000; ARCHIVES UA 14-2
*Handbook of multicultural assessment:  clinical, psychological, and educational applications. 2nd ed. BF176 .H36 2001
*Sachedina, Abdulaziz Abdulhussein. The Islamic roots of democratic pluralism. BP163 .S285 2001
*Walsh, Andrew D. Religion, economics, and public policy:  ironies, tragedies, and absurdities of the contemporary culture wars. BR115 .E3 W33 2000
*Pentecostal currents in American Protestantism. BR1644.5 .U6 P46 1999
*Rhoden, Nancy L. Revolutionary Anglicanism: the colonial Church of England clergy during the American Revolution. BX5881 .R48 1999
*Vincent, John Russell. An intelligent person's guide to history. Rev. and expanded ed. D 16.8 .V56 1996
*Overy, R. J. The road to war. Rev. and updated ed., 2nd ed. D741 .O85 1999
*Religion and culture in medieval Islam. DS36.85 .R44 1999
*Graham-Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: the politics of intervention in Iraq. DS79.75 .G734 1999
*Kounio-Amarilio, Erika. From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and back:  memories of a survivor from Thessaloniki. DS135 .G73 K68413 2000
*Phan, Boi Chau. Overturned chariot: the autobiography of Phan-Boi-Chau. DS556.83 .P46 A3 1999
*Tchen, John Kuo Wei. New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the shaping of American culture, 1776-1882. DS706 .T4 1999
*Fixico, Donald Lee. The urban Indian experience in America. E98 .U72 F57 2000
*Shields, David S. Civil tongues & polite letters in British America. E162 .S555 1997
*Poussaint, Alvin F. Lay my burden down:  unraveling suicide and the mental health crisis among African-Americans. E185.625 .P68 2000
*Young, Jeffrey Robert. Domesticating slavery:  the master class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. E445 .G3 Y68 1999
*A war of the people: Vermont Civil War letters. E464 .W28 1999
*The myth of the lost cause and Civil War history. E487 .M97 2000
*Crowther, Hal. Cathedrals of kudzu: a personal landscape of the South. F209 .C78 2000
*Morrow, Lynn. Shepherd of the hills country: tourism transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s. G155 .U6 M668 1999
*Floods. GB1399 .F586 2000
*Koella, Jennifer Campbell. The Mayfield quick view guide to the Internet for students of health, physical education, and exercise science, version 2.0. GV364 .K64 2001
*Grunig, Larissa A. Women in public relations:  how gender influences practice. HD59 .G78 2001
*Sander, Kathleen Waters. The business of charity: the woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900. HD6076 .S26 1998
*Dyson, Kenneth H. F. The road to Maastricht: negotiating Economic and Monetary Union. HG925 .D97 1999
*Tyson, Eric (Eric Kevin). Investing for dummies. 2nd ed. HG4521 .T97 1999
*Tanzi, Vito. Public spending in the 20th century: a global perspective. HJ7461 .T36 2000
*Couto, Richard A. Making democracy work better: mediating structures, social capital, and the democratic prospect. HN59.2 .C68 1999
*Hatch, Laurie Russell. Beyond gender differences: adaptation to aging in life course perspective. HQ1061 .H375 2000
*Families and aging. HQ1064 .U5 F278 1993
*Koff, Theodore H. Aging public policy:  bonding the generations. 2nd ed. HQ1064 .U5 K64 1999
*Is academic feminism dead?: theory in practice. HQ1190 .I76 2000
*Oakley, Ann. Experiments in knowing: gender and method in the social sciences. HQ1190 .O25 2000
*Beito, David T. From mutual aid to the welfare state: fraternal societies and social services, 1890-1967. HS61 .A17 2000
*Jobes, Patrick C. Moving nearer to heaven: the illusions and disillusions of migrants to scenic rural places. HT381 .J62 2000
*Baker, Bruce L. Steps to independence: teaching everyday skills to children with special needs. 3rd ed. HV891 .B16 1997
*Lovett, Herbert. Learning to listen: positive approaches and people with difficult behavior. HV1570 .L69 1996
*Schwartz, Joel. Fighting poverty with virtue: moral reform and America's urban poor, 1825-2000. HV4044 .S33 2000
*Smoke and mirrors:  the hidden context of violence in schools and society. HV6250.4 .Y68 S66 2000
*Crime and crime control:  a global view. HV7431 .C686 2000
*Anderson, James F. Boot camps: an intermediate sanction. HV9278.5 .A53 1999
*Jones, William David. The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism. HX273 .J66 1999
*Guibernau i Berdún, M. Montserrat. Nations without states:  political communities in a global age. JC311 .G783 1999
*Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and modernism:  a critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism. JC311 .S5388 1998
*Competition and structure: the political economy of collective decisions: essays in honor of Albert Breton. JC355 .C57 2000
*Hrebenar, Ronald J. Interest group politics in America. 3rd ed. JK1118 .H73 1997
*Sin, To-chol. Mass politics and culture in democratizing Korea. JQ1729 .A15 S55 1999
*Hobson, John M. The state and international relations. JZ1253 .H63 2000
*Starkey, Brigid. Negotiating a complex world:  an introduction to international negotiation. JZ6045 .S73 1999
*Rubio-Marin, Ruth. Immigration as a democratic challenge:  citizenship and inclusion in Germany and the United States. K3224 .R83 2000
*Forsythe, David P. Human rights in international relations. K3240 .F67 2000
*Moral controversies in American politics: cases in social regulatory policy. KF450 .P8 M67 1998
*Przybyszewski, Linda. The republic according to John Marshall Harlan. KF8745 .H3 P79 1999
*Reconstructing the common good in education: coping with intractable American dilemmas. LA212 .R42 2000
*Wray, Harry. Japanese and American education:  attitudes and practices. LA1312 .W73 1999
*Crane, Beverley E. Teaching with the Internet:  strategies and models for K-12 curricula. LB1044.87 .C73 2000
*Harper, Helen J. Wild words-dangerous desires: high school girls and feminist avant-garde writing. LB1631 .H267 2000
*Good, Thomas L. The great school debate: choice, vouchers, and charters. LB2806.36 .G66 2000
*Hoy, Charles. Improving quality in education. LB2822.84 .G7 H69 2000
*Reynolds, David R. There goes the neighborhood: rural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa. LB2861 .R49 1999
*Grading and reporting student progress in an age of standards. LB3060.37 .G73 2000
*Queering elementary education: advancing the dialogue about sexualities and schooling. LC192.6 .Q85 1999
*Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney. For faith and fortune:  the education of Catholic immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925. LC503 .D48 V56 1998
*Mitchell, Bruce M. Multicultural education in the U.S.: a guide to policies and programs in the 50 states. LC1099.3 .M59 2000
*Miller-Bernal, Leslie. Separate by degree:  women students' experiences in single-sex and coeducational colleges. LC1601 .M55 2000
*Promise and dilemma:  perspectives on racial diversity and higher education. LC3727 .P77 1999
*Rickards, Guy. Hindemith, Hartmann and Henze. ML390 .R53 1995
*Debussy in performance. ML410 .D28 D385 1999
*Forrester, George. Emerson, Lake & Palmer:  the show that never ends:  a musical biography. ML421 .E53 F67 2001x
*Staying put:  adapting the places instead of the people. NA7195 .A4 S7 1997
*Thomas, Gregory. How to design logos, symbols, and icons:  23 internationally renowned studios reveal how they develop trademarks for print and new media. OVERSIZE NC1003 .T48 2000
*Woods, Tim. Beginning postmodernism. NX456.5 .P66 W66 1999
*Baugh, John. Out of the mouths of slaves: African American language and educational malpractice. PE3102 .N42 B39 1999
*Sleepwalkers and other stories: the Arab in Hebrew fiction. PJ5059 .E8 S54 1999
*The poetry of Arab women:  a contemporary anthology. PJ7694 .E3 P64 2001
*Kanafani, Ghassan. Palestine's children: Returning to Haifa and other stories. PJ7842 .A5 A24 2000
*Ferrell, William K. Literature and film as modern mythology. PN1995.3 .F47 2000
*Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and loathing in America:  the brutal odyssey of an outlaw journalist, 1968-1976. PN4874 .T444 A3 2000
*Warfield, Gerald. How to read and understand the financial news. 2nd ed. PN4888 .C59 W37 1994
*Alexis, Jacques Stephen. General Sun, my brother. PQ3949 .A34 C6613 1999
*Maghrebian mosaic: a literature in transition. PQ3988.5 .N6 M34 2001
*Gertz, Sunhee Kim. Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580. PR251 G47 2001
*Stevenson, Kay Gilliland. Milton to Pope, 1650-1720. PR431 .S74 2001
*Slater, Michael. An intelligent person's guide to Dickens. PR4588 .S56 1999
*Selvon, Samuel. Moses migrating. PR9272.9 .S4 M6 1992
*Vietnam war literature: an annotated bibliography of imaginative works about Americans fighting in Vietnam. 3rd ed. PS228 .V5 N49 1996
*Southern mothers: fact and fictions in Southern women's writing. PS374 .M547 S68 1999
*Stern, Julia A. The plight of feeling:  sympathy and dissent in the early American novel. PS375 .S74 1997
*Koorey, Stefani. Arthur Miller's life and literature:  an annotated and comprehensive guide. PS3525 .I5156 .K67 2000
*Wharton, Edith. Collected stories. PS3545 .H16 A6 2001
*Dickey, James. Crux:  the letters of James Dickey. PS3554 .I32 Z48 1999
*Maman, Marie. Sigrid Undset in America:  an annotated bibliography and research guide. PT8950 .U5 S54 2000
*Vickery, B. C. Scientific communication in history. Q223 .V53 2000
*Gauch, Ronald R. Statistical methods for researchers made very simple. QA276.12 .G38 2000
*Turtle conservation. QL666 .C5 T82 2000
*From neuron to brain. 4th ed. OVERSIZE QP355.2 .K83 2001
*Health and health care utilization in later life. RA564.8 .H397 1995
*Rural health and aging research: theory, methods, and practical applications. RA771.5 .R858 1998
*Kennedy, Gary J. Geriatric mental health care:  a treatment guide for health professionals. RC451.4 .A5 K46 2000
*Snow, Bonnie. Drug information: a guide to current resources. 2nd ed. RS91 .S64 1999
*Delivery and perception of pathogen signals in plants. SB734 .D455 2001
*Tailgate meetings that work: health and safety training at construction sites. OVERSIZE TH443 T131 1990
*Obstler, Mimi. Out of the earth, into the fire: a course in ceramic materials for the studio potter. 2nd ed. OVERSIZE TP810.5 .O28 2000
*The impossible image:  fashion photography in the digital age. OVERSIZE TR679 .I47 2000
*Newman, Arnold. Arnold Newman. OVERSIZE TR680 .N47 2000
*ACRL university library statistics, 1996-97: a compilation of statistics from one hundred eight university libraries. Z675 .R45 A4 1996-97
*Gordon, Rachel Singer. Teaching the Internet in libraries. ZA4201 .G64 2001
Faculty and staff are invited to submit requests for new library materials (in any format) to their department's library liaison. Larry Schwartz is the Collection Management Librarian for the Library, and his phone number is x2353.

MISCELLANEA
* Susan Imbarrato, English, women's studies, has written Headnotes, Footnotes, and Instructor’s Guides for entries on Samuel Sewall, Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Royall Tyler, and Charles Brockden Brown for the recently released Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume One, Fourth Edition. General Ed. Paul Lauter, Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Imbarrato's essay entitled “Genteel Confusion: Reading Class Structure in Dr. Alexander Hamilton’s Itinerarium,” has been included in Finding Colonial America: Essays Honoring J. A. Leo Lemay.  Eds. Carla Mulford and David S. Shields. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001.
* Russ Colson, anthropology and earth science, attended the 2001 spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Boston at the end of May. He presented a paper titled “Use of differential pulse voltammetry to make in-situ examination of variations in melt structure with temperature and composition of silicate melts.”
* Steve Hoffbeck, history, conducted a reading from his book The Haymakers, a 2001 Minnesota Book Award winner, on July 14, as a part of the 8th Annual Blue Mound Writers Series in Luverne. Hoffbeck also participated in the first planning session for a Minnesota On-Line Encyclopedia, sponsored by the Minnesota Humanities Commission, at the Humanities Education Center in St. Paul on August 21.
* Rhonda Ficek, instructional technology, attended a three-day workshop in St. Paul called "Creating Web Based Training" on Aug 21-23. The workshop highlighted the effective design of online learning environments. The emphasis was on creating online environments that are interactive and provide thorough assessment of student learning.
* Emily Who?" an essay by Sheila Coghill, English, and Thom Tammaro, multidisciplinary studies, was published in the June 22 issue of The Chronicle Of Higher Education. The commissioned essay discusses the background of their anthology “Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired By The Life And Work Of Emily Dickinson” (University of Iowa Press, 2000), and explores the presence of Dickinson's influence in contemporary poetry. On April 1, Library Journal ranked Visiting Emily number 12 among its Top 20 list of Poetry Best Sellers in the nation. The anthology went into a second printing less than six months after first publication. Visiting Emily also has won the design award in the 2001 American Association of University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. The book was entered in the poetry and literature category (there are six book categories: trade typographic, trade illustrated, poetry and literature, scholarly typographic, scholarly illustrated, reference book). Richard Hendel was the designer. The jury was charged with selecting books that best represent excellence in design. 50 books were chosen from 350 submissions. Visiting Emily was included in the AAUP Book Show at the annual meeting in June as well as part of a traveling book show that will go to each of the 90 member university presses during the coming year. Visiting Emily was also included in the AAUP 2001 book show catalog.
* Henry Chan, history, attended the International Symposium on Historiography of the Twentieth Century in Nanjing, China, May 16-19. He co-chaired a panel on Modern East Asian historiography, and presented a paper entitled “Before the Annales School: The Introduction of Charles-Victor Langlois (1863-1929) and Charles Seignobos’s (1854-1942) Etudes historiques to China.” The research was supported by an MSUM grant.
* Jim Harley, music, has had his article, "Considerations of Symphonic Form in the Music of Lutoslawski," included in the book, Lutoslawski Studies, edited by Z. Skowron, published by Oxford University Press. A Polish translation of the book has also been published in Poland.
* Jim Kaplan, languages, will speak at the meeting of the Agassiz Swedish Heritage Society on September 13 at 6 p.m. at the Efanjelical Covenant Church in Roseau. His topic is “Christmas Among the Swedish Pioneers.” The program is funded by the Minnesota Humanities Commission.

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PATRICK MAX NAMED MSUM’S
NEW INSTRUCTIONAL
RESOURCES DIRECTOR
Patrick Max, since 1988 the director of the Calvin Coolidge Library at Castleton State College in Vermont, is the new director of Instructional Resources at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Max, 58, will oversee 27 employees at the university’s Livingston Lord Library, including the instructional media and instructional technology divisions.
He holds a master’s degree in library science from Wayne State, where he also earned a graduate degree in English. His undergraduate degree in political science is from the University of Detroit.
Max, the father of five children, is the former head of instruction and reference librarian/bibliographer for the University of Notre Dame Libraries, where he worked for more than 10 years. He also spent three years teaching high school in Michigan.

CAMPUS TO BUILD
36-UNIT STUDENT
APARTMENT COMPLEX
The Clay County board this summer authorized $2.5 million in tax exempt conduit bonds for MSUM to build a 36-unit housing complex on campus.
Construction for the 144-bed apartment-style structure, which will be located east of Murray Commons, will begin in November and open by August 2002. Each unit will have two bedrooms and two baths.
The 5,500 MSUM students who live off campus make up three-fourths of the university’s 7,600-student body.
“We have so many students that go to Fargo or West Fargo to live, we’d like to get them back,” David Crocket MSUM Vice President for Administrative Affairs told county commissioners.
According to the 1999 consultant's report, the campus, which now has 1,704 beds, could support up to 500 more if they're built like suites or apartments that would appeal to upper class, married and older-than-average students.
Private, non-profit organizations commonly use conduit bonds to finance public projects. In essence, the county is lending MSUM its bond rating, but doesn’t take on any financial or legal responsibility for repaying the debt.
Both city and county governments in Minnesota can issue up to $10 million in bank qualified, tax exempt bonds each year.
MSUM initially asked Moorhead to authorize the bonds, but the city had already issued the $10 million maximum.
The need for more campus housing surfaced when the 351-bed Neumaier Hall was demolished in 1999 because of structural problems.

NEW CAMPUS SECURITY, POLICE
SUBSTANTION NEAR COMPLETION
Construction began this summer on a $150,000 campus security building to house offices and a dispatch center for MSUM and a substation for the Moorhead Police Department.
The 3,400-square-foot, one-story structure is located south of Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse near 17th Street and Ninth Avenue South. It’s expected to be completed in September.
The facility will include storage, meeting rooms and offices for MSUM’s two full-time security officers and for 40 to 50 part-time student security staffers.
MSUM is paying $90,000 for the facility. The city of Moorhead will contribute the remaining $60,000.
Moorhead Police Chief Grant Weyland (’74, sociology) said the department will use its office space for storage, interviews and as a part-time base of operations for officers.
MSUM security staff and police volunteers will be on hand at the new substation to respond to calls day or night.
The building may also serve as an emergency operations center for the university. It will include a steel-reinforced room with emergency generators in case storms or disasters strike the campus.
Says MSUM professor…

NEW LOOK AT PRINTING HISTORY PUTS
GUTENBERG WAY BEHIND THE CHINESE
Stop the presses! Johann Gutenberg may need an asterisk beside his name in the printing hall of fame.
The 15th century German craftsman didn’t invent printing or moveable type. The Chinese invented moveable type four centuries earlier and used block printing at least since the fifth century. “But you won’t find that highlighted in many encyclopedias or textbooks,” says Shelton Gunaratne, a professor of mass communications here. “It’s an aspect of European colonialism that still survives.”
Gunaratne, a Sri Lankan native who’s been teaching at MSUM for nearly 15 years, insists he’s not a revisionist trying to re-write history from an ideological viewpoint. “Not at all,” he said. “It’s a well documented fact that the Chinese were way ahead of the West in printing technology.” He says he’s just trying to be objective about a topic that’s central to the history of mass communications. “Scholars must re-write that history to reflect what happened globally, not just in Europe.”
Gunaratne’s article on this subject, “Paper, Printing, and the Printing Press,” will be presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference next month in Budapest.
Gutenberg, according to legend and a wide variety of sources, invented moveable type around 1450 and by 1456 had mass-produced the famous 42-line (number of lines printed per page) Bible, also called the Gutenberg Bible. Printed on both paper and vellum (a parchment made of animal skin), it is still considered the earliest book printed from movable type. Only 47 of the original 200 copies survive.
Gutenberg’s “invention,” Gunaratne said, is credited with spreading literacy, culture and information to the European masses while fueling the Renaissance and eventually the democratic revolutions of the 18th century. Gutenberg was a major candidate, in many turn-of-the-millennium polls, for the title “Man of the Millennium.” Just 50 years after Gutenberg’s Bible came off the press, there were 1,000 printers in 200 locations throughout Europe who already produced at least 15 million printed books. While more than 130 titles in the library of Congress database bear Gutenberg’s name, Gunaratne said, the fact remains that the Chinese were the real pioneers in printing.
“It’s just an extension of concept of European exceptionalism that surfaced after the West emerged from the Dark Ages,” Gunaratne said. “This separatist history is still entrenched in modern culture. That’s part of the reason why so few people know that Chinese inventions included gunpowder, the mariner’s compass, kites, whiskey and, yes, printing and moveable type”.
Gunaratne backs his research with dozens of historical and archival references buttressed by two groundbreaking histories, “Science and Civilization in China” by the late biochemist and historian Joseph Needham, and “The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention,” published in 1988 by science writer Robert Temple.
For the record:
· The Chinese invented paper of matted rag fibers in the second or third century B.C., 1,400 years before it slowly migrated to Europe via the Silk Road, a major trade and travel route between Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
· The Chinese began the first printed newspaper, “Jing Bao,” in 713 and continued publishing it until the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1911.
· The world’s first known book, “Diamond Sutra,” a work of Buddha’s teachings and a fundamental Zen text, was printed in China in 868. It’s a seven-page scroll printed with wood blocks on paper.
· The printing of the 11 Confucian classics??filling 130 volumes?? by Prime Minister Feng Dao between 932 and 953 ushered in the era of large-scale block printing, the world’s first official printed publication.
· Bi Sheng, an alchemist, invented moveable type between 1041 and 1049 when he experimented with type made of clay, which later evolved into wood and metal moveable type as it migrated to Korea and Japan. Scientist Shen Gua recorded this invention in his “Dream Pool Essays” of 1086.
One of the ironies of Chinese history, Gunaratne said, is that although it had all the ingredients for modern science long before the Industrial Revolution, China failed to build on many of its innovations.
“In printing,” he said, “the Chinese never intended to produce books for mass circulation. Their language, which relied on up to 80,000 intricately shaped characters, made movable type labor-intensive and impractical.”
Gutenberg, like Henry Ford, did take printing to the next level by introducing mass production, Gunaratne said. Modeled on the presses farmers used to make wine and olive oil, his printing press used a heavy screw to force a printing block against paper to make a readable impression.
But Gutenberg’s most significant contribution may have been refining the molding and casting of movable metal type that originated in the Orient, he said.
Gutenberg, a trained goldsmith, created metal molds for letters, which were then filled with a molten lead alloy. The cast letters were uniform in size so that they could be aligned easily on a frame, and once assembled in proper order, the frame holding the letters was then pressed against parchment or vellum. The result was a repeatable, error-free piece of writing.
Before moveable type hit Europe, only a few thousand manuscripts were in circulation, most of them hand-written by scribes. By the early 16th century, Gunaratne said, books were no longer rare and expensive objects of art and religion or the secret treasure of a guild, church, or government. Scribes were becoming obsolete.
“Scholars refer to three communications revolutions in human history,” Gunaratne said. “The emergence of writing was the first. The invention of printing was the second. The convergence of telecommunications, computers and digitization is widely hailed as the third.”
Writing, he said, undermined the power monopoly of the elders who preserved in oral form the accumulated knowledge of preliterate people. “Likewise, printing ended the information monopoly of the church, the clergy and the mandarins, depending on the social context.”
The invention of digitization, he said, may change the society power structure in ways yet to be seen—including, he hopes, the eradication of Eurocentric history.
Ironically, Gunaratne said, it was China, not Europe that ruled the world economy throughout the Renaissance and into the 18th century.
“By 1750,” he said, “about 80 percent of the world’s gross product of $155 billion (measured in 1960 U.S. dollars) was in Asia, which then claimed 66 percent of the world population.”
That changed with the Industrial Revolution. “The West, facing a shortage of cheap labor, took advantage of the era’s scientific advancements,” Gunaratne said. “China, however, had plenty of cheap labor and wasn’t pushed in that direction by circumstances.”
While China’s role as the world’s economic leader faded quickly during the 18th century, European fortunes expanded.
“History clearly shows that the Far East, not Europe, was the main instigator of the second communication revolution,” Gunaratne said. “To document the truth about human achievement, we must get the history right.”

BUSH FOUNDATION MEETINGS IN FARGO
If you’re thinking of applying to become a Bush Artist Fellow or Bush Leadership Fellow in 2002, you should attend the following local meetings:
· Bush Leadership Fellows Program will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Fargo Public Library.
· The Bush Artist Fellows Program will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Plains Art Museum, 704 First Ave. N. in Fargo.
For more information, contact the Bush Foundation at (651) 227-0891.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST
PAINTINGS BY MARJORIE
LUDWIG SHOWING AT MSUM
Paintings by Fargo’s Marjorie Schlossman Ludwig, an abstract expressionist, will be showing at the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery now through Sept. 14.
Schlossman Ludwing, enrolled in MSUM’s master of liberal arts program, did her undergraduate work in literature at Northwestern University and began her painting career 28 years ago while living in the San Francisco Bay area. That’s where she studied under former Stanford University faculty member Richard Bowman, a well-known proponent of abstract expressionism.
The abstract expressionists were influenced by the psychoanalytic theories of Carl Jung, especially his notion of the collective unconscious, which holds that beneath the personal memories of the individual is a collection of feelings and symbolic associations common to all human beings.
Schlossman Ludwig is also an accomplished violinist and was recently the driving force behind the creation of a non-denominational chapel in downtown Fargo, a space she helped design.
For gallery hours to the exhibit, called “Marjorie Ludwig: A Painter’s Perspective,” call the MSUM art department at 236-2152.

MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PLAN INTERACTIVE STATE FAIR EXHIBIT
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities booth at the State Fair this year will feature a working television studio and an 8-foot-tall interactive map of Minnesota showing where students can study for various careers. An award-winning solar car made by state university students also will make an appearance.
Chancellor James H. McCormick plans to meet fairgoers in the MnSCU booth, which is in the Education Building.
"I am excited about the opportunity to meet many people from throughout Minnesota. I hope they will stop by our booth and talk with us about their experiences with higher education and how they believe we can help the state and their communities," said McCormick, who has visited with legislators in all four corners of Minnesota since assuming his position July 2.
Members of the MnSCU Board of Trustees and presidents, faculty, staff and students from the state colleges and universities also will be in the booth at various times during the fair.
The exhibit offers fairgoers an opportunity to learn more about the programs and activities at the state colleges and universities and pick up copies of campus literature. This year, colorful rubber-band bracelets imprinted with "College Material" also will be given away.
This year's exhibit includes:
* Solar car: Built and raced by students at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and Winona State University, the "Northern Lights VII" solar car will be on display Friday, Aug. 31, through Monday, Sept. 3. In May, the team won first place in the stock car class in the 2001 Formula Sun Race in Topeka, Kan. The car can run up to 60 mph and travel up to 300 miles per day.
* Interactive map: Fairgoers can push buttons that light up the campuses on this giant state map showing where students can prepare for 20 different careers. These are a sampling of 3,650 degree programs offered on the 53 campuses of the 34 MnSCU institutions.
* Television studio: Fairgoers are invited to give their views about higher education between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily from Thursday, Aug. 23, through Thursday, Aug. 30, in the television studio operated by Minnesota Satellite and Technology. Visitors also can watch legislators, higher education leaders and other prominent Minnesotans being interviewed. MnSAT, the interactive television service provided by MnSCU, will operate the studio.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is made up of 34 state universities, community colleges, technical colleges and comprehensive community and technical colleges in 46 Minnesota communities. The system serves approximately 216,500 students annually in credit-based courses.

VANCE OPPERMAN AND GLEN TAYLOR TO LEAD NEW COMMISSION.
Two prominent Minnesota business leaders, Vance Opperman and Glen Taylor, will co-chair a new Citizens Advisory Commission being formed to help guide a strategic plan for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.
Mary Choate, chair of the MnSCU Board of Trustees, announced today that the two have agreed to lead the commission to advise Chancellor James H. McCormick, on behalf of the board, on the strategic direction for the future of public higher education in the state.
“We are honored to have two individuals of this caliber to lead this effort,” Choate said. ”That they are willing to bring their great knowledge, experience and commitment to education to this process is something for which we are extremely grateful.”
The creation of a Citizens Advisory Commission is a key part of the chancellor's first-year work plan, which the Board of Trustees unanimously approved in July. The 25 to 30 members of the commission are to be named by mid-September. Members will include business and labor leaders, elected officials and government leaders, tribal communities and communities of color, and rural, suburban and urban Minnesota residents, as well as MnSCU students, faculty and trustees.
Opperman, who received his law degree from the University of Minnesota, is president and chief executive officer of Key Investment, Inc., and former president of West Publishing Company. He is owner and general counsel of Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. In 2000, he served as chair of the MnSCU Search Advisory Committee in a search that ultimately led to the appointment of McCormick as chancellor.
“As the largest institution of higher education in the state of Minnesota, MnSCU needs to have the active input of the entire Minnesota community,” Opperman said. “There has never been a time when business and academic partnerships were more important. Job creation and career reparation will be more important in this century than in the 20th century. MnSCU has the potential to be the first 21st century institution to successfully meet this challenge for the state of Minnesota. I am looking forward to being a co-chair of the commission, operating under the supervision and advice of the Office of the Chancellor.”
Taylor is CEO and chairman of the board of Taylor Corporation, headquartered in Mankato with more than 70 operating divisions around the world. He owns the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA basketball team and the Minnesota Lynx WNBA women's basketball team.
He is a former state legislator, serving in the Senate from 1980 to 1990, and was assistant minority leader and minority leader during his tenure.
Taylor is a graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato, one of the 34 MnSCU institutions.
“Both as a businessperson and legislator, I always felt proud of our educational system,” Taylor said. “It is one of Minnesota's great strengths.”
“Nevertheless, we shouldn't ever be satisfied, but continually look for improvements. I'm confident that in these difficult and fast-moving times, we can find opportunities to provide a better, more efficient way to prepare our state's higher education students. I look forward to the challenge given to our commission.”
Chancellor McCormick, speaking in Grand Rapids at a planning conference of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, said he expects the commission to begin meeting this fall and to forward recommendations to him by spring 2002.
“I will be asking the Citizens Advisory Commission to complete a daunting task as they help us examine the major issues facing public higher education and MnSCU in the future,” McCormick said. “With the leadership of Glen Taylor and Vance Opperman, I am confident that the commission will not hesitate to tackle the tough issues.”

F/M COMMUNIVERSITY LEADS LEWIS AND CLARK CLASS AND TOUR
Join F/M Communiversity and Sheldon Green on an adventure through the “Land of Lewis and Clark.” Midwesterners are taking particular interest in the Corps of Discovery’s stay in North Dakota as the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark approaches. This exciting overnight bus trip October 8 and 9, will take you to some of the Lewis and Clark sites along the Missouri River.
This trip can be taken with an optional F/M Communiversity tuition-free class that Sheldon Green will host about Lewis and Clark from 2 to
4 p.m., Oct. 6, 20 and 27 at Riverview Place, 5300 12th Street S, Fargo. Sites to be visited include: On-a-Slant Indian Village and Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, Mandan; North Dakota Heritage Center, State Historical Society and the Capitol grounds, Bismarck; Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan, Washburn; and the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Stanton.
Sheldon Green is the senior writer in the Office of Communications at Concordia College. He has been the editor of the Hazen (N.D.) Star weekly newspaper and North Dakota Horizons magazine and helped edit, design and photograph the five-volume North Dakota Centennial Book series. Accompanying Green on the tour and assisting with details will be Becky O’Hara, Development Associate, Presentation Foundation and Fr. Phil Ackerman, pastor of Holy Spirit Church, Fargo and Ann Zavoral, coordinator, F/M Communiversity.
Cost of bus trip, including entrance fees, two lunches, overnight accommodations, complimentary hot breakfast, and transportation, is $80. To register for the trip and/or the class sessions call 218-299-3438 or send total amount, payable to F/M Communiversity, to 901 8th Street S, Moorhead MN 56562.
Class Schedule
Scilley Room, Riverview Place, Fargo
Oct. 6, “Blacksmiths, Bison and Black Cat: You Oughta Go Ta North Dakota” — With a slide-show introduction, we’ll discuss the major themes connected with the time the Lewis and Clark expedition spent in North Dakota during 1804-06. In our “travels” to specific sites, we will study incidents and meet key individuals from the 146 days the Corps of Discovery spent here.
Oct. 8-9, The Real Adventure Began Here…Bus Trip to Corps of Discovery Points of Interest
Oct. 20, “Among the Mandan and Hidatsa: Hospitality at the Knife River Villages” —We’ll come to know the people who so warmly welcomed the Corps of Discovery and made the winter of 1805 so memorable. Join in a discussion about the social customs, dances, rituals and lifestyles of the Indians who provided food, entertainment and information during the long, cold winter.
Oct. 27, “And We Proceeded On: The Great Treasure of Lewis and Clark Literature” —A sample of the wealth of reading material derived from the most famous journals in American history. We’ll discuss important books, examine the major themes, and come to understand why Lewis and Clark were the “writingest explorers” ever. We’ll compare Lewis’ entries with Clark’s and examine several versions of the same stories.
For more information contact Ann Zavoral, Coordinator (218) 299-3438

MSUM’S 35TH PERFORMING ARTS
SERIES OPENS FIVE-SHOW SEASON
MSU Moorhead’s Performing Arts Series opens its 35th season featuring five shows dedicated to the theme of “American Performing Arts Heritage.” All Series events will demonstrate the strength, energy and passion of a people who embrace the artistic and cultural influences of their heritage.
All shows start at 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. This year’s season:
· Turtle Island String Quartet opens MSUM’s Performing Arts season on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The quartet creates bold new trends in chamber music for strings by fusing the classical quartet esthetic with 20th-century American popular styles. The ensemble redefines the musical possibilities of the traditional chamber alignment of violins, viola, and cello by introducing jazz, bluegrass, rock, blues, and original composition into the modern string quartet repertoire.
· Caution: Men at Work Tap presents a production in the tradition of “Stomp” and “Tap Dogs” filled with energy, vibrant music, physical prowess, pulsating rhythms and spectacular showmanship. The seven dancers and live band will take the stage on Thursday, Oct. 25, featuring state-of-the-art lighting and special effects and an exciting high-tech set. The show is an historical look at tap dance and its rhythm from the streets of Harlem to the lights of Broadway.
· Monte/Brown Dance, one of America’s most culturally diverse, physically explosive and critically acclaimed modern dance companies, is on stage Tuesday, Feb. 26. The company, founded in 1981 by Elisa Monte and David Brown—professional dancers, choreographers and educators—immediately gained recognition after winning first prize for Best Company at the International Dance Festival of Paris. Monte/Brown Dance is recognized for its innovation, driving intensity, sensuality, virtuosity and belief that utilizing the common language of dance can cross cultural barriers.
· Rhythm & Brass, a combination of six virtuosi on trumpet, horn, piano, trombone, tuba and percussion, is scheduled for Thursday, March 7. Since their inaugural season in 1993, the group has lived up to the ideal of music unbound by time, geography or culture. Rhythm & Brass demonstrates their unique ability to incorporate influences as divergent as Josquin Des Pres, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Johann Sebastian Bach and Duke Ellington by discovering the commonalties in these influences and in their own eclectic compositions.
· The Guthrie Theater presents “Ah, Wilderness!” by Eugene O’Neill for two Series dates—Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6. Set in 1906 in a Connecticut town, “Ah Wilderness!” recalls the time before America’s “coming of age” when “family life was the only life.” This Guthrie touring production, directed by Joe Dowling, explores a seemingly perfect American middle-class family, whose sixteen-year-old son is about to brew up some trouble within this idyllic home.
Season tickets are $82.50 for a single or $154.00 for two people, which includes all shows and guaranteed “A” level seating, the best in the house. Tickets for any four of the performances are $70.40, with reserved seats. Tickets for any three events are $56.10, with reserved seats. Single show prices range from $12 to $22.
Call the MSUM box office at 218-236-2271 for reservations.

MSUM’S 2001-02 THEATRE
SEASON OPENS OCT. 9
MSU Moorhead’s Theatre season features four student productions, with the first show, Blood Wedding, to run Oct. 9-13. All shows start at 7:30 p.m., except for the children’s musical production.
This year’s season:
· Blood Wedding by Garcia Lorca will be on stage Oct. 9-13 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage. This drama, based on a true story, follows a young bride in a Spanish village at the turn of the century. She runs away with another man and what follows is tragedy for all concerned. Lorca’s play is filled with a poetic intensity that explores human nature, its perception of reality, society, life and death.
· The annual children’s musical will feature School House Rock Live! on Saturday, Nov. 17 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. Showtimes are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Originally airing on ABC in 1973, this classic series of short educational vignettes has won four Emmy Awards, and its melodies—“Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function,” “Just a Bill,” and “Interplanet Janet”—are still a pop culture frame of reference. Kids (and adults) will learn about everything from how a bill becomes law to how the body’s circulatory system works.
· Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! will be presented Tuesday-Friday, Feb. 19-22 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. Based on “Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs, this Academy Award-winning musical is a joyous celebration of soaring melodies that fill the Western skies in a loving celebration of the American spirit. The audience will enjoy classics like “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” and the title song, “Oklahoma!”
· The hilarious comedy Fuddy Meers, by David Lindsay-Abaire, will be on stage April 19-20 and 25-27 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage. Claire is an amnesiac who wakes up every morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must imprint the facts of her life. The ensuing mayhem is funny yet touching.
For more information or ticket information, call the MSUM box office at 218-236-2271.

MSUM OFFERS SPRING
CHINA TOUR MAY 14-JUNE 1
Minnesota State Moorhead will offer a 19-day study tour to China May 14-June 1, 2002, led by languages professor Jenny Lin. An information meeting about the tour will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 in MacLean Hall 261 on the MSUM campus.
Lin has traveled extensively in China and led a study tour there two years ago. Scheduled stops include the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Yungang Grottoes, Stone Forest and the Tera Cotta Museum. Lin, a native speaker of Chinese, has taught Chinese language and culture at MSUM since 1985.
The tour is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public on a space available basis. Credit is available for Chinese 390 during spring semester. Students can apply for financial aid.
Approximate tour cost is $3,995, which includes an international programs fee, round-trip airfare from Fargo, all airfare and ground transportation in China, entrance fees, local tour guides, accommodations in four-star hotels, and meals.
For more information, contact Jenny Lin, 218-236-2913, linjj@mnstate.edu, MacLean Hall 271L; or Jill Holsen, 218-236-2956, holsenj@mnstate.edu, Flora Frick Hall 151.
Minnesota State University Moorhead

WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM INVITES STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS:
MSUM Red River Women’s Studies Conference, Friday, October 19 11:00-4:00, Comstock Memorial Union, MSUM
The keynote speaker is Barbara Handy-Marchello, University of North Dakota. There will be a 10 minute panel presentations on topics related to Women’s Studies, including women and Workplace ® Community ® Arts ® Family ® Medicine ® Sports ® Law ® Business ® Science ® Media
Please submit 500-word abstract. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and a contact address.
Deadline for proposal abstracts is Sept. 17. You will be notified by September 28 of your proposal’s acceptance status. Send proposals to: Brittney Goodman, Chair RRWSC, c/o Library 124, MSUM, Moorhead, MN 56563, goodmanb@mnstate.edu.

THE MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
The Minnesota Historical Society each year makes available grants in several categories to support original research and writing leading to interpretive works on the history of Minnesota by academic scholars, including graduate students, independent scholars, and professional and nonprofessional writers. Preference is given to projects that will produce article- or book-length manuscripts to be considered for publication in Minnesota History, the Society's quarterly, or by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Especially encouraged are projects that add a multicultural dimension to the area's history and that cover subjects not well represented in the published record, including rural, urban, labor, environmental, sports, and recent history, and historic preservation.
Applications may be made in one of four categories:
1. Mini-grants up to $500 for research expenses.
2. Visiting Scholar grants up to $1,000 for published scholars whose projects require research in Minnesota Historical Society collections but do not concern the history of Minnesota and its region.
3. Article grants up to $1,500 for expenses of conducting research planned to result in an article to be submitted to Minnesota History.
4. Major grants up to $5,000 for expenses of conducting research planned to result in a large-scale project such as a book.
Grants are not awarded to assist in the purchase of computers or other equipment.
Applications consist of a completed application form plus supplementary materials specifically requested. Application deadlines during the year are April 1 and October 1; awards are announced two months later. Applications for Mini-grants may be submitted throughout the year, subject to funding availability, and will generally require one month to review. The grant program is funded on a fiscal-year basis, and the amount of funds available for grants may vary from year to year.
For a copy of the Research Grants Program Information and Guidelines and an application form, visit the Minnesota Historical Society website: <http://www.mnhs.org/about/grants/research.html> , write to Deborah L. Miller, Research Supervisor, Minnesota Historical Society, 345 Kellogg Blvd. West, St. Paul, MN 55102, or send e-mail to debbie.miller@mnhs.org.

NEW LIBRARY REFERENCE TITLES
The Livingston Lord Library is pleased to announce the availability of the following titles in the Reference room:
*Encyclopedia of ancient deities. REF. BL473 .C67 2000
*Encyclopaedia of the Viking age. REF. DL65 .H39 2000
*Encyclopedia of battles in North America, 1517 to 1916. REF. E46.5 .P87 2000
*St. James encyclopedia of popular culture. REF. E169.1 .S764 2000
*Historical dictionary of the 1950s. REF. E169.12 .O44 2000
*Encyclopedia of the Mexican American civil rights movement. REF. E184.M5 M458 2000
*American Jewish desk reference : the ultimate one-volume reference to the Jewish experience in America. REF. E184.35 .A44 1999
*Historical dictionary of the United States-Mexican War. REF. E404 .M84 1997
*Slavery in America : from colonial times to the Civil War. REF. E441 .S36 2000
*Historical dictionary of the 1970s. REF. E839 .H57 1999
*Historical dictionary of the 1960s. REF. E841 .H58 1999
*The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures : the civilizations of
Mexico and Central America. REF. F1218.6 .O95 2001
*Handbook of Mesoamerican mythology. REF. F1219.3.R38 R42 2000
*Atlas of Minnesota : social and economic characteristic[s] of the North Star state. ATLASES REF. G1425 .c46 2000
*Natural disasters : floods : a reference handbook. REF. GB1399.3 .M56 2000
*Major leagues. REF. GV581 .B78 2001
*American sportswriters and writers on sport. REF. GV742.4 .A64 2001
*American men and women : demographics of the sexes. REF. HB1755.A3 A44 2000
*Demographics USA (County ed.). Demographics USA. County ed. REF. HF5415.1 .D46
*Lesbian histories and cultures : an encyclopedia. REF. HQ75.5 .L4395 2000
*Kids count data book. REF. HQ792.U5 K53
*The graying of America : an encyclopedia of aging, health, mind, and behavior. 2nd ed. REF. HQ1064.U5 K39 2001
*Encyclopedia of women's history in America. 2nd ed. REF. HQ1410 .C85 2000
*Handbook of American women’s history. 2nd ed. REF. HQ1410 .H36 2000
*The women's liberation movement in America. REF. HQ1421 .B47 1999
*Women, a modern political dictionary. REF. HQ1595.A3 L39 2000
*National directory of children, youth & families services. REF. HV741 .N3157
*Encyclopedia of organized crime in the United States : from Capone’s Chicago to the new urban underworld. REF. HV6446 .K43 2000
*Encyclopedia of capital punishment in the United States. REF. HV8694 .P35 2001
*Encyclopedia of interest groups and lobbyists in the United States. REF. JK1118 .N47 2000
*The copyright book : a practical guide. 5th ed. REF. KF2994 .S75 1999
*2001 tax legislation : law, explanation and analysis : Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. REF. KF6276.501 .T3 2001
*December 2000 tax legislation : Community renewal tax relief act of 2000 (P.L. 106-554) ; Installment tax correction act of 2000 (P.L. 106-573) : legislative documents. REF. KF6279 .D4 2000
*Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 : H.R. 1836. REF. KF6356.501.A16 C67
*The federal court system in the United States : an introduction for judges and judicial administrators in other countries. REF. KF8714.6 .U55 2000
*Minnesota. West’s Minnesota criminal law handbook : Minnesota statutes and rules. REF. KFM5961.A29 M56
*Educators resource directory. REF. L901 .E443
*Money for graduate students in the physical & earth sciences. REF. LB2337.2 .M6662
*Money for graduate students in the social & behavioral sciences. REF. LB2337.2 .M667
*Financial aid for Native Americans. REF. LB2338 .F5646
*The Directory for exceptional children. REF. LC4007 .D5
*The encyclopedia of the musical theatre. 2nd ed. REF. ML102.M88 G3 2001
*American song : the complete companion to Tin Pan Alley song. REF. ML128.P63 B55 2001
*Dictionary of furniture. 2nd ed. REF. NK2205 .D5 2001
*Peterson’s professional degree programs in the visual and performing arts. REF. NX303 .P52
*Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana. 3. ed. muy rev. y mejorada. REF. PC4580 .C58 1973
*The Penguin dictionary of American English usage and style : a readable reference book, illuminating thousands of traps that snare writers and speakers. REF. PE1464 .L68 2000
*Russian novelists in the age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. REF. PG3098.3 .R874 2001
*Twentieth-century European cultural theorists. REF. PN74 .T84 2001
*Encyclopedia of rhetoric. REF. PN172 .E52 2001
*Portrait of health in the United States. REF. RA407.3 .P67
*The encyclopedia of phobias, fears, and anxieties. 2nd ed. REF. RC535 .D63 2000
*Official guide to undergraduate and graduate nursing schools. REF. RT73 .O34 2000
*The Oxford starter Japanese dictionary. REF. PL679 .O946 2000
*A new Chinese-English dictionary of function words. REF. PL1237 .H685 1999
*Chinese-English dictionary : Cantonese in Yale Romanization, Mandarin in Pinyin. REF. PL1455 .C598 2000
*A Chinese-English dictionary of Chinese idioms. REF. PL1273 .H36 2000
*Variety international film guide. REF. PN1993.3 .I544
*Filmmaker’s dictionary. 2nd ed. REF. PN1993.45 .S56 2000
*Encyclopedia of film themes, settings, and series. Rev. ed. REF. PN1997.8 .A762 2001
*Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British women poets. REF. PR115 .L345 2001
*American women prose writers : 1820-1870. REF. PS149 .A55 2001
*A dictionary of physics. 4th ed. REF. QC5 .C56 2000
*The elements. 3rd ed. REF. QD466 .E48 1998
*Oxford companion to the earth. REF. QE5 .O94 2000
*Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology. 2nd ed., Repr. with corrections. REF. QR9 .S56 2000
*Stedman’s alternative medicine words. REF. R733 .S84 1999
*How to prepare for the MCAT : medical college admission test. 9th ed. REF. R838.5 .H67 2001
*Health and healthcare in the United States : county and metro area data. 2nd ed. REF. RA395.A3 H43 2001
*Major health care policies : fifty state profiles, 2000. 9th ed. REF. RA413.5.U5 H43 2001
*Insider’s guide to graduate programs in clinical and counseling psychology. REF. RC467.7 .I57
*RSP funding for nursing students and nurses. REF. RT79 .R76
*Sweet’s directory. REF. TH455 S86
*Internet: the complete reference. Millenium ed. REF. TK5105.875.I57 I58 1999
*Academic library trends and statistics for Carnegie classification. REF. Z675.U5 A25
*Thesaurus of sociological indexing terms. 5th ed. REF. Z695.1.S63 B66 1999
Please send suggestions for other reference titles to either Pam Werre (x5818) or Larry Schwartz (x2353).

VACANCY NOTICE
Position: Asst./Assoc. Professor of Finance
Qualifications And Experience. Required: ABD in finance. Doctorate in finance preferred. Demonstrated ability to engage in scholarly activities. A doctorate and a record of scholarly activities are required for appointment at the associate professor level. A doctorate is required for tenure.
Preferred: 1. Teaching experience in finance 2. Academic preparation and willingness to teach in two of the following areas: Financial services, Investments, Real Estate, and Risk and Insurance.
Responsibilities: Teach 12 credits per semester. Scholarly activities are expected and encouraged. Undergraduate student advising and contributions to the department. Contribute to AACSB accreditation
Apply to: Dr. Rajiv Kalra, Chair, Finance Search Committee, School of Business Box 328, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN 56563. E-mail: kalra@mnstate.edu Phone: (218) 236-4655, fax: (218) 236-2238.
Position: Director of Admissions
Qualifications and Experience
Required:
1. Masters degree and five years of progressive experience in admissions.
2. Possess good written and oral communication skills, computer application skills.
3. Committed to NACAC principles of good practice and ongoing professional development.
4. Demonstrated ability to foster effective working relationships with diverse constituencies.
5. Demonstrated experience in budget development and staff supervision.
Desired:
1. Marketing experience.
2. Visionary planning and creative problem solving skills.
3. Ability to effectively utilize technology in an enrollment management environment.
Responsibilities:
1. Manage the development and implementation of the Admission Office services, supervise the Admissions staff and budget.
2. Develop recruitment strategies as defined by University admissions philosophy and policy which will include candidates from diverse populations, encompassing regional, national, and international markets.
3. Develop relationships with campus and community constituencies to better MSUM and provide active support for recruitment of prospective students, including minorities and athletes.
4. Participate in University marketing planning, including research and data collection, and provide recruiting and enrollment information to the University.
5. Assist with the development of publications and contribute to orientation activities.
6. Responsible for program development/implementation/evaluation of University’s “Dragon Days.”
Applications Information and Deadline
Apply to: Thomas Lane, Chair, Admissions Director Search Committee, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, 56563. Call (218) 236-2676, fax (218) 236-2052, or e-mail lanetom@mnstate.edu for application materials.
IN MEMORIAM
Roger G. Hamilton, an MSUM Professor Emeritus and father of Doug Hamilton, Executive Director of Alumni Foundation & University Advancement, died August 8. In 1962, Hamilton was employed as MSUM's Director of Public Relations. He went on to found the Mass Communications Department and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1981.
Marguerite "Monnie" Lyons died March 27 in Seattle, Wash. Monnie worked as an administrative assistant for the Administrative Affairs Office and the President's Office for a total of 28 years, retiring in 1995.

MISCELLANIA
· Steven Bolduc, economics, received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska at the August 18 graduation in Lincoln. Steve has co-authored several articles and a book chapter in the area of public policy analysis and corporate/government contracting, and served as policy advisor to the former Nebraska Governor, now U.S. Senator, E. Benjamin Nelson. Steve received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1993.
· Linda Winkler, physics and astronomy, received a $975 grant from the Small Research Grants program, administered by the American Astronomical Society. She plans to build a spectrometer for analyzing atmospheres around unstable stars.
· Matt Holzwarth, senior physics student, presented a poster titled "Quality Assessment of Magnetic Resonance Images, and Variation of Image Quality Over Time" at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2001 Conference, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He collaborated with Brent Colby, of MeritCare Health Systems, and Ananda Shastri in the MSUM physics Department. In addition, he and Shastri, in collaboration with a group at the Medical University of South Carolina, recently published a paper in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging ("A Low-Cost System for Monitoring Skin Conductance During Functional MRI," Ananda Shastri, Mikhail P. Lomarev, Mark S. George, Stephen J. Nelson,Matthew R. Holzwarth, Daryl E. Bohning. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 14: 187-193 (2001)).
· Doris Walker-Dalhouse, EECE, participated in the International Leadership Conference (ILC) sponsored by the International Reading Association (IRA), July 13-16, in Reston, Virginia. She was one of four presenters at a session entitled “Extending IRA’s international focus: Reaching new heights with international projects.” The conference, held every four years, brought together 350 state council and national affiliate leaders from 46 countries to focus on literacy leadership, and ways of translating IRA’s vision of worldwide literacy into action. Following the ILC, Walker-Dalhouse attended a Second Language Literacy Research Conference, July 17, in Washington, D>C> The purpose of the conference, organized by the IRA Office of Governmental Relations, was to discuss the need for and direction in second language literacy research within and outside of the United States and to examine issues related to implementing a national policy on second language literacy learning. Representatives from various governmental, and educational organizations were present to hear and discuss the issues emanating from work shared by researchers from Harvard, University of Illinois, Nigeria. The Philippines, and Canada.
· Wendy Frappier, health and physical education presented a session on "Non-Traditional Activities for Physical Education" at the North Dakota Association for Health and Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NDAHPERD) Conference in Bismarck, ND July 23rd. She was also elected vice-president for the college/university division of NDAHPHERD. Nancy Christensen was elected vice president elect for the college/university division.
· Susan Imbarrato, English and women's studies, delivered a paper entitled “Perceptions of Class in British-American Women’s Travel Narratives” at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference: July 10-15, 2001, Glasgow, Scotland. Citing the travel narratives of Sarah Kemble Knight, Sarah Beavis, Elizabeth House Trist, Susan Edwards Johnson, and Margaret Van Horn Dwight, Imbarrato's paper addressed an intriguing moment of contact between genteel expectations and rustic conditions that documented an evolving class structure in British-America.
· Alison Wallace, biology, attended the Ecological Society of America's annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin held August 5-10. Two MSUM undergraduates, Susan Sorenson, life science teaching, and Holly Triska, biology, helped her to give a presentation entitled "Prairie Planting Partnerships: Bringing together undergraduate research projects with third grade investigations" at the Ecological Education session, which described their involvement in a collaboration between Moorhead Public Schools and MSUM's Regional Science Center. Funding for their research activities and their attendance at this national meeting was made possible through a Dille Fund award to Wallace.
· In the July issue of the Swedish magazine Månadsjour-nalen there was an article on the Kansas artist Birger Sandzén based on an interview with Jim Kaplan, Languages.

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For Sale: Four great seats each night at the Chicago Lyric Opera for Billy Budd (Britten) on Friday, November 30 and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini) on Saturday, December 1. Call Mary at 2254 or 218 826-6998 or e-mail at worner@mnstate.edu..
For Sale: 1990 Toyota Camry Wagon, 100K, below book at $4,700/offer. shima@mnstate.edu, 218-287-5006 (work), 218-236-4861 (home-after Sept. 18)
Faculty home for sale: 2 miles from MSUM, 1540 sq. feet, large master bedroom with walk-in closet, huge office, mature trees, hot tub, double garage, excellent schools, city park, lots of other extras and is in excellent condition and clean!$82,900. Call 233-9635
House For Sale: 2105 7TH St. So., Moorhead. 1300 sq. ft., 2 bedrooms, large living room w/fireplace and built ins, formal dining, newly remodeled, private deck, large back yard. Ideal for single person or small family, Excellent condition and super clean. Asking $99,000. For more details call 236-4011 or 236-7546