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Continews/ September 2000
* Sept. 27 issue
* Sept. 20 issue
* Sept. 13 issue
* Sept. 7 issue
* First issue fall 2000

A newsletter for Moorhead State University faculty, staff and administrators

Engineering report….
FAULTY WORKMANSHIP, (Sept. 27 issue)
MATERIALS CONTRIBUTE
TO NEUMAIER’S DEMISE
Missing and incomplete pilings contributed to the structural problems that led to last year’s demolition of MSUM’s Neumaier Hall, according to an independent engineering report.
Now the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system office is examining how to recover costs incurred by the loss of the residence hall, says Al Johnson, MnSCU’s associate vice chancellor for facilities.
The report said "this is clear and severe case of faulty and/or defective workmanship and/or materials in construction of the foundation for this facility."
Damages MnSCU might seek compensation for include about $2 million to remove Neumaier Hall, reroute utilities, repair infrastructure and prepare an engineering analyses; $2 million in lost income from student residents over two years; and $8 to $10 million to replace the building, Johnson said.
"A building constructed like that, you could expect it would last longer than 30 years," he said.
John T. Jones Construction Co. of Fargo built Neumaier Hall in 1969-70 for $2.2 million. The 25 cement caissons that supported the building, the focus of the engineering study, were placed by a subcontractor.
Neumaier Hall was imploded Aug. 8 last year after structural engineers raised concerns about the integrity of the foundation.

MAKING MODERN MEDICINE
TOPIC OF OXFORD PROF’S
LECTURE AT MSUM SEPT. 28
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University in England, presents a lecture on "The Wonderful Century: The Making of Modern Medicine, 1850-2000," at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 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.
Chapman will also speak on, "Does Christianity have Anything to Fear from Science?" at the Cormorant Lutheran Church in Cormorant, Minn., at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27.
During his visit to campus, Chapman will also talk to students interested in studying at Oxford next year under MSUM’s Eurospring program. For details, contact Jill Holsen at the university’s International Programs office, 236-2956.

LAWSUIT REIMBURSES
MSUM BOOKSTORE
WITH $11,433 SETTLEMENT
The MSUM Bookstore received an $11,433 check last week as its share of a settlement for a claim the Minnesota Attorney General’s office made against Baker & Taylor, Inc., and W. R. Grace & Co. of Connecticut. It will be shared by the university’s Library and Bookstore.
In 1998, the State of Minnesota intervened along with 16 other states in a "whistle-blower" lawsuit in California federal court. The lawsuit asserted that Baker & Taylor and W.R. Grace engaged in a system of over-pricing intended to mislead institutional purchasers of books about the proper discount for their purchases.

MSUM LAUNCHES SURVIVAL
SCHOOL FOR WALLEYE
The first class of 60 fingerling walleye will begin school here this month where they’re expected to learn the basics of avoiding northern pike, their dominant predator.
Brian Wisenden hopes these finny freshmen dive into their studies hook, line and sinker.
"We’re targeting fingerlings raised in Minnesota Department of Natural Resources rearing ponds where they’re protected from natural predators," said Wisenden, a behavioral ecologist who teaches biology at MSU Moorhead. "When they’re released in lakes through DNR stocking efforts, they’re kind of naïve about who their enemies are. We think we can teach them how to fear a predator they’ve never encountered."
The cooperative effort between the MSU Moorhead biology professor and the Detroit Lakes Department of Natural Resources Office could become a boon for the state’s walleye stocking efforts.
"Fishing is a billion-dollar business in Minnesota," says Peter Jacobson, a fisheries research biologist at the Detroit Lakes DNR office, who’s helping Wisenden with the project. "If we can find a cost-effective way to increase the survival of stocked fingerlings, then we’re definitely interested."
Jacobson estimates that the mortality rate of fingerlings stocked in Minnesota lakes is between 50 and 75 percent, depending on the characteristics of each body of water. And northern pike, he said, are probably their major predator, followed closely by largemouth bass.
The Minnesota DNR raises 100 million fry annually in 300 rearing ponds statewide. Each fall, when the fish grow into fingerling size (six-inches long) about two million of them—equivalent to 90,000 poundsare stocked in 250 Minnesota lakes.
While walleye do travel in schools, Wisenden said, their ability to learn is still unknown.
"We know that most non-predatory aquatic species—from minnows to insectslearn to avoid predators by sensing chemical cues in their environment," Wisenden said. "Last year, a biology student here, Melissa Millard, even taught primitive flatworms to respond to the same chemical cues."
Minnows, for example, have an amazing number of "alarm substance cells" distributed over their bodies. "These cells, if injured, release chemicals that send warning signals to other fish of the same species," he said. "Hundreds of these cells dot the bodies of most fresh-water fish."
When a predator tears into the flesh of a minnow, Wisenden said, it damages the alarm substance cells, which then send out chemical odors warning of the attack. An injury to a square inch of flesh can release a bouquet of warning scents more than 10 feet in all directions, signaling other minnows to scat.
Once they receive an alarm signal, most fish will swim away, hide, cluster or escape to the bottom of the lake.
The question is: Do walleye also have alarm substance cells, and will they respond to them?
"When they’re young, walleye are prey—mostly to northern pike," Wisenden said. "But when they become adults, they turn into predators themselves. They no longer have to fear these larger fish."
Wisenden’s experiments with minnows show that once they learn that a chemical scent signals danger, they never forget.
"They’ve been 100 percent right in every test I’ve done," he said. "And they learn on the first try. Probably because it’s so important to survival and reproduction. If it takes two or three times to learn the danger signals, it’s too late. They’ll be eaten. Evolution apparently perfected the learning process."
Chemical cues, he said, are the most ancient and primitive method used by life forms to learn about their environment. "Our one-celled ancestors, who didn’t even have eyes, responded to the world around them by detecting the presence of certain chemicals."
New research, he said, shows that fish are immersed in a world of scents and smells. Some scientists suggest that fish have a sense of smell that’s 1,000 times more acute than a dog’s, which is 1,000 times better than a human’s.
And water, a universal solvent, is a perfect medium for dispersing long-lasting odors.
It makes sense, he said. "Fish live in a dangerous environment, an underwater jungle where the mortality rate for young may reach 99 percent. Vision and hearing aren’t reliable defenses because lake water is often turbid, and predators are often stealthy."
But what’s more amazing, he said, is that fish can be taught to pair two stimuli, or associate two odors, simultaneously. "My students have done experiments on minnows pairing skin extracts that contain these alarm substances with red lights. They literally taught them to fear the red lights, something that doesn’t even exist in their environment, by linking them with alarm cues."
Which suggests that their reaction is learned, not transmitted genetically.
And that’s how he hopes to train walleye to fear pike: by mixing chemical alarm cues in walleye skin extract with the odor of pike.
"We hope they learn to associate the fear cues of the skin extracts with the pike odor," he said.
Wisenden and two MSUM students—Mariya Rzaszutak and Tonya Overbo—will be training walleye one at a time. They hope to get preliminary results by the end of fall.
"If our research works, then maybe we can mass train fingerling walleye while they’re in holding tanks being transported between the rearing ponds and the stocking sites," Wisenden said. " We’d do that by injecting the tank with both skin extracts from walleye alarm cells and the pike odor."
Wisenden said the project is an example of how pure science can be used practically to benefit society: by increasing the population of the walleye, the filet mignon of fresh-water fish; and thereby increasing tourism and sports fishing enterprises.
Besides fingerlings, the Minnesota DNR also stocks 250 Minnesota lakes and streams with 225 million walleye fry, each about a third of an inch long.
"Fish this small may not yet have developed alarm cells, or may not be mature enough to sense them," Wisenden said. "Even if they did respond to alarm cues, they’re probably too young to deploy any diversionary tactics."
But maybe, he said, these tiny walleye can be taught to recognize the signals and use them later in life.
So what’s next? Kindergarten classes for small fry?
"It’s possible," Wisenden said. "I’ve got lots of students interested in research."

MUSICAL AT MSUM EXPLORES
NAT KING COLE STORY OCT. 7
"Unforgettable: the Nat King Cole Story," a new musical by Clarke Peters, is on stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre as a feature of the university’s Performing Arts Series. The show includes 26 songs that burst into a portrait of the American jazz legend.
The musical, starring Monroe Kent III, underscores the challenges that Cole faced in transcending the boundaries of race, culture, and geography in American society of the mid-20th century.
For ticket information, call the MSUM Box Office at 236-2271.

MSUM OFFERS MONTH’S
EUROPEAN TOUR OF
MEDIA AND FILM
A month-long study tour exploring European media and film will be offered this spring to MSUM and Concordia College students.
Scheduled May 8 through June 5, it will make stops in 11 cities in five countries touring motion picture studios, film archives, international broadcasting companies and national media operations.
MSUM students will earn six credits and financial aid is available. A pre-tour course is required. Contact Ted Larson in the Speech Communications-Theatre Arts office, 236-4622.
In a mixture of on-site visits, formal presentations by media professionals and informal discussions with producers and consumers, the tour will help students compare and contrast European and United States media. The seminar will also focus on experiencing history and culture, with plenty of time to explore the museums, shops and historical sites.
Included will be stops at the Cannes Film Festival, the BBC, Radio Free Euorpe/Radio Liberty and Norwegian National TV.
Cost of the tour is pending confirmation of details.

BIRD HOTSPOTS
TOPIC OF NEW BOOK
A new book by Bob O’Conner, an English professor at North Dakota State University, unveils all of the local hotspots for 328 bird species native to Cass and Clay Counties.
"Birding the Fargo-Moorhead Area," published by Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Regional Science Center and the Fargo-Moorhead Audubon Society, is illustrated by Heidi Allen, an assistant art professor at Concordia College, and edited with contributions by Science Center naturalist Joe Gartner.
Kevin Hauge, a 2000 graduate of MSUM with a degree in graphic communications, designed the book and created 82 original maps for each of the described birding sites.
The 128-page book is designed for bird enthusiasts to find rare or unusual birds and for amateur birders who would like a better idea of what birds to look for in their backyards and neighborhoods. "It’s not a bird book," Gartner said. "It’s a guide of where to find birds."
For instance, the Chestnut-collared Longspur is a rare migrant throughout Cass and Clay Counties, but is a common spring and summer resident of the Felton Prairie. It can be found by "driving north along a gravel road, which branches off Clay County 26 at the crest of the Lake Agassiz beach line about 14.5 miles east of the U.S. 75/Clay County 26 junction (or about 3.1 miles east of MN 9). If 26 bisects a large pond, Hotsie Lake, and you reach Clay Co. 113, you know you’ve driven too far and need to backtrack 1.4 miles." These detailed and concise descriptions and accompanying maps make birding easier for both the avid and amateur birder.
O’Connor began birding as a Boy Scout 39 years ago. He is past president of the F-M Audubon Society and is current president of the North Dakota Birding Society. His writings on individual birding spots piqued Science Center Director George Davis’ interest. He approached O’Connor about compiling and expanding the writings to publish a birding guide for the region.
"George Davis is always looking for projects to encourage nature study locally," O’Connor said.
Finishing touches to the book include 10 bird illustrations using a printmaking process called intaglio to convert the drawings into beautiful etchings. "An etching yields really clear, defined lines," Allen said, "especially when printing in black and white." She also designed the book’s cover.
A book signing for "Birding the Fargo-Moorhead Area" will be held Sunday, Oct. 8 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Regional Science Center Buffalo River Site, located 15 miles east of Moorhead off Highway 10, adjacent to the Buffalo River State Park. For more information, call 218-236-2904.
The book is available for $14.95 at the MSUM Bookstore, NDSU Varsity Mart and the Cobber Bookstore, and will also be for sale at the book signing. It can be ordered by phone, 218-236-2111, or via the Web at http://bookstore.mnstate.edu Shipping charge is $4.75. It will soon be available in local bookstores.

HOUSING OFFICE HOSTS
HOMECOMING OPEN HOUSE OCT. 10
During Homecoming week, in conjunction with the residence hall front desk decorating contests, the department of Housing & Residential Life is sponsoring an Open House. We welcome you to visit, meet some of our student staff and student leaders, see our facilities through a guided tour, register for prizes, and enjoy some refreshments. Just stop by the main entrances of any of our buildings on Tuesday, Oct. 10 anytime between 2-5 p.m. to be greeted by our welcoming students and staff!

FLUTE DAY OCT. 14
AT MSU MOORHEAD
A day of flute classes, concerts and exhibits will be held Saturday, Oct. 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Minnesota State University Moorhead Roland Dille Center for the Arts.
Guest artist Dr. Roger Martin, a professor of flute at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, will deliver two master classes. He’ll team up with Debora Harris, flute and Mike Coates, guitar, for a final concert at 4 p.m. in the Fox Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. An exhibit of flutes, music and accessories for sale provided by Eckroth Music will also be featured.
Cost for the one-day workshop is $10 for non-MSUM students. Participants may register by mail or at the door. Contact Deb Harris, MSUM Music Department, 1104 7th Ave. S., Moorhead, MN 56563; 218-236-4609; or harrisd@mnstate.edu
Visit the Web site at www.mnstate.edu/music/flute/flute.htm

GOT AN IDEA?
SEND IT IN…
The Publications Office is in the process of updating the MSUM Facts Brochure, 2000-01. (It’s the red foldout brochure with student information, selected faculty highlights and marks of distinction, etc.)
If you have any suggestions for this upcoming issue, please forward your comments to Kristi Monson, Publications Office, Box 324, or email at monson@mnstate.edu

MSUM FACULTY ART
EXHIBIT OPENS MONDAY
A Minnesota State University Moorhead faculty art exhibit will open Monday, Oct. 2 and run through Oct. 20 in the gallery of the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. A public reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5 in the gallery.
Twelve full-time faculty members and many of the adjunct faculty will show their works, including all media—photographs, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, fibers/textiles, drawings, printmaking, graphic designs and mixed media.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Storytelling, trail walks and telescope viewing
MSUM SCIENCE CENTER
HOSTS ‘FALL FANTASY’
Minnesota State University Moorhead Regional Science Center will host its annual "Fall Fantasy" from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12 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. We ask that children be accompanied by an adult.
The Buffalo River Site is located 15miles east of Moorhead on Highway 10, adjacent to the Buffalo River State Park. For more information, call 218-236-2904.

OPEN ENROLLMENT OCTOBER 1 31
The Department of Employee Relations Insurance Division will be sending open enrollment information to home addresses by the end of September.
The Human Resources Staff will be holding informational sessions on the following dates/times:
Monday, October 2 at 2 p.m. in Owens C
Wednesday, October 4 at 7 a.m. in MacLean 268
Tuesday, October 10 at 12 p.m. in CMU 214
Thursday, October 12 at 10 a.m. in CMU 214
Upon request, the HR Staff would be delighted to hold sessions with individuals or departments. Please call 2157 to schedule a meeting.
Insurance representatives and Employee Relations staff will hold a general meeting at Northwest Technicial College (Room 305) on Wednesday, October 11 from 8:30am to 10:30am. Information on the Long-Term Care Coverage will be presented immediately afterward at 11am and again at Noon.
A shuttle service will be provided by HR Staff. Come to either the Northeast entrance of the CMU or the visitor lot in front of Owens by 8:15am for transport to the open enrollment meeting or 10:45am/11:45am for transport to the Long Term Care meeting.

LOOKING FOR A HALLOWEEN FUNDRAISER?
The Council on Staff Affairs has over 400 single colored Glow Necklaces left over from our 4th of July Fundraiser. These 22" long novelties can best be described as "thick glowing spaghetti" which last for hours of glowing fun. We have 3 colors available (blue, green & red) and are willing to sell any amount to any organization for fundraising efforts. Cost is low as we purchased a large quantity to get maximum savings. If interested or any questions, contact Al Breuer 236-2998 or breuer@mnstate.edu.

NATIONAL DEPRESSION
SCREENING DAY IS OCT. 5
The Counseling Center staff will be in the Flora Frick/MacLean Link from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 to distribute information on depression.Stop by if you have questions or would like informative materials.

RECREATION AND OUTING CENTER
The Recreation and Outing Center in the Comstock Memorial Union is having their annual Used Equipment/Rummage Sale on Tuesday Sept. 26 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and on Wednesday Sept. 27 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. We will be selling Cross Country Skis and Rollerblades, also jackets, gloves, and other clothing items. Everything will be priced to sell, so come early and get your bargains while they last!

SILENT ART AUCTION THIS WEEK
The Fourth Annual Tallgrass Art Institute is holding a silent art auction this week to raise funds for the Institute. The art is on display in the Art Department hallway just off the Thrust Stage entry. Come to view and make your bid on the bid cards until Friday Sept. 29th at noon. We will call you if you were high bid. We have some wonderful art donated by MSUM art professors and area artists that will enhance any home or office. If you have any questions call Deb Lien atX2904.
The Tallgrass Art Institute is a program of the MSUM Regional Science Center, the MSUM Art Department and the junior high and high school art programs of Moorhead Public Schools. The Institute is a weeklong study of landscape and wildlife art for over 100 students featuring a guest artist. This year's guest artist is Robert Crowe.

STUDY ABROAD
One of the benefits faculty and staff receive as employees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System is tuition waiver for dependents. If your son or daughter is considering studying abroad, even if they attend another institution, they might find a program of interest offered by MSUM, whereby tuition is paid at our institution.
Programs which qualify include the Portsmouth (UK) exchange, primarily for business and social science students, the Keele (UK) exchange for students in most disciplines, the Lincoln/Humberside (UK) exchange for students of mass communications and art, the Kanda (Japan) and Nagoya(Japan) exchanges for students studying Japanese and the International Student Exchange Program, which allows students in any discipline to study at any of more than 100 universities overseas for little more than the cost of studying on our campus. Eurospring might also be an option for students needing liberal arts credit in humanities, or a semester or year in China for students of Chinese language and culture.
If you would like further information on any of these programs, please call International Programs at 2956 (information is available on the web www.mnstate.edu/intl, but needs updating)

NEW LIBRARY REFERENCE TITLES
The MSUM Livingston Lord Library announces the availability of the following titles in the Reference Room:
A dictionary of world mythology. Ref. BL303 .C66 1997
Encyclopedia of Native American religions: an introduction. Updated ed. Ref. E98 .R3 H73 2000
Almanac of the 50 states : basic data profiles with comparative tables, 2000 edition. Ref. HA203 .A5 2000
The Harvard Business School guide to finding your next job. Ref. HF5382.75 .U6 G37 2000
WAC stats: the facts about women. 2nd updated and rev. ed. Ref. HQ1421 .W33 1993
Colleges that encourage character development: a resource for parents, students, and educators. Ref. L901 .C79 1999
The design encyclopedia. Ref. NK1370 .B93 1994 Dictionary of historical allusions & eponyms. Ref. PN43 .A83 1998
Guide to performing arts programs: profiles of over 600 colleges, high schools, and summer programs. Ref. PN1577 .T66 1998
Reference guide to short fiction, 2nd ed. Ref. PN3373 .R36 1998 They never said it: a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions. Ref. PN6081 .B635 1989
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to submit requests for new library materials to their department's library liaison. Larry Schwartz is the Collection Management Librarian for the Library, and his phone number is x2353.

NEW LIBRARY TITLES
The MSUM Livingston Lord Library at announces the availability of the following titles (among many others):
What does a woman want? by Serge Andre. BF175 .A69613 1999
Revolutions of the heart: gender, power, and the delusions of love, by Wendy Langford. BF575 .L8L266 1999
The gods of the Greeks, by C. Kerényi. BL781 .K363 1979
Nazi policy, Jewish workers, German killers, by Christopher R. Browning. D804.3 .B769 2000
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman. DA522 .D5F68 1998b Progressive intellectuals and the dilemmas of democratic commitment, by Leon Fink. E169.1 .F525 1997
The forgotten dead: why 946 American servicemen died off the coast of Devon in 1944 and the man who discovered their true story, by Ken Small. E181 .S63 1999
Out of place: a memoir, by Edward Said. E184 .P35S25 1999 A history of our time: readings on postwar America, 5th edition. E742 .H57 1999
Mexican Americans in Texas history: selected essays. F395 .M5M485 2000 Applied geography: principles and practice, edited by Michael Pacione. G133 .A66 1999
Résumé magic: trade secrets of a professional résumé writer, by Susan Britton Whitcomb. HF5383 .W46 1999
Microsoft first generation: the success secrets of the visionaries who launched a technology empire, by Cheryl D. Tsang. HD9696.63 .U64M538 2000
The professional service firm50: transform your "department’ into a professional service firm whose trademarks are passion and innovation!, by Tom Peters. HD9980.5 .P398 1999
The culture of fear: why Americans are afraid of the wrong things, by Barry Glassner. HN59.2 .G58 1999
Bobos in paradise: the new upper class and how they got there, by David Brooks. HN90.E4B76 2000
Just sex: students rewrite the rules on sex, violence, activism, and equality, edited by Jodi Gold and Susan Villari. HQ21 .J87 2000
Children of the land: adversity and success in rural America, by Glen H. Elder, jr., and Rand D. Conger. HQ796.E525 2000
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: working in child welfare, by Anthony McMahon. HV743 .C5M35 1998
Vote.com, by Dick Morris. JK1764 .M69 1999
The buying of the President 2000, by Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity. JK1991 .L5 2000
Access and engagement: program design and instructional approaches for immigrant students in secondary school, by Aída Walqui. LC3746 .W25 2000 Networking in the music business: making the contacts you need to succeed in the music business, by Dan Kimpel. ML3790 .K46 2000
Television: the critical view, 6th edition, edited by Horace Newcomb. PN1992.3.U5T42 2000
War plays by women: an international anthology. PN6119.8 .W37 1999
Stephen Spender: a life in modernism, by David Leeming. PR6037.P47Z76 1999 New strangers in paradise: the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction, by Gilbert H. Muller. PS374.I48M85 1999
Hill man, by Janice Holt Giles. PS3513.I4628H55 2000
Killing Cynthia Ann: a novel, by Charles Brashear. PS3552 .R3276K5 1999 Fay: a novel, by Larry Brown. PS3552.R6927F39 2000
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem. PS3562 .E8544M68 1999
The Balm of Gilead Tree, by Robert Morgan. PS3563.O87147B35 1999
Speak Rwanda, by Julian R. Pierce. PS3566 .I3876S64 1999
A basic course in statistics, 4th edition, by G. M. Clarke and D. Cooke. QA276.12 .C57 1998
Fibromyalgia: simple relief through movement, by Stacie L. Bigelow. RC927.3 .B54 2000
Herbs for the mind: what science tells us about nature’s remedies for depression, stress, memory loss, and insomnia, by Jonathan R. T. Davidson and Kathryn M. Connor. RM666.H33D378 2000
Free expression and censorship in America: an encyclopedia, by Herbert N. Foerstel. Z658 .U5F644 1997
Faculty and staff are invited to submit requests for new library materials to their department's library liaison. Larry Schwartz is the Collection Management Librarian for the Library, and his phone number is x2353.

NEW SMOKING POLICY IN EFFECT JULY 1, 2000
Minnesota State University Moorhead has adopted changes in the Smoking Policy on the campus effective July 1, 2000. The predominant change is the requirement that smoking will not occur within 20 feet of entry doors.
Brick red "snuffers" are being installed away from doorways and the current smoking receptacles are being removed from entrances. Please use the snuffers for disposal of cigarette butts. "No Smoking Within 20 Feet of Entry" signs are being posted at building entrances.
There is an expectation that the enforcement of the MSUS Smoking Policy will be most effectively implemented if members of our academic community simply remind people that smoking is not to occur in close proximity to entry doors on our campus.
Any questions or concerns about this policy should be directed to VP Crockett at 2070, Administrative Affairs, Owens Hall 208. Please review the policy.
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Smoking Policy
Policy Statement
Minnesota State University Moorhead recognizes that tobacco smoke is a hazard to the health of its students and employees. To protect the health of the non-smoking University community, the University designates all buildings as smoke-free except for some student living areas in University housing. Smoking in vehicles and equipment owned or leased by the University is prohibited. Smoking in University housing and at outdoor events on campus is restricted to designated areas. To the extent possible, the University will provide access to cessation programs to help smokers and employees who presently use tobacco products.
Guidelines
1. Smoking is prohibited at all Minnesota State University Moorhead facilities, including private offices within facilities, open-air athletic facilities, and in Residence Halls, except areas that are specifically designated as "smoking-permitted" areas.
2. Smoking will be permitted outside of University facilities provided smokers are located a minimum of 20 feet from doorways, windows, and ventilation systems to prevent smoke from entering the buildings and facilities and it does not interfere with safety and public access.
3. Rooms assigned to individuals in Residence Halls may be designated as "smoking- permitted" areas (except for floors designated as non-smoking) provided that all individuals assigned to the same room agree that smoking will be permitted in that room. No cigars or pipes may be smoked in any smoking-permitted areas.
4. Smoking is prohibited in all vehicles or motorized equipment owned or leased by the University.
5. Smoking at outdoor events (specifically including those in the stadium) is restricted to designated areas, not in seating or assembly areas.
6. Visitors to Minnesota State University Moorhead are covered by this policy as temporary members of the University community.
7. Exceptions: This policy does not prohibit the lighting of tobacco by an adult as part of a traditional Native American spiritual or cultural ceremony, in an otherwise no-smoking area. In addition, persons who believe their situation requires an exception to this policy may request an exemption. Petitions may be addressed to Environmental Health & Safety.
8. Enforcement: All University students and employees are expected to share the responsibility for informing others of the policy. Problems unresolved will be referred to Environmental Health & Safety and/or Security for assistance and interpretation of the policy, and, if necessary, to higher administrative levels of the University.
9. Designated Smoking Areas: Designated smoking areas will be established and reviewed annually by the Office of Administrative Affairs, and where it is deemed that the best interest of the University is served, adjustments will be made accordingly.
10. Smoking Cessation: The University encourages its students and employees not to use tobacco products, and as resources permit, will provide access to smoking cessation programs.
Smoking Policy Authority Information and Suggestions
Smoking in educational facilities in Minnesota is governed by the Clean Indoor Act, sections 144.411 through 144.417. It…"prohibits smoking in those places of work where the close proximity of workers or the inadequacy of ventilation causes smoke pollution detrimental to the health and comfort of nonsmoking employees"…
It provides that…"the proprietor or other person in charge of a public place shall make reasonable efforts to prevent smoking in the public place"... The Office of Administrative Affairs acts as the proprietor for Minnesota State University Moorhead facilities. Section 144.413, Sub-division 2, of the Clean Indoor Air Act appears to permit smoking in private offices. However, the ventilation systems at Minnesota State University Moorhead are not adequate to prevent persons outside of offices from exposure to smoke pollution from persons smoking in offices, as required in section 144.414 sub-division 2, therefore smoking is not permitted in private offices.
Any member of the University Community may receive information and make suggestions on this policy by written communication to the Office of Administrative Affairs, Room 208 Owens Hall.
This Policy becomes effective July 1, 2000 and supersedes the current University Smoking Policy dated July 1, 1996.
Dr. David J. Crockett
Administrative Vice President

APAC MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 5, 2000
Members present: Midgarden, chair; Borchers, Borgeson, Conteh, Edvenson, Goodman, Gracyk, Jeppson, Klenk, Lane, Missiras, Powers-Kinds, Ruth, Sanderson, Shimabukuro, Shoptaugh, Shreve, Weckler.
1. Introduction of members
Midgarden distributed a revised membership list. Members introduced themselves.
2. 2000/2001 APAC Meeting Schedule
The APAC schedule was discussed.
* The October meeting dates may change because VP Midgarden will be at an accreditation visit on 10/3/00. (Note: The October APAC meeting dates were changed to 10/10/00 and 10/24/00. The schedule was printed in Continews and is also on the web under the APAC Website: http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff)
* If there are no agenda items for a particular meeting, it will be cancelled.
* This is a catalog year which may mean additional meetings during spring semester.
3. Role of the Academic Policy Advisory Committee
VP Midgarden discussed her history of chairing APAC and made these points:
* Administration listens to APAC decisions. Recommendations made by this committee often become university policy.
* Read agenda materials prior to the meetings. Ask questions if you don’t understand a proposal.
* Call those who have prepared the proposals if you have questions or to clarify issues.
* Referred to information given at the last year’s APAC orientation meeting when Richard Pemble was invited to share his concepts regarding the role of APAC. (9/14/99 minutes available from Academic Affairs)
* Clarification of what constitutes a minor change (APAC Manual, page 2, IV. C.).
Other:
Sanderson asked if the daily/weekly schedule will be discussed at Cabinet and be brought to APAC. Midgarden stated that restoring the convocation hour was among the suggestions to improve communications made at the President’s Retreat. If the President assigns that issue to a campus committee for consideration and the convocation hour is restored, that would force a re-examination of the daily calendar.
Meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.
Riopelle

MISCELLANIA
* Anthony Kulig, a May 2000 BFA graduate of the MSUM art department, received an "Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture" from the International Sculpture Center in Hamilton, N.J. Included with the award are a brief bio and photo of his work in the October issue of Sculpture magazine and a six-month group exhibition, with catalogue, at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton. Anthony was one of 22 award recipients, most of whom were second and third year graduate students from the U.S., Canada, and England.
* Doris Walker-Dalhouse, EECE and A. Derick Dalhouse, psychology had an article titled "Parent and School Relations: Communicating more effectively with African-American Parents" accepted for publication in the January 2001 issue of Young Children, a journal published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
* Deborah Seaburg and Sandi Schuette, counseling center, recently attended "Treating Difficult Patients: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach" workshop by Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. in St. Paul.
* Sayel Ali, mathematics, has a paper published in Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, an International Journal, Volume 21, 2000. The paper is titled "Best Approximation of Finite Sets in Normed Linear Spaces" and is a joint work with Radwan Aljarrah, Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

CLIMBER TALKS ABOUT (Sept. 20 issue)

FINDING MALLORY ON
MT. EVEREST SEPT. 26
Cinematographer-climber Thom Pollard, who found the body of British explorer George Mallory on an ascent of Mt. Everest last year, will present a lecture slide show on "The Power of Mt. Everest: The Quest to Find George Leigh Mallory" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in the student union ballroom.
Mallory and his companion, Andrew Irvine, vanished about 800 feet from the summit (29,028 feet) of Mt. Everest on June 8, 1924. Pollard, on an expedition commissioned by the BBC and PBS, found the perfectly preserved body of Mallory at 27,000 feet on May 16, 1999.
With reverence and permission of the Mallory family, Pollard verified that it was indeed him, said prayers and re-buried the body.
Admission to the show, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, is $1 for MSUM students and $2 for the general public. A question and answer session will follow.

MAKING MODERN MEDICINE
TOPIC OF OXFORD PROF’S
LECTURE HERE SEPT. 28
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University in England, presents a lecture on "The Wonderful Century: The Making of Modern Medicine, 1850-2000," at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 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 a Hastings Memorial Lecturer at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Tea and cookies will be served following his talk.
Chapman will also speak on, "Does Christianity have Anything to Fear from Science?" at the Cormorant Lutheran Church in Cormorant, Minn., at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27.
During his visit to campus, Chapman will also talk to students interested in studying at Oxford next year under MSUM’s Eurospring program. For details, contact Jill Holsen at the university’s International Programs office, 236-2956.

MSUM INSTRUCTOR GETS HIS CHANCE TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
If Kevin Zepper had his druthers, he’d rather get rich writing fiction and poems.
In reality, considering the congestion in the literary marketplace, he’d have a better shot by winning the top prize on ABC television’s hit game show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."
Well, here’s his chance. Zepper, an MSUM adjunct English instructor and a free-lance writer, will fly to New York on Sept. 27, where he’ll be one in a pool of 10 contestants who may get chosen to sit in the hot seat across from host Regis Philbin.
Zepper will appear on a segment that’s scheduled to be taped Sept. 27. It won’t be broadcast, however, until late October or early November.
"If I win, I’m bound to secrecy until the show is aired," he said.
Zepper and fiancée, Brenda Ruziska, an adjunct instructor in MSUM’s Technology Department, watch the show as much as they can because both are self-confessed trivia buffs. "We’ve tried calling the 1-800 number to get on the show about a half dozen times," Zepper said. "It’s usually busy. But Brenda once got through the first round of telephone questions."
At the end of August, Zepper finally got through and answered the first round of automated test questions on the show’s call-in phone line.
"Then I received a phone message to be by my phone between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. the next day because I might be lucky enough to get called from a random list of first-round winners," he said.
As luck would have it, Zepper did get a call and was given a 1-800 number and a special six-digit personal identification number. He was asked to call ABC’s phone line between 2 and 2:15 p.m. that next day.
He made the call, and was asked to answer five questions.
"If you missed one, you were automatically out of the running," he said. "Fortunately, I answered all five correctly. And they give you only 10 seconds to respond to each question. I had to guess at one question dealing with television, because I don’t watch much except for the ‘Millionaire’ show.’"
The question: Place the geographic location of the following television shows in order from north to south: "Felicity," "Cheers," " West Wing" and "Golden Girls".
His final question: Put the following songs in order of when they appeared on Billboard’s top 100 hits: "Don’t Be Cruel, "Da Do Ron Ron," "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
He got the final question right, only to learn that he had to beat the odds again. "I was told to wait by my phone between 3 and 7 p.m. the next day for another possible random phone call."
It came at 6 p.m. The call with a representative from the show lasted about a half hour. First ABC had to be certain that neither he nor any of his relatives worked for the company or its subsidiaries. He was also advised on the dress code (no jeans, turtle necks, extreme color patterns or pure whites or blacks) and was briefed on other details about appearing on the show.
Last week Zepper received confirmed airline tickets for Brenda and himself. The all-expenses paid trip includes accommodations at the Empire Hotel, three blocks from the ABC Studio.
After decompressing from all the excitement, Zepper is now preparing for the show by having Brenda grill him with questions from a new Trivia Pursuit game every night and by reading the World Almanac before he goes to sleep.
"Not much else I can do," said the 39-year-old Zepper, who earned a master of fine arts in creative writing from MSUM. "Even if I blow it, it’ll be an exciting experience."
He’s already picked four of the five "Phone-a-Friends" for his lifeline questions: Mark Vinz and Mike Ruth from MSUM’s faculty; Rich Osborne from Kaye’s Printing and Rebecca Dexheimer, a graduate student at North Dakota State University.
And if he does get through the 15 rounds of questions to become a millionaire, what will he do with the money?
"That’s a little premature, but I’ve thought about it," he said. "First I’ll buy my parents a motor home so they can travel the country, then pay off our student loans and debts. What’s left over I’ll have an accountant set up some long-term investment."
Putting the whole experience in perspective so far: "This is a great opportunity, but being selected as a contestant for a game show isn’t something I can put on my resume. But getting a poem published, that’s something else."

MSUM HOSTS DEBATEWATCH
2000 ON OCT. 3 AND OCT. 5
Are you confused about the issues in the current political campaign? Would you like to talk about the campaign with other citizens?
Minnesota State University Moorhead invites members of the community to participate in DebateWatch 2000, a voter education project sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), which is the national organization that sponsors the presidential debates.
First introduced in 1996, DebateWatch brings citizens together to watch the televised debates, talk about what they learn, and let the CPD know what they think. Candidates use debates to talk to the public. The public can use DebateWatch to talk to the candidates.
Citizens who participate in the DebateWatch will watch the televised debates with others then discuss the debate in small groups. The focus will not be on determining a winner or loser, but on what each viewer learned from the process. Citizens will also have the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the CPD during the small group discussions.
The session will be held at 8 p.m. in Comstock Memorial Union ballroom on Tuesday, Oct. 3, the first presidential debate, and Thursday, Oct. 5., the vice presidential debate. For details, contact Tim Borchers at 2656.

HENDRIX HEALTH CENTER
GETS NATIONAL ACCREDITATION
MSU'S Hendrix Health Center has been awarded the certificate of accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. The award means that Hendrix Health Center has met nationally recognized standards for quality health care set by the Chicago-based accrediting organization.
"We're pleased and proud to have achieved accreditation," said Penny Klein, director of the health center. "We think accreditation is very important and has helped us to improve the quality of care we provide. We feel that our patients are the ultimate benefactors from our participation in the accreditation program."
In order to achieve accreditation, HHC underwent an extensive on-site survey of its facilities and services. The surveyor evaluated all aspects of patient care. The findings of the survey resulted in a favorable decision.
Not all ambulatory health care organizations seek accreditation and not all who undergo an on-site survey receive favorable decisions. In a letter to Hendrix Health Center, the AAAHC president said, "The dedication and effort necessary to achieve accreditation is substantial. Hendrix Health Center is to be commended for this accomplishment."

MSUM COMBINED CHARITIES
GOAL THIS YEAR IS $25,000
The annual Minnesota State Employees Combined Charities Campaign begins September 25 and runs through October 6, 2000. This campaign is planned and administered by State employees. During the campaign you will have the opportunity to make a payroll deductible pledge to donate funds to the charity of your choice throughout the calendar year 2001.
As an MSUM employee, you will be "Investing In the Moorhead-Fargo Communities" when you take advantage of the opportunity to contribute. Your investment, small or large, makes a difference. You may choose to invest in medical research, the arts, the environment, education, reducing homelessness, community advocacy, social programs and much more through the Combined Charities payroll deduction plan. You may also give a one-time gift to the charity of your choice through this campaign.
Last year MSUM state employees invested a total of $17,765, an amount that was considerably less than contributions made by NDSU and Concordia. This year, a goal of $25,000 has been set for MSUM employees. Together we can achieve this goal and thereby make a difference in our communities.
To give you a little better understanding of what your investment can accomplish, if you pledge $5 per pay period through the UNITED WAY OF THE FARGO MOORHEAD AREA, you would be providing a week of three hot meals a day for a child whose cupboards are bare. Other agencies such as the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center would also benefit from your generous contribution.
This year’s Combined Charities Campaign will be coordinated by Ben Blair (2066), Deb Lewis (2158) and John Tandberg (2566). You will be receiving further information regarding the campaign, so please stay tuned and consider what a difference you could make.

SOCIAL INFO MEETING SEPT. 25
FOR STUDENT ACADEMIC CONVO
Monday, September 25, at 3 p.m. in CMU Ballroom section 200C. A social and informational meeting for this year's Student Academic Conference will be held. If you have volunteered your time in the past to make this event a success or if you would like to be more involved in the planning process we welcome your attendance at this social and informational meeting. If you have any questions please contact Ryan Sylvester at sylvest@mnstate.edu or check out the Student Academic Conference web page at http://www.mnstate.edu/acadconf

EH NATIONAL EDUCATION PROJECTS
Grant Date: 2001-10-15; deadline Oct. 15, 2000. NEH National Education Projects provide support for projects to improve the teaching and learning of all disciplines in the humanities by American teachers and their students. Projects may include materials development, curriculum development, and dissemination efforts for a national audience. Applications must be received no later than October 15, 2000. The NEH staff encourages consultation with program staff prior to submitting an application. Application information is available at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines.html

MSUM IS ON THE AIR
WITH 970 WDAY-AM
In case you haven’t heard, MSUM faculty and staff have taken to the airwaves on 970 WDAY-AM each week on the station's "Ask the Expert" program. Every Monday at 8:50 a.m., an MSUM representative visits with on-air host Eric Johnson to promote university programs, activities or events, or to talk about an area of expertise, such as athletic injuries or computer viruses.
We’ve had wonderful participation from faculty and staff. We’ve been on the air since June 5 and have showcased a variety of topics: Straw Hat Players, Film Series, astronomy programs, 4th of July, College for Kids, summer heat problems, athletic injuries, Science Center events, Family History Workshop and Parent Child Communication Program. Upcoming topics include political debates and political advertising with Tim Borchers, political polls with Barb Headrick, service learning with Kathy Scott and "Threepenny Opera" with Laurie Wigtil.
Our contract for this program runs through May 2001. We’re always looking for new voices to spread the good word about MSUM. There is an open date in October for Monday the 16th, and all of November and December are still open. If you’d like to promote an upcoming event or discuss an area of professional interest, please contact Kristi Monson, 2110, or monson@mnstate.edu

SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT HELPS SPONSOR HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE
The Department of Social Work and Minnesota State University Moorhead are assisting the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care in sponsoring a conference entitled Case Management in Health Care. Participants at this one-day conference will discuss social work’s changing professional case management role in dynamic health care settings. The keynote speaker at this conference will be Evelyn Koenig, MSW, ACSW, Assistant Director of the Office of Case Management and Director of Social Work at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Other speakers include Gayla Drengson, MSW, CCM, and Margaret Reed, RN, MBA, both of Altru Hospital in Grand Forks.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. on September 22, and activities will end by 4 p.m. that afternoon. For more information, contact Dr. Shawn Ginther in the Social Work Department at MSUM, or Accessline at 1.800.552.0190.

DIABETES IN THE HISPANIC
POPULATION TOPIC OF MIGRANT
HEALTH SERVICES/ MSUM CONFERENCE
The Management of Diabetes in the Hispanic Population is the topic of a conference Oct. 12-14 at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
It will address the health needs of the diabetic Hispanic population as it relates to practices; behaviors and traditions that impact health care professionals; the challenges they encounter; outcomes of care; and directions for the future. Professionals with expertise in cultural issues and diabetes management in the Hispanic population will speak.
Keynote speaker is Rachel Spector, who has more than 26 years experience in developing and teaching models of effective nursing care in multicultural populations. She’s the author of the book, "Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness," now in its fifth edition. She’s an associate professor at the Boston College School of Nursing in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and is the president of the Transcultural Nursing Society.
Presenter Jose Aaron is the senior research coordinator and project evaluator of the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has extensive experience in research, training, program administration, health planning and social work.
Registration for the pre-conference diabetes crash course, which runs 5-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, is $15 and includes dinner. The conference fee of $25 includes Friday lunch and Saturday breakfast. Registrations are due by Oct. 9 to the MSUM Continuing Studies Office, 811 11th St. S., Moorhead, MN 56563 or fax 218-287-5030. For more information, call 218-236-2182.
The conference is sponsored by Migrant Health Services, Inc. and Continuing Studies at MSU Moorhead, and funded through a grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation.
PARKING PAYROLL DEDUCTION BECOMES A PRE-TAX BENEFIT
A change has just been introduced that converts the parking deduction that is taken as an after-tax payroll deduction to a pre-tax deduction. Anyone who signed up for a parking deduction with the Parking Office will automatically have the deduction taken on a pre-tax basis. You will not need to sign up for anything else to take advantage of this benefit.
Because it was necessary to notify all employees of this benefit, the parking deduction begin date has been moved back one pay period. The parking pre-tax deduction will now be taken beginning on the October 6th check, and will continue over 5 pay periods, or until the December 1st check. If you signed up for a parking deduction to be taken from your paycheck, but you are not interested in taking advantage of this pre-tax benefit, you must contact the Payroll Office by Tuesday, September 26th.
If you did not sign up for a payroll deduction for parking, but you would like to take advantage of this benefit, you will need to sign up for a one-time payroll deduction in the Parking Office. The Parking Office will issue a refund of your payment, and the pre-tax deduction will be taken from your next payroll check.
If you have any questions about this pre-tax benefit, please call Terri Olson at 2222 or e-mail her at olsont@mnstate.edu. If you have a question about parking, please contact Cindy Sogn at 5036 or e-mail her at sogn@mnstate.edu.

MSUM TO TAKE PART IN NATIONAL
CHILD IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM
The Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) athletic department, in conjunction with the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), will distribute inkless child identification kits at its football game Saturday September 23 as part of the National Child Identification Program. Kickoff time for the contest against University of Minnesota Crookston is 1:30 p.m.
Free child identification kits will be distributed to fans as they exit the stadium at the end of Saturday's game. Protect your child's safety by picking up the clean, easy to use fingerprinting kit that allows you to take and retain a key identifier of your child in your own home.
National statistic indicate that more than 800,000 children are missing somewhere in America each year—an average of one child reported missing every 40 seconds.
The Dragons football program is proud to participate in this program and wishes to thank Clear Channel Communications and Inkless Image for their sponsorship of this worthwhile project.
This event is part of the largest community service project of its kind in the nation.

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIPS
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships for 2001-2002 are offered for study at one of 26 host institutions for scholars and writers engaged in research on global social and cultural issues relating to diversity, sustainability and civil society. Institutional nominations are preferred. Applications begin with a brief letter of intent due by December 1, 2000 with complete application due February 1, 2001. Further information is posted in the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. You may consult Associate Dean Jill Frederick for further information and assistance.

MISCELLANIA
* Vinod Lall, business administration had a paper titled, "Using data envelopment analysis to compare suppliers for supplier selection and performance improvement" published in volume 3, issue 5 (2000) of Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. He co-authored the paper with Fong-Yuen Ding, faculty member at NDSU, and Jian Liu, a graduate student of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at NDSU. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a multi-criteria based tool that is used to evaluate multiple decision making units (DMU’s). In this paper, DEA is used to evaluate the performance of multiple suppliers to a regional farm and construction equipment manufacturer. There are numerous factors used in evaluating and selecting suppliers. The DEA model developed for this paper was based on three input factors: price index, delivery performance and distance factor.
* The department of Housing and Residential Life had a great opening of the residence halls! Current occupancy is at 1,660 residents. The success was due to the many volunteers who came out to help with the Dragon Move-In Crew. HSL would like to express thanks to the following people for their involvement in training the 42 resident assistants and six complex coordinators (student supervisors): For a presentation titled, "Knowing Our Residents," Kristin Rortvedt and Veronica Michael, Admissions; Kim Gillette, International Student Affairs; Abner Arauza and Gus Claymore, Minority Student Affairs; and Jeff Dongvillo, Social Work. Each shared perspectives on understanding the background and demographics of our student resident population. During a presentation regarding "Student Issues," June Franzen and Lynn Peterson, Hendrix Health Center; Dr. Bette Bakke, Eating Disorders Institute; Diane Wolter and Deb Seaburg, Counseling Center; Sarah Leigh, Advising Support Services; and Carrie Fry, Village Family Services, covered student issues such as health resources at Hendrix Health Center, rape and abuse, eating disorders, depression, academic success, academic advising, and personal finance. Teresa Helfter Glover and Mandy Parpart, Student Activities, covered the topic of programming for residence hall students and ways to work collaboratively with other campus departments that provide programming opportunities. In a joint training effort, Campus Security student staff and our student staff carried out mock scenarios facilitated by Mike Kutzke, Moorhead Police Department; received training on federal regulations such as the Campus Security Act presented by Michael Pehler, Campus Security; and received fire extinguisher training through the Moorhead Fire Department. The student staff collaborated with the Student Orientation Counselors for an evening meal and some activities that provided for social interaction and bonding between two student leader groups at MSUM.
* Henry Chan, history, attended the XXXVIth International Congress of Asian and North African Studies in Montreal, Canada, August 28-September 2. He presented a paper entitled "A New Approach to the Writing of General History: Ahang Yinlin’s (1905-1942) Zhongguo shigang." The research was supported by an MSUM grant.
* This summer, Lila Hauge-Stoffel was awarded a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts as a Master Folk Artist working with natural plant dyes. The grant is to support continued field research and public presentations on the subject. She presented a demonstration and lecture on the use of Weeds as a Dye Source to the Folklore and the Environment seminar, offered through the NDSU Anthropology Department in July.
* Doris Walker-Dalhouse, EECE, attended her first international board meeting since being elected to the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association. The meeting was held two days prior to the 18th World Congress in Reading in Auckland, New Zealand. Over 1,500 individuals from 39 countries participated in the conference. Walker-Dalhouse also chaired a session entitled "The Presence of the Past" featuring Sherryl Jordon, a distinguished New Zealand children’s book author.

CLASSIFIEDS
For sale: Brand new color computer printer. HP612C. Never used and still in box. $69 Call Rich Kolotkin at 236?4078.
Lost: Heavy gold link bracelet during Dragonfest. The bracelet has sentimental significance. Cash reward if returned. Please call Karen 236-2447 or 233-7612
For Sale: 1929 3 bedroom duplex, easy single home conversion, high efficiency gas forced air, central air, fire place, dark woodwork and maple floors throughout. Wiring updated. Indoor drain-tile and sump installed this year. Centrally located, close to school, park and shopping. Call Vickie Fearing 236-8049 or 361-1061
For Sale: Brunswick pooltable, cherry wood, three-piece slate top, with extras!-Two years old. $1200.00 Call Carolyn 236-2478 or 236-2239.

THE HAYMAKERS’ IS MSUM (Sept. 13 issue)
PROF’S TRIBUTE, PAEAN TO
FARM FAMILY PERSEVERANCE
“The Haymakers,” a new book by Minnesota State University Moorhead history professor Steven Hoffbeck, traces the labor and heartache of five Minnesota farm families struggling to grow hay to feed their livestock.

The 224-page tribute ($24.95), published this month by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, is as much about grass, alfalfa and clover as it is about sweat, fear, toil and loss.

Through diaries, agricultural guidebooks and personal interviews, Hoffbeck takes a lyrical look at 150 years of haymaking, what he calls “just about the hardest work on a farm.”

The book is also a personal journey for Hoffbeck. Raised on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, the MSUM professor lost both his father and his oldest brother in separate agricultural accidents. His is one of the five families profiled in the book.

As he writes, “wound around my memories of summers haying with my dad and my brothers are deeper threads of mourning. Danger, both natural and mechanical, is woven into the fabric of farm work.”

Hoffbeck also explores his own feelings of guilt about leaving the family farm for a career as a teacher and historian.
Besides describing the tools and the methods of haymaking in the book, he chronicles the relentless demands of the farm and the constant struggles with nature and changing technology.

Both a documentary of the daily rhythms of farm work and an elegy for a vanishing way of life, the book is part agricultural history and part testament to how farm families survive and persevere. It includes 50 illustrations.

“The Haymakers” is available at local and online bookstores, or directly from the Minnesota Historical Society Press by calling 800-647-7827. The official publication date is Oct. 4.

AUTHOR WILLIAM BORDEN
READS AT MSU; THEATRE
TROUPE STAGES HIS PLAYS
Poet, novelist and playwright William Borden will read from his work at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20 in the MSUM Center for Business 109 as a feature of the university’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.

Borden’s novel, “Superstoe,” was recently published by Orloff Press. He is a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Dakota.

The Theatre of the Invisible Guests will present three of Borden’s one-act plays, “Apple,” “Moving Letters,” and “Reunion,” at the Spirit Room (111 Broadway, Fargo) at 8 p.m. Sept. 21-23 and Sep. 28-30.

UNIVERSITY FORUM LOOKS AT
MNSCU ALLOCATION MODEL
President Barden invites the university community to attend a university forum on the topic of “The MnSCU Allocation Model: What do the new funding strategies mean?” from 3 to 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18 in Weld Hall 106.

President Barden and Vice Presidents Bette Midgarden and David Crockett will present and questionand answer discussion period will follow.

Faculty, staff, and administrators are encouraged to attend.

BRAZILIAN SOUNDS OPEN 34TH
PERFORMING ARTS SEASON
“Braziliana-Music of Brazil and the Americas” with guitarist Christopher Parkening and baritone Jubilant Sykes opens the 34th MSUM’s Performing Art Series season at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. In the spirit of Bobby McFerrin and Yo Yo Ma, the two musicians will stage a program of traditional, folk and classical music from Brazil and the Americas. Parkening is recognized as an heir to the legacy of the great Spanish artist Andres Segovia and Sykes, a veteran of the Metropolitan opera, also won the Sacred Music USA’s Vocalist of the Year Award. (For ticket information, call 2271.)

STUDENT HERE WINS TWIN CITIES
BLACK JOURNALIST SCHOLARSHIP
Yanick Dalhouse, an MSUM economics and broadcast journalism major, is one of two recipients for this year’s Twin Cities Black Journalists Scholarship. Dalhouse will accept the $1,000 scholarship on Sept. 15 at the Brooklyn Park Hilton in Minneapolis. The featured speaker will be Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes.” The Minneapolis chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists provided the scholarship.

CLIMBER TALKS ABOUT
FINDING MALLORY ON
MT. EVEREST SEPT. 26
Cinematographer-climber Thom Pollard, who found the body of British explorer George Mallory on an ascent of Mt. Everest last year, will present a lecture slide show on “The Power of Mt. Everest: The Quest to Find George Leigh Mallory” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in MSUM’S student union ballroom.

Mallory and his companion, Andrew Irvine, vanished about 800 feet from the summit (29,028 feet) of Mt. Everest on June 8, 1924. Pollard, on an expedition commissioned by the BBC and PBS, found the perfectly-preserved body of Mallory at 27,000 feet on May 16, 1999.

With reverence and permission of the Mallory family, Pollard verified that it was indeed him, said prayers and re-buried the body.

Admission to the show, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, is $1 for MSUM students and $2 for the general public. A question and answer session will follow.

CHINESE CLUB HOSTS MID-AUTUMN
FESTIVAL AND OPEN HOUSE SEPT. 19
The MSUM Chinese Club will celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival at an open house Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. in MacLean Hall room 174.

This celebration of the harvest season, also known as the “Moon Festival,” features games, prizes, and demonstrations of Chinese paper folding, calligraphy, and paper cutting, plus a discussion of the East Asian Studies program and study abroad opportunities in China and Taiwan.

Entertainment includes a martial arts demonstration, Chinese music, and a costume show. Snacks and beverages will be provided.

This event is partially supported by the Asian American Association and Multicultural Student Affairs. The MSUM community is invited to this
free celebration. For more information, call Jenny Lin, 236-2913.

APAC MEETS SEPT. 19
The Academic Policy Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, September 19 at 3:30 p.m. in the Ballroom (CMU 200A). Please note change of meeting location!

AGENDA
1. Accounting Department
New Course Proposal:
ACCT 441L: Individual Income Tax ? VITA Experience (1 cr.)
2. Paralegal Department
Changes to the area of emphasis in Criminal Litigation

MAKING MODERN MEDICINE
TOPIC OF OXFORD PROF’S
LECTURE HERE SEPT. 28
Allan Chapman, a professor at Oxford University in England, presents a lecture on “The Wonderful Century: The Making of Modern Medicine, 1850-2000,” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 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.

Chapman will also speak on, “Does Christianity have Anything to Fear from Science?” at the Cormorant Lutheran Church in Cormorant, Minn., at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27.

During his visit to campus, Chapman will talk to students interested in studying at Oxford next year under MSUM’s Eurospring program. For details, contact Jill Holsen at the university’s International Programs office, 236-2956.

BLACKFEET IDENTITY IN ART
TOPIC OF SEPT. 26 LECTURE
The art department is sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Lynne Spriggs on “(Re)presenting Blackfeet Identity” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in King Hall auditorium. Spriggs is a Curator of Art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She received her doctorate from Columbia University with a specialty in Native American Art

NEW LIBRARY REFERENCE TITLES
The Livingston Lord Library at MSUM announces the availability of the following titles in the Reference Room:

Concise encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology. Ref. BL303 .O83 1969b

Reverse symbolism dictionary: symbols listed by subject. Ref. CB475 .O37 1992

The book of the world. Atlases Ref. G1021 .K3842 1999

Macmillan centennial atlas of the world. Atlases Ref. G1021 .M213 1999

2000 America’s top-rated cities: a statistical handbook. Ref. HA214 .A43 1999

Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group industry handbook. Ref. HF5035 .D86 2000

The baby boom: Americans aged 35 to 54, 2nd edition. Ref. HN60 .R868 1999x

The early intervention dictionary: a multidisciplinary guide to terminology, 2nd edition. Ref. HV891 .C63 1999

The Blackwell dictionary of political science. Ref. JA61 .B43 1999

The writer’s legal guide, 2nd edition. Ref. KF390 .A96C734 1998

American women prose writers, 1870-1920. Ref. PS362 .A83 2000

Kate Chopin: an annotated bibliography of critical works. Ref. PS1294 .C63Z644 1999

The dictionary of multimedia: terms and acronyms. Ref. QA76.575 .H362 1999

Dictionary of physics. Ref. QC5 .C427 1999

American women photographers: a selected and annotated bibliography. Ref. TR139 .K74 1999

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to submit requests for new library materials to their department’s library liaison. Larry Schwartz is the Collection Management Librarian for the Library, and his phone number is x2353.

VACANCIES
* Fundraising Executive: Serve as professional development officer responsible for initiating, coordinating and evaluating giving programs as directed by the executive director of university advancement. Application deadline: Sept. 29. Contact Human Resources for details.

HENDRIX HEALTH CENTER RECOGNIZED
FOR QUALITY LABORATORY SERVICES
Hendrix Health Center’s laboratory has met all criteria for Laboratory Accreditation by COLA, a national healthcare accreditation organization. Accreditation is given only to laboratories that apply rigid standards of quality in day-to-day operations, demonstrate continued accuracy in the performance of proficiency testing, and pass a rigorous on-site laboratory survey. Hendrix Health Center’s laboratory has earned COLA accreditation as a result of a long-term commitment to provide quality service to its patients.

COLA is a nonprofit, physician-directed organization promoting quality and excellence in medicine and patient care through programs of voluntary education, achievement, and accreditation.

COLA is approved by the federal government and sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, the College of American Pathologists, and the American Osteopathic Association.

MISCELLANIA
* Louis De Maio, Speech/Language/Hearing Sciences, presented information on facilitating communication and language development to paraprofessionals in the Moorhead Public Schools last month.
* Henry Chan, History, gave four presentations at various Chinese academic institutions during his sabbatical last spring. As a visiting scholar to Nankai University in Tianjin, he delivered two lectures titled “Some American Views on Periodization in World History” and “The Controversy over Martin Bernal’s Black Athena.” At the Institute of World History in Beijing, Chan lectured on the development of world history in the United States, 1945-1995. At Quinghau University, also in Beijing, he presented the results of his research on Zhang Yinlin (1905-1942) and his historical works. Yinlin was a history professor at Quinghua in the 1930s.

CLASSIFIEDS
FOR SALE: 2 blocks from MSU campus. Beautiful home with steel siding, maple hardwood floors, open staircase with original woodwork, 4 bedrooms, 1 and 1/2 bath, enclosed front and back porches, deck, large fenced in lot, kennel, single car garage, garden shed, gardens, fruit trees and lots of character. Located at 1019 4th Avenue South in Moorhead, asking $89,900 call Mike Gunter at 729-9309 or 236-8230 to arrange a showing.

MSUM’S ALAN DAVIS RELEASES (Sept. 7 issue)
‘ALONE WITH THE OWLS,’ HIS
2ND BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
"Alone With The Owls," a collection of 14 short stories by Alan Davis, an MSUM English professor, was released this month by New Rivers Press.

Many of the stories in the 139-page paperback are set in Davis' home state of Louisiana and involve an assortment of displaced personalities confronting spiritual and emotional crises.

The title story is about a minor league baseball player who bumbles a convenience store robbery and ends up in jail, where he tells his story to his wife. Other characters populating the collection range from a schizophrenic cured by ketchup to poets, performance artists, reluctant soldiers, wayward priests, and the divorced and disillusioned. The landscapes stretch from Louisiana bayous and piedmonts to downtown Chicago and the ethnic wars in Eastern Europe.

This is the second collection of short stories published by Davis. His first, "Rumors from the Lost World," was among four winners in the 1993 Minnesota Voices Project, which recognizes outstanding new Midwest writers. For a dozen years he’s also co-edited "American Fiction," an annual anthology chosen by Writer’s Digest as one of the top 15 short story publications in the country.

Davis is currently working on a novel set in a New Orleans mental hospital.

He’ll will read from his new short story collection at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 in King Hall Auditorium as part of MSUM’s annual Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.

DILLE KICKS OFF MSUM
LECTURE SERIES WITH
NORMAL SCHOOL HISTORY
Dr. Roland Dille will kick off the university’s third annual Deans’ Lecture Series at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 with an historical look at the Moorhead Normal School.

It’s the first of five scheduled afternoon lectures sponsored this year by the university’s deans. Free and open to the public, they all meet in room 109 of the Center for Business.

Former MSUM President Dille will discuss the creation of the Moorhead Normal School, which was established in 1887 by the Minnesota Legislature to meet the growing need for teachers after an influx of immigrants to the Red River Valley following the Civil War. It grew into what today is called Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Other lectures in the series:
* Martin Grindeland, a mass communications professor, will show a short video and talk about his three weeks in the Ukraine during the spring of 1999 at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18. His wife, Sveta, a native Ukrainian, accompanied him on that trip.
* Allen Sheets, an art professor, will talk about the diverse range of styles that have emerged from the university’s graphic design students over the past decade at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14. MSUM’s graphic design program has received national attention for the quality of its graduates.
* Doris Walker-Dalhouse, an elementary and early childhood education professor, will discuss her experiences working with the Kentucky Education Reform of 1990 at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15. The program was aimed at correcting inequalities in school achievement.
* Bruce Roberts, an anthropology professor, will talk about the everyday lives of most Africans, who often face monumental odds and great risk, at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 22. Rather than focusing on HIV, drought or civil war, the talk is an attempt to focus on the charity, goodwill and forgiveness—lessons of humanity—that can be gleaned from African life.

VET’S WHEELCHAIR TREK TO
ST. PAUL SET SEPT. 9 TO
PROTEST GULF WAR ILLNESSES
Kevin Shores, an MSUM senior, has recovered from his accident last spring and is now ready to ride his motorized wheelchair from Moorhead to the steps of the St. Paul Capitol building to draw attention to the variety of ailments that have plagued Gulf War veterans.

He’ll be leaving Moorhead City Hall at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 9 and traveling along Hwy. 10 to the Twin Cities. He’s expected to arrive at the state Capitol steps between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19. He’ll be cruising at a speed of about 4 miles per hour, akin to a brisk walk, during the 250-mile journey.

He sent certified letters to Gov. Jesse Ventura and Senators Paul Wellstone and Rod Grams, hoping they’ll meet him on the Capitol steps to discuss the plight of Gulf War veterans.

Shores was hit by a garbage truck making a right turn on a red light last spring in St. Paul while preparing for his wheelchair journey across the state. He suffered a broken femur and elbow, and will require hip replacement surgery.

"It was just another bump in the road," he said.

Shores was coming back from St. Paul on University Avenue, timing his trip to the Capitol steps, when he attempted to cross Highway 280. "I thought I made eye contact with the driver before I crossed," he said. "I guess not."

Shores, a 32-year-old Native American, is a former 220-pound Navy veteran and captain of his high school swimming team who now weighs 140 pounds and is confined to a wheelchair. He says his condition is the result of Gulf War Syndrome, a term coined by the media that covers a variety of ailments and symptoms. Veterans Administration doctors have told him he’s suffering from rheumatoid variant disease, an acute arthritic condition.

Shores’ goal is to draw attention to an array of mysterious maladies that he says affect more than 186,000 Gulf War veterans who have registered their health complaints with the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration.

Anyone willing to support Shores’ effort may e-mail him at: nindoogitchidaa@aol.com. (Nindoogitchidaa is an Ojibwa phrase that translates as "I am a warrior.")

BASQUE CULTURE AND CONFLICT
FOCUS OF LECTURE HERESEPT. 12
Raquel Lodeiro O’Barr, a Spanish-Basque native and languages professor here, will tallk on "The Basque Country of Spain: Land of Culture and Conflict" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 in MacLean Hall 268.

Basques, who inhabit the northeastern part of Spain, are a people with a distinct culture who speak an ancient language completely unrelated to other European languages. This modern industrial area has been racked with separatist violence, an example of current conflicts that disrupt the harmony of the European Union.

The talk is free and open to the public.

MSUM JUNIOR AWARDED
$8,000 JAPANESE SCHOLARSHIP
Bree Lynn Hamann, a junior biology and East Asian studies major here, has been awarded an $8,000 scholarship and round-trip airfare from the Japanese government to attend Nagoya Gakuin University this school year.

The scholarship will allow Hamann to immerse herself in Japanese language and culture at the university for 10 months. She’ll begin her studies there this month.

Hamann is a 1998 graduate of Trinity High School in Dickenson, N.D., and will leave for Japan this month.

DRAGON FIRE RAFFLE
NETS $19,000 PROFIT
Dragon Fire's annual post-Power Bowl social and raffle did very well, despite the deluge. Mark Vanyo, a member of the Alumni Foundation Board and a Dragon Fire committee member, says Border State Electric held the successful raffle ticket and will donate the boat back to MSUM. We will offer the boat for sale and that money will go to the overall event profits.

With the raffle ticket and boat profits, less event expenses, the net profit will be in the $19,000 range. Thanks go to Mark, Dan and Jolene Trustem, and Dragon Fire.

500 ATTENDED ALL-SCHOOL
REUNION FOR MSUM’S
OLD CAMPUS SCHOOL
Of the 950 students who graduated from the Moorhead State Campus High School between 1931 and 1971, more than 500 between the ages of 48 and 88 return for an all-school reunion Aug. 17-20.

"Here’s a trivia question for you," said Erling Johnson, a 1955 Campus High School graduate who’s organizing the reunion with the help of Betty Walicski and the MSUM Alumni Foundation. "Which of the Minnesota Viking’s famed ‘Purple People Eaters’ graduated from the Campus High School? Gary Larsen from the class of 1957."

Larsen, who became known as the Norse Nightmare, was a football star at the Campus School and Concordia College before joining the Viking’s famous Purple Gang.

The Campus School was an adjunct of what was then called Moorhead State Teachers College. It served as a practicum lab for student teachers at MSTC and as a school for testing innovative ideas in education.

The school was open to the community, but each grade was limited to 30 students. "They registered first-come, first served," Johnson said. "Most were from Moorhead, but students also came from Sabin, Harwood and other surrounding towns."

The first Campus School reunion, held in 1987, brought back 715 alumni. "They’re like family reunions," said Johnson, who’s spent close to three years organizing this summer’s reunion. "Because the classes were so small, everyone seemed to know everyone’s name."

The Minnesota State Teacher’s College High School officially opened in 1921. Up until that year, it was called the Training School and included only the first eight grades. The next year a ninth grade class was added. And the following year a 10th grade class.

In 1929 when the State Legislature voted that teachers colleges may grant degrees, the last two years of high school curriculum were added to the Campus School. That same year, Campus High School graduated its first class, composed of eight students.

Originally, all classrooms for the Campus School were in a building attached by a corridor to Old Main, the original Moorhead Normal School building funded by the 1887 legislature. But then a devastating fire destroyed Old Main on Feb. 9, 1930.

For the next two years, the Campus School used six houses purchased by the Alumni Association as temporary quarters. In 1932, when Lommen Hall was constructed, the Campus School moved in. "K through 6th grades were on the main floor, seventh through 12th grades on the second floor," Johnson said.

The students used Weld Hall for commencements, plays, operettas and coronations. They used the campus athletic facilities to field varsity sports teams, knick-named the Baby Dragons.

During the summer reunion, alumni dedicated a boulder in memory of the Campus School, which now sits in front of Lommen Hall.

If you’re interested in buying a commemorative campus school candle gobblet for $5 or a Campus School Reunion Directory for $10, contact Johnson at telephone 3255 in the Alumni Foundation Office in Owens Hall.

FACULTY CAN HELP
FOOTBALL RECRUITING
SEPT. 23, AND OCT. 7
Faculty interested in helping MSUM football coaches recruit new student athletes are encouraged to attend two meetings the coaches have scheduled to meet prospective students and their parents.

One is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 in Nemzek 204; the other is set at 11 a.m. Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 14, also at 11 a.m. in Nemzek 204.

For questions, contact Coach John Woleske at 5896 or 4393.

WORKSHOPS:WEBCT
Rhonda Ficek, director of Instructional Technology, will conduct the following one-hour workshops for faculty that want to work with the online course management system called WebCT during fall semester. All workshops will be hands-on sessions in the LIT (Library 222). There is no charge for the workshops, but you must register for the workshop at http://www.mnstate.edu (follow the Workshops link and go the Registration area for Fall 2000 Workshops).

If you need more information, contact Rhonda Ficek at 236-2339 or send
e-mailto ficek@mnstate.edu.

Overview of WebCT:
Mon, Sept 11 10AM, 11AM
Tue, Sept 12 3PM

Customizing the WebCT homepage:
Mon, Sept 18 Noon
Tue, Sept 19 3PM

WebCT -- Adding Course Content:
Mon, Sept 25 Noon

WebCT Online Testing:
Mon, Oct 2 Noon
Tue, Oct 3 3PM

WebCT Electronic Discussion:
Mon, Oct 9 Noon
Tue, Oct 10 3PM

WebCT Online Gradebook:
Mon, Oct 16 Noon
Tue, Oct 17 3PM

WORKSHOPS: WEB PAGE
DEVELOPMENT WITH FRONTPAGE
Rhonda Ficek, Director of Instructional Technology, will conduct
the following one-hour workshops for faculty and staff that want to work
with FrontPage for web site development.

All workshops will be hands-on sessions in the LIT
(Library 222). There is no charge for the workshops, but you
must register for the workshop at http://www.mnstate.edu (follow
the Workshops link and go the the Registration area for Fall
2000 Workshops).

If you need more information, contact Rhonda Ficek at 236-2339 or send
e-mailto ficek@mnstate.edu.

FrontPage Part I -- Basics:                   Fri Sept 15 1PM
FrontPage Part II -- Hyperlinks:              Fri Sept 22 1PM
FrontPage Part III -- Online Data Collection Fri Sept 29 1PM
FrontPage Part IV -- Navigation, Rollovers    Fri Oct 6 1PM

3RD ANNUAL STUDENT ACADEMIC
CONFERENCE NEEDS INPUT
The third annual Student Academic Conference will be held on Wednesday, April 11, 2001 in the Comstock Memorial Union.

In preparation for this event we are soliciting nominations for the featured speakers that have been a part of the program in addition to the student presentations. Your assistance is requested in two ways:

1. The main keynote speaker should be an alumnus of MSUM. Any faculty or staff member can nominate a former student that would address a topic similar to topics that have been addressed in the past (Importance of Undergraduate Research/Scholarly Activity and Pursuit of Knowledge rather than the Pursuit of a Degree). The theme hasn't been set in stone, but it will be something that corresponds with the mission of the conference which is to share knowledge across disciplines. To nominate: Submit the name, educational background, involvement while at MSUM, professional achievements, current status, and why you feel he or she would be a good candidate for the keynote speaker. Nominations can be sent to acconf@mnstate.edu Nominations are due by Thursday, Sept. 21.

2. In addition to the keynote speaker, there has always been four students selected to respond to the keynote address. These students represent each of the four academic divisions (one per academic division). The academic deans have always initiated some form of nomination process within their division to select the representative for the division. Please assist your dean in this process by submitting names of students you feel would represent the division well in this regard. The deans have been requested to select their representative by Wednesday, Sept. 20.

We will be formulating the conference steering committee very soon. If you would be interested in assisting with the planning and preparation for this event please submit your name to acconf@mnstate.edu or to Andrew Conteh, Political Science. We appreciate the support of the entire university community in the last two very successful conferences as well as all of the financial support and we look forward to another tremendous conference of showcasing our student achievement. To learn more about the conference, visit the conference web site: www.mnstate.edu/acadconf

MSUM SPURS GETS
AWARD AT ITS
INTERNATIONAL CONVO
The MSUM chapter of SPURS, an honorary service organization for college sophomores, received the "Chapter Activities Award" at the organization’s International Convention 2000 this summer in Greeley, Colorado. The award is granted to a chapter that has sponsored or participated in a variety of activities while maintaining quality and unity within the chapter and a balance between money raising, service and fun projects. Participation of the majority of the membership and creativity in activities were considered. A monetary award of $133 went to the MSUM chapter in recognition of its efforts.

UPCOMING CAB EVENTS
The Campus Activites Board will present the following featured programs here this fall:
* Cinematographer-climber Thom Pollard, who found the body of British explorer George Mallory on an ascent of Mt. Everest last year, will present a lecture slide presentation on "The Power of Mt. Everest: The Quest to Find George Leigh Mallory" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in MSUM’s student union ballroom. Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine vanished about 800 feet from the summit (29,028 feet) of Mount Everest on June 8, 1924. Pollard, on an expedition commissioned by the BBC and PBS, found the perfectly-preserved body of Mallory at 27,000 feet on May 16, 1999. With reverence and permission of the Mallory family, Thom verified that it was indeed him, said prayers and re-buried the body. Admission to the show, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, is $1 for MSUM students and $2 for the general public. A question and answer session will follow.
* Warren Blumenfeld, editor of "Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price" and the "Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identity," will speak on "Homophobia" at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9 in the MSUM student union ballroom. The event, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, is free and open to the public.
* UFO expert Robert Hastings will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8 in the MSUM student union. Admission to this Campus Activities Board event is $2 for MSUM students and $2 for the general public.

MSUM’S MCGRATH WRITING
SERIES FEATURES FOUR
AUTHORS FALL SEMESTER
MSUM’s15th annual Tom McGrath Visiting Writers series features four authors fall semester.

* Poet, novelist and playwright William Borden will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20 in the MSUM Center for Business 109 and then read from his works at 8 p.m. that evening in that same room. His novel, "Superstoe," was recently published by Orloff Press. He is a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Dakota.
* Novelist Michael C. White, author of the New York Times Notable Book "A Brother’s Blood" and Book-of-the-Month selection "The Blind Side of the Heart" will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19 in King Hall Auditorium and read from his work at 8 p.m. that night in Weld Hall Auditorium. He teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
*Author and actress Lorna Landvik, who’s published four best-selling novels—"Patty Jane’s House of Curl," "Your Oasis on Flame Lake," "The Tall Pine Polka" and "Welcome to the Great Mysterious"—speaks on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 and reads from her work at 8 p.m. that night, both scheduled in King Hall Auditorium.
* Editor and short story writer Alan Davis, an MSUM English professor, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 in King Hall Auditoriu. He is co-editor of the annual anthology," American Fiction," and author of two collections of short stories, "Rumors from the Lost World" and "Alone with the Owl."

‘SPACE BUS’ SHOWING
THROUGHOUT FALL
AT MSUM PLANETARIUM
"Space Bus," a funny, family-oriented tour of the universe, will be showing Sept. 10 through Nov. 13 at the MSUM Planetarium.

Shows are scheduled at 2 p.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Mondays throughout the fall. Admission is $3 for adults and $1.50 for senior citizens, children under 12 and Tri-College students.

"Space Bus" is the story of a group of children who are taking a field trip through the solar system when a mishap sends their space bus into a nonstop flight to the stars. The light-hearted story is an educational journey designed for family entertainment.

The MSUM Planetarium is located in Bridges Hall 167, near the intersection of 11th Street and 8th Avenue South.

For more information or special group showings, call the Planetarium office at 236-3982.

NEW STUDENT INFORMATION LISTSERVE BEGINS
A new listserv called "student info" has been created to provide information to students.

The purpose of this listserv is not only to provide a common place to post information that is of interest to the students, but to keep the students well informed with information about university deadlines and procedures. This is NOT a place for advertising. Once a week, student and campus related events will be posted to the list.

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ALZHEIMER’S MEMORY
WALK SET SEPT. 16
Hundreds of F-M residents will walk to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer’s disease in the North Dakota Alzheimer’s Associations’ second annual Memory Walk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 16 at Concordia College. Proceeds from the walk will be used to help F-M Alzheimer families. For more information, call the association at 588-4662 or 277-9757.

MISCELLANIA
* This summer Steve Hoffbeck, History, spoke to the Germans from Russia Heritage Society at their annual convention at the Radisson Inn in Bismarck, ND. The topic was "The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in North Dakota." Hoffbeck represented the North Dakota Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, which helped sponsor the talk. He also gave an illustrated slide/lecture entitled "Northern Minnesota Logging and Logging Towns" to the state-wide annual meeting of the Minnesota Water and Soil Conservation Districts in Bemidji.

* Shelton Gunaratne, mass communications, chaired a round table on mass
media in Asia at the biennial conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research held in Singapore last July. Gunaratne also attended the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication held in Phoenix last month. He presented a paper titled "Problems and prospects of the world system theory for media analysis." He was also a panelist in a session on civic journalism.
* Abbas Pezeshk, Chemistry, and Derick Dalhouse, Psychology, had a paper titled: "Vitamin E, Membrane Fluidity, and Blood Pressure in Hypertensive and Normotensive Rats" accepted for publication in the Journal of Life Sciences. Using hypertensive and control rats, Dalhouse and Pezeshk showed that vitamin E had significantly lowered blood pressure of hypertensive rats compared to the controls. Furthermore, they confirmed that vitamin E had increased the fluidity of erythrocytes of the hypertensive rats. Their data suggest that the mechanism by which vitamin E and possibly other antioxidants have their beneficial effects on blood pressure may be through lowering membrane miscroviscosity and increasing membrane permeability. This research was supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and in part by a grant from the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and in part by a faculty grant from MSUM. "Don’t forget to take your daily vitamin E."
* Suzanne Hungerford and Patrick Coppens, Speech/Language/Hearing Sciences, attended the International Neuropsychological Society Convention in Brussels, Belgium this summer. They presented a research project entitled: "A Case of Acquired Stuttering: Neurogenic, Psychogenic, or Malingering?" They also presented a poster session entitled: "Crossed Aphasia: A Global Analysis."
* Kris Vossler and Marie Swanson, Speech/Language/Hearing Sciences, attended the ninth biennial conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) last month. The conference was held in Washington, D.C. and members from many of the 50 countries belonging to SAAC were in attendance.
* Janet Aarness, director of Academic Support Programs, and Thomas Lane, associate director of student union and activities, have been accepted into the Fargo Moorhead Leadership Class of 2001.
* Zhimin Guan, Art, won a first place award for his painting "Fossils" in the Art on the Plains Regional Art Exhibition held at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo. The show features 51 works selected from a pool of submissions from Midwestern and Manitoba artists. The exhibit is open Sept. 14-Nov. 2. Guan’s other painting, "Prying in Landscape#2," has been selected to show in New York City’s Salmagundi Club Art Gallery, sponsored by The American Artists Professional League in New York.
*Kathleen Enz Finken, Art, spent three weeks working on an archaeological dig in Polis Chrysichous, Cyprus this summer. The dig, part of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Cyprus--ongoing since the early 1980's--is led by Professor William Childs of Princeton, an expert in Greek Archaic art and architecture. Polis is the site of ancient Marion, a seventh-century B.C. Greek foundation, supplanted in the early third century B.C. by the Ptolemaic city of Arsinoe. The strategic location of the island of Cyprus, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt, Syria and Turkey, has made it a politically highly contested island for thousands of years, and therefore a rich site for archaeological study. The several sites currently under investigation at Polis include late medieval, Byzantine, Early Christian, Roman, Hellenistic, Classical and Archaic Greek levels. Enz Finken worked at a variety of tasks during her visit, including excavating thousands of fragments of painted plaster from a Byzantine church destroyed by an earthquake, uncovering an Early Christian floor mosaic, and excavating what was probably a medieval re-burial of at least 24 human skeletons in a stone-lined pit in the vicinity of the early medieval churches. The finds in this three-week period included gold jewelry, terracotta oil lamps, several complete pots of medieval and Roman date, dozens of bronze coins, an Early Christian bread stamp used to mark communion wafers, and numerous architectural fragments. Dr. Tina Najbjerg, an archaeologist specializing in the Roman sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and supervisor of the dig at Polis this season, will visit MSUM in October during the Community College Symposium hosted by the Art Department. Dr. Najbjerg will give public lectures on Pompeii and Herculaneum, and on the excavations at Polis.
CLASSIFIEDS
For Sale: 1994 Toyota 4 Runner SR5, V6, 93k, 4x4, loaded, excellent
condition. $14,000 Phone 5806 or 233-6505.
Wanted: apartment or house to rent November through March, near as possible to MSU. Call 218-342-2571 or 236-2665.

(First issue of the 2000 school year):
MSUM PROFS GET $156,000 NSF
GRANT FOR CANCER RESEARCH
Two professors here have received a $156,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project aimed at better understanding how normal cells become cancerous.
The three-year grant was awarded to MSUM chemistry professor Joe Provost and biology professor Mark Wallert, who will involve more than 18 undergraduate students in their research each year, three full-time each summer.
"We’re not going to find a cure for or a cause of cancer," Provost said. "We just hope to add some pieces to the puzzle."
The grant was one of 20 awarded nationally by the Cell and Molecular Biology: Cell Signaling section of the NSF.
Wallert has spent most of his academic career studying transport and cell signaling at Emory University and MSUM. Provost did similar cancer research at Vanderbilt University before coming to MSUM three years ago.
The overall goal of their project is to look at the underlying genes and proteins involved in cancer, along with hormones that can change the acid level in the cells—one of the first events in a cell becoming cancerous.
Students in MSUM’s two-year old biotechnology program helped do the preliminary research that led to the successful grant application. Most of the grant money will be used to fund student research and buy materials.

ENROLLMENT TO REACH 7,400
MSUM is expecting 1,200 new freshmen and 670 new transfer students when classes began this week. Total enrollment is expected to reach at least 7,400 students, up about 6.5 percent from last fall.

$7 million just this summer….
CONSTRUCTION NEARLY FINISHED
AS NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS
If you think the entire campus looks like a construction zone, you’re right. Since school let out last spring, MSUM has spent about $7 million on campus improvements, including $2.5 million so far on the $3.6 million expansion project west of campus.
"It looks a lot busier around here this year," says David Crockett, vice president of administrative affairs.
Don’t forget, however, that in the previous two years we spent more than $12 million from the state’s Higher Education Asset Preservation and Renewal Fund to replace roofs and refurbish several campus landmarks. It’s been a frantic three years."
Here’s an update on current construction projects:
* Five Block Expansion: MSUM hired Ulteig Engineering to do the design work shortly after Governor Ventura approved the $3.6 million project. The money became available in late June and the project was let for bids in early July. The parking lots from 9th Ave. to 6th Ave will be ready to use when school opens Aug. 28. The parking lots in the north block between 5th and 6th Ave. and 10th and 11th St. will be completed in mid-September. And the parking lot north of Hagen will be completed by Oct. 1. The lot west of Hagen and the lots around the Continuing Education house will be paved this month. The rest of the parking lots may have an underlayment coat in late fall and will be finished next May.
The entire project created 940 new campus parking spaces. Next spring, the university will plant about 140 trees in the expansion zone. ($2.5 million of the $3.6 million project has already been spent.)
* Lommen Hall: The renovation of Lommen Hall involved a total redesign of office spaces on the second floor to make better use of space for the staff there. It includes adding four new offices and turning some dead space into storage. The project is done. ($300,000)
Mold was found in the basement of Lommen Hall last spring. So the four classrooms there were totally gutted, disinfected and rebuilt. The project is completed. ($230,000)
* Flora Frick Hall: The renovation on the second floor of Flora Frick Hall, designed to allow mass communications to completely digitize its curriculum, will be completed by Sept. 10. It will take two to three weeks after that date to install tables, finalize cabling and hook up computers and software. Backup space in the Library computer labs will be used until then. ($1 million)
The first floor construction, moving the Docutech Center into the Print Shop and moving the Post Office next to the east entrance to Flora Frick, will get underway in September. Both projects should be completed by November. The Peer Advising Center will expand to where the Docutech is now; the old Post Office space in Owens will be converted into a reception area. ($150,000)
* Campus Security: It’s been moved temporarily into the old Delta Zeta House at 1025 7th Ave. The City of Moorhead has kicked in $60,000 so far for a police substation that will be built this fall on the corner of 9th Avenue South and 17th Street, just south of the Physical Plant. The 1,680-square-foot, single-story building will be home to MSUM’s Campus Security program and to two or three Moorhead patrol officers. Crocket said he’s received one quote for installation of the basement walls and floor for the substation. "The quote of $54,000 was absolutely ridiculous," he said. "So we’re back looking for a concrete company to install the basement walls. The economy in the area is much stronger than most may appreciate." ($120,000)
* Nemzek Hall: The renovated six-lane, 25-meter pool swimming pool should be completed in early September. ($700,000)
* The new outdoor track is under construction now. ($370,000)
* Locker room and concession stand will be partially completed by Aug. 28, and finished in early September. ($600,000)
* Center for the Arts: The new graphic design computer lab in room 166 will be ready when school starts. Additional office spaces will be ready by mid-October ($15,000)
Site preparation to install a new kiln will be completed in September. ($8,000)
* Hagen Hall: A new computer lab for the Technology Department’s graphic commucations program will be ready when school starts. ($10,000) The university will also repair the steam heat system in the Technology Department office area. ($21,500)
* Owens Hall: Some construction work might begin over the holiday break, which would include renovations in Academic Affairs and replacing carpets elsewhere. It may, however, be delayed until next spring. ($20,000)
* Grier Hall: Flood damage this summer to the basement will be repaired when classes start. FEMA is expected to reimburse the university for this $40,000 expense.
* Keyless Entry System: It should be completed by Thanksgiving. The access cards are computer chip proximity cards. Students, faculty and staff will have to get new I.D. cards that include the chip, which dictates which doors each individual is allowed to access.
Under the new keyless system, if a student, faculty or staff member loses their I.D. card, the university will no longer have to re-key an entire building—an expensive process that happens too often. The lost card’s access codes are simply deleted from the computer-generated system. ($540,000)
* Bleacher Renovations: To meet Minnesota safety and access codes, MSUM will have to spend about $350,000 to improve both outside and inside bleachers at Nemzek Fieldhouse.
* Strategic Initiatives: Carpet and signage across campus will continually be worked on through fall semester and may reach into spring. ($40,000)

GUNDERSON NAMED
ALUMNI RELATIONS
DIRECTOR AT MSUM
Betty Gunderson, director of annual giving here for the past 11 years, has been named director of Alumni Relations.
She’s replacing Jim Shipp, who recently returned to Coldwell Banker to work in residential real estates sales in partnership with MSUM alumni Pat Karley. Shipp has been Alumni Association director for 12 years.
Gunderson, a 1969 MSUM business education graduate, is originally from Marshall, Minn. Before beginning her career at MSUM, she was a fundraisesr for a variety of human service organizations. She’ll head an Alumni Association
that keeps in touch with more than 35,000 graduates and supports MSUM through a variety of special programs and fund-raising efforts.
Gunderson and her husband Dave live in Fargo. They have two grown children, both MSUM alums.

MSU GRAD GETS FULBRIGHT
AWARD TO STUDY WOMEN’S
MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL
Jennifer Montgomery, a spring MSUM graduate from Lincoln, Neb., has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study the women’s movement in Israel. She will leave in September for a nine-month assignment in that country.
Montgomery, an anthropology major here, is one of about 2,000 United States grantees who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Program.
Established in 1946 under Congressional legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed to increase mutual understanding between people in the United States and people in other countries.
During its 52 years, the Fulbright Program has exchanged nearly a quarter of a million people—more than 70,000 Americans and 130,00 from other countries.

SABOLCIK NAMED TO MSUM
ATHLETIC PROMOTIONS
David Sabolcik, Jr., director of Sports Marketing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, has been named Athletics Promotions and Marketing Director at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Sabolcik (sah-BOWL-check), 25, replaces Dan LaRock, who resigned in June after two years in the Dragon athletic department.
Sabolcik spent two years at John Carroll and is expected to complete his master’s degree in Communication Management this summer. While at JCU he also served as Director of Ticket Operations, Special Events Coordinator and assistant football coach.
Sabolcik graduated from Slippery Rock University in 1998 with a B.S. degree in Sport Management. He was a second team GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American in football as a senior, and was named to the Burger King All-American team. He earned a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship following his senior season, and was saluted as the Slippery Rock University Alumni Foundation Man of the Year award in 1997-98.
Sabolcik served as an administrative assistant with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1998 before accepting the post at John Carroll.
MSUM’S 34TH PERFORMING ARTS
SERIES OPENS SIX-SHOW SEASON
MSUM’s Performing Arts Series opens its 34th season featuring six shows dedicated to the theme of "Diversity in the New Millennium."
All shows start at 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre. This year’s season:
* Braziliana-Music of Brazil and the Americas with guitarist Christopher Parkening and baritone Jubilant Sykes opens MSUM’s Performing Art Series season on Tuesday, Sept. 19. In the spirit of Bobby McFerrin and Yo Yo Ma, the two musicians will present a program of traditional, folk and classical music from Brazil and the Americas. Parkening is recognized as an heir to the legacy of the great Spanish artist Andres Segovia and Sykes, a veteran of the Metropolitan Opera, also won the Sacred Music USA’s Vocalist of the Year Award.
* "Unforgettable, the Nat King Cole Story," a new musical by Clarke Peters ("Five Guys Named Moe"), is on stage Saturday, Oct. 7 The show features 26 songs that burst into a portrait of the American jazz legend.
* "Quartetto Gelato," a chamber music ensemble with a new millennium approach, is on stage Saturday, Oct. 28. Performing on multiple instruments including oboe, English horn, violin, viola, cello, accordion, guitar, mandolin and a tenor voice, the group performs a mix of classical favorites, operatic arias, tangos and gypsy fiddling.
* "The Dancing Wheels," a pioneering modern dance company comprised of dancers with and without disabilities, is on stage Thursday, Jan. 18 The company has created a unique artistry integrating handicapped dancers—using their movement on wheel chairs—with non-impaired dancers.
* The Guthrie Theatre presents "Molly Sweeney," a portrait of a woman blind since infancy who faces the possibility of having her sight restored, is scheduled March 24. This Guthrie touring production, directed by Joe Dowling, explores Irish-American culture through three characters and addresses a variety of issues about psychology, literature and attitudes about disabilities.
* "Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago" is on stage April 5. Giordano, known as "the Godfather of jazz dance," presents a program that integrates jazz styles with modern dance, communicating jazz dance as a reflection of the emotions, dreams and desires of the American people.
Season tickets are $99 (25 percent discount) for a single or $185 (30 percent discount) 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 $74.40 (20 percent discount), with reserved seats. Tickets for any three events is $56.10 (15 percent discount), with reserved seats. Single show prices range from $12 to $22.
MSUM faculty and staff prices for season tickets: $79.20 for a single, $145 for two people. For four of the shows: $61.60; for three of the shows: $52.80.
Call the MSU box office at 236-2271 for reservations.

‘EXPLICITLY FIGURATIVE’
SHOWING AT MSUM
GALLERY SEPT. 5-29
A visiting exhibition, "Explicitly Figurative," will be showing Sept. 5-29 at the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery. A public reception is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14.
The exhibition features 36 works by local artists Zhimin Guan, Loral Hannaher, Judith Hartwick, Dan Jones, Trygve Olson, Carl Oltvedt, Kay Ornberg, Timothy Ray, Sherry Lee Short, Karen Patek-Szeitz and P. Richard Szeitz. Also included in the show is Bela Petheo of St. Cloud.

MSUM PROF LECTURES
ON SANDZEN ART
SEPT. 9th AT ROURKE
An exhibit of graphic art, lithographs, woodcuts and dry points by Kansas artist Birger Sandzen will be on display through Sept. 10 at the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead.
The works are on loan from the collection of Jim Kaplan, an MSUM languages professor. Kaplan will present a lecture on Sandzen followed by a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9.

DRAGON SPORTS ON RADIO
All Dragon football games will be broadcast this fall over Star 1660 AM radio. Donn Groth and Larry Scott will provide color commentary while Steve d'Eustachio will handle play-by-play coverage. Star 1660 AM will also carry Dragon men and women's basketball during the 2000-2001 season.

NEW LIBRARY REFERENCE BOOKS
The Livingston Lord Library at MSUM announces the availability of the following reference titles:
The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy, 2nd ed. REF. B41 .C35 1999
Encyclopedia of human emotions. REF. BF531 .E55 1999
Atlas of American religion : the denominational era, 1776-1990. REF. BR515 .N49 2000
Who's who in the Bible. Rev. ed., new illustrated ed. REF. BS570 .C35 1999
Dictionary of cultural theorists. REF. CB430 .D52 1999
Encyclopedia of archaeology. REF. CC110 .E54 1999
The Penguin atlas of human sexual behavior. REF. G1046 .E622M2 2000
The McFarland baseball quotations dictionary. REF. GV707 .B34 2000
Concise dictionary of business management. 2nd ed. REF. HD30.15 .S73 1999
Encyclopedia of business, 2nd ed. REF. HF1001 .E466 2000
Encyclopedia of careers and vocational guidance, 11th ed. REF. HF5381 .E52 2000
The overnight résumé, 2nd ed. REF. HF5383 .A84 1999
Blue collar & beyond : resumes for skilled trades & services. REF. HF5383 .P348 1995
The resume catalog : 200 damn good examples. New updated ed. REF. HF5383 .P354 1996
Accountants' handbook, 9th ed. REF. HF5621 .A22 1999
Women's studies encyclopedia. Rev. and expanded ed. REF. HQ1115 .W645 1999
America's top-rated smaller cities : a statistical profile, 3rd ed. REF. HT123 .A437 2000
Older Americans information directory. REF. HV1457 .O42
Encyclopedia of smoking and tobacco. REF. HV5760 .H57 1999
The concise encyclopedia of democracy. REF. JC423 .C667 2000
Labor, employment, and the law : a dictionary. REF. KF3317 .A54 1997
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd ed. REF. KF4548 .E53 2000
The Encyclopedia of higher education. REF. LB15 .E49 1992
The Rolling Stone jazz & blues album guide REF. ML156.4 .J3R65 1999
A dictionary of architecture. REF. NA31 .C86 1999
A dictionary of literary symbols. REF. PN56 .S9F47 1999
Modern British literature, 2nd ed. REF . PR471 .M57 2000
Walt Whitman : a documentary volume. REF. PS3231 .W325 2000
Chambers dictionary of science and technology. REF. Q123 .C42 1999
Genetics manual : current theory, concepts, terms. REF . QH427 .R43 1998 PDR medical dictionary. REF. R121 .P21
Encyclopedia of complementary health practice. REF. R733 .E525 1999
Physicians' desk reference for ophthalmology. REF. RE994 .P57
Physicians' desk reference for nonprescription drugs and dietary supplements. REF. RM671 .A1P48
The Wiley dictionary of civil engineering and construction. REF. TA9 .W44 1997
Ramsey/Sleeper architectural graphic standards, 10th ed. REF. TH2031 .R35 2000
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.

NEW, MOVED AND UPGRADED
COMPUTER LABS ON CAMPUS
CA 201 computers have been moved to CA 166. The computers and software will be the same as spring term.
CB 200 has 31 new Gateway computers funded by the student computer fee. The software on the computers will be the same as spring term except we will have Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 loaded.
CB 212 has 31 new Gateway computers funded by the student computer fee. The software on the computers will be the same as spring term except we will have Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 loaded.
LI 203 has 15 new Windows computers and 10 new Macintosh computers all funded with student computer fee funds. The Windows computers will have Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000. The Macintosh computers will have Office 98, PageMaker, PhotoShop and DreamWeaver.
LI 202 computers have been have upgraded to Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000, along with current version of other software.
LI 100 (library porch) will have 33 new Macintosh computers funded by the student computer fee. Software will include Office 98, PageMaker, PhotoShop, Quark and Illustrator. This lab will move to Frick after construction is done.
LI 204 will have 24 Macintosh computers formerly located in FR 255. Software will include Office 98, PhotoShop and Quark. This lab will move to Frick after construction is done.
MA 168 will have 15 new Macintosh computers with Office 98 and FinalCut Pro. This lab will move to Frick after construction is done. This room will NOT be available for campus training sessions until the Macs are moved to Frick.
BR 166 will have 23 new Macintosh computers with Office98 and DreamWeaver. This lab will move to Frick after construction is done.
Computers recycled from old computers labs will be distributed according to a priority set by the academic deans. Installation of recycled computers will happen after all lab and new employee computers have been installed. Other computer labs on campus have been upgraded to current revisions of general software IF the hardware was deemed capable of running current versions.
Five Block Area Fiber and phone cables are being installed to the remaining houses in the five block area as needed.

GRADUATE STUDENTS:
There is an opening in the Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid for a Graduate Assistant. Duties include:
* Learning all aspects of financial aid (application and eligibility determination process, all aspects of processing, including verification).
* Presenting loan entrance and exit counseling sessions.
* Participation in Division of Student Affairs activities.
* Gaining and utilizing customer service skills.
* Providing assistance in a variety of office special projects (i.e., training sessions for online FAFSA application process and campus financial aid awareness programs).
* Developing and conducting budget and credit information sessions.
* Meeting with prospective MSU Moorhead students and parents and doing financial aid estimates.
* Assisting in the training of student employees.
* Filling in at the Information Services Desk as needed.
Wage is $8.50 per hour.
Please apply to Susan Rostvedt Johnson, Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid in Owens 107.
DRAGON FIRE LUNCHEONS
The first two Dragon Fire noon luncheons for Fall Semester 2000 will be held on Sepember 6th and 20th at the Knights of Columbus in Moorhead (just west of Hornbacher's). Dragon coaches and athletic staff will provide a preview for the upcoming fall sports season. Anyone interested in Dragons athletics is encouraged to attend.

HONORARIA FUNDS AVAILABLE
FOR GUEST SPEAKERS
The Otto Bremer Foundation has awarded $5000 to Lutheran Campus Ministry for the purpose of anti-racism/anti-bigotry education. Some of the grant is earmarked for the purchase of videotapes for the Tri-College library; some is being used to facilitate a service-learning event for new students during orientation. However, funding is still available for faculty to give honoraria to guest speakers whose presentations to students will serve to combat racism and bigotry. The grant will expire when the 2000-01 school year ends or when the funds are used up, whichever comes first. To learn more, please contact Pastor Carol Hertler at Lutheran Campus Ministry (phone 233-4720 or e-mail lthnstmv@mnstate.edu)

GLOBAL POPULATION
ISSUES TOPIC OF TCU
WORLD STUDIES SEMINAR
Population growth and demographic diversity is the theme for a nine-week seminar course on "Global Population Issues" to run Tuesdays, Sept. 12 through Nov. 7 on the Minnesota State University Moorhead campus. This world studies seminar is sponsored by Tri-College University (TCU) and meets from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in MacLean Hall.
Speakers from all three TCU campuses, regional businesses, government and service agencies will present global, national and local perspectives on food supply, environmental issues, world health/AIDS, aging, women and family planning, international and internal migration, world refugees and urbanization.
The seminar is available for 2 semester credits for MSUM or NDSU students or a .5 course credit for Concordia students. It is also free and open to the public to attend a single session or the entire lecture series.
For more information, call the Tri-College University office at 231-9731; Jan Fiola at 236-2584; or Andrew Conteh at 236-4009.

WOMEN’S CENTER DIRECTOR POSITION
The Women’s Center is seeking applications for the position of Director for the coming academic year. This is a half-time position (20 hours per week) and pays $9.00 per hour. The Director reports to the Dean of Arts and Humanities. Duties include the following: Promote the goals and activities of the Women’s Center; develop appropriate programming; coordinate programs, events and meetings; assist in the goal development for the Center; develop instruments to measure the quality of services pr