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Volume 18, Number 18, January 21, 1999
Calendar
January 21
Blood Drive Sign up
The Epicurean Room
Leadership Luncheon Series - Customer Satisfaction
Home Basketball vs. Minot State University
January 22
Campus Preview Day
Cholesterol Screening
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Marcoux Corner Concert
January 22 and 23
Home Hockey vs. Gustavus
January 23
Teambackers Fun Night
January 25
Training Session on University's Policy
January 26
Blood Drive
"Europe on 84 Cents a Day"
January 27
Teleconference "Racial Legacies & Learning: How to Talk About Race"
January 28
The Epicurean Room
Leadership Luncheon Series - Etiquette
Campus Assembly
T-Night Fever Singer John Bush
January 29 and 30
Ag-Arama
January 30
Home Hockey vs. Rainy River Community College
Ag-Arama Dance
January 30, 31 and February 1
Play "Murder at Sunset Lodge"
January 31
Superbowl Sunday
February 4
The Epicurean Room
Leadership Luncheon Series - Dress for Success
Home Basketball vs. Jamestown College
February 5 and 6
Home Hockey vs. Bethel College
February 6 and 7
Horse Show
News Items
UMC's 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
UMC's celebration will be held
Friday, January 22, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Trojan
Inn. The theme is "Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day
On, Not A Day Off." The program includes:
- Videotape (20-minute)
- Joas Petithomme - Reflection on the Occasion
- Liz Valdez - Sharing of a Thought
- Student Participation - Expressions of Solidarity
- Laurie Wilson - The Cutting of the Birthday Cake & Reflection
Please join us in remembering Dr. King;
all are welcome.
--Mario Prada
January is Blood Donor Month
Student Health Services and
SIFE/Management Club are sponsoring a blood drive on
Tuesday, January 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Bede
Ballroom. Sign up to donate blood continues today,
January 21, in the Sahlstrom Conference Center entrance.
If you have any questions, please contact me at 281-8184.
--Steve Shirley
Marcoux Corner
Marcoux Corner, (formerly the
souls) will be performing in the Sahlstrom Conference
Center-Morsels area on Friday, January 22 at 8 p.m. The
concert is free and is being sponsored by the Bede
Student Center. Come to hear this talented a cappella
group.
--Pamela Holsinger-Fuchs
Teleconference
The teleconference "Racial
Legacies & Learning: How to Talk About Race"
will be presented live via satellite Wednesday, January
27, from 1 to 3 p.m. in Sahlstrom Conference Center AB.
Talking about race is never easy in American society. But it is necessary, and higher education can play a key role in facilitating dialogue. Topics included in the teleconference are:
- How to facilitate meaningful conversations about race
- How to develop curricula about race and racial reconciliation
- How to form community partnerships that transform race relations, whether in the classroom, on campus, or in the community
- What research findings tell us about higher education's role in providing diversity education
- Which diversity skills employers value
The teleconference is free and open to
the public.
--Mario Prada
Ag-Arama Set for UMC
Ag-Arama will be held Friday
and Saturday, January 29 and 30, at the University
Teaching and Outreach Center. The mech-ag-athon will be
held January 23 in Owen Hall.
Ag-Arama provides students the opportunity to showcase their knowledge and skills in their individual interest areas. There are contests in horticulture, agriculture aviation, agronomy, soils, natural resources, mechanized agriculture and animal science showmanship.
Ag-Arama is planned by a committee of students and advised by a faculty member. This year's advisor is Larry Leake, Aviation program manager. Students are: Natalie Foltz of Callaway, chair; Kelli Rusch of Hutchinson and Lisa Detloff of Bertha, vice co-chairs; Holly Wildman of Brooten, secretary; and Renae Henderson of Glenwood, treasurer.
All of the Ag-Arama events during the
day are open to the public, as well as to the UMC
community, students and alumni. Ag-Arama ends with a
dance at the Crookston National Guard Armory on Saturday,
January 30 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
--Larry Leake
Campus Assembly
The Winter Quarter Campus
Assembly meeting is Thursday, January 28, at 4 p.m. in
Dowell Hall 212. Refreshments will be available at 3:45.
Besides the regular agenda items, other things that will
be discussed include an update on campus construction
projects, a legislative update, and an overview of
PeopleSoft. Please try to attend this important meeting.
--Owen Williams
UMC Insight
UMC Insight will be aired
Saturday, January 23, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM 1260).
Tune in this week to hear "Student
Satisfaction" with Bob Nelson.