Lin will discuss the importance of symbolism in Chinese culture and illustrate the abundance of cultural symbols used by the Chinese people

She's replacing Betty Gunderson, who recently became the university's director of alumni relations.

Peterson, a marketing graduate of St. Cloud State University, comes to MSUM from the Minn-Kota chapter of the Red Cross where she was public relations and development director. She has 20 years experience as assistant manager for Dayton's in West Acres and five years as store manager of Kohl's Department Store in Fargo.

She and her husband Greg have three children, two of them enrolled at MSUM, and live in Moorhead.

In her new position, Peterson will supervise the university's annual phonathon, and community and campus campaigns.

Her six novels, all set in Minnesota, include the "What a Woman Must Do," "Watchdog," "The Cape Ann" and "The Empress of One." She'll also talk about the writer's craft at 4 p.m. that day on the Library Porch.

"What a Woman Must Do," published last year, follows the small-town lives of three women thrown together more by sad circumstances than by family ties or affection.

Open to the public, the session will cover how to find unadvertised job vacancies and suitable work situations. Also included will be a look at effective resume writing, personal marketing and interviewing techniques, plus  behavioral interviewing now used by many companies.

The course is sponsored by MSUM’s Career Services office and will meet in room 101 of Comstock Memorial Union. For more information, call  236-2131. Pre-registration isn’t required.

Sometimes called "The Buckskin poet," Gladstone tours the country singing and talking about the heritage of Native Americans, explaining their role in shaping modern culture.

"Buffalo Republic," Gladstone's eighth album, was released last year and honored with a 2000 Grammy nomination for Folk Album of the Year. His song "Bright Path," about the legendary Indian athlete Jim Thorpe, was also featured last year in ESPN's "Olympic Gold" program.

Gladstone is a graduate of the University of Washington where he played on the 1978 Rose Bowl Championship football team.

The web site--www.noloco.com/eurospring--is a senior project for MSUM senior graphic communications major Ben Holsen, who's also part of the Eurospring tour. He's building the multimedia site with Micromedia Flash 5.0.

Eurospring, which runs March 15 through May 16, is offered each year at MSUM as part of a focus on international studies. It includes five weeks studying at Oxford, England, followed by a three-week tour of major European cities that includes stops in Paris, Florence, Rome, Venice, Prague, Amsterdam and Germany.

"It kind of fits in to the reality television trend," Holsen said. "I'll be tracking the progress of 35 real students and documenting how they handle culture shock, homesickness and an overwhelming history lesson."

A 25-game schedule has been set, including the April 1 opener with Concordia College junior varsity. Games have been scheduled at Concordia College Field in Moorhead, and Jack Williams Field and the Newman Outdoor Park in Fargo.

Nearly 40 students have signed a pre-season roster for this spring, and practice is expected to begin in early March. Dave Rusch, a former starting pitcher for the University of Kansas, has been signed as head coach. Rusch, later served as assistant coach at North Dakota State University.

Tim Ellis, a junior mass communications major here is president of the MSUM Baseball Club. Other club officers include Yannick Dalhouse, vice president; Mark Schmitz, secretary; and Mike Blumberg, treasurer. MSUM adjunct instructor Mark Boche serves as faculty advisor.

Organized in accordance with MSUM Club Guidelines, the Dragon baseball club is open to all MSUM students.

MSU Moorhead captured the 1983 Northern Intercollegiate Conference championship and posted a 28-15 record in the final season of intercollegiate baseball here.

MSUM prof's research on fish olfactory perception…
WINTER TRIAL SHOWS PREDATOR FISH
ATTRACTED TO MINNOW ALARM CELLS
Moorhead, MN…After 16 hours of fishing through six holes on Lake Ida using wind-powered tip-ups, Brian Wisenden and his two assistants came to two conclusions: winter fishing in the dead of January is slow; and, predator fish like walleyes and northern pike are definitely attracted to damaged alarm substance cells extracted from fathead minnows.

More importantly, the field trial on ice verified earlier laboratory experiments. And the results may draw more that just scientific interest.

"I suspect that fishing lure manufacturers may be interested in the findings," said Wisenden, a behavioral ecologist who teaches biology at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

During his 16-hours ice fishing, Wisenden had six hits on a line baited with a sponge containing damaged fathead minnow cells. He had only one hit on a controlled line baited with a water-filled sponge. And only one hit on another line baited with injured skin cells from a tropical fish.

"The tropical fish doesn't have alarm substancer cells in its skin," he said. "We used that to ensure that the predator fish weren't attracted to the smell of skin cells from any fish."

While the field experiment wasn't a spectacular fishing outing, Wisenden said, the results are statistically significant, proving that damaged alarm substance  cells are a powerful predator attractant.

Until recently, scientists assumed that fish viewed their world primarily by sight and hearing.

But new research, including Wisenden's, is producing a different picture: fish are immersed in a world of scents and smells.

The latest trend in predator-prey behavior research focuses on the amazing number of alarm substance cells fish have distributed all over their bodies. They were first discovered in European minnows by Nobel Prize-winning animal behaviorist Karl von Frisch during the late 1930s.

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 send out a bouquet of warning scents more than 50 feet in all directions, signaling other minnows to get away.

These alarm substance cells are common in prey fish like minnows. But they aren't present on common Midwestern game fish such as walleyes, northern pike, crappies, bass or sunfish. As predators, Wisenden said, they don't need the protection.

But what Wisenden has discovered is that predators can also sense their prey's alarm signals.

"It's an odd kind of prey-predator relationship," he said. "When a prey minnow is attacked by a predator, say a northern pike, it sends out a chemical warning to its own species. But it also sends a message to other predators, hopefully bigger ones, that there's more to eat down here than just us minnows. They're hoping that it will entice other predators who will find a meal in attacking the predator that's attacking them."

While Wisenden's research is purely scientific, he admits his results might attract some interest from lure manufacturers.

The study was funded by a grant from the university and is the focus of an undergraduate research project by Travis Thiel, a senior biology major from Bertha, Minn. Thiel and his father, Dennis, helped Wisenden conduct the field experiment this winter.

The two Japanese universities have developed an exchange partnership with MSUM that's now in its third year.

David Andersen, Christina Gross and Jonathon Lenzmeier will study at Kanda University; and William Mieloch will study at Nagoya Gakuin University.

* David Anderson is a junior East Asian Studies major from Moorhead.
* Gross is a sophomore criminal justice and East Asian Studies major from Apple Valley, Minn.
* Lenzmeier is an East Asian Studies major from Fargo.
* Mieloch is a junior graphic design and East Asian Studies major from Bismarck.
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The scholarships will allow them to immerse themselves in Japanese language and culture at the universities for 10 months.

Kanda University is located along Tokyo Bay between Tokyo and Narita International Airport. It is a language-oriented university with both undergraduate and graduate programs.

Nagoya Gakuin University is a small, private college located in historic Seto near Nagoya, located in the heart of Japan and the fourth largest city in the nation with over two million residents.
 

More importantly, the field trial on ice verified earlier laboratory experiments. And the results may draw more that just scientific interest.

"I suspect that fishing lure manufacturers may be interested in the findings," said Wisenden, a behavioral ecologist who teaches biology at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

During his 16-hours ice fishing, Wisenden had six hits on a line baited with a sponge containing damaged fathead minnow cells. He had only one hit on a controlled line baited with a water-filled sponge. And only one hit on another line baited with injured skin cells from a tropical fish.

"The tropical fish doesn't have alarm substancer cells in its skin," he said. "We used that to ensure that the predator fish weren't attracted to the smell of skin cells from any fish."

While the field experiment wasn't a spectacular fishing outing, Wisenden said, the results are statistically significant, proving that damaged alarm substance  cells are a powerful predator attractant.

Until recently, scientists assumed that fish viewed their world primarily by sight and hearing.

But new research, including Wisenden's, is producing a different picture: fish are immersed in a world of scents and smells.

The latest trend in predator-prey behavior research focuses on the amazing number of alarm substance cells fish have distributed all over their bodies. They were first discovered in European minnows by Nobel Prize-winning animal behaviorist Karl von Frisch during the late 1930s.

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 send out a bouquet of warning scents more than 50 feet in all directions, signaling other minnows to get away.

These alarm substance cells are common in prey fish like minnows. But they aren't present on common Midwestern game fish such as walleyes, northern pike, crappies, bass or sunfish. As predators, Wisenden said, they don't need the protection.

But what Wisenden has discovered is that predators can also sense their prey's alarm signals.

"It's an odd kind of prey-predator relationship," he said. "When a prey minnow is attacked by a predator, say a northern pike, it sends out a chemical warning to its own species. But it also sends a message to other predators, hopefully bigger ones, that there's more to eat down here than just us minnows. They're hoping that it will entice other predators who will find a meal in attacking the predator that's attacking them."

While Wisenden's research is purely scientific, he admits his results might attract some interest from lure manufacturers.

The study was funded by a grant from the university and is the focus of an undergraduate research project by Travis Thiel, a senior biology major from Bertha, Minn. Thiel and his father, Dennis, helped Wisenden conduct the field experiment this winter.