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MARV BOSSART TO RECEIVE MSUM’S HARTZ AWARD APRIL 4
Long-time WDAY-TV anchor and news producer Mark Bossart, who’s been teaching part-time in the MSUM mass communications department for 32 years, has been selected to receive university’s 23nd annual L.B. Hartz Professional Achievement Award.

An awards reception will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 4 in the Center for Business atrium on campus.

The award is named in honor of the late L.B. Hartz, the founder of Hartz Wholesale Company headquartered in Thief River Falls. It’s presented annually by MSUM’s College of Business and Industry to an individual who has created economic opportunities for others through innovation, entrepreneurship and community service.

A Fargo native, Bossart started writing for the Paul Harvey radio show in Chicago after earning his master’s degree from Northwestern University. When he returned to Fargo to raise a family, he began what would become a 42-year career with WDAY-TV. He officially retired from the television station in the spring of 2000, but continues to teach at MSUM.

In 1999, he received the Mitchell Charley award for his outstanding contributions to the field of broadcast journalism, an award he shares with people such as Tom Brokaw, Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevaried.

DEANS’ LECTURE EXPLORES REFUGEES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Social Work professor Susan Peterson talks on “Refugee Women and Domestic Violence: Cultural Challenges and Community Response” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30 in Center for Business 109 as a feature of MSUM’s Deans’ Lecture Series.

CRIMINOLOGIST, PHOTOGRAPHER READS APRIL 5 FOR MCGRATH SERIES
Author and photographer Richard Quinney will read from his work at 8 p.m. Monday, April 5 in MSUM’s King Hall Auditorium as a feature of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series and will also talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. that day in the library porch.

The author of several books in criminology and social theory along with creative nonfiction and photography, he lives in Madison, Wis. His books include “For the Time Being: Ethnography of Everyday Life” and “Borderline: A Midwestern Journal.”

Quinney uses photography to explore a theory of social life based more on peace than crime and punishment.MINNESOTA DANCE HERE APRIL 8

MINNESOTA DANCE THEATRE ON STAGE APRIL 8
The Minnesota Dance Theatre, integrating ballet with modern dance under producer/choreographer Loyce Houlton, is on stage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre as a feature of MSUM’s Performing Arts Series. For tickets, ranging from $12 to $22, call the MSUM theatre box office, 477-2271.

The only one awarded by the society…
MSUM MASS COM PROF RADNIECKI AWARDED NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FACULTY FELLOWSHIP
Regene Radniecki, a Mass Communications professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead, has received A National Geographic Society Faculty Fellowship for 2004.

The program, in its 13th year, is designed to provide a journalism faculty member access to each of the planning and production stages of National Geographic Magazine. Only one faculty fellowship is offered each year.

The fellowship, which takes place at National Geographic headquarters in Washington D.C., offers an opportunity to observe every facet of the magazine. This involves the conceptualizing and planning meetings where stories are proposed; the assigning of photographers; working in film review after film shipments come in from the field; observing the picture editing process and the laying out of stories; learning how the cartography and graphics departments develop visual components for the magazine; and, depending on the nature of the story, possibly joining a photographer and writer in the field.

Faculty members selected for the fellowship develop their own itinerary for the 10-week fellowship. Radniecki plans to participate in each of the production stages as well as spend time with the magazine’s researchers, the image marketing department, and the new media department.

This is not Radniecki first experience with National Geographic. She spent the summer of 1976 working for the magazine during a leave of absence from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she worked 18 years as a staff photographer. During that three months stint, Radniecki photographed magazine assignments, worked on a revision of the Society’s history book, and photographed a number of World Magazine assignments. She continued to freelance for National Geographic after returning to the Star Tribune.

WOODLANDS-HIGH PLAINS POWWOW AT MSUM SATURDAY, MARCH 27
The 15th annual Woodlands and High Plains Powwow will be held at MSUM’s Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 27.

The intercampus powwow is sponsored by Concordia College, MSUM, and North Dakota State University.

The general admission fee is $2, and children under 6 are free. Students with current Concordia, MSUM, and NDSU campus I.D. cards are also admitted free.

A free traditional meal will be served at 5 p.m.

The one-day powwow will be “traditional,” meaning that the emphasis will be on celebration rather than competition. The event is expected to attract spectators, dancers, and drum groups from throughout the Midwest.

The theme of this year’s powwow will be “Honoring Native American Women” and recognizes the roles that American Indian women of all ages and from all periods of history have played––from being outstanding leaders, role models, scholars, spouses, mothers, and daughters.

At this year’s powwow, six women will be recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Woodlands and High Plains Powwow as well as their active support of American Indian heritage, projects, and events. They are: Sharon Cobb, Lizz Demaray, Ruth Eagleman, Anna Littleghost, Gladys Ray, and NevaSatermo.

This year’s Head Woman Dancer will be Edith St. John, an MSUM student, and the Head Man Dancer will be Joshua Flute, an NDSU student. Both St. John and Flute are from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation.

Last year the spring powwow was one of the best-attended cultural events in the Fargo-Moorhead area, with about 2,000 people filling an auditorium to see about 200 dancers dressed in colorful and authentic regalia.

For more information about the powwow or to join the planning committee, contact: Sharon Eagleman, Concordia College, (218) 299-4171; Jody Steile and Abner Arauza, MSUM, (218) 477-2652; or Paul Boswell, NDSU, (701) 231-7314. Vendors and crafters are encouraged to call (218) 477-4272.

The Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse is located on the northeastern side of the MSUM campus.

DANCE TEAM TAKES SECOND IN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
The MSUM Dragon Dance Team dominated the competition last week by placing second in the United Performing Associations, AmeriCup National Dance Championship. The competition was held February 26 – 29 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The team competed against the best college dance teams in the nation.

Teams competing for the title are given only two minuets and fifteen seconds to perform their routine. Judges evaluate their performance by choreography, difficulty, execution, presentation and overall technique.
Dance team members,coached by Rachel Ballanger, have been training since early August. They practice four times a week and take one on-campus jazz class and one off-campus ballet class in addition to their regularly scheduled practice times.

The dancers on this team are highly trained athletes, most team members have 12 to 15 years of dance training before they even tryout for the team.
In addition to training for their regional and national competitions, the team also performs for football, basketball and other campus events. Members are also responsible for representing MSUM at college fairs and local dance events to assist in recruiting fellow dancers to the school. Now that their competition season has concluded dancers will concentrate on their upcoming audition and continue preparing for the MSUM dance department’s recital in May.

The MSUM Dragon Dance Team members for the 2003- 2004 season are: captain Laura Beauchamp, Danielle Abbott, Jodi Mathews, Tia Trierweiler, Vida Murphy, Samantha Stroh, Annie Ulku, Jodi Morrison and Megan Hoggarth.

Auditions for the 2004-2005 dance season will be held on April 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to noon. in dance studio #208, located in Nemzek Hall. Anyone interested may contact coach Ballanger at raerae4276@aol.com or check out their web site at web.mnstate.edu/danceteam for more information.

MSUM STUDENTS HOST CELEBRATION OF NATIONS MARCH 26
Entertainment, food, culture and fashions from around the world will be showcased in a Celebration of Nations from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 26 in Minnesota State University Moorhead's student union ballroom.

Admission is $1 for adults, children 12 and under are free. All food tickets are 50 cents.

Students and community members representing a variety of countries will exhibit items from their homeland, cook their unique foods and share their culture.
Tickets will be available at the door and at the International Programs Office the week of the event,

The event is sponsored by MSUM’s Office of International Programs and the International Student Club.

NATIVE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE TOPIC OF VISITING U OF M PROF MARCH 22
John Koepke, professor and head of the Landscape Architecture department at the University of Minnesota, will talk on “Native American Contributions to the Art of Landscape Architecture” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 22 at MSU Moorhead’s Center for Business 109.

Sponsored by the Comstock Fund, the lecture by Koepke will explorethe spatial characteristics of two ancient Native American sites as well as other aspects of their design and planning from his perspective as a landscape architect. He’ll also discuss his recent design for the Battle Point Historic Site Cultural Education Center for the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Ojibwe. The project was based on his research of Native American sites and Ojibwe culture.

Koepke’s scholarship embraces design research involving cultural and ecological relationships that often deal with the Native American community. One of his current projects, sponsored by the NEA, focuses on the historic contributions of Native Americans to the art of landscape design at eight representative sites. He’s also collaborating on the design of the Bell Museum of Natural History courtyard on the Twin Cities Campus of the University of Minnesota.