CITY & MSUM RESIDENCE HALLS
HOST HALLOWEEN BASH OCT. 31
Keep your little ghosts and goblins safe and warm at the annual Minnesota State University Moorhead Residence Hall Community Halloween Bash, a combined effort with the City of Moorhead's annual Halloween celebration.

It runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31 in the MSUM residence halls.

Featured events include a Kiddy Haunted House in Ballard Hall; a box maze in Dahl Hall; refreshments (hot dogs and sloppy joes) in Grantham Hall where Moorhead police and fire department will also host attractions; trick-or-treats in Nelson Hall tower; kiddie carnival in Snarr Hall; plus outside kiddie car rides. Plenty of signs will be posted to direct trick-or-treaters.

Free parking is available in lot A on 9th Avenue and 14th Street South.

For more information, go to this web site: web.mnstate.edu/housing.

This event is sponsored by MSUM’s Residence Hall Councils and Residence Hall Association, along with the City of Moorhead.

GHOST HUNTER WILL SEEK PARANORMAL ACTIVITYAT MSU MOORHEAD OCT. 26
Ghost hunter Ross Allison, an investigator with the Amateur Ghost Hunters of Seattle-Tacoma, will use high-tech equipment, his psychic powers and training to hunt for paranormal entities at Minnesota State University Moorhead on the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 26 and at 8 p.m. will reveal his results during a free public program in Weld Hall’s Glasrud Auditorium.

The ghost hunter works with basic investigative tools, including cameras, audio and visual recording devises and electro-magnetic field detectors, including the most advanced computerized surveillance equipment.

The event is sponsored by the MSUM Campus Activities Board.

MINNESOTA POET STEPHEN BURT READS IN MSUM’S MCGRATH SERIES OCT. 13
Stephen Burt, author of the award-winning poetry collection “Popular Music,” will read from his work at 8 .m. Wednesday, Oct. 13 in MSUM’s Livingston Lord Library porch as a feature of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.

He’ll also present a talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. that day, also in the library porch.

An assistant professor of English at Macalester College, he’s a frequent book reviewer of modern poetry for publications ranging from

The New York Times Book Review to the Yale Review.
“Popular Music,” his first collection, received the 1999 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His first book of literary criticism, “Randall Jarrell and His Age,” is now available from Columbia University Press. It won the 2002 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. Burt’s next book of poetry, “Parallel Play,” is forthcoming (Fall 2005) from Graywolf Press.

FIFTY DRAGON SCHOLARS HONORED AT ACADEMIC LUNCHEON
Over 50 student-athletes with a composite grade point average of 3.4 (4.0 scale) were honored last week at the first Student-Athlete Academic Excellence Luncheon at Alex Nemzek Hall.

The awards luncheon was launched this fall by Director of Athletics Alfonso Scandrett, Jr. “I’ve been doing this for about 10 years now, starting at Texas Tech. It’s designed to inform our academic community on campus about the academic accomplishments of our student-athletes and their mentors. We want to show them our appreciation.”

Senior Lindsay Hartmann (Alexandria), a two-time basketball letter-winner, was honored for maintaining the highest GPA among female athletes (3.96) while sophomore Joe Larson (Erskine), a member of the Dragon football team, has the highest GPA among MSUM male athletes (3.98). Twenty-seven athletes have maintained a GPA of at least 3.70.

Scandrett presented the Director’s Cup to the women’s tennis team for having the highest overall composite GPA (3.55).. Dragon wrestlers had the best GPA among the men’s teams.

MSUM has 337 student-athletes playing on varsity teams.