He’ll also present the university’s annual Glasrud Lecture, on “Dakota Is Everywhere: Travel and Poetry,” at 4 p.m. that day, also in Center for Business 109.

Mason, who taught at MSUM from 1989 to 1998, now teaches at Colorado College. His poetry collection “The Country I Remember” won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and “Buried Houses” the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.

He recently published a collection of essays, “The Poetry of Life,” and is the co-editor of the anthology “Rebel Angels: 25 poets of the New Formalism” and the fourth edition of the classic textbook “Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry.”

Mason won the 1994 Carnegie Foundation Minnesota Professor of the Year Award during his tenure at MSUM, along with a Fulbright Award in 1996 to participate in an educational exchange between the U.S. and Greece.

The Glasrud Lecture, an annual series, honors Clarence “Soc” Glasrud, a Detroit Lakes native who taught in a country school before enrolling at MSUM in 1930 and graduating in 1934. Following a stint in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Glasrud earned both a master’s degree and doctorate at Harvard University. He returned to his alma mater in 1947 to teach, eventually serving 23 years as chair of MSU’s English department. He retired in 1977.

Glasrud has since written two comprehensive histories of the university: “The Moorhead Normal School” and “Moorhead State Teachers College.” He’s now working on the final chapter of the university’s history.

The purpose of the all-day event is to showcase the work and talent of MSUM students through presentations, posters, and creative works. More than 230 students will present research on 151 topics from 1 to 2:20 p.m. and 2:30
3:50 p.m. in the university's student union.

All presentations are free and open to the public.

Details can be found at the conference web site, http://web.mnstate.edu/acadconf/2001/visitors.html

As a senior fiscal analyst in Virginia, Sarte conducts reviews of state government programs and policies at the request of members of the Virginia General Assembly. She recently helped assess the funding policies and practices for Virginia’s $7.7 billion elementary and secondary public education system. Her job also involves determining the fiscal impact of legislation debated in the Virginia General Assembly.

Before joining the Virginia General Assembly, Sarte worked as a budget analyst with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Executive Office of the President, in Washington, D.C. During her tenure at OMB, she had oversight responsibility for the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Customs Service.

After earning her degree at MSUM, she completed a master’s degree in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester in New York.
 

Starts March 29…
MSUM OPENS ITS 28TH ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST
Moorhead, MN.....Minnesota State University Moorhead will open its 28th annual International Film Festival Friday, March 29 with Ingmar Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries,” the first of eight foreign cinema masterpieces showing on campus this spring.

All films in the series will be shown in Weld Hall’s Glasrud Auditorium. Admission is $2.

Films scheduled:

*  “Wild Strawberries” (1957) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 29. Bergman’s film follows an elderly professor on a journey back home, to relive and retell the meaning of his life. Swedish with English subtitles. 93 minutes.
* “Wages of Fear” (1952) at 7:30 p.m.  Saturday, March 30. This film by French director Henri-Georges Clouzot is a suspense thriller. Often compared to Alfred Hitchcock, Clouzot creates a character study of four men who must drive treacherous mountains in a truck filled with nitroglycerine to help extinguish an oil field fire. French with English subtitles. 138 minutes.
* “Dead of Night: (1945) at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31. This film by English directors Basil Cavalcanti, Robert Dearden and Charles Crichton Hammer is a series of supernatural tales told by a group of people in a remote country home. 100 minutes.
* “Battle of Algiers” (1966) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5. A graphic war film by Gillo Pontecorvo, it chronicles Algerian fighters struggling against French colonialists, told from both sides. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, including best director. French and Arabic dialogue with English subtitles. 123 minutes.
“Oyster Princess” (1919) and “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (1925) starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7 in a silent film double-feature. “Oyster Princess” by German director Ernst Lubitsch is a lampoon of American social manners and one of his earliest works. 49 minutes. “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” is an animated feature by avant-garde German director Lotte Reiniger loosely based on The Arabian Nights. English intertitles. 61 minutes. Both films will be accompanied with original scores by David Knudtson on the Weld Hall Wurlizter pipe organ.
* “Whiskey Galore” (1949) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12. English director Alexander Mackendrick takes a hilarious look at what happens when a small Scottish island runs completely out of whiskey. This film is also known as “Tight Little Island.” 82 minutes.
* “Black Orpheus” (1959) at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14. This is Brazilian-French director Marcel Camus’ adaptation of the Greek myth about unrequited love. It’s filled with music, dance, elaborate costuming and the exotic Brazilian landscape. It won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. 100 minutes.

The festival, directed by film studies specialist Rusty Casselton, is sponsored by MSUM International Films. For details, contact Casselton at 236-4622.

Under the direction of artistic director Joe Dowling and Miller-Stephany, the Guthrie’s touring program was revived in 2000 with a 16-city regional tour of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” attended by more than 50,000 people, 20,000 of them students. In 2001, Irish playwright Brian Friel’s “Molly Sweeney” was seen in more than 30 communities across the Midwest. In addition to performances, the touring program places a strong emphasis on educational activity, offering workshops and symposia in every tour community. Since 2000, 174 workshops have served more than 8,100 students and adults.

Miller-Stephany’s chat is free and open to the public

The Guthrie Theatre will present Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5 and at a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday, April 6 in the MSUM Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Auditorium as a feature of the university’s Performing Arts Series.
 

* “A pretty cheerleader approached me after class, smiled and said, ‘I didn’t write my paper for today, because I had to go to the tanning bed.’”

* “He took the pen out of my hand…and to the right of the column, wrote, ‘Suicide.’”

‘PASS/FAIL’ ANTHOLOGY
LOOKS AT CLASSROOM
FAILURES AND TRIUMPHS
Moorhead, MN…Those are a few anecdotes from a new collection of classroom stories, “Pass/Fail,” recently published in paperback by Kurt Kleidon, a 24-year-old graduate student in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s master of fine arts program, and his mother Rose A.O. Kleidon, a retired English professor at the University of (Ohio)  Akron.

The 32 stories in the book were winners of the 2001 Red Sky Writing Competition, a national contest that asked teachers to write about their everyday failures, triumphs, despairs and rewards. It includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry about teaching high school and college.

The stories were selected for the anthology by a jury of English professors at the University of Akron.

The book offers an inside look at the complex relationships between teachers and students. Among the authors, the oldest started teaching in 1937, the youngest in 2000.

The 224-page book ($14.95) is available at local bookstores (including the MSUM Bookstore) and through major on-line book sellers.

Kurt’s mother and father are both former professors at the University of Akron who now run an advertising agency. “Pass/Fail” is their first publication through Red Sky Books, an imprint of Kleidon Publishing, Inc.