Model UN team brings home nine awards

The MSUM Model United Nations team competed in the 34th Annual Arrowhead Model UN Regional Conference in River Falls, Wis., April 15-18. The 21-member team brought back nine awards. Rapportueur awards were presented to Amanda Zenk and Dominique Rolando. Best Delegate award nominee awards went to E. Allan Branstitter, Buba Kanagi, Dominique Rolando, Cody Frovarp, Rohan John and Vaneesha Dusoruth. The DPRK delegation received the Best Delegation nominee award. Andrew Conteh, Political Science, served at the team advisor.

English majors to present at Northern Plains Conference

Three English Literature majors will be presenting papers at the Northern Plains
Conference on Early British Literature April 23-24 at the University of Mary, Bismarck, N.D. The following students will constitute the session: The Future of the Organization I: Undergraduate Panel. The presenters are: Vanessa Perkins: “Women and Revenge in Titus Andronicus”; Rachael Johnson: “Milton’s Tree of Knowledge as Highest Providence”; and Adam Heidebrink: “Gulliver and the Quest for Freedom.” This is the third year Stephen Hamrick, English, has taken an MSUM undergraduate panel to present work at this regional conference.

Emerging Leaders event on April 27 is cancelled

The Emerging Leaders volunteer opportunity for Tuesday April 27 has been cancelled. We are sorry for any convenience. If you have any questions or would like ideas on how you can become involved as a volunteer on campus or in the community, please see the attached information or check out the Office of Student Activities website in the fall of 2010 for a list of opportunities!

Insulated shutter design competition

The Sustainable Campus Initiative Committee (SCIC) will finance a competition open to all MSUM students for developing the best design for insulated shutters or insulated blinds to cover the windows on Murray Commons. The winner of the competition will win the prize money of $3000. If the winning design is accepted by MSU Moorhead’s facilities administration and MnSCU administration, the shutters/blinds will be installed during fall semester 2010 or the spring semester 2011. The student winner will supervise the installation. Click headline for details.

Cultural Student Advisory Committee seeks members

The Multicultural Affairs Office is creating a unified body of leaders that creates support for individual groups or departments while working together to address larger issues concerning multiculturalism on campus. The Cultural student Advisory Committee (CSAC) serves a dual mission: Support individual groups and promote multicultural support. Click headline for more information.