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!
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.
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.
Verna Smith, mother of Gabrielle Smith, MSUM GMW, passed away at the age of 95 on Sunday, April 18, 2010. Visitation will be held Wednesday, April 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Harvey Anderson Kerkhoven Funeral Home, Kerkhoven, Minn. Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 22 at 11 a.m., at the Calvary Lutheran Church, Murdock, Minn.
Carol Sibley, Library, has recently worked with a committee of the American Library Association to develop two new bibliographies of children’s books. Oprah Kids’ Reading List will be posted on Oprah’s website and includes recommended books for toddlers through tweens. The sports booklist, developed for Up2Us, a national coalition of Sports-Based Youth Development organizations, lists recommended children’s books by sport. Click headline to see both reading lists.