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March 29, 2010

MSUM to offer Swedish course

Minnesota State University Moorhead will offer a Swedish language and culture course this fall for the first time in about 20 years. The course, taught by MSUM professor emeritus James Kaplan, will be open to MSUM students and community members.Kaplan, who retired in 2008 from MSUM as a French professor, lived and worked in Sweden and founded the Swedish Cultural Heritage Society of the Red River Valley. He was decorated by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden for his service to the Swedish American community. Click headline to read Amy Dalrymple’s full Forum story.

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March 26, 2010

Tell me why mama

Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking 1890s play, is a daring exploration of teenage sexual awakening set against a backdrop of religious and parental repression. The audience can only pity the confused adolescents squeezed in its vise: pretty buds bursting into doom. Click headline for show times and a study guide.

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March 26, 2010

Around the World in 72 Days shows Monday

Around the World in 72 Days is the featured Women’s History Month Monday movie, March 29 at 7 p.m. in King Hall 110. At the age of nineteen, Nellie Bly talked her way into an improbable job on a newspaper, then went on to become known as “the best reporter in America.” The daring Bly continually risked her life to grab headlines. To expose abuse of the mentally ill, she had herself committed. When she traveled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne’s fictional escapade, she turned herself into a world celebrity.

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