By: Sam Benshoof, INFORUM MOORHEAD – After spending a year away from campus and teaching, Craig Ellingson is ready to get back into the swing of things. Ellingson, the chair and director of the Theater and Theater Dance department at Minnesota State University Moorhead, recently returned from a yearlong sabbatical in northern California, where he studied with a prestigious international […]
By: Demetria Mosley, INFORUM MINNEAPOLIS – When Bret Hummel mentions “bumping uglies,” you might be surprised by what he means. The Minnesota State University Moorhead alumnus is referring to a mobile game created by his Minneapolis-based design firm. “We’ve always created games for our clients, but this game is the first project we’ve designed for ourselves. This is our idea,” […]
By: Sam Benshoof, INFORUM FARGO – Just because we’re thousands of miles away from the nearest ocean, doesn’t mean those of us in the Red River Valley can’t celebrate Shark Week with a splash. The annual event, which kicked off Sunday night on the Discovery Channel, is celebrating its 25th year of weeklong, shark-themed programming. For longer than that, though […]
By: Marino Eccher, INFORUM FARGO – When Kara Gravley-Stack started working at North Dakota State University, advertising the school’s gay and lesbian support services was a surefire way to draw criticism from anti-gay quarters. “I’d get messages coming to me saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re supporting this,’ ” said Gravley-Stack, NDSU’s director of diversity initiative, “and other things I’d rather […]
By: Amy Dalrymple, INFORUM MOORHEAD – National Guard veteran Joe Butler enrolled at Minnesota State University Moorhead a month after returning from Iraq. But Butler, struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism and depression, found that he wasn’t ready for the classroom and took a year off. “I don’t think my head was on right yet,” Butler said. After getting some […]