THIS ISSUE POSTED SEPTEMBER 12, 2000
CURRENTS VOLUME 18 ISSUE 2

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Campus Events

TWEED MUSEUM EVENTS
Tom Kerrigan is featured in a one person exhibition at the Tweed Museum
of Art now through October 1. Kerrigan retired in 1999 as ceramics area head in the Department of Art, where he began teaching in 1975. He is
known nationally for his innovative hand-built ceramics, for his
experimentation with clay bodies and for his unique clay forms, glaze
and surface designs and images. His art was inspired by the mood and
changing character of Lake Superior, and later, the southwest desert
landscape and plant life, indigenous motifs, and his continued quest for
a personal statement via a spiritual order found in all these elements.
Now through October 15, the Tweed Museum of Art will also be
featuring "Works on Paper Series, Part III American Modernists: Prints
from The Annex Galleries." This exhibition features prints from The
Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, California, which specializes in American prints of the 1920s through the 1940s. Referring to the events of their time, some of these prints speak in distinctly American voices about the
country's regions and social and political themes. Other artists, influenced by European Modernist art movements, used drawing and printmaking to experiment with the abstract art forms that thrust America into the world art spotlight in the 1950s. A Community Curators Project featuring guest Curator, Dr. Robert Leff runs in conjunction with this exhibit.
Tweed also presents "The Helen Band Collection of First Nations Art from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery," through October 15. The exhibition, which makes its only U.S. appearance at the Tweed Museum of Art, contains 49 paintings by 23 artists, including eight works by Norval Morriseau, who is credited with developing the Woodland painting style in the 1960s. An artist lecture by Roy Thomas will be held from
6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 14.
For more information, call Mary Rhodes at 726-7823.

GLENSHEEN NEWS
The exhibit "Changing Chapeaus: Honoring a Century of Hats," will remain on display through October at the historic Congdon Estate. The tour schedule runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week, including holidays.
Glensheen's collection of 80 men's, women's, and children's hats from all
periods of the 20th century are included in the exhibit, and can be seen throughout 17 rooms included on Glensheen's regular tour. Spring straw hats from the 1910 era greet visitors in the reception room, while winter fur hats from 1900 wait for cooler weather in the smoking room. The exhibit includes boaters, cloches, turbans, picture hats, top hats and many other styles popular during the 20th century. Accessories and photographs of the Congdon family wearing stylish hats accompany the exhibit.
Viewing the hat exhibit is included in the admission cost of the regular house tour of Glensheen. For information, call 726-8918.

"BOTANICA" CATALOG/JANICE KMETZ AWARD CELEBRATION UMD Communicators Council invites staff, faculty and students to celebrate UMD's National Addy at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 19 in the Tweed Museum of Art. The catalog for the Botanica exhibit received an American Advertising Federation National ADDY award in its 2000 design competition. The exhibition catalog "Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants," which features the work of 58 contemporary artists, was designed by Janice Kmetz, associate professor, Department of Art. It was edited, organized and curated by Peter F. Spooner. The award for the exhibition catalog was presented to Kmetz in June in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since its premiere at the Tweed in July, 1999, the exhibition has been on a 10 city U.S. tour which ends December, 2001.

WEIGHT ROOM
GRAND OPENING
UMD Rec Sports invites all staff to the grand opening of the new weight room from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Wednesday, September 13 in 33 Sports and Health Center. Free refreshments will be served and basic instruction will be provided.

HISPANIC/LATINO/CHICANA
HERITAGE CELEBRATION
Ruminahui, Ecuadorian Folk Music will be performed at noon on Wednesday, September 13 in the Kirby Lounge.
A "Bilingual Readings: Arts & Crafts for Children" bookfair will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 23 at Barnes & Noble. This is a scholarship fundraiser. Barnes & Noble will donate a percentage of your purchase to a scholarship fund for UMD HLC students.
The film: La Boda, will be shown at noon on Monday, September 25 in 355-57 Kirby. This intimate documentary follows a young Mexican-American migrant farm-worker in the weeks leading to her wedding. Along the way stereotypes about migrant life and border culture disintegrate and a funny, moving, and heartfelt portrait of a family and a way of life emerges. The film The Way Home
will be shown at noon on Monday, October 9 in 355-357 Kirby. The Way Home is a film about race, gender and class in the United States. Over the course of eight months, sixty-four women, represented a cross-section of cultures in the U.S., met in councils separated by ethnicity. With uncommon courage, the women share their minds and hearts and tell their stories about resistance, love, assimilation, standards of beauty, power, school experiences and more.
The speaker, Father Roy Bourgeois will talk on "Close the School of the Americas" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in the Kirby Ballroom. Bourgeois is a Maryknoll priest who has been imprisoned numerous times for non-violently protesting U.S. military policy in Central America, in particularly, the training carried out at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia. The SOA has been long associated with tyranny; some of Latin America's most notorious human rights violators and corrupt military officers are among its alumni.
The Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead exhibition will be on display from October 27 - November 12 in the Tweed Museum of Art. The Day of the Dead is a tradition, which dates back to the Aztec civilization. The Aztecs believe that the soul of the dead returns home to the world of the living. An opening celebration with music by Son de Sur will be held from 6 - 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 31.
A reading by Dr. Eden Torres and UMD students will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 9 in the Griggs Center (2nd Floor Kirby). Dr. Eden Torres is a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. She is a lecturer, poet and writer. She has been a consultant for the University of Minnesota Commission on Women, Ford Foundation Multi-College Model for a feminist, multicultural curriculum transformation project, and the Loft Multicultural Committee Mentor Program. Torres' writings have appeared in Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory and Practice, Mexican American Art and Culture and the National Women's Studies Association Journal.

BEHAVIOR MEDICINE
LECTURE SERIES
The UMD School of Medicine has launched a Behavioral Medicine Lecture Series, as a scientific clinical, and community activity of the school. The series includes selected speakers from leading scientists and clinicians in the U.S. and the world.
Dr. Wallace Pickworth, a Senior Scientist at the National Institute of Health Institute on Drug Abuse will present a seminar on "Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Tobacco Dependence and Withdrawal" at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, September 15 in 130 Medicine.
Dr. William G. Iacono, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and director, Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Training Program, University of Minnesota. Iacono will speak on "The Development of Substance Abuse: What We Can Learn from Twin Children and Their Parents" at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, September 22 in 130 Medicine.
For information or if you would like to schedule a group/individual meeting, e-mail Mustafa al'Absi at malabsi@ umn.edu or call Tracy at 726 7144.

ME & JFK ‹
SEPTEMBER 15 --- The Department of Theatre faculty and staff present this special production of Tom Isbell's, Me & JFK, for one show only at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 15 in the Mainstage Theatre of the Marshall Performing Arts Center. Tom Isbell has graciously agreed to perform this piece of theatre that he created and has performed for over 15 years.
This is a heartwarming, touching, and funny one-person play about growing up in the Kennedy years. Chronicling both his own early life and the presidential years of our 35th president, the author searches for the real JFK ‹ the one who falls somewhere between myth and grocery store tabloid.
Reserved seat tickets ($12 - 9) are available at the UMD Theatre Box Office, open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 726-8561. All ticket revenues go towards the Erin Wright Memorial Scholarship Fund.

THE MUSIC
DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
Dave Schmalenberger, percussion, will perform a Faculty Artist Recital at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 19 in Bohannon Hall 90.
The Music Department presents the Minnesota Opera performance of the Barber of Seville, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26 in Marshall Performing Arts Center. A pre-concert lecture will begin in MPAC at 6:30 p.m. The Minnesota Opera's touring company brings humor to life in its English language production featuring outstanding young singers from the Resident Artist Program. This Rossini masterpiece is fabulous, funny, and familiar (the famous "Figaro" aria) and musically unforgettable! All seats are reserved, and tickets may be purchased in the Music Department office, 231 Humanities. Call 726-8208 for further information.
WOMEN AND WATER
"The Bonds Between Women and Water: An Interdisciplinary Conference," sponsored by UMD, will be held at the DECC, from September 28-30, 2000. For more information and registration, contact our website at www.d.umn.edu/ women_water; e-mail wmn_wtr@d. umn.edu, or phone 726 6296.

DIVERSITY TRAINING
Faculty and administrators are invited to participate in the October 2 workshop conducted by three members of the International Students and Scholars Services office from the Twin Cities campus. Their focus will be on employment based visas of university staff and faculty, the process and time frame for processing these visas, and the permanent residence petition process.
In addition, Jessica Hughes, associate director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action on the Twin Cities campus, will conduct a workshop on recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty on October 27.
Contact the Office of Equal Opportunity at 726-6827 or e-mail dpeters1@d.umn. edu if you are interested in attending.

BARBARA SMITH AT UMD
Barbara Smith, feminist critic, teacher, activist, lecturer, and publisher, will be giving a lecture on "The Truth that Never Hurts: Thirty Years of Writing and Activism for Justice and Social Change," at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in Kirby Ballroom. A reception will follow. Smith has edited three major collections about black women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue; All the Women are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies; and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. She was co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color. Her new book, The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom brings together more than two decades of literary criticism and political thought about gender, race, sexuality, power, and social change.

DIVERSITY WEEK
Join the UMD campus at the following Diversity Week Events:
The film: The Way Home will be shown at noon on Monday, October 9 in 355-357 Kirby Student Center. It is sponsored by Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Learning Resource Center.
The speaker, Father Roy Bourgeois will talk on "Close the School of the Americas" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11 in the Kirby Ballroom. The event is sponsored by Hispanic/ Latino/Chicana Learning Resource Center.
The workshop: "Strategies for Combatting Racism for Student Leaders," conducted by Tim Wise, will be held from 2 - 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 12 in the Kirby Garden Room. Register by calling 726-8444.
A hate crimes vigil called "Remembrance, Reflection and Action," sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Services will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 12 on the Kirby Terrace.
The lecture, "Strategies for Combatting Racism in the 21st Century," will be presented by Tim Wise at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 12 in the Kirby Ballroom.

Campus News

STUDENT WEB CONTEST 2001
This student web contest is a great opportunity for students as well as faculty members. The student has an opportunity to win $500 and the faculty has an opportunity to have a web site for an undergraduate course and/or Web-based materials for an undergraduate course.
Stop by and pick up information, guidelines, and rules from Sheri Pihlaja, in 109 Bohannon.

REC SPORTS PASSES
The Annual Facilities Pass is now on sale for $91 and the Annual Life Fitness Pass is on sale for $100. The All Rec Sports Pass for $191 is also offered. It combines both Annual Facility and Life Fitness passes. Once again if an Annual Facilities or Life Fitness pass is purchased by October 6th, UMD employees may use payroll deduction. All deductions will begin on the pay period ending October 8 for the October 18 paydate. Passes for Fall Semester are on sale now. Questions? Call the Rec Sports Department at 726-7128.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE NEWS
Join University College Duluth for an exciting two-week tour of museums, cathedrals, and chateaux during J-term this year, as University College sponsors "The Art and Architecture of Paris and the Chateau Country." Experience the City of Lights in conjunction with art history faculty! The cost of the trip is $2,495 per person, and includes airfare, lodging, some meals, field trips, and entrance fees. Academic credit is available for additional cost. For information, contact 218/726-6361 or e-mail pnuhring@d.umn.edu.

COMMITTEE
MEMBERS NEEDED
Faculty or staff members are needed to serve on the 2000-01 and 2001-02 Student Services Fees (SSF) Committee. The appointment is for a two-year term. The SSF Committee is an active committee that meets regularly from September through March. In previous years, they have usually met from 4 - 6 p.m. on Tuesday or Thursday. The committee reviews budgets for 21 organizations that provide services to students. The committee makes the budget allocations to each as a recommendation to the chancellor. If you are interested in serving on this committee, contact Kathy Skelton at 726-8501.

JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
MEMBERS NEEDED
Faculty and staff members are needed to serve on the Student Behavior Judiciary Committee (SBJC) beginning with the the 2000-01 academic year and continuing for three years. This committee is the due-process hearing panel for those students charged with violating the UMD student conduct code. The SBJC usually only meets once or twice during the academic year.
If you are interested in serving on this committee, contact Kathy Skelton at 726-8501.

NEW HEALTH SERVICES DIRECTOR
Gary Peterson joined UMD as Director of Health Services in August. He received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in 1983. He is currently the chief of staff at St. Luke's Hospital and a physician at Skyline Family Medical Center. Peterson has been active in many societies and committees, with a special interest in the Hospice Duluth at St. Luke's Hospital.

USING UMD'S LOGO
This is a reminder to check the Visual Identity Guide before preparing UMD publications. Chancellor Martin has asked that the university community be reminded that individual department logos are not acceptable and that the name for UMD should always be written as University of Minnesota Duluth with no commas or hyphens. UMD is working to present a unified "look" to our outside audiences. See the UMD Visual Identity Guide on the web at http://ww.d.umn.edu/currents/logo/vis-id.html or ask for a paper copy of the guidelines. For information, contact Cheryl Reitan at 726-8996, or e-mail creitan@d.umn.edu

WEB EVENTS CALENDAR
It is time to get all UMD events posted on the UMD Web Calendar of Events. The events URL, http://www.d. umn.edu/umdevents, is advertised in dozens of publications. Chancellor Martin and the UMD community feel strongly that it is important to have all of UMD events listed in one place.
You can find the Events Calendar for UMD on the Home page. Click the blue "Calendar" bar, then click the "Events" link. If you need a "How To" instruction sheet,contact Cheryl Reitan, at 726-8996, or e-mail creitan@d. umn.edu.

FARMERS MARKET
The Farmers Market at UMD is open from 2 p.m. until sellout on Thursday Sept. 14. It's the peak of the harvest season so come and get fresh locally grown produce. The UMD Farmers Market is located under the Dining Center, outside of Kirby Student Center. This market is sponsored by Auxiliary Services , Health Services, and the Sustainable Farming Association. Contact Deb Shubat if you want to sell or for more information 726-7258.


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Faculty and Staff News

Gloria DeFilipps Brush, professor and head, Department of Art, exhibited ten digital photographs at the International Information Visualization Digital IV2000 conference at the University of London, U.K., July 19-21, 2000. The conference was sponsored by universities and visualization labs in the U.K., U.S.A., Israel, Brazil, and Spain.

James H. Fetzer, McKnight Professor of Philosophy, has been notified that his biographical listing is being published in The Directory of the American Scholars, 10th edition; Marquis Who's Who in America, 55th edition; and Marquis Who's Who in the World, 18th edition.

J.Clark Laundergan, professor, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Addiction Studies, presented a paper entitled "If You Win, You Lose: Gambling and Recipients of Public Disability Benefits" at the Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking held in Las Vegas in June. The presentation was co-authored by Michael Farrell of Gamblers Intervention Services, Duluth.

Ron Marchese, professor, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, had a joint paper presented at the international conference ‹ Armenia 2000 in celebration of the 1700th anniversary of Armenia's conversion to Christianity ‹ on his research on the church collections of the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul. Marchese is currently on excavations in Greece until the 30th of September excavating the acropolis mound of the ancient town of Plataiai, north of Athens.

Rod Raymond, director, Life Fitness/ Wellness, presented: "Achieving Optimal Health," to a medical congress of 100 prominent physicians in Zurich Switzerland in August. The congress meets once every four years to discuss philosophy of sport and the science of optimizing performance. Look for Rod's new CD-ROM publication: Being your own Personal Trainer an interactive guide to self fitness coming out in December. Working with UMD's Catherine Ishino (graphics), and nutrition guru Dr. Andrew Weil, this CD-ROM will be educational, humorous, and effective.

Janelle L. Wilson, assistant professor, Department of Sociology Anthropology, wrote "Generation X and the Next Millennium," which was published in a special issue of the 20th Century Cultural Journal: America, edited by Andreea Deciu, Magda Teodorscu, and Virgil Nemoiano and published in Bucharest, Romania by the 21st Foundation Press, April 2000.

NRRI NEWS
NRRI Peat and Environmental Technologies staff attended the Quebec 2000 Millennium Wetland Event held recently in Quebec City. Tom Malterer presented "New Federal (National) Wetlands Regulations and Their Impact on the Peat Industry in the USA," written by Malterer, Kurt Johnson and Seppo Valppu. Johnson presented "Effects of Mulch, Companion Species, and Planting Time on Restoration of Post-Harvested Minnesota Peatlands, USA," written by Johnson, Craig Maly and Malterer. Steve Monson Geerts presented "Performance of Peat Filters in the Treatment of Domestic Wastewater in Northern Minnesota, USA," written by Monson Geerts, Barb McCarthy, Rich Axler and Jerry Henneck.

Calender of Events

CALENDAR OF EVENTS - September 1 - September 30
Tuesday, September 12

Volleyball: Minnesota State-Moorhead, 7 p.m., Romano Gym

Wednesday, September 13
Rec Sports Weight Room Grand Opening, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., 33 Sports and Health Center
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Celebration: Ruminahui, Ecuadorian Folk Music, noon, Kirby Lounge
Artist Lecture Series: Arin Kuklis, graphic designer, 2 p.m., Tweed

Thursday, September 14
Artist Lecture Series: Roy Thomas, Woodlands painter, 6 p.m., Tweed

Friday, September 15
Behavioral Medicine Lecture Series: Dr. Wallace Pickworth, "Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Tobacco Dependence and Withdrawal," 12:30 p.m., 130 Medicine

Special UMD Theatre Student Scholarship Fundraiser: Me & JFK, written and performed by Tom Isbell, 8 p.m., MPAC
Saturday, September 16
Soccer: Minnesota State-Mankato, 1 p.m., Griggs Field
Football: UM-Crookston, 6 p.m., Griggs Field

Tuesday, September 19
Botanica exhibit National Addy Celebration, 11 a.m., Tweed Museum of Art
Artist Lecture Series: Pamela Bannos, photographer, noon, Tweed
Volleyball: Bemidji State, 7 p.m., Romano Gym
Faculty Artist Recital: David Schmalenberger, percussion, 7:30 p.m., 90 Bohannon Hall

Wednesday, September 20
Alworth Institute Lecture: "Letting International Criminals Go Free? The U.S. and the International Criminal Court," John Washburn, 7:30 p.m., Kirby Rafters

Thursday, September 21
Spectrum Lecture Series: "The Sur-Real World: Media Manipulation and Me," Irene McGee, 7 p.m., Kirby Ballroom

Friday, September 22
Behavioral Medicine Lecture Series: Dr. William G. Iacono "Substance Abuse: What We Can Learn from Twin Children and Their Parents" at 12:30 p.m., 130 Medicine
Faculty Artist Recital: Tina Thielen-Gaffey, voice, 7:30 p.m., Tweed

Saturday, September 23
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Bookfair: "Bilingual Readings: Arts & Crafts for Children," 11 a.m., Barnes & Noble

Monday, September 25
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana & Diversity Week film: La Boda, noon, 355-57 Kirby

Tuesday, September 26
Artist Series: Minnesota Opera, The Barber of Seville, pre-concert lecture, 6:30 p.m.; opera, 7:30 p.m., MPAC

September 28-30
"The Bonds Between Women and Water: An Interdisciplinary Conference," DECC
Friday, September 29
Eddy Lecture Series: "Developmental Apraxia," Edythe Strand, 5 p.m., Kirby Ballroom
Volleyball: Winona State, 7 p.m., Romano Gym

Satuday, September 30
Cross Country: Superior National Invitational, 10:45 a.m., Two Harbors
Eddy Lecture Series: "Developmental Apraxia," Edythe Strand, 8:30 a.m., Kirby Ballroom
Volleyball: Concordia, 3 p.m., Romano Gym

Monday, October 9
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana film: The Way Home, noon,
355-357 Kirby

Wednesday, October 11
"The Truth That Never Hurts: Thirty Years of Writing and Activism for Justice and Social Change," with Barbara Smith, 7 p.m., Kirby Ballroom
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana & Diversity Week speaker: Father Roy Bourgeois, "Close the School of the Americas," 7 p.m., Kirby Ballroom

Thursday, October 12
Diversity Week workshop: "Strategies for Combatting Racism for Student Leaders," 2 - 5 p.m., Kirby Garden Room
Diversity Week hate crimes vigil: "Remembrance, Reflection and Action," 6 p.m., Kirby Terrace
Diversity Week lecture, "Strategies for Combating Racism in the 21st Century," 7 p.m., Kirby Ballroom

Thursday, November 9
Hispanic/Latino/Chicana reading: Dr. Eden Torres 7 p.m., Griggs Center

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