| Summary: | 2 TheConcordian NEWS FEBRUARY 14, 1997 wsftn e 4* The English Department's Creative Writing Contest sub* missions are due Feb, 20. There are three categories - poetry, iiction and non-fiction, Prizes will be awarded to the top three entries in each cate-gory. For more information and guidelines, contact Bill Synder at 3713. • Cobtor Kids Comer would like to submit the labels it has collected for the Campbell's Soup labels for Education" drive by Feb. 15. Please save and turn (abets in to Cobber Kids. • Tickets are available for Concordia Theatre's upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea." Performances are Feb. 13-16. Students receive free tickets at the theater's box office. • The Mixed Blood Theatre will present "Daughters of Africa," a musical history of African-American women, from slave ship survivors to movie stars. The play is during com-munity time today in the Centrum, • Conoordta's fellowship ot Christian athletes is hosting Concordia almunus and Paralympic participant Judy Seigle at 8:30 p.m., Sunday in the Centrum, • The Concordia Band will present a home concert at 4 p.m., Sunday in Memorial Auditorium. The concert will conclude its winter tour. The tour included performances in Roseau, Ouluth and Staples. Minn. • "Comedy Olymplx," an improv comedy troupe, is per-forming at 8 p.m., tonight in the Centrum. The audience will be treated to an interactive night of comedic events. Bring a date or spite this holiday and bring a group of friends. • A video presentation enti-tled "Keep Your Heart Strong; Native American Celebrations in North Dakota" wilt be shown at 7:30 p.m., tonight in NDSU's Memorial Union, Century Theater. • Student Association's celebration ot President's Day is Feb. 17. Senate election debates will be held at 6:30 p.m. and president and vice-president debates will be at 7 p.m. News brl&ts are compiled each week from Information received at our office. If you know of an Item for a news brief, or want to know what to put In a press release, let us know. Ptea&e send event Information to The Concordlan, FPO 104, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn* 5$6$2, call 299-382$ or e-mail concor-dian@ gloria.cord.edu. Weekend weather *. Chance of snow through Saturday. Highs: 25 to 35 Lows: -5 to 5 Campus events this weekend , . . Campus movie: "Get on the Bus,1* 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 7 p.m. Sunday in Olin 124. Winter Meltdown event: "Comedy OJympix" at 8 p.m. on Friday in the Centrum. "The Lady from the Sea:" 8 p.m Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. This week in Concordia history -. . fn 1961, Dr. Allen Tate, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, spoke at the Sixth Annual Conference of English Majors in Minnesota Colleges. This week in history elsewhere . . „ On Feb. 14, 270 A.D., Roman priest Valentine was martyred. -The Almanac of Dates Quick quote . . . "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Fast fact. Around the world, more people eat herring than any other fish. -Uncle John's Second Bathroom Reader Jane Ahlin, Jo and Ron Ellingson attend a class with Catherine Cater, whose 1994 Communiversity course, "Voices from Here and There," dealt with autobiographies. A school for the community Rena Peterson Staff Writer CONCORDIAN IN-DEPTH F/M Communiversity College is an expensive invest-ment. One area university, howev-er, offers courses ranging in price from zero to thirty dollars. It's Fargo/Moorhead's Communiversity. Thirty courses are offered through Communiversity this year, accord-ing to Arland Jacobson, director of Communiversity for 14 years. Communiversity began in 1965 as part of an experiment by Dr. James Hofrenning. Eighteen peo-ple attended the one seminar given in 1965. According to Jacobson, Communiversity started as an e x c u s e for peo-ple to get out of t h e i r homes in February. " T h e r e a s o n I ' v e always heard the Communiversity was started is that February was such a vacant month," Jacobson said. The program has grown since that first session, according to Ann Zavoral, administrative secretary for Communiversity. Over 900 courses have been taught since 1965, and last year, 1,016 people attended the approximately 40 ses-sions given. Communiversity classes usual-ly run for four sessions in or around the month of February, according to Jacobson. Now some classe are offered throughout the year. The nonprofit organization is funded through private donations from area congregations, educa-tional institutions and businesses. Concordia does its part by sup-plying space for the classes. According to Zavoral, the majority of Communiversity courses are held on Concordia's campus. "Most of the Communiversity courses are offered in the Ivers Science Building," Zavoral said, "but some have also been held in the Birkeland Alumni Lounge, as well as other areas in the commu-nity, such as the Eventide Nursing Home and Riverview Place." Though Concordia provides much of the space for the sessions, Zavoral stressed that Communiversity is aimed at the community. "We are housed here," Zavoral said, "but we are definitely a com-munity program." Moorhead State University and North Dakota State University also contribute to the programs, accord-ing to Zavoral. Professors from MSU, NDSU and Concordia participate in teach-ing the courses. "Communiversity is one of the few places where professors in the three schools are available to the whole community," Jacobson said. According to Zavoral, those interested in teaching a course sub-mit a proposal to the F/M Communiversity Planning Committee, a 14-member panel consisting of Communiversity staff members and community members. However, the commit-tee sometimes asks certain com-munity members to submit propos-als. "Sometimes, we're looking pri-marily for subjects. Then, it's question of who has the experience and the ability to do the class," Jacobson said. Tracey Moorhead, assistant to President Dovre, was asked to facilitate a steering committee to formulate one such course. Moorhead, along with the commit-tee, submitted a proposal to Jacobson entitled "Recreating the Village: Building the Partnership," a course designed to discuss the partnership between Anglos and Hispanics. According to Moorhead, the course, like many Communiversity courses, was designed specifically with the community as a whole in mind. Concordia assistant Spanish professor Eduardo Gargurevich is one of the leaders of the class. "The main thing is to bring peo-ple together, to try to shorten this distance between the Hispanic and non-Hispanic communities," he said. Before its approval, the course was approved by three subcommit-tees. Subcommittee members looked at how well it fit into the liberal arts/science, religion, or creative living categories estab-lished. All class proposals are sub-mitted to this committee. Though the program is non-profit, those who lead classes are offered an honorarium of $120 for four lectures, according to Zavoral. "It's not unusual, though, that some of the faculty turn back the money to the Communiversity," Zavoral said. Jacobson also noted that money may not be as much as a motiva-tion as is the chance for professors to teach a more specialized cur-riculum. Funding through Minnesota and North Dakota organizations, as well as grant money, has enabled Communiversity to charge so little for its sessions. According to Zavoral, some of the organizations that donated money did so on the stipulation that classes be free and open to the public. Twelve of this year's thir-ty courses are free. The other eigh-teen cost less than $30 to attend. The cost of the classes will allow more students to attend, according to Zavoral. "The classes are open to [stu-dents] as well as the rest of the community," Zavoral said. "Many of the sessions are free or the fees are reduced for students, which in the past was a hindrance." Zavoral also noted that the classes should be stress-free. "There's no threat of exams or papers," she said. "Communiversity is one of the few places where professors in the three schools are available to people in the whole community." -Arland Jacobson, Director, F/M Communiversity Correction: Two students running for Student Senate were misidenti-fied in the Feb. 7 supplement to the Concordian. The photos with the correct names are to the right: Amimul Hasan, running for senior seat Sami Islam, running for junior seat
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