The Exponent, 1984-09-13

              1984-85 Gypsy Day Committee: First row: Diane Elsperger, Bath; Penny Opitz, Aberdeen; Lynn
Daughters, -Winner; Melissa Busby, Sturgis; Sue Blumer, Sioux Falls; Denise Trudeau, Woonsocket Lori
Reuer, Hoven; Robin Raap, Selby. Second row: Vonnie Bleibaum, Groton; Bonnie Swanson, Pukwana; Connie
Morgan, Ipswich; Arm Fossoy (kneeling), Rapid City; Bruce Kleinsasser (kneeling) Pierre. Third row:
Michele Newman, Athol; Martha Atkinson, Pierre; Donna Fox, Watertown; Jan Mickelson, Wilmot; Marcia
Hansen, Redfield; Tony Janusz, Aberdeen; Roberta Gauer, Ipswich; Sonya Sorensen Pierre; Mike Kampa,
Groton; David Heim, Clark; Kelly Lashley, Aberdeen. Fourth row: Janice Dutenhoeffer-Heier, Roscoe; Jill
Miller, Howard; Donna Lofquist; Sharon Kusler, Pierre; Lana Grote, Aberdeen; Renae Noble, Geddes; Jeff
Struble, Rapid City; Les Bachmeier, Shields, ND. Not Pictured: Rhonda Sternhagen, Sheryl Miotke, Caroline
Bullert, Peg Goehring, Mary Joe Mangan, Keith Mahannah. (News Bureau Photo)
Gypsy Week Calendar
Gypsy Week festivities will be bigger and better than ever this year, with activities ranging from an air band
contest to a rodeo and the coronation. A '50s dance and a barn dance are planned, and entertainment includes a
hypnotist and a singing comedian. A gypsy costume contest for faculty and students will be held during the Gyp-sy
Festival, and don't forget to dress up your residence hall for the dorm decorating contest. One of the state's
biggest parades will kick off Gypsy Day, followed by an area high school band field marching competition at
Swisher Field. And be there to top things off and cheer on the Wolves at the football game against Winona State
Saturday night. A tentative schedule of events is as follows:
HOMECOMING WEEK
time event
5:00 Freshmen picnic
8:00 "A Night of Hypnosis"
3:00 Dorm judging
9:00 '50s dance
11:00-4:00 Gypsy Festival & costume contest
11:30-12:30 Singer-comedian Stuart Mitchell
12:00 Picnic
6:30 Air band contest
7:30 C"Nor"o nation, followed by burning of the
5:00 Gypsy Day Rodeo
9:30 Barn Dance
10:00 Parade
12:00 Royalty luncheon
12:30 Marching competition
1:30 Gypsy Day Rodeo
7:00 Northern vs. Winona State
1:30 Gypsy Day Rodeo
Monday, Sept. 24
Tuesday, Sept. 25
Wednesday, Sept. 26
Thursday, Sept. 27
Friday, Sept. 28
Saturday, Sept. 19
Sunday, Sept. 30
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Union
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Campus Green
Campus Green
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Expo Building
Expo Building
Downtown
Rushmore Room
Swisher Field
Expo Building
Swisher Field
Expo Building
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Permit No. 77
Faculty Reorganized.
by Amy Volk
Reducing administrative costs
and providing more efficient and
practical coordination were the
primary reasons behind this sum-mer's
faculty reorganization at
NSC.
The new organizational struc-ture,
according to Dr. Thomas
Flickema, Dean of Faculty, is a
return to an old idea, with the new
structure strongly resembling that
of a few years ago.
The previous organization, im-plemented
in 1983, providing for
the seven faculties, Humanities,
Social and Natural Sciences,
Business and Industry, Educa-tional
Studies, Education Services,
Fine Arts and Military Science,
was to "provide a more specific
focus within the various
disciplines," Flickema said. But
the "old idea didn't work as well as
we wanted it to. The seven chairs
could not keep as well versed in the
specific disciplines underneath
them as we thought."
The college's seven faculties
have been reduced to five.
Humanities and Social and Natural
Sciences have been merged to
form the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences with Dr. Richard Chuang
as head and Educational Studies
and Educational Services have
been combined in the Faculty of
Education headed by Professor
Robert Sorge. The faculties of
Business and Industry, headed by
Dr. Harry Jasinski; Fine Arts,
headed by Lonn Sweet; and
Military Science, headed by Capt.
Steven Adelman have not been
substantially changed.
Changes also occurred in the of-fices
of Registrar and Chair of
Graduate Faculty. Professor
Richard Kline fills the position
vacated by past registrar Richard
Van Beek who had requested a
return to the classroom. The new
chair of Graduate faculty, Kay
Schallenkamp, replaces Edwin
Rietz who had also requested a
return to the classroom.
Professor Mark McGinnis shown working on one of his
many art projects. (News Bureau Photo)
McGinnis Art Work
On Display at Lincoln
by Kelly Face
"Art can be about what is going
on around you as well as what's in-side
you." This is how Professor
Mark McGinnis explains two of the
three works he currently has on
display in the Lincoln Gallery.
The first work, At Peace, was
done especially for an exhibition,
held in San Francisco entitled, Vi-sions
of America at Peace. McGin-nis
says, "The piece attempts to
express true peace between the
U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. and what
constructive exchange could take
place between the two nations."
Each side of the piece represents
one of these two nations, and over
the surface of the work is
represented the means through
which a meaningful interaction
could take place. "I am not naive
enough to think that this kind of
interaction could come about with-out
considerable change in attitude
from both countries. But I am also
not pessimistic enough, or mis-guided
enough to think that it could
not come about."
Third World Ties, a work still in
progress, is based on current
events, and the involvement of
both the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. in the
affairs of third world countries.
The main section of the work rep-resents
both super powers, the
many classes in each society, as
well as barriers erected by both
countries. McGinnis states that,
"Around this central section even-tually
there will be about 30
smaller sculptures, each depicting
a different third world nation.
Ropes will lead from these coun-tries
to whichever superpower it is
currently aligned with or controll-ed
by. Broken and frayed ropes
will indicate previous relations.
The sculptures will be done in the
following phases: Latin America,
the Mid-East, Africa, Asia, and the
Pacific. Estimated completion
time of the project is late 1986."
The two pieces currently a part of
the work represent Nicaraugua
and El Salvador.
The only hung piece, A Personal
Study of Painting from the
Western World, on the surface is a
visual lesson in the history of art on
a series of 14 canvases. McGinnis
explains that, "The irregular
shapes of the canvases arose from
my desire to create an overall in-teresting
composition with the
series, rather than a row of rec-tangles
and squares. The converg-ing,
expanding angles were
calculated to break the space of the
wall and to transform from
horizontal to vertical composi-tions."
"One of the most difficult
aspects of the project was deciding
which pieces to include in the
series. My Criteria for selection
was4as follows : 1) The painting had
to be one I enjoyed in its visual
qualities, 2) it had to reflect what I
considered to be interesting
qualities of the culture that pro-duced
it, and 3) the image could
not overly conflict with the flow I
was trying to create in the series. I
have no doubt that every artist
would choose a very different set of
paintings should he/she be faced
with a similar task."
All three pieces are mainly com-posed
of plastics and woods and
are painted with watercolor.
The show continues through Oc-tober
8th.