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for of Spring Fling this year, says
that the committee has not yet met
to decide on decorations or an over-all
theme, but some events have
been decided.
There will be a semi-formal
dance. This should be loads of fun
because it's something different,
yet not too formal. Spring Fling is
meant to be fun, so each entertain-ing
evening is comfortable, yet an
attempt to try something new on
campus. Ifs also been determined
that on April 23 comedian Marty Putz
will be performing. Everyone needs a
little laughter before exams to loosen
them up and take a load off their
shoulders.
UPC and others who may volun-teer
some of their time and ener-gies
to the week of Spring Fling, put
a lot of effort and creative skills into
it in order to please students. All of
their efforts are for you, so make an
effort to enjoy yourself during Spring
Fling.
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Wednesday, April 3, 1996, Volume 94, Number 14 • Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401
"I Love NSU" campaign is on again and nearing goal
Congressman
visits Northern
Daycare today
BY MEGAN HOINES
U.S. Congressman Tim Johnson will be an-nouncing
his candidacy from NSU's Daycare on
Wednesday, April 3rd at 11:30 a.m. He will be
here to discuss education issues and his vision
for the future." A representative from Johnson's
office said, it will be a good opportunity to see
your Congressman and a chance to take pic-tures."
This event is sponsored by NSU Young Demo-crats.
Hope to see everyone at the Daycare in
Lindberg Hall today!
Visitors pass the recent exhibits at Northern's Science
Fair. Photo by Jason Jund.
Spring has not hit Aberdeen as
hard as most of us would like. It's
difficult to imagine that there are
many of us who are not excited
about its eventual arrival. Along
with the arrival of spring, is the NSU
traditional event, Spring Fling.
Spring Ring is "a week of fun and
entertainment before finals," ex-plains
Lisa Slinde, UPC.
Students create the fun factor
and UPC provides the entertain-ment.
Sarah Bloornster, coordina-
BY MALENE A. BANDY
The third annual Love NSU"
campaign is going well, having sur-passed
the halfway mark in total
gifts and pledges received. The
Office of Development and Alumni
Services has been working to raise
money for scholarships to be given
to incoming freshmen. Although
the telephone solicitations began
February 19 and the personal and
direct mail contacts began March
4, the planning of the campaign
started as far back as January.
The campaign will end March 29,
but money is expected to come in
through mid-April.
Despite the modest number of
volunteers, about 6,500 people
have been contacted, approxi-mately
3,000 through telephone
pledges alone. Out of the 75 volun-teers
in the campaign, eight people
have been working on the tele-phone
pledges. They work about
four hours a night for four weeks in
order to reach as many people as
The campus of Northern State
University was host to a recent visit
by two academicians for the
Fachhochschule Magdeburg in
Germany.
NSU President John Hutchinson
explained that the German institu-tion
is deeply interested in estab-lishing
an exchange program be-cause
"our programs at Northern
possible. Another 60 of these dedi-cated
volunteers have made about
400 personal solicitations. Pledges
to the campaign come from fac-ulty,
staff, alumni, NSU friends,
and members of the business com-munity.
Patty Mesmer of the Office of
Development and Alumni Services
commented, "We appreciate their
continued efforts and the warm
response and show of support they
have received from those upon
whom they have called. The gen-erosity
of our donors is valued and
appreciated."
The community volunteer chair
of this year's campaign is James
Malsom, a 1971 graduate of North-ern
State University and a general
agent for New York Life Insurance
Co. in Aberdeen.
Prior to the first of these cam-paigns
in 1994, the only academic
scholarships offered were the
Presidential scholarship, the Vice-are
so very similar to those offered
there and this would be an excel-lent
opportunity for students and
faculty from both institutions."
The exchange program is pend-ing
formal approval by the South
Dakota Board of Regents.
Visiting from Germany were Dr.
Margarete Sohst and Dr. Doreen
Starke-Meyerring.
President's scholarship, and the
Dean's scholarship. Now the Admis-sions
Office and the Financial Aid
Office are also able to offer a fourth
academic scholarship, the Academic
Incentive scholarship. In 1994, 343
incoming students received some fi-nancial
aid because of the funding of
this program. Another 150,000 dol-lars
was able to be distributed last
year among 256 students. This year
the goal is to bring in 200,000 dollars,
a goal which seems likely to be
reached as 146,000 dollars has al-ready
been raised.
Mesmer said enthusiastically, Our
goal is to grow to such an extent that
students who qualified for scholar-ships
as freshmen will also be able to
qualify for a similar scholarship as
sophomores. However, that may be
ten years down the road as it would
take about half a million dollars to
accomplish."
Horizons focus
on Pope, Clinton
Horizons, a weekly series of free
noon forums provided to Northern
State University students, staff and
faculty, as well as area residents, will
feature a discussion titled "What
Makes this Pope so Popular?" on
April 3.
Speakers will be Scott Wills, adult
education leader of First Baptist
Church in Aberdeen, and Michala
Heller, Catholic minister of Northern's
Newman Center. On April 10, a forum
titled "President Clinton's Chances
for Re-Election in '96" will be pre-sented.
Speakers will be Sharon
Stroshein, staff member in Congress-man
Tim Johnson's office; Dennis
Scott, NSU assistant professor of
English; and Jim Kreuger, NSU asso-ciate
professor of business law. The
Horizons forums take place at noon in
the Dry Dock.
Anyone may attend the program
and bring a lunch if desired. Horizons
programs are co-sponsored by United
Campus Ministries, the Aquinas
Newman Center, NSU Student Activi-ties
Office and Pi Gamma Mu, the
social sciences honor society.
Pictured from left to right
are NSU President John
Hutchinson, Dr. Margarete
Shohst and Dr. Doreen
Starke-Meyerring, both
from Germany; and Dr.
Samuel Gingerich, vice
president for academic af-fairs
at NSU.
Spring will come eventually and
NSU will welcome it with style
BY NIKKI CARSON
NSU hosts guests from Germany