Megan Eckman and Jeffrey Opp met while working at the Plains Art Museum. Once they discovered that they went to the same school, they hit it off.
Opp and Eckman, who have been going dating more than a year, have both opened their own businesses selling their art.
They decided to open their businesses at different times, but once they started dating it practically turned into competition.
“He beat me by one day,” Eckman said.
Eckman is a dual major in creative writing and art and Opp is working on his degree in photography. They both realized that starting a business while in school is a good step.
It’s easy to stereotype poetry with love poems and other sappy topics. Kevin Zepper, assistant professor at the Corrick Center, has a different take on his poetry.
“I like to think I write about the uncommon and the mundane,” Zepper said.
On Friday, Zepper will read pieces from his new poetry chapbook, “I Bring You Dead Things.”
Dragon athletes think about diet, exercise, visualization
All athletes know game day feels different from other days, but they deal with the big day in unique ways.
Hours before the opening horn, Dragon athletes decide what to eat, how to stay loose and how to find their psychological comfort zone. If they take the right steps, competitive success often follows.
Above all, successful Dragon athletes stay true to themselves as the event nears. Here’s a four-part game day guide.
Men’s team win two at home
The Dragons played Northern State at Nemzek on Friday and took an easy win 87-63, and took a close 71-70 win against University of Mary Saturday.
Freshman Jake Driscoll delivered a career high 23 points, including a perfect five-for-five from three-point range. Freshman Xavier Reed added 13 points.
Student group travels to Washington for inauguration
Eighteen members of MSUM Student Leaders For Progress traveled halfway across the country in two vans to witness Barack Obama become the 44th president of the United States. The organization was sponsored by Students Training Our Campus Against Racism, and was made up of members from the American Indian Student Association, student senate, Umoja (Black Student Alliance), College Democrats, College Republicans and the History Club.
The group spent two days on the road to and from Washington stopping halfway in Constantine, Mich. Ursula and Rick Bernhardt, friends of freshman Travis Loker, who went on the trip, provided the group with places to stay (in their home on the way there and at the First Congregational United Church Of Christ on the way back) and free breakfast. Accommodations in the nation’s capitol were provided by the St. Paul Lutheran Church and the Washington Seminar Center.
To view photos from the trip, click play on the Flickr slideshow below:
Or if you prefer, view them all at our Inauguration 09 Flickr Set
MSUM is considering implementing a login program for all campus computers.
According to Bryan Kotta, the IT systems administrator, “One of our goals of requiring a network login is to secure the MSUM network to those students, faculty and staff that should have access to it.”
With this program, officials will be able to tell who was on a computer at any given time.
“This is extremely important for us so that if the machine becomes infected with a virus through an inadvertent download or other means we will be able to track it back to the machine and to the user,” explains Kotta.
Cold temperatures cause water main leak on 14th street
Several campus buildings went without water following a break in a pipe on 14th Street Friday afternoon.
The break occurred around noon, leaving Snarr, Dahl, Ballard, Kise, the east part of the Library and CMU without water for much of the afternoon. According to Doug Rogeness, communications director of Moorhead Public Service.
Icy water filled the street as city crews worked to repair the leak, caused by frigid temperatures and the aging infrastructure of the pipes.
