Monthly Archives: September 2012

The MSUM Planetarium presents two fall shows

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The Minnesota State University Moorhead Planetarium presents two fall shows: Cosmic Colors-An Adventure Along the Spectrum and The Little Star that Could.

Cosmic Colors shows Sundays at 2 p.m. and Mondays at 7 p.m. until Nov. 12.

Planetarium’s digital projector.

Cosmic Colors invites the audience to explore the world of color and ask questions like “Why is the sky blue and Mars red? What color was a dinosaur?”

Take an amazing journey through the world and the universe under a rainbow of cosmic light.

The Little Star that Could is every Saturday at 11 a.m. until Nov. 10. This is a story for children of all ages about an average yellow star in search of planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way he learns what makes each star special.

After each show the audience will take a look at the fall sky using the digital projector.

General admission is $5 for adults, and $2.50 for children, Tri-college students, and seniors. The Planetarium is located on the MSUM campus in Bridges Hall room 167, along 11th St. S in Moorhead.

For more information about the MSUM Planetarium, call 218.477.2920 or visit mnstate.edu/planetarium.

 

History professor contributes chapter to book on baseball history

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Image from Amazon.com.

Steve Hoffbeck, MSUM History Department, contributed a chapter to a new book on baseball history entitled The National Pastime, 2012: Short But Wondrous Summers: Baseball in the North Star State, a June publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

The book, available on Amazon.com and other online booksellers, tells the history of baseball in Minnesota from the 1870s to modern times. Hoffbeck co-wrote a chapter, “On the Wrong Side of the Color Line in Minnesota: Pitcher John Donaldson,” with Peter Gorton, a baseball writer from Minneapolis.

The chapter outlines the history of black baseball in Minnesota and then focuses on John Donaldson, the best left-handed African-American barnstorming pitcher of the pre-Negro Leagues era. Donaldson was a predecessor of the legendary Hall of Famer pitcher, Satchel Paige.

MSUM to celebrate Constitution Day

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Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who, are born in the U.S. or by naturalization, have become citizens.

MSUM is celebrating Constitution Day Tuesday, September 18 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in Center for Business Room 103. Judge Erickson will give a 45-minute presentation titled, “Mr. Madison We Have a Problem: This Constitution is Wonderful and All but We Can’t Agree on What it Means.”

He will discuss the four basic camps of constitutional interpretation:

  1. Textual Originalism
  2. Intentionalist Originalism
  3. Pragmatism
  4. Natural Law theory

Judge Erickson is one of two active U.S. District Judges in North Dakota. He is a graduate of Jamestown College and the University of North Dakota School of Law. Following his graduation from Law School, Judge Erickson was in the private practice of law in West Fargo with a broad general trial practice. During his career as a judge, Judge Erickson has sat with every state and federal court having jurisdiction in North Dakota except the United States Supreme Court. Erickson is married and has two school-aged daughters.

Refreshments will be served.