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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2013
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New major offers students skills in multiple disciplines semester that the university offered the new major to students. It is considered to be the only extensive program like it in the country. The Cultural Entre-
preneurship program combines various aspects of cultural education with basic understandings of business economics. see NEW MAJOR, A4
One neighborhood’s trash is one gardener’s treasure
Art and Design program accredited
3” credit NOAA ILLUSTRATION BY JADE GOLEN AND JOE FRASER
BY GRAHAM HAKALA Staff Reporter
Students interested in learning about business who also like the cultural learning experiences of a
liberal arts degree now have an opportunity to take in both with the new Cultural Entrepreneurship program offered at UMD. This fall was the first
BY ALOYSIA POWER Outdoors Reporter
A mountain of gold can be found near campus, taking up the front yard of Marian Syrjamaki-Kuchta and piled in black garbage bags. The small rips and holes in the bags reveal that this treasure isn’t the aurous metal found inside a pirate’s chest, but rather raked and gathered fallen leaves from the lawns around Duluth. This urban gardener calls these leaves her “garden gold.” “Leaves are full of minerals and organic matter,” SyrjamakiKuchta said, who spreads the leaves over her garden soil. “They keep the weeds down, keep the moisture in, add organic matter.” In need of many leaves to keep up with Locals have been dropping their leaves off at Marian Syrjamaki-Kuchta's house on College Street near soil maintenance, Syrja- campus for about 15 to 20 years now. She uses the leaves as mulch in her gardens, then lets her friend maki-Kuchta decided to gardeners and farmers take the rest. ALOYSIA POWER/STATESMAN put a sign in her front “People are pretty is only the second batch my sign out there this don’t want to make the yard on College Street, good,” Syrjamaki-Kuch- this fall. If her garden- fall and leaves started trek out to the Western across from the outlet of ta said about the leaf ing and farming friends showing up,” she said. Lake Superior Sanitary University Drive, invitquality. “Occasionally didn’t stop by and fill up Along with the yard’s District in West Duluth ing people to drop their there will be McDontheir trunks and trailprime visibility, due to its to dispose of their leaves. leaves off every fall. She’s ald’s wrappers, or I get a ers with the leaves, the location on a main road, Between her friends’ been keeping up with the practice for the past lot of branches or rocks, garbage bags might just part of the reason her gardens and compost overflow onto the side- idea has worked so well piles and her own two 15–20 years. From the but mostly I get leaves.” The heaping pile that walk and into the street. is because her yard is a gardens, not a single leaf looks of her yard now, sits in her front yard now “I didn’t even have short stop for locals who the plan worked. see GARDNER A4
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BY PAIGE WALTER Volunteer Writer
After almost a decade of planning and preparation, UMD’s Department of Art and Design has officially been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). According to NASAD, to be accredited means that an institution has met an external set of basic criteria for the programs it offers. They require that schools clearly publish their tuition rates and course descriptions. Board members must also assess the schools’ art curriculum and promote new standards to advance art education. Klueg said he finally feels a big sigh of relief now that this process is over. “It has been a long and exhaustive process, but this is a huge milestone for the department,” Klueg said. Klueg and the department started annually gathering and tabulating useful data for the accreditation process back in 2003. see ART, A3