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Haute Dish Annual Spring Reading

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Reading Time: 2 minutes

Haute Dish Annual Spring Reading

“Where do you plant the seeds to your story?”

 

 

Haute Dish Arts and Literary Journal: Then and Now by Suzanne Nielsen

In 2004, I was introduced to Mr. Clint Weathers, a Metro State creative writing student. Clint had a passion for writing and the energy to rebirth a literary magazine that had made its genesis in the mid-1990s, but was laid to rest in 2000. Clint took his passion and ran with it. He and I worked together by gathering a group of students, also passionate to work as genre editors (prose, poetry, and art), and our first issue launched in spring of 2005. We received 32 submissions for that initial issue and published 25 of those. Almost 20 years later, I am honored to still be advising this journal, and I feel especially honored working with so many talented students. This is a result of good karma.

Each semester work is submitted for [blind] voting by avolunteer editorial staff, which consists of current Metro students working in the areas of prose, poetry and art. Students may apply to be a volunteer editor if they are experienced in these areas. Editors must commit to two semesters of service, and they are expected to make publication decisions and participate at in-person readings twice each year. As the faculty advisor I meet regularly with the editors, and works closely with managing editors, as well as with Student Life and Leadership Development.  

 

Who Submits?

Metro State students are encouraged to submit their work for consideration during open submission periods listed on our web site. Our published writers and artists spread across variousdisciplines of study to include creative writing, psychology, history, education, nursing, business, studio arts, screenwriting, and social sciences. We also welcome submissions from graduate students and alumni. Currently our managing editor is a graduate student, and the managing editor before her was a soon to be graduate of our MLS program.  

 

Why Submit?

Being published in Haute Dish is an accolade not available at many colleges and universities. Whether getting published or participating as an editor, the experience is valuable to employers as much as it is for you. Our writers and artists have found careers as editors, illustrators, writers, and design artists. Several of our authors/artists find themselves in graduate programs, teaching in the field of writing or publication, or is a lawyer in the Twin Cities. Published students have gone on to win The Carothers Distinguished Writers Award, The President’s Outstanding Student Award, The Loft Literary Center’s Mentorship Award, and many have long lists of ongoing publications. 

 

How and Where to Submit?

Submissions are accepted two times a year for each printed issue. Submission information is available at https://hautedish.metrostate.

Printed magazines are available in the Student Education Center and throughout every Metro State building. If you cannot find an issue, contact us and we will get you a copy.  Published students have the opportunity to participate in readings scheduled during Fall and Spring semesters. Our artists are encouraged to participate in the readings by sharing their process with the audience. Time is allowed at each reading for open mic participants that use our sign-in sheet. If you are interested in becoming involved in the Haute Dish editorial team, please contact me. We hope you think of us the next time you serve your favorite dish. 

 

To request disability related accommodations,contact the Center for Accessibility Resources, 
accessibility.resources@metrostate.edu or651.793.1549If you have questions regarding this event, please contact dina.inderlee@metrostate.edu

Remembering the life of Victor Rosenthal: Social Justice Advocate, Professor, and Executive Director of Jewish Community Action.

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Reading Time: 2 minutes

By: James J. Berreth, Government and Political Writer with The Metropolitan

In the picture: Victor Rosenthal

“As serious as he could be at times, he loved to laugh more than anything, especially with his family.”

Ben Rosenthal

St. Paul, Minn. – Victor (Vic) Rosenthal, a tireless advocate for social justice, and former professor at Metro State University passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 28th at the Beyond Hospice Home in Oakdale, Minn. He was 68.

Reading through news clippings, memorial tributes on his Caring Bridge site, and the beautiful obituary written by his son Ben Rosenthal paints a picture of a man unwavering in his dedication, advocacy for others, generosity, and relentlessness of spirit.

For instance, in an interview conducted by Bob Keller in 2013, Mr. Rosenthal describes the work he did during the recession of 2008 and afterward. In 2009, when Vic was the executive director of Jewish Community Action (JCA), he and other volunteers went door-knocking in North Minneapolis (an area where 1 in 4 homes was in foreclosure) and helped direct homeowners to foreclosure prevention specialists. In many cases, Vic sat down with African American residents and just listened as he wanted to know what was important to them, which helped forge real, lasting relationships that could be built upon. Through the JCA, and an arm of the JCA called the Northside Community Reinvestment Coalition, or NCRC, Vic and other organizers helped residents fight against banks looking to foreclose on their homes by interceding on their behalf with the banks and negotiating terms beneficial to these residents.

For Vic, it was all about the connections one could make with anyone and everyone. This same sentiment continues to echo in the virtual halls of Metro State University. In his POL 301, Citizenship in a Global Context class session on Mon. April 3rd, Professor John Porten instructed his students that the best way to combat racism, bigotry, and intolerance is by networking and forging relationships with immigrants and people who are from different cultures. This is how you build social capital; this is how we gain power, and this is how we change the views of those who oppose equal rights.

Vic was, by all accounts, a great father, and according to his son Ben, “To be loved by Vic meant to be loved without condition or limit.” I can think of no greater testament to a life well lived than by closing with this final sentiment, again, from his son Ben, “He was a passionate, intelligent, thoughtful, caring, inspiring, and generous man, but it was his capacity to love that exceeded everything.”

Vic Rosenthal will be missed by many and his legacy lives on in those who knew him best, in the organizations he helped grow, and by the thousands of lives, he touched. The State of Minnesota owes a debt of gratitude to Vic Rosenthal, his wife Chris, his sons Ben and Aaron, their wives, and two grandchildren he doted over, Harper and Henry.

A memorial service will be held on the Metro State University’s St. Paul campus in St. John’s Hall, room 154 at 4 pm on Tues. April 4th.