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Some 1, students from middle and high schools throughout Minnesota will present exhibits, documentaries, papers, websites and performances at the State History Day competition at the University of Minnesota Saturday, May 4.

After participating in school and regional-level competitions, top students advance to the state competition See a list of participating schools and student projects. Top entries at the state competition will move on to nationals with approximately 60 students representing Minnesota at the National History Day competition June in at University of Maryland, College Park.

Media are welcome to attend the state competition and speak with students, teachers and Minnesota Historical Society History Day staff. Our involvement also helps spark a love of history among young people and enables them to be better students," said Amelious N. Whyte Jr. About National History Day in Minnesota National History Day in Minnesota is a cocurricular historical research program that builds college readiness and communication skills for middle and high school students.

At the symposium, California hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang delivered the keynote speech with Yale Prof. Daphne Brooks offering a response. Their themes dwelled on issues of race and freedom. Chang, executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts and Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, talked about how desegregation and resegregation affected the Purple Moses.

Brooks, who is working on a three-volume book about black female singers, discussed the impact of women and children on the Purple One. She stubbornly essayed to connect Prince with David Bowie, partly because shed organized a symposium on both of them last year at Yale. About people attended the speeches in the 2,seat auditorium. Many seemed impressed. This was a good opportunity to hear about Prince because Im more about liking him for his music, said Amelious Whyte, a University of Minnesota administrator.

Rashad Shabazz, a professor at Arizona State who is writing a book on the Minneapolis sound, will participate in two panel discussions during the symposium. I think its important to have this here in Minneapolis, Shabazz said after the speeches. Hes from here. Alumni advisor Jerry Asplund told an Ole and Lena joke. A few weeks into last school year, Minneapolis police received reports of a sexual assault in a restroom at Delta Kappa Epsilon and a robbery that same weekend.

The following week, a U student reported being injured in a sex assault at Chi Psi. And the week after that, another alleged assault took place at Phi Gamma Delta.

Police said at the time that the incidents were unrelated. Police dropped the Chi Psi investigation first, for lack of evidence. The Delta Kappa Epsilon inquiry sputtered out because the alleged victim did not cooperate, Minneapolis police Sgt. Stephen McCarty said. Police forwarded the Phi Gamma Delta case for possible charges, but the Hennepin County attorney's office passed on it. Asplund, the Delta Kappa Epsilon alumnus, believes the sex assault accusation involving the fraternity was false and the short-lived investigation vindicated the house.

To University of Minnesota Deputy Police Chief Chuck Miner, the outcome of the various investigations illustrates how tough such inquiries can be. Alcohol-dimmed recollections, and the need to revisit traumatic memories again and again, along with occasional peer pressure to clam up, can all get in the way: "These crimes are very difficult to investigate and prosecute. Either way, by the time the investigations ended, a rethinking of the fraternities' approach to party safety was already under way.

The Interfraternity Council, a student group that oversees a couple of dozen U fraternities, adopted the party-drinking ban. Then, the organization and campus officials took a closer look at the council's rules. U Greek organizations are privately owned and largely independent of the university. Still, recalls Amelious Whyte, now acting program director of the U's Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life, "We said, 'If you don't do what you need to do, we'll do it for you, because we can't let our students be at risk.

What the fraternities needed to do, Whyte said, was close safety loopholes. For instance, party guests would get around limits on how much alcohol each could bring -- a six-pack of beer or one milliliter bottle -- by smuggling booze in backpacks or water bottles. And party crashers would find their way in. When the drinking moratorium ended, a number of new rules were in place: No more backpacks and nonsealed containers.

Shorter guest lists. No drinking outside common areas.