FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2012 Contact:
Suzanne Irwin, Studio One Director of Marketing, UND (701) 777-3818 or suzanne.irwin@und.edu Kyle Kohns, Studio One Marketing Team, UND (701) 777-4346 Hayley Kuntz, Studio One Marketing Team, UND (701) 777-4346 STUDIO ONE FEATURES LIBERIAN REFUGEE AND HEALTHY CAFETERIAS Award-winning news show airs on Channel 3 in Grand Forks
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Find out how one man escaped warfare, worked to start a new life in a different country and get an education. Also, learn about the pros and cons of new rules for children’s diets on the next edition of Studio One. Mohammed was a child when his family escaped violence in Liberia. “Right after the Civil war broke out in Liberia, my family [and I] crossed the border to Guinea for rescue,” he says. As a refugee, Mohammed passed the time playing soccer and dreaming of an education. When his family was relocated to Grand Forks, N.D. in 2004, Mohammed was determined to integrate into his new community. He became an area soccer organizer and worked toward his degree at the University of North Dakota. “It’s great to see people graduate from college,” Mohammed says. “It was a very happy day for me actually, graduating, wearing a gown.” Some lunch conversations at school may have changed because of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. While parents may be interested in the policy, children are generally more concerned about how lunch tastes. The act is intended to reduce childhood obesity and increase healthy food provided in cafeterias. “Basically, people are required to take three of the five elements of lunch,” says Brian Loer, a high school principal. Healthy options at school offers children food they may not receive at home. “We do see probably an increase in garbage because when they are forced to take a vegetable or fruit they will take it and run right to the garbage can and throw it away,” says Loer. Studio One is an award-winning news and information program produced at the University of North Dakota Television Center. The program airs live on UND Channel 3 on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Re-broadcasts can be seen at 7 a.m., noon, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. daily and on Saturdays at 10 a.m. Prairie Public Television airs Studio One on Saturday at 6 a.m. The program can also be seen by viewers in Bismarck-Mandan, Dickinson, Fargo, Jamestown, Minot and Ray, N.D.; Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minn.; Denver and Colorado Springs, Colo.; Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba and online at www.studio1.und.edu. -30-