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8/24 Bulldog Welcome Week - did you ever get a party like this?

UMD/Brett Groehler

If college "move in day"  conjures images of you and your parents lugging some pillows, blankets and a stereo into your dorm room, then them waving  goodbye and driving  off, leaving you to your new life ... well,  you'd never recognize what's happening on the UMD campus this week.

Bulldog Welcome Week offers every kind of help and fun available (including lugging the TV, fridge and more upstairs) for nervous freshmen about to start a life on their own ... and their bereft parents. 

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.