Top: Jasper Hiatt, a senior in broadcast production, makes the rounds.

Right: Carol Van Valkenburg -- or someone pretending to be her, right down to the glasses on the nose -- waits for students to figure out exactly which professor who attended the UM J-school never got a Dean Stone award. (Impersonation by print senior Paul Queneau)

Below: Broadcast production professor Ray Ekness, who could've been in Vegas picking up his third place video news award at the 2002 Broadcast Education Association convention, wouldn't have missed Dean Stone Night for anything.

Left: Journalism Dean Jerry Brown was caught empty-handed when it was time to give Ed Dugan his birthday present. Brown was horrified to learn that the carefully chosen gift was still back at the J-school. He gave Dugan a firm handshake instead.

Right: Yoshiaki Nohara, a first-year graduate student from Japan, was astonished when Professor Clem Work told him he had received a $2,000 Kim Williams Fellowship.

Far left:Annie Sundberg Siess, a second-year graduate student, swapped stories with fellow students at the cocktail party before the dinner.

Left:Erin Painter, visiting professor in photojournalism, was attending her first Dean Stone Night and presented the first award of the night -- the MNA Pat Burke scholarship for $1,500 -- to photo student Josh Parker, right.

Left:J-School Web reporter Lindsay Henderson, center, gets ready for her expose on Dean Stone Night only to find the action fairly tame. J-school students Randa Alteneder, left, and Stacy Byrne offer tips.

Right: Ed Dugan, an emeritus journalism professor, gets a birthday hug from professor Carol Van Valkenburg. Dugan, who retired in 1974, turned 91 on March 29.

Photos by Oona Palmer, UM graduate student