PINS deadline
The spring 2003 Partners in Scholarships proposals’ deadline is Thursday.
PINS is an undergraduate research organization that provides support to students and faculty collaborative research through the distribution of merit awards and small grants.
Selected student applicants receive a $500 merit award and a small grant upwards of another $500.
For more information about PINS and the application process, visit www.du.edu/thecenter/pins or call X13465.
Lamont holds performances
The Lamont School of Music will perform several concerts throughout the week on campus.
The Lamont Symphony Orchestra will perform today from 7:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. in Sturm Hall Auditorium.
Lawrence Golan will conduct and Jenny Li will perform on the violin.
Wednesday the Climb, the faculty jazz combo, will perform from 7:30-9 p.m. in Sturm Hall Auditorium.
Mark Harris, alto saxophone; Malcolm Lynn Baker, tenor saxophone; Alan Hood, trumpet; Darren Kramer, trombone; Eric Gunnison, keyboards; Alan Joseph, electric guitar; Kenneth Walker, bass; Mike Marlier, drums and Deleste Delgado, voice, will perform.
Flo’s Underground will perform Friday from 5-7 p.m. in the Recital Salon in the Newman Center.
Also on Friday will be the “All School Convocation, Solo Honors Competition Winners” in Sturm Hall Auditorium from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
This event will feature the winners of the Solo Honors Competition.
Admission to the events is free for students.
For more information call the Lamont concert line at X16412.
Bridges built for the environment
Bridges to the Future, the University of Denver’s Student Environmental Team and the International Institute for Environment and Enterprise will host an evening on environmental issues Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. at The Cable Center.
There will be a buffet and free performance of “What’s Funny About Climate Change?”
This is an hour and a half of entertainment on global warming and the death of the natural world by the Human Nature Theatre Group.
The theater group performs to educate the public about environmental issues through songs, skits and theatrical productions, while providing entertainment.
Admission to the event is free.
For more information contact Susan at smerten@du.edu or call X12357.
Lamont raises money
The Lamont Music Associates will hold a fundraiser Sunday from 3-6 p.m. at Gumbo’s, 1530 16th St.
“Jazz and Jambalaya” will be held to support the Lamont School of Music.
The event will include a Mardi Gras themed dinner and a performance by the musicians.
For more information contact Jenene Stookesberry at 303.752.2025.
GSIS forum addresses U.S. – China relations
The discussion of relations between the United States and China will continue Friday with “Misunderstandings in China–U.S. Relations: A Personal Observation” from 12-1 p.m. at the Graduate School of International Studies.
Liu Liping, senior fellow at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, director of the Center for the U.S.-European Studies and editor-in-chief of Contemporary International Relations, will speak at the event.
His visit is sponsored by the Denver-China Forum and the Mayor Wellington Webb’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade.
For more information contact Tim Crouch at tcrouch@du.edu.
Image in Hollywood discussed
The Annual John C. Livingston Memorial Lecture in American Jewish history will be held next Monday from 7-8:30 p.m.
Stephan Whitfield will present “Hollywood’s Image of American Jews.”
The event is free and open to the public. For information or reservations call X13016.
Education, responsibility discussed
Martha Nussbaum will speak at the University of Denver Feb. 27 in Sturm Hall Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Nussbaum will present a lecture titled “Liberal Education and Global Responsibility” and will answer questions afterwards.
Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago Law School, is a former research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki and former chair of both the Committee on International Cooperation and the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Philosophical Association.
She is also author of several books, including For Love of Country, Sex and Social Justice, Women and Human Development and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions.
For more information contact Meg Steitz at X12466.
Sisk evaluates war on Iraq
Timothy D. Sisk will discuss the war in Iraq Wednesday 11:45 a.m. in Driscoll Ballroom.
Sisk, associate professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, will present a lecture titled “Bombing Baghdad? Evaluating the Debate on War.”
Sisk will discuss the possibility of the war beginning with the bombing of the city of Baghdad and the possible avoidance of war with Iraq.
Sisk will analyze arguments for and against war in Iraq, offer guidlines for making decisions on the possibility of ousting Saddam Hussein, and offer thoughts on threats directed to the U.S.
The event is free to DU students and faculty.
Reservations are required and limited.
To make reservations call X12209 or e-mail jknicker@du.edu.
A buffet will be served at 11:45 a.m.
Team debates many topics
After not having a competitive debate team for over a decade, the University of Denver’s debate team is having a successful season during its first year.
The team won its second tournament of the year over winter break at the William Jewel Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
At the tournament freshmen Lee Morehead and Carolynn Francavilla placed first in the junior varsity division.
The team has placed in three of the five tournaments that it has participated in this season.
The team’s first win of the season came during its first tournament at the University of Northern Iowa where it placed first.
At this tournament freshman Jared Adams and junior John Poor made it to the quarter finals of the varsity division and also at the Motor City Classic Tournament.
The team has competed against several schools from around the country, including Northwestern University, Wake Forest University and Michigan State University.
Every quarter, members of the debate team travel around the country to debate a pre-selected topic. The topic is selected by the schools participating.
Participates prepare by reading material on the given topic and must prepare to defend both sides of the argument.
The topics being debated this year address a variety of issues: whether the United States should ratify or accede to and implement the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; the Kyoto Protocol; the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; the treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions.
According to the debate team’s newsletter, participation offers numerous opportunities for students to learn new abilities.
“College level policy debate is a research oriented activity which promotes students to become better speakers, thinkers, persuaders, arguers and, most importantly, unparalleled researchers,” according to the newsletter.
“Students have the ability to see how their ideas and proposals can affect the world around them.”
For more information on the debate team or how to join, call Stephanie Gerali at 303.520.1497.
