Roundtable discussion with Ritchie
The time to speak your mind is here.
Chancellor Daniel L. Ritchie will hold a Roundtable discussion Wednesday 2-4 p.m. in the Commerce Room in Driscoll Center. Students may join the discussion at any point.
Students wishing to voice concerns or to tell the chancellor their ideas about the university are welcome to attend the event.
Free poetry reading
The University of Denver’s English Department will be holding a free poetry reading featuring Jorie Graham and Peter Sacks today at 7:30 p.m. in Lindsay Auditorium in Sturm Hall.
Both writers are contemporary poets. Graham has recently published a collection of her works, Never. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship at Harvard University’s Department of English and American Literature and Language. Sacks, recipient of the Christian Gauss Award and the Guggenheim fellowship, also teaches at Harvard, and has published five collections of poems.
Call the English department at x12266 for more information.
Women in film, sports documentary
Women in film will be celebrated through a series of films in the month of May with a film made by Sheila Schroeder, a professor in the Department of Mass Communications.
Wednesday, the film series will focus on “Women in Sports” and will show “See What I Got: A Story of Girls, Basketball, Confidence and Courage” at 6 p.m. in Lindsay Auditorium.
The documentary film follows 13 adolescent girls in Colorado as they try out for and eventually become members of the GirlSports International program.
Schroeder will introduce the film and moderate a panel of members of the University of Denver and Denver’s women’s athletic communities.
The event is sponsored by the Undergraduate Women’s Council, the Department of Mass Communications, Living and Learning Communities, the Graduate Women’s Council, the Interantional Studies Student Association, DU Pride and DU NARAL.
Contact Sarah Asplin for information at sasplin@du.edu.
Hamlet’s ghosts come alive
The ghosts of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet will come alive during a discussion given by Kim Axline of the Department of Theatre.
As part of the 2002-2003 Faculty Lecture Series sponsored by the University of Denver Humanities Institute, Axline will discuss “Through a Glass Darkly: The Ghosts of Hamlet on the 20th Century Russian Stage” Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Humanities Institute Room, Sturm Hall 286.
The event is free to the public.
Call x12466 or visit www.du.edu/humanist/lectures.html for more information.
Got major?
Students seeking a major or minor can find one at the first “Major and Minor Fair: Surfin’ DU” Wednesday 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Driscoll Lawn.
Music and a beach have been promised.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Academic and Career Development in conjunction with May Daze.
Freedom, democracy for Nigeria
Thompson Ayodele will present “Prospects for Freedom and Democracy in Nigeria” Wednesday 5-6 p.m. in the Honors Seminar Room in Mary Reed Building room one.
Ayodele is a journalist for one of the major papers in Lagos, Nigeria, and is the founder of the Institute for Public Policy Analysis in 2001. The lecture will concern international business and relations, religion and politics as they relate to Nigeria.
Refreshments will be served at the event.
Islamic values
Islamic values will be discussed during “An Evening of Reflection on Islamic Values” as part of Bridges to the Future Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Gates Field House, the Ritchie Center.
First, Sherman Abd El Hakim Jackson will give the keynote address on “Jihad and Terrorism in Islam.”
Jackson is a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Michigan.
His lecture will be followed by a panel discussion, “Peace and Justice in Light of Religions,” facilitated by Rev. Paul Kottke, pastor at the University Park Methodist Church.
The panel for the discussion will consist of Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni, Imam of Ahl Al-Beit Islamic Center in Denver, Rev. John Gonia, pastor at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Denver, Seth Ward, research affiliate for the Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East at the University of Denver, and Paula R. Rhodes, associate professor at the DU College of Law.
The event is free to the public.
Visit www.bridgestothefuture.us or call Susanne Merten at x12357 for more information.
European Union grows
Milada Vachudova will speak of the “European Union Enlargement” 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday Ben Cherrington Hall 301.
Vachudova is an associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, and her book Revolution, Democracy and Integration, will be released soon. She has written many articles concerning the role of NATO in the EU, the enlargement of the EU and the EU’s immigration policies.
Contact Joanne Evilsizer at jevilsiz@du.edu. Wine and cheese will be served at the event sponsored by the Graduate School of International Studies.
Musical performances this week
The Lamont School of Music will hold a variety of musical performances this week.
The Da Vinci Quartet will perform 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Sturm Hall Auditorium.
“The Manchurian Candidate” soundtrack by David Amram will be performed 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Gates Concert Hall, the Newman Center for Performing Arts as part of the Lamont Subscription Series. Lawrence Golan will conduct the performance.
Flo’s Underground will give a jazz music performance 5-7 p.m. Friday in the Recital Salon in the Newman Center. Malcolm Lynn will conduct.
Also on Friday, the Lamont Wind Ensemble will perform 7:30-9 p.m. in Gates Concert Hall. Joseph Martin will conduct.
The Lamont Chorale will perform 4-5:30 p.m. Sunday at Gates Concert Hall. Catherine Sailer will conduct.
Also on Sunday, Roberto Santos will present a junior flute recital as part of the Lamont Student Concert Series 7-8:30 p.m. in the Recital Salon, Newman Center.
All performances are free for students. Call the Lamont Concert line at x16412 or contact Victoria Brandys at vbrandys@du.edu for information.
New faculty hired at DU
The School of Art and Art History has recently hired four new instructors.
Roddy MacInness has been hired to teach photograph; Scott Montgomery, medieval art history; Timothy Weaver, eMAD and digital media studies; and Chris St. Cyr, eMAD.
The new staff members will retain the position of associate professor for six years, and then they will undergo the process to obtain their tenure.
Theological events
Hope and War will the two topics of events held this week at the Iliff School of Theology.
Today at noon “The Attack in Iraq: What is it Really About?” will be held in room S101-102 at the school. Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will discuss the causes of the war in Iraq. The cost of the event is $1, which includes the lecture and a pizza lunch.
Saturday at 3 p.m. the “Ambassadors of Hope Performance Celebration” will be held at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 West Park Ave. A group of 22 youths, aged 10-22, will present a dance and “spoken word” performance and a three-dimensional mural. The event is free to the public.
Call 303.765.3194 for information or to make reservations for the events.
Weaving traditions
The exhibit “Weaving Authentic Traditions: Native American Basketry of California and the Great Basin” will be held 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday all this month at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, Sturm Hall 102.
The event will be curated by Heather Jackson.
Contact Christiana Kreps at ckreps@du.edu for information.
Delta Zeta begins spring recruitment
Delta Zeta has been busy this spring with several events, including Spring Recruitment April 16-18.
Members attended Green Gables for bowling, food and fun. Many members showed off their bowling skills. Thursday night was planned to be a movie night. However, “Friends” and the NBC lineup proved to be interesting entertainment.
On Friday of Rush house tours were available for the potential new members of DZ.
Besides house tours, DZ had a root beer keg as a fun, social event. Members were encouraged to invite their friends.
This turned into a successful social event, as well as a great end to the week. Overall, spring recruitment was a success.
Bids went to Lauren Dixon and Courtney Kabealo and they both have accepted.
Tri Delta has fun nights
So, what are you doing this Wednesday?
Nothing, eh?
Well, the Tri Delta house has something special.
The new tradition began with the rise of reality TV; girls came to the house to gather and watch the latest episode and when the season ended, members were at a loss on what to do with their evening.
Now, on any given Wednesday night members still come to the house, but with a different purpose each week.
One night there’s Trivial Pursuit while other nights it may just be having dinner together.
In short, each week is hosted by a different member, allowing each girl the opportunity to step up to the plate and host an event doing something she may enjoy or just providing an occasion to get together.
New sorority on campus
Rho Gamma. This may sound more like a medication or a strange Italian verb, but in fact it is a new sorority.
It is the sorority made up of members from all five sororities, who are in charge of taking young women through recruitment in the fall.
There are 16 women who are in the Rho Gamma sorority.
Every Tuesday night for two hours they are in training, learning the ropes of the complicated but much needed recruitment process.
They spend outside time getting to know each sorority better so as they can be the best optimistic influence on every house possible.
In the fall, during formal recruitment, these women disaffiliate from their house and literally join the Rho Gamma sorority.
All-Greek meeting held
A week ago, all of the presidents from all the fraternities and sororities got together to have a round table meeting.
It was brought to their attention at this meeting that the office of Greek Life and Student Judicial is working on a proposal to bring back parties to fraternities.
The change would call for hired security at the house, and a third party vendor serving all alcohol.
While this still isn’t an old school party, it’s a step toward improving social life.
All of the presidents made a pledge to keep a clean polished image to help the proposal get passed.
This is the first step the Greek houses have taken together.
Should such a large population come together and decide to act as one unit, the change may happen.
The Greeks make up about 25 percent of the campus.
