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Art patrons can wander the Newark campus during weekends this spring to see the latest works by students completing their bachelor's degrees. These exhibitions of culminating degree work are required for graduation. The fine art and applied art majors will be graduating with professional concentrations that include ceramics, drawing and painting, illustration, metals, photography, printmaking, sculpture and visual communication.

The series of shows begins on Friday, May 5, with new shows opening on consecutive Fridays, May 12 and 19. The free public shows will be on view from 5-7:30 p.m. at exhibitions to be held in the Recitation Hall Gallery and in 206 of Recitation Hall; in 016, 101, 116 and 203 of Taylor Hall; and in the Hollingsworth Gallery.

From Friday-Sunday, May 5-7, participants will include Dawn Smith, Donald McElroy, Jason Mastriana and James Givens, all illustration majors who will exhibit in Hollingsworth Gallery; Rachel Wolf and Elizabeth Gurman, photography majors who will exhibit in 016 Taylor Hall; Connie Cowen, a painting major, who will exhibit in 116 Taylor Hall; Ryan Webbles, Matthew Kerrigan and Lawrence Muleh, all painting majors who will exhibit in 203 Taylor Hall; and Michael Galbavy, a photography major who will exhibit in 206 Recitation Hall.

Exhibiting works on Friday-Sunday, May 12-14, in Hollingsworth Gallery will be Mark Silvestro, a sculpture major, Michael Beesley, an illustration major, and Daniel De Lorenzo, a painting major. Other exhibits include photography by Nora Fitzgerald and David Appel in 016 Taylor Hall; illustrations by Lam Lit Ho in 116 Taylor Hall; paintings by Tam Tran and Gina Tamburri, ceramics by Michael Carson and paintings by Kiersten Rogenmuser in 203 Taylor Hall; and paintings by Sharon Cilento and metal work by Molly Thompson in 206 Recitation Hall.

Exhibitions planned for Friday-Sunday, May 19-21, include sculptures by William Donnely and photography by Carolyn Nye and Nicole Belsole in Hollingsworth Gallery; photography by Michelle Kole, illustrations by Ernest Manucci and ceramics by Darlene Mansue in 016 Taylor Hall; paintings by Margie Barrett in 116 Taylor Hall; paintings by Tiffany Robinson, illustrations by Eileen Reilly and Emily Cisnersos and ceramics by Stephen Wolochowicz in 203 Taylor Hall; and metal work by Lauren Shuster, Philip Reimer and Sara Dyson in 101 Taylor Hall.

Also exhibiting from Friday-Sunday, May 19-21, are the following visual communications students: Serrin Bodmer, Jaime Boyle, Scott Bozarth, Jennifer Dehghan, Jennifer Denis, Kathyrn Eaton, Todd Eisner, Andrew Fontana, Drew Haines, Joseph Ibrahim, Selena Kang, Tanya Mainville, Kara Mayberry, Mehron Moqtaderi, Julie Prager, Andrea Scaglione and Michael Sullivan in Recitation Gallery.

UD's Collegium Musicum, the Consort of Voyces and the Baroque Chamber Ensemble will present a free public concert of German and Italian music of the Baroque period at 8 p.m., Monday, May 15, in Newark United Methodist Church, 69 East Main Street in Newark.

The Collegium, directed by Russell Murray, and the Baroque Chamber Ensemble, directed by David Myford, will perform music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras using period instruments. The Consort of Voyces specializes in chamber and choral works of the same periods.

Highlighting the program is J. S. Bach's Cantata #4, Christ lag in Todesbanden. The work– composed for choir, soloists and strings–is one of Bach's earliest and best-known cantatas.

The Collegium also will perform Italian music, including a work by Ludovico Viadana performed by eight recorders, and Giuseppe Torelli's Sinfonia for four trumpets and organ. Also on the program is a suite of dances by Johann Schein, which will be performed by two cornets, viola and two sackbuts.

The Baroque Chamber ensemble will present two works by Georg Philipp Telemann--Concerto in D for Flute and Violi n, and the Paris Quartet No. 1 in D Major for flute, strings and continuo–as well as a concerto for flute and oboe by Antonio Vivaldi.

In addition, the ensembles will combine to present a rarely heard work by Heinrich Biber, his sonata for five recorders and strings.

University male employees are invited to take part in a program being offered in the Employee Wellness wellness p.7

Center's Special Men's Health Series on Monday, May 8. "Taking Charge of Your Health," a prostate cancer prevention program conducted by Christiana Care Cancer Outreach Program and the Warriors Against Prostate Cancer, will address the primary risk factors associated with prostate cancer, screening and early detection methods and recommendations to help prevent the disease.

Two sessions will be offered. A mini-session from 10-10:30 a.m. in 119 Operations/Maintenance, Building, where the cost is $5 Wellness Dollars. Or participants may attend a lunchtime workshop from 12:10-1:10 p.m. in 116 Gore Hall, where the cost is $10 Wellness Dollars.

All participants will be eligible to win bowling passes to Brunswick Blue Hen Lanes.

The University's E-5 2 Student Theatre will presents Equus, a psychological drama written by Peter Shaffer, on Friday and Saturday, May 5-6. All performances–with tickets prices at $4 for students and $5 for the general public--will begin at 8 p.m. in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center.

A lecture by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni highlights May Week, being held May 6-12 at the University of Delaware. Sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the week includes a sports derby, a church service, a Delta Gent pageant and lectures on investing, the election and AIDS in Africa.

Giovanni, who is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, will speak at 7 p.m., Monday, May 8 in Mitchell Hall.

Tickets, free to UD students, are available at UD box offices at Trabant University Center and the Bob Carpenter Center.

Over the past 25 years, Giovanni's outspokenness in her writing and in person has brought the eyes of the world upon her. She is a committed advocate for civil rights and equality in education.

Since 1968, she has inspired readers and critics and has established herself as a best-selling poet, author and essayist. In her lectures, she speaks with great humor on her life and on creativity.

"Do something with your life! You will find that what you have coveted is not worth coveting. There is a limit to what material things can do," she once told an audience.

Giovanni has nearly 20 books in print with several having sold more than 100,000 copies.

She has received a host of honorary doctorates and published several critically acclaimed works. Beginning in 1987, under the Commonwealth Visiting Professor Program, she has been teaching writing, poetry and literature at Virginia Tech.

Other sponsors of her UD appearance include the Center for Black Culture, Cultural Programming Advisory Board, A Visiting Women's Scholar Fund and the Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs.

A free public lecture on "Ironied Out and the New Old Masterism" will be presented at 7 p.m., Monday, May 8, in 206 Kirkbride Hall by art critic Donald Kuspit.

Considered one of the premier art critics working today, Kuspit is a contributing editor of Art Forum, Sculpture Magazine, The New Art Examiner and Artnet Magazine, an online publication. He has written many books on art theory and monographs on well-known art figures including critic Clement Greenberg, painter Alex Katz, sculptor Karel Appel and glass artist Dale Chihuly.

Kuspit maintains an active schedule of visiting critic appearances, recently visiting the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, speaking with Scandinavian painter Odd Nerdrum.

His appearance is presented by the graduate program of the Department of Art. For information, call 831-4105

This June, the Teaching, Learning and Technology Institutes will hold numerous classes about the uses of teaching with technology. All University teaching professionals are invited to participate. A printed copy of the institutes' program will be arriving in campus mailboxes soon.

Read today's TechTalk insert. It describes how UD faculty and other teaching professionals already are using technology successfully in their classes.

Seth Dunn, research associate for the Worldwatch Institute, will give a free, public lecture about "Micropower to the People: Electricity, Equity and the Environment," at noon, today, in the Ewing Room of Perkins Student Center. Lunch will be provided.

The event is sponsored by the center for Energy and Environmental Policy, the graduate program in environmental and energy policy and the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy.

The Y Chromes, a UD a capella group, will sponsor Monster Jam, a public concert in Mitchell Hall, at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 6. For ticket information, call 292-0517 or check the web site at [http:// copland.udel.edu/stu-rg/ychromes].

Members of the University community are invited to hear Ramaa Athreya, a radiologist from the Women's Imaging Center of Delaware, discuss breast cancer at a program from noon-1 p.m., Monday, May 8, in 127 Memorial Hall. Athreya will address many issues, including risk factors, early detection and treatment options. While this session will be useful to women, it also will be beneficial to men who have a spouse of friend with breast cancer.

Novelist and short story writer Jane McCafferty will read from her debut novel, One Heart, and announce the Caesura literary magazine award winner at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 10, in 127 Memorial Hall.

For McCafferty, a 1984 UD graduate who grew up in Wilmington, her visit marks the second time that she has served as judge and host for the event that honors student writers.

"We had her back once before, to read from her first book, Director of the World," Bernard Kaplan, English, said. "Now she is reading from her second book, and having her gives us a sense of continuity."

Kaplan, who taught McCafferty in several courses, remembered her as a talented student who brought a lot of positive attributes to his classes.

"She had the talent, and she could write. What we were able to do was give her direction for the talent."

That talent was evident in Director of the World, which was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1992.

"The stories in this collection are extremely warm, without being overly sentimental," Kaplan said. "The same can be said of her new novel, in that both show a commitment to her craft."

For her first novel, One Heart, McCafferty chose to focus on the relationship between two sisters growing old together.

"It's about the love that survives all kinds of emotional difficulties," Kaplan said. "The writing is clear and lyrical, and it's a pleasure to read."

The success enjoyed by McCafferty is especially rewarding to English department chairperson Jerry C. Beasley, who recalls McCafferty as a student in a course then called "Great American Writers."

"If I remember correctly, Janey McCafferty took her first college-level English course with me," Beasley said. "I remember her saying that it was the reading in class of Walt Whitman's poetry that got her hooked forever on literature."

Beasley also shares the feelings of his colleagues in remembering the positive attitude and attention to craft that McCafferty brought to her studies.

"Janey remains one of my favorite students ever," Beasley said. "We are proud of her around here."

Gibbons Ruark, English, said he finds it rewarding that his friend and former student has blossomed into one of the most gifted and accomplished writers on the current literary scene.

"Her prize-winning collection of stories, Director of the World, is superb, and her novel, One Heart, is, if anything, even better," Ruark said. "It's all art and all heart."

McCafferty, who holds a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Pittsburgh, currently is an assistant professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

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served as judge are awarded to student writers whose work will appear in the spring 2000 issue of Caesura, UD's student creative magazine sponsored by the Department of English.

The student awards for poetry include the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Elda Wollaegar Poetry Prize. The top prize for works of fiction is the Thomas W. Molyneux Prose Award.

The Academy of American Poets sponsors annual prizes for poetry at more than 150 colleges and universities nationwide and has awarded more than $328,000 to student poets during its 45-year history.

Elda Wolleager was a member of the University faculty, and the award was established in her memory by her husband, Arthur, in 1972.

The late Thomas W. Molyneux also was a faculty member, and the award was established in his memory by his family in 1976.

"The awards distinguish some of our best student writers," Jeanne Walker, English, said, "They also give students a sense of tradition, because they know they are only the most recent persons to receive these awards."

Beyond the individual recognition, Walker said, the awards are important because they help confirm the fact that students can indeed produce credible works of poetry and prose.

"Until they see external, public recognition, students often do not believe in their own gifts," Walker said. "I'm grateful that we have these awards to encourage students who write well."

Caesura is a student magazine, and the editorship is traditionally passed on from one graduate student to the next. This year, the job went to Anne N. Thalheimer, who described the process as being an amazing experience.

"This was a record year for the number of submissions," Thalheimer said. "I'm very pleased that we have such a wide range of materials in Caesura this year."

The students in "French Theater Workshop" (FREN 456) will be presenting Exercices de Conversation (in French) by Eugene Ionesco at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 12, in Bacchus Theater of the Perkins Student Center.

The public is invited to the free presentation of the play, which features scenes that Ionesco wrote for American students of French. For more information, call Deborah Steinberger at 831-2044.

Vision, UD's Christian a capella group, will present its spring free, public concert at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, May 7, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Also performing will be UD's Golden Blues and the College of New Jersey's Voice of Hope.

The University of Delaware's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers will sponsor the third annual Jeffrey Springer Show, a spoof of the popular television program, at 7 p.m., tonight, May 4, in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center, Cost is $2 per person and the event is open to the public. For information, call 837-1068.

There is a new student group on campus, and it is looking to make quite a scene around Newark.

Students Creating Exciting New Events (S.C.E.N.E.) is working to bring music lovers and musicians together in popular student hangouts throughout the Newark community.

The focus of the group is to get popular local coffeehouses and restaurants to remain open later on weekends, and to use these settings as places for student musicians to perform and get to meet other musicians.

The idea for S.C.E.N.E. came from Marissa Weiss, a junior majoring in family and community services, CHEP 2001, who transferred to UD from Ithaca College in upstate New York.

"When I transferred here, I found the social scene in Newark was much different from what I had been used to at Ithaca," Weiss said. "Around Ithaca, there was a greater variety in the places where kids could go to hear local bands."

When Weiss was asked to stage an activity or event as part of her duties as a resident assistant, she took advantage of the opportunity and began looking into ways to provide student entertainment outside the local bar scene.

"I thought it might be a good idea if we could get Einstein Bagels on Main Street to stay open late one night and have a couple of bands play there," Weiss said. "The event was a big success, and we had about 200 people come in over the course of the evening.

Through the support of the Office of Residence Life, students were given free admission and unlimited access to fountain drinks and coffee. Each guest also received a complimentary Einstein Bagels' water bottle.

"Students were drawn to the fact that the event was free, and that they could get a lot of stuff," Weiss said. "We also raffled off a coffee maker at the end of the night."

Encouraged by the success of the first event, Weiss said she thought it would be a good idea if similar events could be staged around Newark on a regular basis.

To help make this a reality, Weiss e-mailed the guests who had attended the first event and asked for volunteers to form a committee to organize future activities.

"From the initial 200 names, we got about five people to serve on the S.C.E.N.E. committee," Weiss said. "We have a couple of folks who do web sites and a few who do advertising."

The committee then compiled a list of student performers who might welcome the chance to showcase their talents in a local entertainment venue.

Further support was given by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Matter of Degree Program to encourage alcohol-free entertainment, where students could get together and enjoy a night of good music.

Recent events include programs at Brew Ha Ha and Maiu Taco, both on Main Street. The next scheduled event for S.C.E.N.E. will take place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday, May 6, at the Art House on Delaware Avenue, when a student jazz/ funk trio will perform.

While getting S.C.E.N.E. up and running involved a good deal of effort by the committee and the Office of Residence Life, Weiss said she feels the effort carries its own rewards.

"I love organizing these events, and it is great when people come up to you after an event and thank you for doing it," Weiss said. "I'm hoping we can build on this for next year."

Web surfers can check out the S.C.E.N.E. web site at [http:// arachon.student.udel.edu.scene] for more information about the group and upcoming activities.

The group's next event is scheduled at 10 p.m., Saturday, May 6, at the Art House, 132 East Delaware Ave. I Puma Pants, a UD student trio, will play jazz/funk, and UD student Bill Carleton will perform on acoustic guitar. Free nachos will be provided by Klondike Kate's. Admission is free.

The Dark Arts Performing Dance Company will present a spring dance concert at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 5, in Pearson Hall auditorium. Concert tickets are $3 for UD students and $5 for the general public. For information, call 837-1521.

David Daniel and College Madden, UD graduates, star as Henry and Annie in The Real Thing, being presented through May 6 by the Professional Theatre Training Program at UD. For tickets and more information on this classic by Tom Stoppard, call 831-2204.

Vol. 19, No. 29

May 4, 2000

Vol. 19, No. 29

May 4, 2000

Student artwork in the spotlight

Ensembles to present concert featuring period instruments

Wellness Center to offer special men's session May 8

E-52 to present 'Equus'

Nikki Giovanni's talk highlights May Week

Well-known art critic to lecture in Kirkbride Hall

High-tech summer classes for teaching professionals

Environment and energy policy lecture at noon today

Y Chromes to sing May 6

Wellness lunch talk to focus on breast cancer

Alumna to read from novel, announce student winners

French performance in Bacchus Theatre May 12

Christian a capella group to present spring concert

Spoof 'Springer Show' set

Student group makes its mark on entertainment scene

S.C.E.N.E at the Art House

Dark Arts to present spring dance concert in Pearson

Real thing