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| Vol. 19, No. 3 | Sept. 16, 1999 |
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| Vol. 19, No. 3 | Sept. 16, 1999 |
This fall, the UD Department of Music will present its fourth annual Calliope concert in two performances in Mitchell Hall: at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 2, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 3. Sunday's performance is cosponsored by the UD Performing Arts Series.
General admission for each date is $10, and all seating is unreserved.
One of the most popular events of the year, Calliope is a one-of-a-kind concert featuring more than 400 student musicians in a kaleidoscope of musical sounds. The stage, floor and balconies of Mitchell Hall provide the setting for a fast-paced and exciting showcase of Department of Music vocal and instrumental ensembles. The Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, University Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, University Singers, University Chorale, Collegium and Horn Ensemble all contribute to the variety and excitement. In addition, the Delaware Steel Band will provide outdoor fun before the concert and during intermission. The program concludes with a rousing finale by the 300-member Fightin' Blue Hens Marching Band.
All proceeds benefit the UD Department of Music Scholarship Fund. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the University box offices.
For ticket information, call UD1-HENS. 
-Laura Overturf
Pioneers of the Imagination: A Symposium Celebrating the Role of Artists in the Exploration of the Space Frontier" will be held from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct.1, in the Trabant University Center. Sponsored by the University Gallery and the University of Delaware Mineralogical Museum, the event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are recommended.
The symposium, running concurrently with the exhibition "One Small Step: Exploring America's Adventures in Space, 1959-1999," is designed to capture the imagination and increase understanding of the significance of space exploration, both in terms of its scientific and technological contexts and its historical and cultural implications.
The program will include such nationally prominent figures as acclaimed science writer Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts; Anne F. Collins, art historian and Guggenheim fellow at the National Air and Space Museum; and Susan Lawson-Bell, former curator of the NASA Art Collection at the National Air and Space Museum and curator of the current touring exhibition "Artistry of Space: The NASA Art Program."
Other speakers of national renown include the past and present directors of the NASA Artists Cooperation Program, James Dean, Robert Schulman and Bertram Ulrich. Also taking part are accomplished artists, who participate in the NASA Art Program, such as Charles Schmidt, professor of art at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University; Charles Rowe, UD emeritus professor of art; Chakaia Booker, sculptor from New York City; and Paul Calle, who illustrated the First Man on the Moon U.S. postage stamp and documented the Apollo 11 crew on the morning of its historic launch.
Jane Ira Bloom, internationally recognized saxophonist/ composer and the first musician commissioned by the NASA Art Program, and Dennis M. Davidson, artist for the Hayden Planetarium and creative director of the Digital Galaxy Project at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, also will speak.
The symposium and its related programs have received support, in part, from the UD Performing Arts Series; the University Bookstore; the NASA-sponsored Space Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Sea Grant College Program: the UD Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events; the College of Arts and Science; the Center for Remote Sensing; the offices of Women's Affairs and Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs; the departments of Music and Art Conservation; the Museum Studies Program; a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum; ILC Dover Inc.; and the Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation.
Box lunches are available. For information, visit the University Gallery web site at <http://seurat. art.udel.edu> and click on "One Small Step" or call 831-8242.
There's quite a cackle in the Hen House this year as UD offers free entertainment for families for 90 minutes prior to the start of all home football games. The Hen House-the bright blue and yellow tent located at the northeast corner of Delaware Stadium-will host stars like the good Queen Amidala and the evil Darth Maul both from Star Wars, Chuckie and Angelica from Rugrats, Arthur the Aardvark, Blue from Blues Clues and more.
Face painting, a moon bounce, arts and crafts and visits by everybody's favorite Blue Hen, YoUDee, and UD cheerleaders also are planned. Families also can host birthday parties for children in the Hen House for a fee.
On Saturday, Sept. 18, visitors from Star Wars: The Phantom Menance, will be in the Hen House. Fourteen-year-old Queen Amidala, ruler of the Naboo people, will appear, as will that villain, Darth Maul, who completely embraces the dark side of the Force.
Rugrats fans will have a chance to meet two of their favorite characters- fraidy cat Chuckie and fearless Angelica-on Saturday, Oct. 2.
On Saturday, Oct. 16, Arthur the Aardvark, Blue from Blues Clues and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz visit the Hen House.
On Saturday, Oct. 23, the Hen House will host a Halloween party with special guests Horrible Hannah, Charlotte the Spider and Batman.
On Saturday, Nov. 13, the holiday season kicks off at the Hen House with visits from Santa and his elf and that red-nosed reindeer, Rudolph.
For more information on Hen House appearances or to hold a child's birthday party there, call the UD Sports Marketing Department at 831-8961.
The Friends of the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens will hold their annual fall plant sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 25, outside the Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory, behind Townsend Hall.
Proceeds from the sale go to UDBG garden improvements as well as a scholarship fund. The friends group provides a scholarship to a landscape horticulture student enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The more than 50 varieties of flowering perennials, groundcovers, shrubs and trees available will add fall and winter interest to any garden. A wide selection of fall-flowering anemones; Helleborus argutifolius- which blooms in February; asters and sedums will be offered for sale, as well as a number of ornamental sedges and grasses. Many of these species are native to the northeastern United States and may be difficult to find at commercial nurseries.
For more information, contact Caroline Golt, president of Friends of UDBG, at 831- 2627.
A combination of sideshow stunts, martial arts feats and self-hypnosis, the amazing acts of Zamora the Torture King's Touring Sideshow will be presented at 8 p.m., tonight, Sept. 16, in Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center. Tickets are $2.
Highlighting the sideshow is Flexx the Rubber Boy, who twists and turns his rubber band body in an attempt to break contortion records. Reviving the lost art of enterology, Flexx uses only his limbs, his teeth and his flexibility to put on a straightjacket, secure the straps and arms, chain himself up and enter and confine himself inside a case that hardly has enough room for a cat.
The last of old-time strongmen, Mighty Jack adds to the show as well, with his traditional stunts of strength. He tears a phone book in half, drives a spike through a solid board using only his fist and snaps a chain into pieces by expanding his mighty pectoral muscles.
The show also features fire eating, sword swallowing and the bending of hot metal with bare flesh.
Zamora the Torture King's Touring Sideshow has been seen on Real TV, Sin City, the Learning Channel's Circus and Sideshow Special and Fox's 48 Hours. For more information on the UD appearance, call UD1-HENS.
The Office of Alumni and University Relations invites members of the University community to University of Delaware Night at Camden Yards in Baltimore to see a game between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday, Sept. 30.
A catered buffet dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the sixth floor of the Warehouse. Dinner includes barbecue chicken and ribs, hot dogs, baked beans, nachos grande, potato salad, cole slaw, ballpark snacks and draft beer.
The game begins at 7:05 p.m. Seats are lower level, left field box seats in section 70. Cost is $35 per person, which includes dinner and tickets to the game.
For more information, contact the Office of Alumni and University Relations via e-mail at <AlumNet@udel.edu> or call 831-2341. Reservations are due by Sept. 23, and tickets and Warehouse passes will be mailed before the game.
The UD Wellness Center is kicking off its schedule of fall activities with its popular "30 Minutes in Motion" program. This eight-week activity, which runs from Sept. 26-Nov. 20, encourages participants to spend a half-hour during the course of the day being physically active. What makes the program attractive is that anything goes-walking, biking, jogging, house cleaning, mowing the lawn or playing with children. Also, the 30 minutes do not have to be consecutive; participants can do three different 10-minute activities.
Participants will be eligible to win a grand prize of an overnight stay for two at the Baltimore Inner Harbor. There will be additional prizes (including T-shirts) for various achievement levels. Registration forms have been mailed to units, and the early bird registration runs through Sept. 17.
As an added incentive, a prize raffle will be held for registrations received before that date. For information, call 831-8388.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., Friday, Sept. 17, for UD's popular Saturday Morning Math program for children in grades one through eight.
Parents can register children in Room 105 of Pearson Hall. Cost is $50. Classes are held in three time slots-8:30 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and noon, and sessions begin on Saturday, Oct. 16, and run for six consecutive Saturdays.
The program is designed to be an enriching experience that helps children realize that math can be fun. Part of the time will be spent in hands-on, problem-solving math activities and the other time will be devoted to doing math activities on the computer.
For more information, call 831-4447.
The MS 150 Bike to the Bay, a 150-mile bike ride to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, will be held on Oct. 2-3. For the seventh year, the University Derailleurs will participate. This UD group will ride as a team and welcomes all members of the University community to join in this fund raising event.
For information, call Jerry Hendricks at 831-1393 or visit the web page at <www.udel.edu/~hendrick>.
Education programs aimed at preventing sexual assault will now be offered at the University of Delaware throughout the academic year, in addition to special events held annually during Sexual Assault Awareness Week.
"This decision was made based on the strong belief that this issue is one that needs to be addressed and highlighted on a continual basis. A discussion of the issues pertinent to sexual assault cannot be completed in one week's time," Kathleen Kerr, residence life and chairperson for the Sexual Assault Awareness planning committee, said.
This fall, several special events are planned from Sept. 27-29.
For the third year, the Delaware Clothesline Project will participate in Sexual Assault Awareness Week by displaying a colorful array of T-shirts designed by survivors of sexual assault. The exhibit, which will be on view in the gallery of the Perkins Student Center from Sept. 27-29, is designed to increase awareness of the impact of violence against women and to celebrate survivors' strength and courage to overcome the past.
On Tuesday, Sept. 28, viewers who have been victims of sexual assault can stop by and create their own T-shirts from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. in the Kirkwood Room of the Perkins Student Center. Materials will be provided. Professionals from the Center for Counseling and Student Development and volunteers will be on hand to give support, understanding and comfort.
A variety of resource materials and free information related to sexual assault awareness will be available on the main concourse of the Perkins Student Center and at a kiosk in the Trabant University Center from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sept. 27-29. Free posters, information, awareness materials and program announcements will be available.
"Drawing the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries," a talk by Margot Silk Forrest, founder of the Healing Woman Foundation, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Ewing Room of the Perkins Student Center. Forrest will discuss how learning to say no-whether graciously or bluntly-can open up tremendous possibilities in a woman's life and how women can give themselves permission to stand up for their own needs and feelings.
The Healing Woman Foundation is an international nonprofit organization that informs, supports and assists women survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
"Sexual Harassment: Know Your Rights," a program facilitated by Liane Sorenson, UD Office of Women's Affairs, will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Room 120 Smith Hall. Sorenson will discuss how students have a right to an environment free from sexual harassment from their peers and people in positions of power. She will examine what types of behaviors constitute sexual harassment, what resources are available to students to take action or file a complaint and how others can respond in a supportive way to those who are victims.
"The Shapes Happiness Comes In," a lighthearted talk by Silk Forrest of the Healing Woman Foundation, will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Ewing Room of the Perkins Student Center. The talk examines how to capture moments of happiness and use them to empower your life.
"In the early days of my recovery from incest, I was in so much pain that I remember wondering if I would ever feel happy again. What I see now, nine years later, is that happiness isn't something we attain once we feel safe and healed and normal-it consists of recognizing moments of grace and joy whenever they cross our path," Silk Forrest said.
The annual Take Back the Night March, to raise awareness about sexual violence and assert women's right to be safe on campus and in the community, begins in front of Old College with a kick-off at 8 p.m. Marchers will travel through campus, commemorating former sites of sexual violence with moments of silence. The march ends at the Perkins Student Center.
After the march, participants are invited to a program entitled "Speak Out on Sexual Assault" at 10 p.m. in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center. This can be an emotional session, as participants share personal experiences with sexual violence and support each other's struggles. Survivors and supporters are welcome to speak, and everyone is welcome to listen.
Volunteer counselors will be on hand.
The march and the speak out program are sponsored by Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE). For more information, visit the SAGE web site at <http://copland. udel.edu/stu-org/sage>.
"Intimate Violence: Living with Contradictions," a talk by Allan Johnson, author of The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, will be presented from 12:20-1:10 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Trabant University Center. Johnson will discuss how intimacy, love and the potential for violence can exist so closly to each other and related issues.
"Unraveling the Knot of Gender Violence," another talk presented by Johnson, will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. in Multipurpose Room-A Trabant University Center. Johnson will discuss the taboo that surrounds the most obvious aspect of sexual assault-the fact that perpetrators are almost always men. For example, Johnson says, it's acceptable to say that every year, hundreds of thousands of women are raped in the United States, but there is enormous resistance to saying that men rape hundreds of thousands of women every year.
For more information, call the Office of Women's Affairs at 831-8063 or 831-1201. Information also is available at the office web site at<www.udel.edu/OWA/ upcoming.html>.
A bounty of delicious seafood is on the menu at Coast Day 1999. Set for Sunday, Oct. 3, at the University's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes, Coast Day is designed to celebrate the ocean's wonders through fun and educational activities ranging from sea seminars to crab races.
Now in its 23rd year, the event is sponsored by the UD Sea Grant College Program and the College of Marine Studies.
"At the Seafood Pavilion at Coast Day, it's easy to remind folks of the importance of the ocean's fisheries," Doris Hicks, Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service, said.
A seafood technology specialist, Hicks organizes all the seafood-related activities at Coast Day, from the crab cake cook-off to the seafood chowder challenge. She also lines up area chefs for seafood cooking demonstrations, as well as local vendors who sell products ranging from crab bisque to live lobsters.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Coast Day Crab Cake Cook-Off. To celebrate the milestone, the Marine Communications Office is preparing a special anniversary cookbook that will feature every cook-off recipe from the past decade. The cookbook, priced at $3, will be sold at Coast Day.
Eight finalists, selected from entries from throughout the region, will begin preparing their crab cake recipes at 11 a.m. Visitors will be able to watch the
contestants and sample a morsel or two. Judging takes place at noon, with winners to be announced at 1 p.m. The top prize includes $150, the coveted title of "Delaware's Best Crab Cakes," a plaque and the opportunity to be a judge at next year's competition.
Also on the agenda is the second annual Seafood Chowder Challenge-a friendly competition between the First State Chef's Association and the Delmarva Chefs and Cooks Association. Visitors will be invited to sample 2-ounce portions of the chowders and then asked to vote for their favorite.
A trophy will be presented to the winning chefs. Clams, donated by Mid-Atlantic Foods in Pocomoke City, Md., will be the featured seafood in this year's chowders.
The First State Chef's Association also will sell chowder for visitors to take home.
At 11:45 a.m., Lewes resident Linda LaPlante-Beatty, an herbal educator for the past 25 years, will kick off a series of seafood culinary presentations by demonstrating how to cook fish and shellfish with herbs. At 1 p.m., Rodger C. Moore, executive sous chef at Piane Catering and the First State Chef's Association's Chef of the Year, will prepare salmon cakes. At 2:15 p.m., Mark Steele, executive chef at the Lamp Post Restaurant in Lewes and the Delaware Restaurant Association's Chef of the Year, will prepare "New Wave Oyster Chowder" and grilled seafood. The presentations will conclude at 3:30 p.m. with certified executive chef John C. Struzik, from Clayton, who will prepare "Chesapeake Bay Seafood," including rockfish and blue crabs.
Plenty of seafood also will be available for purchase from local vendors.
All Coast Day events take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 3, at 700 Pilottown Rd. Admission is free; parking is $2.
For more information, contact the Marine Communications Office at 831-8083 or visit the web site at <www.ocean.udel.edu>.
