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International films screened
on Sunday nights in Trabant
The University's 2000 International Film Series will feature movies with such themes as individuals returning home to face the families they left behind and trying to maintain traditional ways of life in a time of rapid modernization.
 All of the 35 mm films in the series, which are free and open to the public, are scheduled at 7:30 p.m., Sundays, in the theatre of the Trabant University Center.
The fall lineup includes:
Mifune (Mifune's Last Song), on Sept. 24, is a Danish film with eccentric humor of a man, his retarded brother and their housekeeper, a prostitute on the run from a stalker. "The strong, small ensemble...lends the film a corrosive intimacy," wrote Wesley Morris in the San Francisco Examiner.
Genghis Blues, on Oct. 1, is an American documentary and Audience Award-winner at Sundance in 1999, in which a blind blues singer from San Francisco travels to Tuva, home of Genghis Khan, to participate in a contest of throat singers.
Erskineville Kings, on Oct. 8, is an Australian film, in which Barky Marty Denniss, who also wrote the screenplay, returns home after the death of his abusive father, to face the resentment of his brother Wace (X-Men's Hugh Jackman), who had cared for the man during his illness.
The Sheltering Sky, on Oct. 15, is a 1990 British/Italian film. This special showing, based on the novel by Paul Bowles, is being sponsored by the UD Library in conjunction with the exhibition "Paul Bowles: 1910-1999," on display until Dec. 15 in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery. Bernardo Bertolucci's film stars Debra Winger and John Malkovich. The award-winning cinematography of Vittorio Storarro cannot be fully appreciated on video.
Autumn Tale, on Oct. 22, is a French film by Eric Rohmer. "Unforced, relaxed, self-assured and utterly absorbing...the work of a master with nothing left to prove but everything to give," wrote Stuart Klawans in The Nation. The final installment in Rohmer's "Tales of Four Seasons" deals with a middle-aged woman at the center of two matchmaking plots hatched by her well-meaning friends. The film was described in the L. A. Times, as having "Light-fingered vigor and panache."
Rosetta, on Oct. 29, is a film from Belgium that won Best Actress and Palme d'Or awards at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. It is the story of a 17-year-old girl's tenacious struggle to escape from poverty and achieve a normal life.
Regeneration, on Nov. 5, is an English/Scottish film based on the true story of the friendship between a doctor (Jonathan Pryce) and poet Siefried Sassoon (James Wilby), also a decorated soldier in the Great War, who is compelled to enter a mental hospital after protesting against the political errors for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
Shower (Xizhao), on Nov. 12, is a Chinese comedy set in an old Beijing bathhouse scheduled for demolition. It has won audience awards at virtually every major international festival.
The Wind Will Carry Us, on Nov. 19, is an Iranian film where a TV producer spends several weeks in a remote mountain village to document events surrounding the imminent death of a 100-year-old woman.
The film series is sponsored by the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events, the Office of the Provost, the University Honors Program and the English Department Film Program. For more information, call 831-4066 or visit the series web site at [http://www. english.udel.edu/ifs/].
Susan Sontag to speak on
writing fiction and history
 Respected novelist and essayist Susan Sontag will present a free, public talk on "A Writer's Responsibility: Fiction and History" at 7:30 p.m ., Wednesday, Sept. 27, in Room 205 of Gore Hall.
A leading intellectual and commentator on modern culture, Sontag has published novels and short stores and has written and directed theatre and films. She burst upon the literary scene in 1964 when she published the article "Notes on Camp" in the Partisan Review. Since then she has written for the country's most prestigious publications including Atlantic Monthly, Harpers and the New York Review of Books.
Her novels include The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and her latest work, In America. Her nonfiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, which won the National Book Critics Award for Criticism in 1977, and Illness as Metaphor. She also has authored several plays, including Alice in Bed.
Sontag was born in New York City and grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles. She entered the University of California at Berkeley in 1948 at the age of 15. After a year, she transferred to the University of Chicago where she earned her undergraduate degree in 1951. She continued her studies at Harvard, where she earned master's degrees in English and philosophy. She also studied at St. Anne's College, Oxford, at the Sorbonne and at the University of Paris.
In addition to her writing, she has been employed as a lecturer in philosophy at City College of New York and at Sarah Lawrence. She was an instructor in the religion department of Columbia University and a writer-in-residence at Rutgers.
Among her numerous awards are the American Academy Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Academy of Sciences and Literature Award and a five-year fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, the so-called "genius award."
Sontag's UD appearance is sponsored by the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program and is partly funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum. Other sponsors include Mae and Robert Carter, the Commission on the Status of Women, development office, English department, University Honors Program, Jewish Studies Program, Office of the Vice President for Administration and Visiting Women's Scholars Fund.
For more information, call 831-8474.
Cuban baseball topic Oct. 6
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures and chairperson of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Yale University, will give a talk on the "Origins of Cuban Baseball, Music, Dance and Literature," at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 6, in the Ewing Room of the Perkins Student Center.
Echevarria is speaking as part of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Distinguished Scholars Series.
For more information, call 831-6882.
Byron scholar to lecture
on 'Romantic Scholarship'
 Romantic Scholarship and Culture, 1960-2000: A Byronic View" is the topic of a talk by noted Byron scholar Jerome J. McGann scheduled at 4 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 6, in Room 127 Memorial Hall. A reception will follow in the Byron lounge on the third floor.
Free and open to the public, this first, annual Leslie A. Marchand Lecture is sponsored by the Byron Society of America, the Byron Society Collection at UD and the Department of English.
The late Dr. Marchand, a Byron scholar at Rutgers University, and Marsha Manns, AS '71, were cofounders of the Byron Society, and with Charles Robinson, English, established the Byron Collection, which contains more than 2,000 books about the poet and other memorabilia, all housed in the Byron Room and lounge on the third floor of Memorial Hall.
"Dr. McGann was chosen to give the inaugural lecture because of his pre-eminence as a renowned Byron scholar, textual editor and theorist and 19th- century scholar," Robinson said. "He also was Leslie Marchand's colleague and friend for many years.
"The lecture is attracting Byron scholars and others interested in the Romantics from the region and from as far away as Great Britain," he said.
McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia and Thomas Holloway Professor of Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway College, University of London, edited the seven-volume Oxford edition of Byron's poetry and has published many books and articles on Byron and the Romantics.
Another lecture on Byron is planned at UD in January, and a major international conference on the poet will be held next August.
'Spellbinding' musical duo to open Performing Arts Series
 Double Exposure, the spellbinding husband-and-wife musical duo from Great Britain, will appear in concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, in Mitchell Hall.
Violinist Thomas Bowes and pianist and composer Eleanor Albergea perform great works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic masters, as well as works by Albergea and other living composers, including Arvo Part, John Adams and Chick Corea.
Bowes, who plays the 1659 Amati violin, has performed as soloist with the London Philharmonic and has achieved international recognition for his exhilarating work as soloist, chamber musician and director with noted British ensembles.
Albergea's diverse musical background combines classical training with experience as a member of the internationally acclaimed Jamaican Folk Singers.
Tickets for the concert are $6 for students and children; $10 for faculty, staff alumni and seniors; and $15 for the general public.
Tickets may be purchased at the Hartshorn box office or by calling 831-2204 and through Ticketmaster at 984-2000, where a convenience charge may apply.
Double Exposure also will offer a composing workshop, which is free and open to the public, at 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 6, in the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
History offers 'Culture, Society &
Technology' lecture series
History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture," offered this fall by the Department of History, will include talks on such diverse topics as daily diary writing in America, the influence of jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington on American history and the intellectual framework of foreign policy during the Nixon administration.
The free public workshops will be held from 12:15-1:45 p.m., Tuesdays, through Nov. 28, in Room 203 Munroe Hall. Participants are urged to bring a brown bag lunch.
The schedule includes:
Sept. 26–"The Hooper Boy Takes on the Devil: Rethinking Early American Industrialization," presented by Brooke Hunter, history;
Oct. 3–"A Page, A Day: A History of the Daily Diary in America," presented by Molly McCarthy, Brandeis University;
Oct. 10–"Prosthetic Memory: Mass Culture, the Holocaust and the 'Object' of Remembering," presented by Alison Landsberg, George Mason University;
Oct. 17–"Plantation Frontiers: Angelos, African Americans and Germans in Civil War Era Texas," presented by Sean Kelley, University of Texas at Austin;
Oct. 24–"Improvising Across the Lines: Duke Ellington in American History," presented by Harvey Cohen, University of Maryland;
Oct. 31–"Too Modern for My Taste: Domesticity, Black Women's Magazines and Urban Culture, 1891-1925," presented by Noliwe Rooks, Department of History, Princeton University;
Nov. 14–"The Intellectual Framework of the Nixon Administration's Foreign Policy," presented by David Patterson, U.S. Department of State;
Nov. 21–"The Seduction of Science: Nuclear Fear and the Symbolic Accommodation of Fundamental Research in the World of the Organization Man," presented by Glen Asner, Carnegie Mellon University; and
Nov. 28–"Exemplary Excess: Devotional Piety in Medieval Islam," presented by Megan Reid, Princeton University.
For more information, call 831-2371.
Biotechnology Institute
schedules seminar series
 The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) is sponsoring a Fall 2000 Seminar Series on Fridays that is free and open to the public. All events will be held at 10 a.m., in Room 126 of MBNA America Hall.
Ira W. Levin, molecular biophysics section chief in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the National Institutes of Health, will speak Sept. 22, on "Biomembrane and Cellular Organization: Vibrational Spectroscopic and Imaging Studies." The talk is cosponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
On Oct. 6, Antoni Rafalski, research fellow at DuPont Agricultural Genomics, will speak on "DNA Sequence Diversity of Maize Genes."
The series continues on Nov. 3 when Jurek Paszkowski, from the Friedrich Miescher-Institut in Switzerland, will speak on "Genetics of Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Arabidopsis."
Concluding the series on Dec. 8 is Cathy Wu, director of Bioinformatics for the National Biomedical Research Foundation, who will speak on "Integrated Protein Family Classification System for Functional Genomics."
Refreshments will be available at 9:30 a.m., prior to each talk.
Lecturers will be available for questions for an hour after the talk, until noon.
For more information, call 831-4888 or send e-mail to [potts@dbi.udel.edu]
Film/lecture series focuses
on issues of Jewish identity
 What does the future hold for the Jewish population immersed in the American melting pot yet trying to hold on to its unique identity? The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware will try to answer that question as it presents three programs dealing with issues of Jewish identity. The free public films and lecture/discussions will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.
On Sept. 26, the film The Chosen will be shown. It is the story of two fathers and two sons trying to practice religion in their own way. As the boys become men, they discover each other's spiritual world.
The Oct. 17 program opens with a collage of film clips about how people identify themselves as Jewish. It will be followed by three guest speakers, representing a senior citizen, a "baby boomer" and a college student, who will talk about their reasons for connecting or disconnecting with their Jewish identities. A question-and-answer session will follow.
The Nov. 28 program focuses on whether or not there actually is an assimilation vs. Jewish identity crisis and, if so, how it can be resolved. Three guest speakers will discuss Jewish orthodoxy and ethnicity and how assimilation fits in.
For more information about the series, call 831-3324 or send e-mail to [cjs@udel.edu.].
Lyric Theatre to present
revue of Gershwin favorites
The University of Delaware Lyric Theatre will present "Here to Stay: The Songs of George and Ira Gerswhin" at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 30 and at 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 1, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for students with ID.
"Here to Stay," written by UD music professor Jon Alan Conrad, is the second in a series of retrospectives of American popular song, following last fall's production of "The Song is You," which featured the work of Jerome Kern. For the program, UD music students will sing well-known songs from Gershwin shows. The production is directed by Patrick Evans, with choreography by UD music major Lauren Gerhart.
Tickets are available by phone through Ticketmaster at 984-2000, or at the Bob Carpenter Center or Trabant University Center box offices. Subject to availability, tickets also may be purchased at the door.
For information, call 831-2577.
Wellness Center to kick off
'Half Hour for Health'
 This year, the Wellness Center's fall contest, "Half Hour for Health," will run for eight weeks from Sept. 24 through Nov. 18.
Participants are encouraged to spend 30 minutes each day pursuing a healthy behavior. Suggested activities can include any type of physical exercise, relaxation and meditation techniques or preparing a new heart healthy menu item.
Participants will receive a log in which they will check off the days when they take a half hour for their personal health. Incentive prizes will be awarded at various achievement levels. Employees completing at least 6 days each week also will be entered into the grand prize drawing for a half day of wellness at the European Wellness Center in nearby Maryland, donated by Ambassador Travel.
The final registration deadline is Sept. 21.
Those needing a registration form should call 831-8388.
Historian to discuss research
on slavery, history, geneology
Historian and author Gwendolyn Midlo Hall will give a free public talk on "Africans in the Americas: Slavery, History and Genealogy," at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 5, in Multipurpose Room A of the Trabant University Center.
A professor emerita of history at Rutgers University, Hall, who is the editor of Data Base for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History, 1699-1860, a CD-ROM published by Louisiana State University Press 2000, will discuss her research methods and how to use the database.
Hall also will address the database's potential for tracing the genealogy and history of Africans in Louisiana and the implications for building a history of African-American families and American society as a whole.
To create the database, which contains 100,000 records on transactions involving slaves in Louisiana, Hall located and entered into her computer the records on transactions in Louisiana, Texas, Spain and France.
The database includes significant details on the geographic and ethnic origins, history, personal characteristics and occupations of 10,000 people.
African-American genealogist Tony Burroughs, writing in The New York Times, said "the Louisiana database is as significant as the publication of Alex Haley's Roots in 1976, in part because the demand is even greater now for accessible information."
For information, contact Wunyabari Maloba, history and African studies, at 831-2189, e-mail [maloba@ udel.edu]; or Peter Weil, anthropology, at 831-1858, e-mail [weil@udel.edu].
Full slate of Coast Day
events scheduled Oct. 1 in Lewes
This year's Coast Day activities are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday Oct. 1, at UD's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. Children of all ages will have the opportunity to learn about marine life, sample seafood and enjoy exhibits and programs at the annual event, sponsored by the University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program and the College of Marine Studies.
Just a few of the highlights of this year's day-long event include:
A special ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the College of Marine Studies and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
"Going to Extremes!," a special exhibit about the marine scientists who explore the super-hot hydrothermal vents in the deep sea and the icy waters around Antarctica,
the Coast Day Crab Cake Cook-Off, with eight contestants vying for the an nual title;
the Great Seafood Chowder Challenge, featuring Delmarva's best chefs and cooks; and
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Oceanographer?," where a guest host will ask contestants questions about the ocean and the winners will earn prizes.
Exhibits, ship tours, water safety demonstrations, food and craft vendors, musical entertainment, marine lectures on the "Inland Bays Water Quality: Science and Solutions" and "Seafood Seminars" are scheduled.
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].
Flute-guitar duo to play on Sept. 26
A free staged reading of Pvt. Wars by James McClure will be presented by the After Dinner Readers' Theatre at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the Chapel Street Theatre.
The show is a bittersweet comedy about three Vietnam veterans waging their own private wars in a veterans hospital. The play was first presented at the Zephr Theatre in Los Angeles in 1984 and then went on to further acclaim at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J., in 1989. The After Dinner readers are presenting the play in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
James Cunningham, theatre, will direct the production, which is cosponsored by the departments of English and theatre. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact producer Joy Schwiezer at 731-4682.
Reading of 'Pvt. Wars' in local theatre
The Taggart-Grycky Duo will present a recital at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 26, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
The free, public program will be highlighted by Ned Rorem's Romeo and Juliet and also will include Lowell Lieberman's Sonata for flute and guitar and other works. The duo is in residence at UD, and annually performs a series of concerts on campus and throughout the region. Both flutist Eileen Grycky and classical guitarist Christiaan Taggart are faculty members in the Department of Music.
The Taggart-Grycky Duo's interest in expanding the flute-guitar repertoire has led them to seek out new works written specifically for the flute-guitar combination as well as old works that may have been overlooked or forgotten.
For information, call 831-2577.
Library schedules electronic
classes for staff, students
The University of Delaware Library's Fall 2000 Electronic Library Classes are open to faculty, staff and students.?
"SciFinder Scholar" will be held from 3:30-5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 21, and 3:30-5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room. "SciFinder Scholar" is a full-reaction query tool for chemists that allows users to build and explore reaction queries. Students will learn to construct a search for a patent, a chemical substance or reaction, a research topic and literature written by a specific author. Instruction on substructure searching will cover how to create a substructure query and map atoms in the reactant to the product.
"Library Research in the Digital Age" will be held from 3:30–5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Sussman Room (056). This presentation will focus on library research and teaching in the age of computers, electronic databases, the web and full-text electronic sources.
"Getting to the Source: Electronic Access to Primary Research Materials" will be held from 3:30–5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Sussman Room (056).
The class offers a look at electronic access to resources held in library special collections, manuscript and archival repositories, museums and other institutions. Specialized search strategies for DELCAT, other library online catalogs and networked databases will be introduced.
"Finding Electronic Images on the web" will be offered from 3:30–5 p.m., Monday, Oct. 16, in the Sussman Room (056). Almost everyone knows that the Internet is a great source of information, and most users are good at "surfing" the web, but how many know how to find photographs and other images? This hands-on class will explore different methods for finding images on the web, from dedicated image web sites to customized searches for a particular image.
"Using the Digital Microform Scanner," will be held from 3–5 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23; and from 10 a.m.-noon, Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Media Viewing Room, lower level. This workshop will demonstrate the basic operation and practical uses of the new digital microform scanner, including how to scan microfilm or microfiche, manipulate the image, print, save or e-mail. The sessions also will cover which file formats are best to use for saving and e-mailing purposes. If the workshop times are not convenient, please call the Microforms Unit at 831-1732 to schedule an appointment.
"Electronic Access to Full-Text Journal Articles," will be held from 3:30–5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room. This presentation will provide an overview of the various services offered by the library, which include full-text articles via the Library Networked Databases. The session will concentrate on the latest additions to full-text databases, which include IDEAL, ChemPort Connection and Science Direct.
Preregistration for these courses is encouraged but not required. To register, call 831-2432 or register by e-mail at [cegrant@udel.edu].
Lunch talks give tips on surfing the web
The University of Delaware Library is offering five, 40-minute brown-bag presentations this fall, highlighting electronic resources available on the Internet. The sessions, which are open to the public, will be held from 12:10-12:50 p.m., Tuesdays, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room.
"Elections 2000," featuring this fall's election will be held Sept.26. Visit web sites of national and state candidates as well as sites that address hot political issues. Host is Leslie Homzie, reference.
"Early American Antiques," featuring web sites for everyone interested in early American 18th- and early 19th-century antiques, including furniture, folk art, pewter, iron and lighting, will be held Oct. 3. Host is Sandra Millard, library public services.
"Parapsychology and the Supernatural Haunted," will be held Oct. 31. Haunted by the supernatural? This presentation on ESP, ghosts, witches and the unexplained will explore web sites for both believers and skeptics. It will start in the realm of university studies of the paranormal and magically proceed to haunted houses, urban legends and beyond. Host is Jonathan Jeffery, reference.
"E-Commerce in the Year 2000" will be held Nov. 21 and will offer advice, hints, tips and web sites for making good decisions about using the web for banking, investing, shopping and other online transactions. Host is James Scott, media services.
"For the Love of the Dance: a Trip on the Internet to the Light Fantastic," will be held Dec. 5. Join host Demaris Hollembeak, reference, in exploring some selected dance sites to see images, learn actual dance steps, find a favorite dance genre and perhaps find some health tips for preventing dance-related injuries.
Search [http://www2.lib. udel.edu/usered/elunch/topic. htm] for more than 35 web sites of previous Electronic Lunch presentations on topics including birding, gardening, health, film studies, music, pets, volunteering and much more.
No reservations are needed, and participants are encouraged to bring lunch or purchase lunch in the Euro Bistro in the Commons, across from the Class of 1941 Lecture Room.
Call 831-2432 for additional information.
Ethicist to present annual Norton lecture
Arthur Leonard Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics and Trustee Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present the 2000 David Norton Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23, in Room 125 Clayton Hall. His topic will be "Could It Possibly be Ethical to Use Genetic Engineering to Change Our Children?"
He is the author of numerous scientific articles and books, including Ethics and Organ Transplants, Am I My Brother's Keeper? and Everyday Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life.
Caplan has lectured widely throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe and is a frequent commentator in the media for such outlets as National Public Radio, Nightline, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The lecture is supported by the David Norton Memorial Fund honoring the late UD philosophy professor, the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, the Department of Philosophy and the Class of 1955 Ethics Endowment Fund.
For more information, call 831-6075.
Popular media literacy expert will speak to teachers, public
 Peter DeBenedittis, popular media literacy expert, will speak on "Media Literacy for Alcohol Abuse Prevention" throughout New Castle County on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 26 and 27. Recently featured on 48 Hours, DeBenedittis is known for his high-energy presentations that teach the public how to read and analyze television and the mass media.
His 90-minute presentation on the issue of alcohol in the media is entertaining and enlightening. He uses clips from popular television to reveal how the country's culture shapes teens' thinking, unless teens are equipped with the skills to deconstruct messages from the media.
While in Delaware, he will address students at four area schools, present a workshop for teachers at UD, and present an evening talk that is free and open to the public. The public talk is scheduled for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 26, in Mitchell Hall. His appearances are sponsored by the University of Delaware and City of Newark Campus/ Community Coalition.
"Children who understand the motivations and production techniques of media are less likely to adopt the destructive attitudes and behaviors that are depicted in the media," DeBenedittis said. "Media education represents a new and exciting approach to protecting children and adolescents from the unhealthy effects of media–an approach which is not dependent on Hollywood's or Madison Avenue's willingness to accept responsibility for its programming and advertising."
Media literacy education teaches people to evaluate media, and many studies suggest that such education can produce less vulnerable children and adolescents. National PTAs, professional teacher organizations, substance abuse prevention programs and the White House have all endorsed media literacy.
"I see a culture formed around humanity's hearts and desires, not manufactured by commercial greed. I see media and entertainment that express, enrich and enhance, rather than teach compulsive debt, substance abuse, violence and risky behavior because there is profit in it. I see a world where everyday people have the power to shape their culture because they have access to the information and communication venues upon which democracy depends," DeBenedittis said.
He earned a doctorate in speech communication and advertising from Pennsylvania State University and spent 10 years living in Guam where he ran an advertising agency and did polling and media for successful political campaigns. He also taught for the University of Maryland's Asian Division.
Moving to Santa Fe in 1995, he joined the nation's foremost media educators, The New Mexico Media Literacy Project. He now uses his advertising knowledge to educate for prevention rather than to seduce for profit.
DeBenedittis is the coauthor of two prevention-oriented media literacy CD-ROMs and has designed several research studies contributing to the growing body of knowledge that finds media literacy an effective tool for substance abuse prevention. Traveling the nation, he has taught media literacy for prevention to more than 45,000 students during the last several years.
He has consulted with the White House Office on Drug Control Policy, the Centers for Disease Control, the American Medical Association, the National Cancer Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Berlin choir to perform in Bayard Sharp Hall Sept. 28
The "gropies Berlin" Choir of the School of Music of Berlin/Neukolln will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, in Bayard Sharp Hall.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, will celebrate 10 years of German unity.
The "groupies Berlin," directed by Bernhard Jahn, is a combined youth choir of the Gropisustadt Choir School at the Public School of Music in the district of Neukolln.
The choir will also be performing at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 26, at the Delaware Sangerbund, Newark. For more information, call 453-9872 or e-mail [beuren@udel.edu].
Ice skating party Sept. 24
The Fred Rust Ice Arena will be the place to be for a special ice skating party sponsored by Arby's Roast Beef restaurants, UD and WSTW-fm from 1-3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 24.
Mike Rossi from WSTW will be on hand, and the station's Tookie Tookie mascot will be join ed by UD mascots YoUDee and Baby Blue.
Admission to the party is free but by ticket only. Get your tickets now, while they last, at area Arby's Roast Beef restaurants.
Faculty Senate meeting canceled for October
Due to the lack of agenda items, the Oct. 9 meeting of the University Facutly Senate has been canceled. The semiannual General Faculty meeting originally scheduled for the same day has been postponed until 3:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 6, before the next meeting of the Faculty Senate.
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