UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 22, Page 4
March 4, 1993
Up and coming
Next week, find out about A&S careers
Career Planning and Placement will sponsor Arts and Science Career
week March 9-11.
Tuesday, March 9 will feature "Job Search for Arts and Science Majors"
from 2-3:30 p.m.; "Creating Careers for the 90s" from 3:30-5 p.m.; and
"Doing Well by Doing Good: Careers in Non-profit Organizations" from 7-8:30
p.m. All three workshops will be held in the Ewing Room of the Perkins
Student Center.
On Wednesday, March 10, two workshops will be held: "Careers in Public
Service" from 3-5:50 p.m. in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center;
and "Interviewing Techniques for Arts and Science Majors" from 7:30-9 p.m.,
in the Ewing Room of the Perkins Student Center.
On Thursday, March 11, two activities will conclude career week. The
first, a federal jobs fair, will be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The second, "A
Recipe for Resumes: Ingredients to Help You Find an Internship or Job" will
be held from 3:30-5 p.m. Both events will take place in the Ewing Room of
the Perkins Student Center.
For more information, call Career Planning and Placement at 831-8479.
Faculty recital to feature hornist
A faculty recital will be held at 8, tonight in Loudis Recital Hall of
the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Sponsored by the Department of Music,
the recital will feature assistant professor of music and hornist Cynthia
Carr. She will be assisted by pianist Julie Nishimura and violinist Jan
Baty.
They will perform En Foret, Op. 40 by Eugene Bozza, Sonata by Verne
Reynolds and Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 40 by Brahms.
Carr is a hornist for the Del'Arte Woodwind Quintet and the Delaware
Brass, as well as third horn in the Delaware Symphony. Carr's performances
have taken her around the world, as both a soloist and orchestral musician.
This performance is free and open to the public.
Spring skating set in Blue Ice Arena
The University's Ice Skating Science and Development Center is
offering a series of skating classes, available to the public, this spring.
Basic badge classes will be offered on Tuesdays from 8-9 p.m., March
9-May 11; on Wednesdays from 6:15-7:15 p.m. and from 7:15-8:15 p.m., March
10-May 5; and on Saturdays from 10:45-11:45 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.,
March 13-May 8.
Classes are offered for persons ages 3 to adult. All levels of skating
are taught from tots to more advanced. Each lesson of the seven-week
session includes a half-hour small group lesson and a half hour of
practice.
Beginners will learn proper sizing and lacing of skates, proper
methods of falling and getting up, forward and backward skating and stops.
As students advance through the badge tests, the skills include turns,
edges, some dance and freestyle moves.
Cost for the class is $60. Skate rental is $2 per person and is not
included in the registration fee. All classes are held in the Blue Ice
Arena.
For more information, call the Ice Skating Science Development Center
at 831-2868 or 831-2788. Family discounts are available.
HTAC to present 'Superstar' play
The Harrington Theatre Arts Company will present Jesus Christ
Superstar at 8 p.m., March 5,6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20, in 100 Wolf
Hall. Tickets, which are $5, will be sold at the door.
For more information, call 456-3274.
MTV auditions on March 11 in Bacchus
MTV will host auditions for "Lip Service," a lip-sync game show on the
MTV Network, at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 11, in the Bacchus Theatre. Only
University students, ages 18-25 are eligible to audition.
Students interested in auditioning for the show should organize teams
of three or five and have a prepared lip-synced/choreographed routine.
Videotapes will be reviewed by the producers. Selected teams will be
contacted and booked to appear on the show shortly thereafter.
MTV does not guarantee that any team appearing at the auditions will
be booked for the show. Teams selected to appear on the show must provide
their own transportation to New York City for taping.
Audition sign-ups will be held from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., daily, in Room
107 of the Perkins Student Center until noon March 11. Walk-ins cannot be
accommodated.
For information, call 831-1296.
Author to meet her readers March 17
The next "Author Meets Her Readers" seminar dinner series will be held
at 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, in the upstairs room of Klondike Kate's.
Judith Walkowitz, professor of history and director of women's studies
at Johns Hopkins University, will be the featured author, discussing her
new book City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in
Late-Victorian London, available in the University bookstore.
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the introduction and
the third, fourth and fifth chapters of the book in-depth with the author.
Dinner will be ordered individually from the menu. Participants are welcome
to attend the seminar, which will begin at 7 p.m.
To register for this event, call women's studies at 831-8474 by March
15.
Gregory Carr talk on 'Organic Intellectual'
Gregory E. Kimathi Carr, a doctoral student in African-American
studies at Temple University, will speak on "The Organic Intellectual" at 7
p.m., Wednesday, March 10, in 130 Smith Hall. His free public talk
continues the University's African Consciousness Celebration.
Carr holds a master of arts from Ohio State University in
African-American studies with special emphasis on Africentric theory.
He earned his law degree from Ohio State in 1990 and a bachelor's
degree with honors in speech communication and theatre from Tennessee State
University in 1987.
He is the producer, co-host and researcher for Free Your Mind, a radio
broadcast centered on Afrikan history and Africentric analysis of popular
culture and current events.
He has presented numerous scholarly papers and lectures and is a
member of many professional organizations.
He is an assistant editor of Imhotep, an Afrocentric journal at Temple
University.
For more information about his talk, contact the University's Center
for Black Culture at 831-2991.
Pianist Ilana Vered 'In Praise of Women'
Acclaimed Israeli pianist Ilana Vered will present a concert "In
Praise of Women" at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 9, in the auditorium of Newark
Hall.
Sponsored by the Student Program Association, the concert is free and
open to the public.
Examining different aspects of "The Feminine Mystique," Vered has
divided her program into four sections: "Beloved," "The Joy of Womanhood,"
"You Just Don't Understand" and "Women Who Love Too Much."
Featured will be songs and piano solos by Amy Beach, Nadia and Lili
Boulanger, Clara and Robert Schumann, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Pauline,
Viardot, Chopin, Liszt and others.
Joining Vered will be soprano Beverly Hoch.
Vered has performed in concert halls throughout the world and with
major orchestras in this country and abroad, including the New York
Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony, the
Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Japan NHK Symphony Orchestra and the London
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.