UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 22, Page 4
March 2, 1995
Up and coming
'As You Like It' to open March 11
The forest of Arden is the main setting for the University's
Professional Theatre Training Program as it revives its well-received
production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It.
The charming romantic comedy opens Saturday, March 11, at 7:30
p.m. in Hartshorn Hall. Subsequent performances, all in Hartshorn
Hall, are scheduled at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, and at 7:30
p.m. on both Thursday, March 16, and Sunday, March 19.
Combining the worlds of reality and dream, confusion and clarity,
the play follows Rosalind, Orlando and their companions through merry
and mirthful affairs of the heart.
Tickets for the general public are $10 for matinees and Sunday
evenings, $12 for weeknights and $13 for Friday and Saturday evenings.
Tickets prices for University faculty and staff and senior citizens
are $8 for matinees and Sunday evenings, $10 for weeknights and $11
for Friday and Saturday evenings. Student ticket prices are $4 for
matinees and Sunday evenings, $5 for weeknights and $8 for Friday and
Saturday evenings.
For reservations or more information, call 831-2204.
Campus reading of novel in Lewes
George Owens, author of The Judas Pool, a novel set in Lewes,
will read from his fiction at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 7, in Room 124
Memorial Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.
Owens is a 1978 graduate of the University and received a master
of fine arts degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1981. He
is currently at work on a new novel set in both Vietnam and
Pennsylvania.
Owens, who speaks Vietnamese, has worked as a musician, a
business writer and consultant.
For more information on the reading, call 831-1974.
UD music school faculty to perform
Faculty from the University's Community Music School will present
a family concert at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 9, in the Loudis Recital
Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
The concert, free and open to the public, is designed to last
less than an hour and to appeal to families with children. Musicians
performing will include both Department of Music faculty and students,
all of whom teach in the Community Music School.
The program includes a variety of musical styles, ranging from a
sonata on Baroque instruments to a modern jazz ensemble. A reception
will follow.
For more information, call 831-2577.
Coastal Zone Act session March 7
The University Parallel Program and Delaware Technical and
Community College, Georgetown Campus, will host a symposium on the
Coastal Zone Act beginning at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 7. Three
speakers will be featured at the free public symposium, to be held in
Room 529 of the Higher Education Building on the Del Tech campus in
Georgetown.
Lawrence Curtis, associate professor of biology at UD, will speak
on the biologist's view of responding to coastal issues. He will
address one scientific concern of dealing with pollution and the issue
of the ecology of species living on the coast.
Grace Pierce-Beck, conservation director for the Delaware Audubon
Society, will speak on the Coastal Zone Act's historical background
and the need to preserve it intact. She has been in the forefront of
fighting to keep the act in place for the past 23 years.
Bill Wood, of Wood, Byrd & Associates, will speak on behalf of
modifying the act to allow for development along the Delaware coast.
He is a lawyer who has spent much of his career in public relations
and representing business interests to governmental bodies. He
currently is a partner in a lobbying firm that represents various
interests of the business community.
Each speaker will talk for approximately 20 minutes. When all
three have finished, there will be an opportunity for questions from
the audience.
For information, call 855-1657.
Feminism in science talk topic
Susan M. Squier of Pennsylvania State University will present a
free public slide/lecture presentation entitled "Conflicts in
(Scientific) Feminism: Practicing Feminism in Popular Science Writing"
at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 16, in 124 Memorial Hall.
Squier was the first scholar to hold the position of Brill
Professor of Women's Studies and English at Penn State. In addition,
she has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook,
where she also held the position of acting chair of the Women's
Studies Program and served as associate provost.
Her many publications include Babies in Bottles: 20th Century
Visions of Reproductive Technology and Virginia Woolf and London: The
Sexual Politics of the City. She is currently editor of Women Writers
and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism and is the co-
editor of Arms and the Woman: War, Gender and Literary Representation.
Squier received her doctorate with distinction from Stanford
University.
For information, call 831-1974.
HTAC production to begin Friday
Harrington Theatre Arts Company, a student performing group at
the University, will present And the World Goes 'Round at 8 p.m.,
March 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 11, in Pearson Hall.
Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for adults for this musical
revue by Kander and Ebb.
For information, call 837-2954.
African festival events continue
AIDS education and the contributions of African culture to the
world will be the focus of the next two events in the University's
African Consciousness Celebration.
"Healing Our Nation Through AIDS Education," a workshop
originally planned for Wednesday, Feb. 15, will be presented at 7
p.m., Thursday, March 9, in the Kirkwood Room of the Perkins Student
Center.
Speaking will be Terre Griffin-Price, founder and CEO of HEAL of
Virginia. She will discuss behavioral, cultural and economic factors
in an attempt to address the need to develop a collective
consciousness that leads to empowerment and responsible decision
making. The program is co-sponsored by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
Concluding the celebration, Anthony Browder, author of The
Browder Files, will speak on "Before There Was, We Were!" at 7 p.m.,
Tuesday, March 14, in Room 130 of Smith Hall. His talk will deal with
ancient African civilization and the enormous contributions made to
the world.
Both events are free and open to the public and are part of the
University's African Consciousness Celebration, entitled "UPLIFT: The
Resurrection of a Nation." The series is sponsored by the Center for
Black Culture, the Cultural Programming Advisory Board, the Office of
Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs and the Black American
Studies Program.
For information, call 831-2991.
Delaware Brass in Loudis concert
The Delaware Brass-a faculty ensemble featuring Alan Hamant and
James Hala, trumpets; Cynthia Carr, horn; Jay Hildebrandt, trombone;
and Alan Start, tuba-with percussionist Tom Palmer, will present a
free concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 8, in Loudis Recital Hall of
the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
The program will include works by Scott Joplin, Claude Debussy,
John Phillip Sousa, Arthur Frackenpohl, Fats Waller and others.
All-State players in performance
The 71-member Delaware All-State Orchestra will present a concert
at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 4, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E.
du Pont Music Building. Tickets, at $5 for adults and $3 for students,
will be available at the door.
German identity topic of lecture
Peter Schmidt, professor of political science at the University
of Giessen and director of research at the Center for Survey Research
and Analysis of the University of Mannheim, Germany, will present a
program on "The German's National Identity."
The presentation will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 9, in
118 Purnell Hall.