UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 26, Page 4
April 6, 1995
Up and coming
UD swim team to offer lessons
Members of the University swim team are offering learn-to-swim
lessons for children ages 4-14 at the University pool in Carpenter
Sports Building. Cost of seven 50-minute lessons is $48. All levels of
instruction from beginner to advanced will be offered.
The first session runs from 5-5:50 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays,
on April 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 and May 2. Session two runs from 4-
4:50 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, April 17, 19, 21, 24, 26,
28 and May 1.
Enrollment in all classes is limited, and registration will be
accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration forms may
be picked up in the lobby of the Carpenter Sports Building.
All instructors are certified American Red Cross water safety
instructors, and there is one instructor for approximately every four
swimmers.
For information, call 831-8604.
Black Arts Fest will begin Friday
The Black Arts Festival '95 will include the Black Student
Leadership Conference on "Facing Adversity: Challenges of Being a
Leader," which will be held April 7-9 in the Perkins Student Center.
Registration fees are $70 for UD students, faculty and staff and
$85 for the public.
Featured speakers include Lawrence Otis Graham and Lenworth
Gunther.
Graham will speak at 9 a.m., Saturday, April 8. He is an author,
a corporate attorney in New York, an adjunct assistant professor at
Fordham University and president of the diversity consulting firm,
Progressive Management Associates Inc.
Gunther, an educator and entrepreneur, will conclude the
conference with a speech at noon on Sunday, April 9. Of Jamaican
roots, Gunther grew up in Harlem. He became a Woodrow Wilson and Ford
Foundation doctoral fellow and received four degrees from Columbia
University.
Also as part of the festival, the third annual Richard Wilson
Greek Step Show is scheduled for 7 p.m., Saturday, April 8, in the
Carpenter Center. For ticket information, call 831-2991.
The Black Arts Festival Barbecue will be held from noon-6 p.m.,
Wednesday, April 12, at the Center for Black Culture. More than a
dozen vendors will offer food and events. The barbecue is free and
open to the public.
The Black Arts Festival concludes at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 30,
with the annual Gospelrama, featuring the groups Anointed and Abundant
Harvest, in Pearson Hall auditorium. Tickets can be purchased at all
UD box offices.
For information, call the Center for Black Culture at 831-2991.
Computer camps set for children
Summer computer camps for children will be offered in July and
August at the University by the Technology in Early Childhood Habitats
(TECH) program, formerly known as the Computers As Partners Project.
The one-week camps are offered for children who are at least 4
and under 9 years of age.
The camps are designed to provide children with an opportunity to
develop computer skills through developmentally appropriate
activities. The aim is not to produce computer experts but to help
children become comfortable with computers in their world and have
them recognize the computer as a useful tool.
Macintosh, PC-compatible and some Apple II computers will be
available for children, as well as an extensive library of open-ended,
discovery-oriented software that has been evaluated for
appropriateness.
Camp dates are July 17-21 for children ages 4-6-and-a-half years,
with a second session offered for this age group from July 31-Aug. 4.
Sessions for children ages 6 and a half to 8-and-a-half years of age
will be offered from July 24-28 and again from Aug. 7-11.
Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for
one week. Extended care also is available from 7:30-9 a.m. and from
4:30-6 p.m. Cost is $225 per child, with an additional $25 charge for
any portion of extended care. Children should bring a bag lunch each
day.
A $50 non-refundable application fee is required to hold a place
in camp for a child. This amount is applied toward tuition when a
child is accepted and returned if sessions are full. Withdrawal after
registration results in loss of the fee.
A $25 discount is applied whenever two children from the same
family are enrolled. For information, call 831-2969.
Author to discuss 'Eurocentrism'
Ella Shohat, associate professor of film studies, women's studies
and cultural studies at the City University of New York (CUNY)
Graduate Center and coordinator of the Cinema Studies Program at CUNY-
Staten Island, will speak on "Unthinking Eurocentrism" at 4 p.m. today
in 124 Memorial Hall.
She also will autograph copies of her book by the same name.
Shohat has taught at the Beit Tzvi School of Stage and Cinematic
Arts, Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television and at
Cornell University graduate school. She also is the author of Israeli
Cinema: East/West and The Politics of Representation, which was listed
as one of the best books of 1992 by the Hebrew daily paper Ha'Aretz.
A panel of multicultural scholars will continue the discussion
on "Unthinking Eurocentrism" at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 13, in 110
Memorial Hall.
For information, call 831-1974.
Photographer to speak April 19
Joe McDonald, renowned for his striking action wildlife photos,
will speak at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, in 004 of Kirkbride Lecture
Hall. His slide-lecture presentation, "The Adventures of a Wildlife
Photographer," is free and open to the public.
The emphasis in McDonald's photos is on tight, dramatic close-ups
and action, and his work has appeared in every major natural history
magazine published in the U.S. and in most European and Canadian
publications as well. They include National Geographic, Audubon,
International Wildlife, Time and Smithsonian.
He is the author of four successful books, including A Practical
Guide to Photographing American Wildlife and The Complete Guide to
Wildlife Photography.
McDonald has appeared on numerous television programs, including
PBS specials about wildlife artists and a l0-week ESPN series on
nature photography. American Photographer selected one of his
photographs as one of the l0 best of 1988, and he has won numerous
other awards.
He and his wife live outside of McClure, Pa., on property
specifically managed for wildlife. They are able to photograph flying
squirrels, songbirds and a variety of reptiles and amphibians within
l00 yards of their doorstep.
Pulitzer winner in Kirkbride Hall
Richard Ben Cramer, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun and
the Philadelphia Inquirer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches
from the Middle East, will present a free, public program on "Covering
International News and Presidential Politics," at 7 p.m., Wednesday,
April 19, in 100 Kirkbride Hall.
Cramer has been described as the "workable definition of the
complete reporter" and as a "pit bull with a generous heart."
His magazine articles have appeared in Rolling Stone and Esquire,
for which he serves as a contributing editor. In 1986, his profile of
baseball great Ted Williams was anthologized in Best American Essays
and later became the basis for the pictorial volume, The Seasons of
the Kid.
Cultural critics program April 13
Rosa Linda Fregoso and Herman Gray are the next speakers in the
Department of English Multicultural Speakers Series. The two will
present a program at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 13, in 110 Memorial Hall.
Fregoso, a noted cultural theorist and Chicana film critic, will
talk on "Screening Pachucas, Chalas and Homegirls." Gray, a cultural
critic who interrogates race and African-American representation in
music and television, will speak on "Watching Race."
Fregoso is an associate professor in the University of California-
Davis' departments of Chicano Studies and Women's Studies.
At the University of California-Santa Cruz, Gray is an associate
professor and graduate director of the Sociology Board of Studies in
the Stevenson College.
Summer algebra for kids offered
Registration opens April 15 for students in grades 6-9 who wish
to attend a Computer Intensive Algebra Workshop, to be offered this
summer by the University's Math Center.
The workshop will run from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on July 5- 7 and 10-14
on the Newark campus.
Cost is $50. The workshop is limited to 25 students.
For registration forms or more information, call 831-2140.
UD International Night on April 8
Modern rock from Hindi, traditional dances from Korea and India,
rapping from Germany, martial arts from Japan, modern songs from
Russia, a fashion show and more are all part of this year's
International Night program at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 8, at the
Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
Admission is $3 for the general public and $2 for students.
For information, call 831-2149.
C.S. Lewis scholar to speak April 20
Claude Rawson, the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale
University, will speak on "C.S. Lewis: A Personal Account, with
Reflections on Shadowlands" at 4 p.m., Thursday, April 20, in 124
Memorial Hall.
Rawson's numerous books include notable studies of Swift,
Fielding, 18th-century satire and a recent collection of essays
entitled Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in 18th-Century
Literature from Swift to Cowper.
Rawson is the general editor of the Yale Editions of Private
Papers of James Boswell. His many awards include a special certificate
of merit for distinguished service as an editor by the Conference of
Editors of Learned Journals and a Guggenheim Fellowship and a senior
faculty fellowship at Yale.
Since 1968, he has lectured widely in universities and at
conferences throughout the world.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information,
call 831-1974.
Blues artist in concert Sunday
Scott Anderson, a blues guitarist, songwriter and entertainer,
will be featured in a benefit concert at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 9,
at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 276 South College Ave., in Newark.
The program will benefit Habitat for Humanity, and is sponsored
by the international organization's UD campus chapter. Admission is $5
per person. Tickets will be available at the door.
For more information, call 368-4644.