UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 5
October 3, 1996
Up and Coming

Lavendar Scholars plan first social

     Lavendar Scholars, a group of lesbian, gay and bisexual
faculty, staff and graduate students, will hold its first social
activity of the year-the Lavendar Scholars Coffeehouse- to mark
the celebration of National Coming Out Day on Thursday, Oct. 10.
     The event will take place from 6-7:15 p.m., at Brewed
Awakenings, located in Rainbow Books and Music on Main Street.
The area will be closed to the public during the Lavendar
Scholars Coffeehouse.
     For information, call the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Concerns
office at 831-8703.


'Run Around' the campus Oct. 19

     The sixth annual Campus Run-Around will begin at 9:20 a.m.,
Saturday, Oct. 19. This UD fitness event will occur before other
Homecoming activities scheduled that day.
     The flat 5K (3.1 mile) course starts at the Blue and Gold
Club on Kent Way, winds through Newark and the campus and
finishes at Wolf Hall on the Mall.
     Participants will receive a T-shirt and postrace
refreshments. Awards will be presented to the first three male
and female winners. and the overall male and female alumni
winners, the top three runners in each age group and the top two
male and female walkers in each age division.
     Cost is $8 per person and $7 for UD students prior to Oct.
16 and $10 and $9, respectively, after Oct. 16 and on race day.
     The event is sponsored by the College of Physical Education,
Athletics and Recreation and the Office of Alumni and University
Relations.
     For more information or a registration form, call 831-6712.


NEH counsel to discuss funding

     Michael Shapiro, chief counsel for the National Endowment
for the Humanities, will present "The Culture Wars: A View from
the Trenches," a talk on the controversies surrounding federal
funding of art and culture, at the University and at Winterthur,
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11 Both talks are free and open to
the public.
     On Oct. 10, he will speak as part of the Delaware Seminar
Series in American Art, History and Material Culture. The program
will be held at 4 p.m. in Room 201 of Old College. A reception
precedes the talk at 3:30 p.m.
     On Oct. 11, he will speak at Winterthur at 12:15 p.m. in the
Rotunda of the New Exhibition Building.
     Shapiro holds a doctorate in American civilization from
Brown University and is a graduate of the George Washington
University Law School.
     For more information on either program, call the Winterthur
Program in Early American Culture at 831-2678.


'Image & Word' exhibit scheduled

     Paintings and poems that have been included in the new book
Image and Word: An Artists' and Poets' Collaboration are on
display in Clayton Hall through Saturday, Oct. 26.
     The exhibition highlights the work of 27 artists, all
members of the Council of Delaware Artists, and 27 poets who have
work featured in this unusual joint effort.
     A free public reception to meet the artists and poets is
scheduled from 6-9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18, in Clayton Hall. Copies
of the book will be on sale at the reception and for the duration
of the exhibition.
     For more information, call 831-3060. The project is made
possible by a matching grant from the Delaware Division of the
Arts and in part by a grant from Star Enterprises Inc.


Habitat benefit race on Oct. 12

     The seventh annual 5K for Mission race and health walk,
sponsored by the Bank of New York (DE), is scheduled to begin at
9 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 12, in Newark.
     Proceeds will benefit the New Castle County affiliate and
the UD campus chapter of the Habitat for Humanity.
     Participants may skate, walk or run the course, which begins
and ends at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 276 South College Ave.
Prizes will be awarded, and each participant will receive a T-
shirt and be invited to the postrace buffet.
     Registration is $10 by Oct. 7 and $12 after that date. Full-
time UD students receive a $1 discount. To register, call 368-
4644.
     Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County is a nonprofit
ecumenical housing organization that has been building and
renovating homes locally since 1986. To date, 13 homes have been
completed and two new homes will be dedicated in November.
     For more information about the organization or to volunteer,
call 888-0330.
     For information about the UD chapter, call Megan Rys,
president, at 731-2668, or Patty Powers, vice president, at 837-8638.


Spiritual issues are topics of talk

     Elisa Diller, executive director of The Seamen's Center of
Wilmington Inc., will speak on "The Personal Is the Political Is
the Spiritual: The Use of Spiritual Autobiography in Teaching
Women and Religion" from 12:20-1:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16, in
Room 007 of the Willard Hall Education Building.
     Part of the UD Research on Women Series, the free, public
talk replaces one originally scheduled on that date with Ruth
Horowitz, sociology.
     For information, call 831-8474.


UD authors at Borders Books

     Two UD authors are scheduled this month for book signings
and a UD public safety officer is presenting a self-defense
demonstration at Borders in Newark.
     Upcoming book signings are
      4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12, Ed Okonowicz, public relations,
author of In the Vestibule, vol. IV of his Spirits Between the
Bays series, will sign his book and present true tales about
ghosts and haunted places on Delmarva; and
      7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22, Margaret Andersen, vice
provost, will sign and discuss her book, Thinking About Women:
Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender.
     UD Public Safety officer David Finney will give a
demonstration of how to defend yourself from rape and/or assault,
at 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19.
     Nancy King, Honors Program, author of Playing Their Part:
Language and Learning in the Classroom, discussed and signed her
book about how fine arts, such as poetry, drama and music, on
Oct. 1 at Borders.