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| Vol. 17, No. 12 | Nov. 20, 1997 |
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| Vol. 17, No. 12 | Nov. 20, 1997 |
"Resonances and Repercussions," black-and-white photographs using the nude as subject matter, will be on display from Friday, Dec. 5, through Friday, Dec. 19, in the Department of Art Gallery, 102 Recitation Hall.
The photos are the work of Jeffrey D. Hubert, an MFA candidate who became interested in photography while a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s. After obtaining degrees in criminology and psychology, he worked for 24 years in various aspects of the criminal justice fields, including a term as the warden of the Cumberland County Prison.
Hubert currently works as a criminal justice planner for Pennsylvania and has been a photography student at UD since 1993. He resides in Carlisle, Pa.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Recitation Hall exhibits are free and open to the public. For more information, call 831-2244.
Two craft fairs set on campus
Annual craft fairs are scheduled this month at two sites on campus. The annual University of Delaware Women's Club Fall Craft Show will feature area artisans from 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, and from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, in Multipurpose Room C of the Trabant University Center. Proceeds will go to the UDWC scholarship fund, and there is no admission charge.Regional crafters will be featured from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 29, and Sunday, Nov. 30, at the annual craft fair in Clayton Hall. Admission is $2, and parking is free.
Music, healing lecture on Dec. 2
Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect and a prominent educator who discusses the connection between music and healing, will present a lecture from 10-11 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Room 207 of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.The program-hosted by the Department of Music and sponsored by the Delaware Symphony Association-is open to the public and members of the University community.
Campbell's research documents the positive effects of music on the physical and intellectual aspects of daily life.
According to Campbell, students who play an instrument score above the national average on SATs; the director of a Baltimore hospital coronary care unit claims that half an hour of classical music produces the same effect as 10 milligrams of Valium; and healthcare professionals are using music to deal with such health issues as anxiety, childbirth, chronic pain and mental problems.
For more information, call 831-2577.
UD authors at Borders Books
Three UD authors will be featured at Borders Books in Newark in December.Bernard Herman, Center for Historical Architecture and Design, and UD history doctoral candidate Gabrielle Lanier, who also teaches at Millersville State University, are the authors of Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes. They both will have at a book signing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 3. Their book examines building traditions and historic vernacular architecture in the Delaware/southern New Jersey/ coastal Maryland and Virginia region.
Marianne Ehrlich Green, Career Services Center, has written Internship Success and will give a talk and sign copies of her book at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9. This "how to" book covers all aspects of the internship process.
Choral Union sets concert on Dec. 6
A concert by the University of Delaware Choral Union, directed by Lawrence Hoenig and featuring Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, will be held at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Admission is $6.Harpist Felicia Coppa will be guest artist for Ceremony of Carols. The program also will include choral pieces, among them songs from The Tender Land, by Aaron Copland; Brahms' Nanie; and a group of old American songs.
The town and gown ensemble includes UD students and faculty, as well as members from the community.
Hoenig serves as associate conductor of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and chairs the music department at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia.
Deltones to hold winter concert
The Deltones a cappella group will present a winter concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6, in Bacchus Theatre in the Perkins Student Center. The program is open to the public, and tickets are $5 at the door.
Hockey team to host Penn State
The UD Hockey Team will host rival Penn State at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, and at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, in the Fred Rust Ice Arena.Free hockey pucks, provided by Hewlett-Packard and Info Systems, will be awarded to the first 1,000 patrons at the Friday evening game.
Tickets are available at the Bob Carpenter Center and Trabant University Center box offices. On the day of the game, they will be sold at the arena. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for UD students with ID and children under 12.
Ice exhibition for top UD skaters
The National Send-off Skating Exhibition, featuring UD national, world, and Olympic-level skaters, will be held at 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14, in the Fred Rust Ice Arena. Tickets are available at the Bob Carpenter Center and Trabant University Center box offices. Cost is $12 for adults, $9 for UD students with ID and $7 for children under 12.
Dance celebration in Mitchell Hall
"Carols in Color," a holiday dance musical celebration featuring the Eleone Dance Theatre, will be presented at 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5, and at 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6. A school performance will be presented at 10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 5. All performances will take place in Mitchell Hall.Based on the "Black Nativity," by Langstone Hughes, the show combines music and drama with dance and features a quintet and four soloists in addition to the dancers. A reviewer in Dance Magazine wrote of the performance, "Throughout a joyfully liturgical tone is maintained, aided by a reading of the story of Jesus' birth in the New Testament.... Leja's choreography shows off the dancers and their youthful virtuosity exudes passion, conviction and humility.... [The directors] merged sacred and secular, pop and concert genres with taste and grace."
Student tickets are $7, with a 20 percent discount for groups of 10 or more students for the school performance only. Tickets for UD faculty, staff and senior citizens are $12 and will not be discounted further.
Tickets for the general public are $15, with a 20 percent discount for groups of 10 or more. All tickets are $20 at the door.
For ticket information call UD1-HENS, 831-2991 or 652-0101. Tickets may be purchased at the Bob Carpenter Center and Trabant University Center box offices, the Christina Cultural Arts Center in Wilmington or through Ticketmaster (where a service charge may apply) at (302) 984-2000.
The program is sponsored by the UD Cultural Programming Advisory Board, the Center for Black Culture and the Christina Cultural Arts Center.
Staff member's artwork in show
The Members Exhibition at the Newark Art House, 132 East Delaware Ave., features "Amaryllis Lily," a watercolor work by Charlotte Coleman, civil and environmental engineering. Locally, her works have been exhibited at the Christina Cultural Arts Center, Clayton Hall and the Newark Free Library.
The show runs through Dec. 5.
