Vol. 17, No. 4	Sept. 25, 1997

Preferred cards for ice skaters

UD is offering a Preferred Skater Card that entitles cardholders to a savings on admission to any 10 public skating sessions held in the Fred Rust Arena throughout the year. Cost of the card is $35-a $5 savings off the regular public skating admission price.

Once a card has been used 10 times it will be collected and automatically entered in a drawing for prizes, such as tickets to hockey games, send-off shows, football and basketball games and more.

"The more preferred skater cards people use, the more money they save and the greater their chances to win," James Kaden, ice arena manager, said.

New public skating hours are from 8-10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and from 1-3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Skating cards can be purchased at the front desk in the Rust Arena during those times or from 8 a.m.-7 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.

For more information, call 831-2788.

Faculty to play with orchestra

The University Orchestra, under the direction of Peter J. McCarthy will present a free concert at 8 p.m., Thursday Oct. 16, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.

Among the featured soloists will be pianist Julie Nishimura, who will perform Haydn's Piano Concerto in D Major, and members of the Mendelssohn String Quartet-Nick Eanet, Nicholas Mann and Marcy Rosen-who will be soloists in Handel's Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 5.

The program also includes Fingal's Cave Overture Op. 26 by Mendelssohn and the Capriol Suite of Peter Warlock.

Three plays are set in Bacchus

Speaking of Women, a set of three one-act plays, is scheduled to be performed at 8:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27, at the Bacchus Theatre in the Perkins Student Center.

Athena at the Rittenhouse is a comedy by Sima Robbins that explores what happens when a conservative interior decorator is forced to incorporate the works of a disturbingly avant-garde artist into her designs.

It is directed by Rick Cunningham, Professional Theatre Training Program.

Watch Out!, by Deanna Riley, is a surreal comedy featuring people who have clocks installed in their bodies to keep them on schedule. It is directed by Tom Shade.

The Screaming Woman Next, directed by author Drury Pifer, is a one-woman comedy that takes modern art to its ultimate extreme by exposing its dependence on the interpretations of critics and commentators.

Tickets are $10 for the public and $5 for students for the two preview performances, scheduled exclusively on the University's Newark campus, and they will be available at the door.