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| Vol. 18, No. 11 | Nov. 12, 1998 |
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| Vol. 18, No. 11 | Nov. 12, 1998 |
The Center for Black Culture will host a "Harlem USA" bus trip on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Buses will leave the center, located at 192 South College Ave., at 7:30 a.m.
The trip to historic sites in Harlem in New York City will include stops at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Apollo Theatre, the Schomberg Museum and more.
Cost is $20 for UD students and $40 for the general public.
For more information, call 831-2991.
Scholar to speak on Jewish novels
Lazare Bitoun, the maître de conférence at the Université de Paris, where he teaches American and Jewish literature, will speak on "The French and American Jewish Novel: A Comparison," at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Room 117 of Gore Hall. His talk is free and open to the public.Bitoun has translated many publications, including Philips Roth's Operation Shylock and Sabbath Theater. He is considering translating Roth's newest book, I Married a Communist.
Bitoun has been an editor for both the Editions Balland and Editions Joelle Losfeld. In addition, he was a founder of Traces, a Jewish literary and cultural review and is a regular contributor to La Quinzaine Littéraire, a bimonthly literary review.
His talk is sponsored by the Department of English.
For more information, call 831-2361.
Nigerian activist in Clayton Hall
Hafsat Abiola, daughter of former Nigerian president, the late Mashood Abiola, will speak at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Room 125 Clayton Hall. Her free, public talk is entitled, "Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy."One of the most knowledgeable speakers on the present crisis in Nigeria, Abiola is a dedicated activist.
Her father won the 1993 presidential election in Nigeria and was later imprisoned. Recently, he died in prison on the eve of his release. Abiola is the founder of the Kudirat Institute for Nigerian Democracy, which she organized as a memorial to her assassinated mother.
Her appearance is sponsored by the University's African Studies Program.
For information, call 831-1939.
The third annual UD Choral Festival will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 22, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Nearly 50 area high school students, together with the University of Delaware Chorale, will perform a major work with an orchestra.This year, the Festival Chorus will present Maurice Durufle's Requiem, a 20th-century work based on Gregorian chant. The program also includes works by Finzi, Elgar, Lauridsen, Mecham and Randall Thompson.
The choir will be accompanied by the Delaware Festival Orchestra, an all-professional ensemble that has played for the event the last three years. Local organist Jeff Johnson also will provide accompaniment.
The festival provides an opportunity for high school students-from schools in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey-to sing with the University Chorale, a 40-member select vocal ensemble directed by Paul Head.
Admission is $6 and tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at the Trabant University Center and Bob Carpenter Center box offices.
A national teleconference on "Alcohol Abuse and Campus Violence: Rights, Rebellion and Responsibilities" can be seen from 1-3 p.m., Friday, Nov.13, in the theatre of the Trabant University Center.Sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the program will focus on the relationship between drinking and violence, ways to change the culture of entitlement among students and options to prevent outbreaks of violence.
The two-hour teleconference will be led by a panel of experts from across the country and the presentation will involve student and administrative leaders and community members.
Produced by Washington State University, the teleconference is sponsored at UD by the Office of the Vice President for Student Life.
For information, call 831-2707.
