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Newman Centers

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United nationsBolivian dancers perform at DUs 27th annual Festival of Nations

April 17. About 500 people attended the student-led campus event to

learn about cultures from all around the world. The festival offered

international food, panels, crafts and performances, including a samba,

a Chinese lion dance and Iranian belly dancing. DUs student population

includes students from 88 countries; China has the largest number of

students attending the University.

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Volume 33, Number 9

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Where in the

world is...

Isabella Contolini has

participated in the state geogra-

phy bee for the past three years,

but this year her performance took

the prize. The 12-year-old, a sixth-

grader at Red Rocks Elementary

School in Morrison, Colo., won theNational Geographic state geogra-

phy bee April 9. It was held at the

University of Denver campus, where

it is held each year.

Could you have answered her

winning question correctly?

The island of Rapa Nui is better

known by this name.

U.S. News ranks Sturm College of Law among nations

top 100 law schools

For the ninth straight year, the University o Denver Sturm College o Law is ranked among

the top 100 law schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report, while ve o the schools

specialized programs are listed among the highest-ranked programs in the country.

The publications Americas Best Graduate Schools, released April 15, lists the Sturm College

o Law among the nations top-tier schools, tied at No. 80 with Louisiana State University; Rutgers;

the University o Oregon; and the Illinois Institute o Technology.DU ranked No. 12 in the country or tax law; No. 14 or environmental law studies; No. 18

or part-time legal education; No. 19 or legal writing (tied with Lewis & Clark College and Rutgers-

Camden); and No. 25 or clinical training.

Sturm College o Law Dean Martin Katz says DU remains committed to consistently im-

proving its law programs. In recent years, the school has continued adding aculty, creating new

initiatives to build diversity, reducing class sizes, building new law programs relevant to today s legal

climate, raising the standards or admission, increasing nancial aid to attract the best students, and

implementing a comprehensive bar passage program.

Katz says the college o law has a long-term vision or ongoing development.

U.S. News & World Report ranks law and other graduate programs, incorporating expert opin-

ion and statistical data collected on more than 1,200 programs. In addition to the law school, DUs

Department o Psychology was ranked 91st, tied with George Washington University, University

o Carolina-Greensboro and Colorado State University.Chase Squires

Longtime neighborhood eatery closes

Popular DU-area eat-

ery Stick-e-Star has closed its

doors.

Ater spending 25 years in

the DU community rst at

Star Market and most recently

with Stick-e-Star ownersMike and Tina Schettler have

moved on to a new venture

that needs their ull attention,

the couple says.

On March 17 the Schet-

tlers opened Emerald Grill at

597 S. Clinton St. in Denver.

With the new opportunity,

they did not have the desire or

resources to run both eateries,

Mike Schettler (BSBA 83) says. Additionally, the lease at the University Boulevard and Evans Av-

enue location was too expensive to renew.

Schettler will continue running his catering business out o the new location.Emerald Grills menu is similar to Stick-e-Star s, with avorite dishes such as chicken Parmesan

and French dip still available. Like Stick-e-Star, theres a ull bar, but unlike it, theres a ull breakast

menu served all day.

One major dierence will be a change in clientele. Emerald Grill is in Windsor Gardens, a

community or people over age 55. Windsor Gardens has some 3,500 residents.

The community here has been very welcoming, Schettler says. [The residents] need a

place with good ood that they can have a good time at.

Emerald Grill which is on a gol course and has what Schettler describes as a country-club

eel is open to the general public.

Kathryn Mayer

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RichardChapman

DU student group aims to eradicate polio

The motto, Service above sel, says it all. With 1.2 million members

worldwide, Rotary International is a massive network o individuals dedi

cated to community service.

But DUs own Rotaract Club, a student chapter o Rotary Interna

tional, strives to involve even more people especially a younger demo-

graphic by completing at least one local and one international projec

annually.

Being in college, were a little bit more fexible in terms o timedeciding what were going to do, and the opportunities that are available,

says Kelsey Guyette, president o DU Rotaract.

Guyette, a sophomore international studies and German major rom

Greeley, Colo., described an extensive club project list, including tutoring

at South High School, volunteering with Project CURE and helping with

on-campus events.

Although 1520 members regularly show up at meetings, more than

100 are involved in the club. Still, Guyette says she is aiming or more

participation, especially rom graduate students.

One o Rotaracts most important contributions to global developmen

has been the eradication o polio. During Rotarys PolioPlus Awareness

Week, DUs members collected donations outside Sturm Hall and then

dyed donors pinkies purple to signiy a childs polio vaccination. Thanks to

Rotarys eorts, the crippling disease is ound in only our countries.

DU Rotaract Club meetings are 6 p.m. Wednesdays in Jazzmans Ca

in the Driscoll Center.

Elizabeth Fritzle

Zingers to pop up in former Quiznos store

Quiznos is being replaced on South University Boulevard by a chicken

sandwich and chili shop thats one o a kind.

Its the rst o many to come, promises co-owner Dennis Krieger, who

plans to open Zingers in the Quiznos location at 2075 S. University Blvdand possibly ranchise the concept. Sometime in July, once renovations are

complete, Krieger will open Zingers with his son Max, who in 2009 earned a

BSBA rom DUs School o Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management.

The Kriegers say they want Zingers to be the anti-ranchise, emphasizing

service and reshness o sauce and service. But it will also provide a hearty dose

o spice, in particular the secret seasoning tossed onto the homemade chicken

nuggets and the secret amily recipe that comprises the red, green pork and

meatless chili. Green Monster Sauce also beckons, the wings provide a litany

o favors with as much kick as you wish and even the 13-step cornbread

contains jalapenos.

All o it cooked daily rom scratch, says Max Krieger.

Ive been a cook my whole lie, Dennis Krieger notes. I taught Max how

to cook when he was a kid. He was cooking ve-course dinner parties at age16.

Since then, Max notched a hospitality degree at DU and picked up valuable

experience in restaurants rom Chipotle and Pei-Wei to top steak houses in

upstate New York.

Zingers will have a 1960s and 1970s-oriented classic rock environment

or its small on-site dining area and hopes to accept orders by iPhone in addition

to online, Krieger says.

Hours are 11 a.m.9 p.m. daily, although later hours are possible on

weekends. The restaurant will not serve alcohol.

Richard Chapma

Phipps Mansion finds buyer quickly

Ater a little more than a month on the market, DUs

Lawrence C. Phipps Memorial Conerence Center has a buyer.

Tim Gill, ounder o Quark Inc. and the Gill Foundation,

and his husband, Scott Miller, a local investment adviser, have

announced plans to purchase the historic Phipps estate. The sale

is expected to close in December 2010.

Gill and Miller plan to live in the 33,123-square-oot

Georgian home in Denvers Belcaro neighborhood.

University ocials are pleased that Mr. Gill and Mr. Miller

are purchasing the property and have chosen to maintain it as a

private residence, says DU spokesman Jim Berscheidt, noting

that the University will use the sale proceeds to und student

scholarships.

The sale price was around the $9 million listed or the

property.The University has contacted clients to cancel events

scheduled or Nov. 8Dec. 31. The University is trying to

accommodate groups that had scheduled events in Phipps,

Berscheidt says. Even though the closing is in December, DU

needs time to move out.

Furnishings, artwork and other household contents were

not included in the purchase, Berscheidt says, and plans or

disposition o contents have not been announced.

We are delighted to become stewards o this Colorado

and Denver treasure, Gill says. Miller adds, It will become

our private residence and we are committed to preserving its

historical integrity or generations to come.

Sen. Lawrence Phipps built the 6.5-acre estate between193133. His widow, Margaret Rogers Phipps, donated the

estates tennis pavilion to DU in 1960 and the mansion in

1964.

Gill ounded Quark in 1981, and the company became a

world leader in the development o page-layout sotware. He

started the Denver-based Gill Foundation in 1994 to support

nonprot organizations that serve lesbian, gay, bisexual,

transgender and allied individuals, as well as people with HIV/

AIDS.

Staff


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Alumna beats illness and odds to reach dream of

pro singing career

I youd seen Elizabeth Montgomery (MA music perormance 92) as a young

child, the last career you would have picked or her was singer. Most days, she

couldnt even blow up a balloon.

Montgomery was born with a serious lung illness that plagued her early years. In

act, her doctors didnt think shed live.

But she says prayers helped her overcome poor health to get an early start as,yes, a singer. So early she admits she doesnt even remember her rst musical per

ormances singing in ront o the TV to Dial soap commercials.

Thats what my mother told me, and she said I seemed to stay on key, says

Montgomery rom the Tulsa, Okla., home base o her Christian singing ministry.

From singing in ront o the TV, she moved on to singing in ront o thousands

within just a ew years.

I entered a talent contest at the Tulsa State

Fair when I was 12 years old, she says. I sang

Over the Rainbow. It was at that moment

singing in ront o several thousand people,

knew that singing was my passion.

A passion s

wasted little tideveloping immedi

ately ater that early

baptism o perorm

ing.

Right ater that

I sang at my uncle

church in Knoxville

Tenn., she says.

loved singing the old

gospel songs and shar

ing my testimony.

When M

gomery returned toOklahoma, she told

everyone whod listen

about her singing.

One church led

to another until I wa

perorming all over Oklahoma, she says. Today, she travels the country (shes on

the road about 40 weekends a year) and oten ends up back in Colorado. She held

a Christmas concert two years in a row at DUs Lamont School o Music in the mid

1990s.

Montgomery released her latest album late in 2009.

Today, she has seven albums o Christian music and more than 2,000 peror

mances to her credit.

I love my lie because I get to share music with people all over the country,

Montgomery says. And the riends I have met along the way are priceless.

Her last album, Somebodys Praying for You, was produced by Chuck Butler, who

also produced the Backstreet Boys.

The title cut, she says, is connecting with people everywhere because o it

message that someone does care about them.

Ater perorming in Colorado throughout April, Montgomery is touring around

Kansas and Oklahoma in May.

>>www.elizabethmusic.com

Doug McPherso

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RichClarkson&Associates

Gymnasts finishstrong at NCAAs

Sophomore Brianna Artemev

(pictured) and senior Kelley

Hennigan both finished in the

top 20 in the all-around at the

semifinals of the 2010 NCAA

national gymnastics champion-

ships on April 22 at the University

of Floridas Stephen C. OConnell

Center. Artemev posted a 9.800

on vault and bars and a 9.725 on

beam. Her best event was floor,

where she scored a 9.850 to fin-

ish tied for 13th place. Artemev

finished in 11th place with an all-

around score of 39.175. Hennigan

recorded a 9.750 on vault, 9.775

on bars, 9.700 on beam and 9.350

on floor to finish with a 38.575

for 20th place in the all-around.

Hennigan and Artemev are

Denvers 12th and 13th individual

NCAA qualifiers since turning

Division I in 1984.


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Newman Center announces

201011 season

Innovators in bluegrass, modern dance, famenco and

jazz will be on stage at the University o Denvers Newman

Center or the Perorming Arts during the 201011 Newman

Center Presents series, organized this year around the theme

o legacies.

The concert series opens Sept. 30 with mandolinphenom Chris Thile and his band Punch Brothers,

which performs original material alongside traditional folk

and bluegrass tunes and covers of songs by the Beatles,

Radiohead, the White Stripes and others. That show will

be followed Oct. 16 by Paul Taylor Dance Company,

returning to Denver for the first time since 1991 to perform

its new workBrief Encounters.

One of the seasons most intriguing concerts is 1969,

from New York-basedAlarm Will Sound, a 20-member

chamber ensemble that melds classical music with rock, jazz

and world beat. Inspired by a proposed collaboration between

John Lennon and German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in

the late 1960s, 1969 is a multimedia show that combinesBeatles tunes with classical works by Stockhausen, Leonard

Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and Luciano Berio to show the collaborative and tumultuous spirit of the times. It plays April 23, 2011.

That collaborative spirit also is present in a Jan. 21 Guitar Legends show with Eliot Fisk and Bill Frisell, who will perform solo sets followed by a

duo set featuring work by Bach, Berio, Gershwin and Frisell.

Author and storytellerSpalding Gray tragically took his own life in 2004, but his words live on in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, which feature

four actors delivering pieces of Grays monologues and stories along with excerpts from journals and letters. It comes to the Newman Center March

1112.

Other concerts on the Newman Centers 201011 schedule include flamenco queen Buika, paying tribute to Mexican singer Chavela Vargas on

Nov. 3; A Night in Bethlehem, a holiday jazz show featuring Norwegian vocalist Solveig Slettahjell, pianist Tord Gustavsen and trumpet player Sjur

Miljeteig on Dec. 7; the Boston-based A Far Cry chamber orchestra performing Tchaikovskys Serenade for Strings, among other works, on Feb. 8; the

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet on Feb. 19; Jeffrey Kahane music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and his son Gabriel Kahane, who

will perform together in Like Father, Like Son?Piano and More on March 25; and Spanish dance company Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca on

May 6.

More events may be added later in the season; visit www.newmancenterpresents.com for updates and ticket information.

Greg Glasgow

Denver Teacher Residency program awarded $8.2 million grant

Denver Public Schools has received an $8.2 million grant rom the U.S. Department o Education to expand and broaden the program.

The money is or the Denver Teacher Residency program, a partnership between the Janus Alliance, Denver Public Schools and DUs Morgridge

College o Education, launched in 2009. The nations rst district-based residency program is modeled on medical residency programs. The ve-yea

program includes a yearlong classroom residency with a lead teacher, a DU masters degree in curriculum and instruction and a our-year classroom

teaching commitment. Its hands-on teacher preparation is designed to cultivate and support quality teachers in high-needs schools within the Denver

school system.The $8,204,269 grant will be used to bring talented teachers to Denver, train them to serve in areas o critical need and support special educa

tion and bilingual education. The program is one o 12 that will receive unds rom a $100-million Teacher Quality Partnership grant aimed at raising

student achievement by improving instruction. The grant is unded by the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will enable DUs program

to expand the work initiated through the Janus Alliance and deepen the districts work to support the Denver plan. The residency program directly

supports the districts wider investment in the recruitment, development and retention o high quality-teachers.

There is no harder job than teaching in a school district with children living in poverty, but there is also not a more important job, says U.S. Sen

Michael Bennet, who helped secure the grant.

Starting with a group o 25 residents apprenticing in ve Denver elementary schools Archuleta, Gust, Harrington, McMeen and Montclair

the program draws on DUs experience in teacher preparation and educational leadership. The rst group o residents will begin teaching this all.

Kim DeVig

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Twenty-member chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound plays music by the Beatles,

Stravinsky, Stockhausen and more in i ts 1969 concert April 23, 2011.


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University of Denver dedicates soccer stadium

A sellout crowd o 2,083 helped DU

dedicate its new soccer pitch CIBER Field

April 17 as the Pioneers took on Wyoming

and Fort Lewis College.

The eld is named or CIBER Inc., a pure-

play international IT outsourcing and sotware

implementation and integration consultancy

based in Greenwood Village, Colo. CIBERscontributions were instrumental in building the

eld, and the company provides ongoing sup-

port to Pioneer Athletics.

The University o Denver Soccer Stadium

opened or play in August 2009. The $9.2 mil-

lion complex includes a stadium, lighted playing

eld, and a strength and conditioning center or

Pioneers Division I student-athletes.

This soccer stadium is the last jewel in our crown o beautiul acilities at the Ritchie Center,

said Athletics Vice Chancel lor Peg Bradley-Doppes, adding that DU plans to use the stadium to host

conerence tournaments and NCAA tournaments.

This was a special night or Denver soccer, mens soccer head coach Bobby Muuss said.

Not only did we get to celebrate the dedication ceremony with so many o the people who put in

so much hard work to get this stadium built, but we brought a sellout crowd out to watch soccer

in this beautiul acility.

Ater the womens soccer team battled regional rival Wyoming to a 00 tie, the men took on

2009 NCAA Division II national champion Fort Lewis College but ell 41 to the Skyhawks.

Staff

Smart meters let motorists park now, pay later

DU must be doing a lot right; even the parking meters are getting smarter.

Showing up on the public streets around the University are Denvers new smart meters,recognizable by glistening new tops and their ability to accept Visa and MasterCard.

About 4,500 smart meters will be installed citywide by mid-June. Work putting in the meters near

DU was completed March 16.

The plan is to replace all the meters, says Lena Russell, parking enorcement supervisor. They still

act as the old meters do, but now they take credit cards and are solar-powered.

Solar cells keep the meters batteries charged and allow the meters to accept credit card

payments o at least $1. The parking rate in the DU area is 50 cents

per hour, so a ve-hour meter will accept payment up to $2.50 and

a two hour meter $1. Ater that, you have to move your car, Russell

says. No meter-eeding allowed or you risk a $25 ticket.

The unky new meters also accept Park Smart Denver

Cards, she says, which can be prepaid up to $100. Smart Cards

are available on the rst foor at the Wellington Webb building, 201W. Colax Ave., but talks are under way to allow King Soopers and

the Tattered Cover stores in Denver to issue the cards.

On holidays, the new meters will fash a ree parking message

and decline payment so motorists wont pay when they dont have

to. The LED screens on the meters can fash any message the city

wishes, including reminders o street sweeping.

Since the new meters continue to accept coins, motorists can

pay less than $1 or less than one hour.

>>www.parksmartdenver.com

Richard Chapman

Condoleezza Rice to

speak at Korbel Dinner

The University of Denvers Jose

Korbel School of International Studie

will honor former Secretary of Stat

Condoleezza Rice, MillerCoors CEO

Leo Kiely and his wife, Rev. Susan

Kiely, and J. Landis Martin, founde

and managing director of Platte Rive

Ventures, at the 13th annual Korb

Dinner on Aug. 27.

Rice will deliver the dinners

keynote address.

Named for Josef Korbel, who

founded the school in 1964, the even

honors his humanitarian and scholarly

ideals as well as its graduates and other

in Colorado. Korbel was the father o

former Secretary of State Madelein

Albright.

Rice, who served as secretary ostate from 200408, is an alumna of the

Korbel School and will receive the 2010

Josef Korbel Outstanding Alumni Award

Albright will present the award to Rice.

Kiely, CEO of MillerCoors, wil

receive the 2010 University of Denve

International Bridge Builders Award fo

his leadership in spearheading the join

venture between Coors Brewing Co

and Miller Brewing Co., which made

MillerCoors the second largest bee

company in the United States. Rev

Kiely will receive the award for he work as founder of Women With

Cause, an international organization

that reaches self-reliance and busines

skills to vulnerable womens group

throughout the world.

Martin founder and managing

director of Platte River Ventures

chairman of the Bonfils-Stanton

Foundation, vice chair of the Denve

Art Museum and chairman emeritu

of the Central City Opera House

Association will be honored wit

the Josef Korbel Humanitarian Awar for the many significant philanthrop

contributions he has made to the

community.

The dinner will be held at the

Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado

Convention Center.

For ticket information, contac

Yvette Peterson at (303) 871-4474 o

[email protected].

Jim Berscheid

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Every professor has that outside-the-classroom activity that helps define him or her as an academic. For some its scientific research;for others its novels or poetry. For DU Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Jim LaVita, its modern dance.LaVita is the co-founder (with his wife, choreographer Katie Elliott) and artistic co-director of 3rd Law Dance/Theater, a Boulder-

based company that specializes in evening-length narrative works accompanied by multimedia displays. Appropriately, LaVita also

teaches classes in DUs Department of Digital Media Studies.There are other people who do similar things, but the key difference with us is that its not the technology thats featured, its

the art, says LaVita, who constructs audio and video montages to accompany 3rd Laws productions. And we want to be sure that the

technology only enhances our artistic work. Its never featured or foregrounded; its always part of the ambience.

Another aspect that sets 3rd Law apart from other dance companies is its exploration of social issues through movement. A piece

called Bread and Salt examined the

conflict between traditional values

and modern life, while The CleanRoom

critiqued digital media for its lack

of sensory experience beyond vision

and hearing.

All of these concerts are

informed anthropologically, says

LaVita, who teaches anthropology

and digital media studies courses

at DU. We did a piece called Los

in Place that reflected on issues of

immigration, which we treated as the

idea of the loss of a sense of place a

sense of place is what you have where

you come from and how you lose

that when you go someplace else.

For its latest work, 3rd Law

presented In Pieces in April, which

featured 12 dances that were

either elements of old shows or the

beginnings of new ones.

We had a number of segments

or distillations of other concerts that

weve used and a number of new ideas

we wanted to test out as the seeds for

future evening-length works, LaVita

says. So thats what this concert is

about. Its a montage of a number of

ideas that weve had that weve liked

that people in Boulder and Denver havent seen, and a number of ideas that we want to turn into new evening-length pieces in the nearfuture.

In addition to the evening performances, collaborations are a big part of 3rd Laws creative mission. The company has created pieces

with the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, among others.

Elliott also teaches modern dance classes under the 3rd Law banner, and Elliott and LaVita conduct 3rd Law workshops and

residencies around the country. The pair has been married for 13 years; the dance company has been around for nine.

We got married long before we thought that we would actually have a dance company. It didnt bring us together, LaVita says.

That may be one of the reasons we still survive. We have a lot of disparate ideas, a lot of clashing, but usually we can work them out.

[The collaboration] works very well. It is very exciting, and theres a lot of emotion there.

Greg Glasgow

Livin LaVita locaProfessors dance company stays in motion

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Events[ ]Around campus4 Richard Ball, mathematics professor. Lecture on Forbidden Forests. 5 p.m.

Davis Auditorium, Sturm Hall. Free. RSVP to [email protected].

7 School Days Off. Also May 2428. Gates Fieldhouse, Ritchie Center. $45.www.recreation.du.edu/sdo

Womens Library Association Bookstacks spring cleaning event.9 a.m.4 p.m. Mary Reed Building. Also May 8. Dollar bag sale in hallway;all other books half price.

Relay for Life, a DU-hosted charity event. 711:55 p.m. Hamilton Gymnasium.

10 Stephen Covey, author ofThe Speed of Trust and cofounder and CEO ofCoveryLink Worldwide. A Voices of Experience event. 6 p.m. Gates Concert Hall.Free.

13 TEDxDU. 1 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. Tickets are free but registration is required.

For more information and to request tickets visit www.tedxdu.com.18 Book discussion with Chaplain Gary Brower. Discussing Founding Faith by

Steven Waldman. Noon. Driscoll Student Center, Suite 29. Free.

22 Law School Commencement. 10 a.m. Magness Arena.www.du.edu/commencement

Sarah Palin, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager. 7 p.m. Magness Arena. $37$80.www.ticketmaster.com

25 Labyrinth: Meditative Walk. 10 a.m. Great Hall, Iliff School of Theology. Free.

31 Memorial Day. University closed.

Arts1 Young Voices of Colorado. 2 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $14$25.

8 American Bluegrass Masters Tour. 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $28$48.

9 Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra. 3:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $12.

15 Rocky Mountain Childrens Choir. 2 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $15$22.

16 The Denver Press Club presents The Capitol Steps. 5 p.m. Gates ConcertHall. $45.50.

20 Friends of Chamber Music presents pianist Simeone Dinnerstein. 7:30 p.m.Gates Concert Hall. $27.50.

29 The Denver Brass presents: Fanfare for the American Spirit. 7:30 p.m. GatesConcert Hall. Additional performance May 30 at 2:30 p.m. $25.50$47.50.

Exhibits1 ExtraOrdinary Beauty. Chambers Center, Hirschfeld Gallery. Jennifer Davidson

of Luce Photography will collaborate on the exhibit with Denver-based artist JessicaDeugan. Runs through May 30. Free.

13 2010 BFA Exhibition. Opening reception at 5 p.m. Myhren Gallery. Runs throughJune 5. Open noon4 p.m. daily. Free.

14 Water Works: Ceramics in the Southwest. Opening reception at 5 p.m.Museum of Anthropology, Sturm Hall room 102. Runs through May 30. Open9 a.m.4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Free.

Sports2 MPSF championship game. 1 p.m. Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium. $5$25.

Mens lacrosse vs. Loyola. Invesco Field at Mile High. 1 p.m. $10$15.

For ticketing and other information, including a full listing of campus events, visit www.du.edu/calendar.

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May

Planet heroesDU students help plant a permaculture

garden as part of the Universitys Earth Day

festivities April 22. Scores of University of

Denver students assembled to recognize

the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and

learn about what can be done to save

the planet they will one day help run

The message was clear: You can do this

(and you really dont have a choice). The

summit, with its slogan, Acting locally

thinking globally, attracted leading

government and activist speakers, includ-

ing the Flobots rapper James Jonny 5Laurie, who challenged students to do

something now, no matter how small. In

between presentations, students broke

into sessions for small group discussion

on ways to reduce emissions and live more

sustainably.

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