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Inside • Reading research • Burglary suspect • Noodles and Co. Architect of Record: Bennett Wagner & Grody

• Campus coffeeshop • Ski championship • Housing market

Construction kicked off in late February for DU’s newest project, a $21.4 million new college of education building. The Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall of the Morgridge College of Education will be a “centerpiece of the future,” Chancellor Robert Coombe says. The new building (pictured) will house the Morgridge College as well as the Learning Effectiveness Program on the north side of East Evans Avenue between Race and High streets. Mike and the late Joan Ruffatto donated $5 million to the project in honor of their daughter Katherine Ruffatto. Carrie and John Morgridge’s $10 million gift helped spearhead construction. Occupancy of the 73,568-squarefoot building is slated for mid-June 2010.

Wayne Armstrong

Grounding education The University is hosting Project Homeless Connect 7 April 24 from 8 a.m.–1:30 p.m in DU’s Ritchie Center. Project Homeless is a oneday event that serves as a one-stop shop, connecting homeless individuals to job opportunities, housing, child care, healthcare and other vital services. Last year, more than 800 DU students, faculty and staff provided one-on-one support to help 640 adults and 139 children who were homeless. Visit www.du.edu/ homelessness to volunteer for the event.

Business students take top honors in national competition A five-member team from DU’s Daniels College of Business edged out competitors from some of the nation’s leading business schools to take top honors in the sixth annual Race & Case competition. The winning team included Erika Braune, Adam Loveland, Rhys Williams, Alex Wilson and Sayantan Banerjee. The event combines a business ethics case competition and NASTAR ski/snowboard challenge at Vail Mountain Resort. This year’s DU team beat out squads from Brigham Young, George Washington, Colorado-Boulder, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Rice, Southern Methodist University, Wake Forest, South Carolina and Boston University. The competition was launched in 2004 by members of the Graduate Business Student Association (GBSA) to complement the Daniels commitment to the teaching and practice of business ethics. Each team was given three weeks to prepare a presentation about a case focusing on managerial ethics in a corporate environment. The teams gathered in Denver on Feb. 27 to present their recommendations on the case to a panel of 13 volunteer judges, including executives from Janus Capital Corp., Time Warner Telecom, Re/Max International and Grant Thornton LLP. Following the case, the teams traveled to Vail, where they competed in a ski and snowboard competition designed to test the members’ athletic prowess. The University of Pittsburgh team won the case competition and the team from ColoradoBoulder took top honors in the race. The overall winner was the team from DU, followed by the University of Pittsburgh in second place, the University of South Carolina in third place, and Brigham Young in fourth place. —Jordan Ames

Brain imaging research shows that readers create ‘movies’ in their minds New brain imaging research shows that when people read, they create vivid simulations in their minds to relate to what the characters in the book are doing. Jeremy Reynolds, assistant professor of psychology at DU, co-authored the study, which will be published in the journal Psychological Science. He and three other researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as participants read and processed short stories. “The results give us insight into how we understand stories,” Reynolds says. “When we think about virtual reality, we tend to think that it requires expensive, high-tech machinery, when text may provide us with all of the stimulation that we need.” Nicole Speer, lead author of the study, says findings demonstrate that reading is by no means a passive exercise. The researchers used fMRI to look for evidence of mental simulation when participants read stories about the activities of a young boy. They had carefully coded the stories so that they knew when important features of the story were changing. For example, when participants read that a character was moving “through the front door into the kitchen,” their brain regions activate as if they are walking through a door in the real world. Reynolds hopes to build on this research by collaborating with DU psychology Professor Janice Keenan, who studies reading disabilities. “It’s possible children with reading disabilities are not using the same types of simulation processes to understand stories,” Reynolds says. “Observing their responses to such narratives might help us to better understand these disorders.” In addition to Reynolds and Speer, the other co-authors of the study are Jeffrey Zacks, associate professor of psychology and radiology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Khena Swallow, a post-doctoral associate in psychology at the University of Minnesota. —Kristal Griffith

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20 middle school teams and 26 high school teams participated in the World Affairs Challenge hosted by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies’ Center for Teaching International Relations during February and

March. 421 students competed in solving some of the world’s most pressing problems such as the global economy, alternative energy, human migration and human

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Volume 32, Number 7 Vice Chancellor for University Communications

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Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96) Managing Editor

Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07) Art Director

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Noodles & Co. moving into University Park neighborhood The menu of food options near DU continues to grow. The latest addition is a Noodles & Company restaurant that is seeking to open on the north side of Evans Avenue at Williams Street in a location presently occupied by a Blockbuster video store. “We have plans to open in the fall,” says Matt Wagner, communications manager for Noodles. The new restaurant would be one of oodles of Noodles operated by the Broomfieldbased company. More than 36 are open in Colorado and 207 nationwide. The restaurant boasts “fresh, wholesome, balanced, fast” Asian, American and Mediterranean dishes, and strives to be where pad Thai and whole grain Tuscan linguine can rub elbows with Wisconsin macaroni and cheese and chicken noodle soup. “For a college student, it’s really appealing,” says development consultant Melanie Criss. “It’s quick, there’s no tip, and it’s healthy. It’s totally Denver. You can get a salad, pasta and meat for six, seven bucks.” Wagner said the store would be the same as other Noodles stores. “There will be no changes made because we’re at DU,” he says. One uncertainty is whether the Noodles will have the outdoor patio seating area it is asking the city of Denver to approve. In January, the city rejected property owner Robert Wiss’ request for a 15–20 person outdoor patio, ruling it was too close to nearby residences. Single-family homes are north of the site on Williams Street. A parking lot for DU’s Fisher Early Learning Center is across Williams Street directly east. Wiss is trying to get the approval granted with conditions that would not upset neighbors. Wiss’ request earned tentative endorsement March 11 when the West University Community Association endorsed the patio as long as approval includes limitations on noise and length of operation. “The previous approval prohibited music and only allowed the patio to operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.,” Criss says. “We want to extend that to closing at 9:30,” and provide “soft music.” Wagner says the restaurant offers limited beer and wine options in all its stores and has no plans to expand that element of its business. Wagner says if the patio request is denied at a hearing on April 7, Noodles will re-evaluate its plans for the location, but not necessarily back out. “It’s not a deal-breaker,” he said.

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—Richard Chapman

DU and community service go together like...peanut butter and jelly? Since fall 2008, students in the Foundation Campus Ministry have been assembling sack lunches for workers at El Centro Humanitario, an organization offering a safe, indoor place for workers to gather each day as they seek jobs. Thanks to the efforts of Iliff School of Theology student Ryan Canaday, the group and its mission have expanded since their initial meeting that produced about 20 sandwiches. The group now averages 30–50 students who meet every Tuesday night in Nelson Hall and make around 100 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the organization. Most of the supplies are donated by Sodexho, King Soopers and various private donors.

Search intensifies for suspect responsible for string of burglaries Denver Police say the man responsible for a string of burglaries around the DU area attacked a young woman during his latest house breakin on March 11. The woman, who is not a DU student but lives near campus in the 2000 block of A composite South Josephine Street, sussketch of the tained minor injuries. More suspect, provided by Denver Police. details about the victim have not been released, but police say she is cooperating with their investigation. In previous burglaries, the suspect threatened victims with a weapon but did not attack them. The incident is the 13th in a series of burglaries reported in the area since Jan. 1. Police have released a composite sketch of the suspect. He is described as a black male in his mid20s to mid-30s with light colored skin and freckles, about 6 feet tall with an athletic build. The suspect’s target area has increased in size, police say. However, no break-ins have occurred on the DU campus. The University’s administration has pledged its full support to the Denver Police as they work to apprehend the suspect. Campus Safety Director Don Enloe says each incident occurred in private residences close to the University, and that the suspect targets electronics he can sell easily such as laptops and televisions. DU has increased patrols of the area and its campus safety officers have been instructed to notify Denver Police of any suspicious activity, says Jim Berscheidt, University spokesman. DU contributed $5,000 to the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers’ reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect. The reward total is now $7,000. Police are urging residents to keep their doors locked and make their homes appear to be occupied by leaving lights on. “We need residents to be extra eyes and ears,” Denver Police Public Information Officer Sonny Jackson said last week. Anyone with information can call Denver police at 720–913–6120, the DU anonymous tip line at 303–871–3130 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720–913–7867. —Kathryn Mayer

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Jeff Haessler

Faculty work with Aurora Mental Heath to treat, research adolescent depression

The distinctive sound of the espresso machine cuts through the quiet murmurs of students studying together at Beans, DU’s newest spot for a cup of joe. The small student-run coffee shop in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) building has been serving students, faculty and staff since October 2008. HRTM director David Corsun envisioned Beans when he took the helm of the school in 2007. “We had this fabulous facility, a real learning laboratory, but the space that is now Beans was completely underutilized,” Corsun says. “I knew we could use the space more productively and leverage it to educate students.” Corsun taught a food and beverage entrepreneurship class in spring 2008. Under Corsun’s tutelage, the nine students in the class drafted the business plan for the full-service student-run coffee shop. The University invested $20,000 in new fixtures and furniture for the shop and opened in fall with a full staff of students. “I’ve never worked in a coffee shop before,” says shop employee Caroline Talley, a junior HRTM major. “It’s been a great learning experience, and I’ll be able to apply what I’ve learned to my job when I graduate.” Beans is open from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. –1 p.m. on Fridays. The shop serves a full range of coffees, teas, pastries and snack items. Corsun plans to expand the shop’s offerings to include lunch items and smoothies. He is teaching a food and beverage leadership class spring quarter, in which students will be responsible for marketing Beans, managing the other hourly employees, and monitoring and presenting the weekly profit-and-loss statement. The students also will develop a plan to create a “Beans at Dusk” happy hour/wine bar on Friday afternoons. Corsun also plans to work with the School of Art and Art History to provide rotating gallery space for student artwork. Above all, Corsun hopes that Beans will create a culture of involvement in the school. “We love having students hang out in the building; we want them there,” he says. “And people from a variety of offices on campus have been coming to Beans and holding meetings here — this is a way for us to build relationships and build bridges across campus.”

Two University of Denver professors are teaming up to see if what they’ve discovered in their research will work in the real world of a community mental health clinic. Psychology Professor Stephen Shirk has been developing effective methods for treating depression in adolescents at DU for years. Anne DePrince, associate professor of psychology at DU, has done extensive research on the effects of violence and trauma. Now the two are combining their research and collaborating with Aurora Mental Health to treat and research adolescent depression. “We are getting the benefit of their knowledge and innovation with new treatment ideas,” says Chris Beasley, deputy director of outpatient services for Aurora Mental Health. With a $500,000 grant from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), Shirk and DePrince will study 60 teenagers over a three-year period. The teens have all experienced a previous trauma and are suffering from depression. “How we deliver effective treatment for kids is critical,” Shirk says. “We have a heartfelt desire to reduce their suffering and the family’s suffering.” DePrince meets weekly with clinicians to collaborate on the treatment techniques that will be used. In April, the clinicians will start seeing patients and testing the new treatment. “I’m excited about the chance to develop a treatment in collaboration with Aurora Mental Health in hopes we can have a bigger impact faster, rather than research that starts first in the University and later moves to the community,” DePrince says. Aurora Mental Health is a nonprofit center that provides a wide variety of therapy options to patients at one of their six locations. Founded in 1975, the center saw 10,000 clients last year. “Depression is a huge problem,” Beasley says. “Treating someone during adolescence frees them up to have a higher quality of life.” According to NIMH, depression is the second leading cause of disability world-wide.

—Jordan Ames

—Kristal Griffith

HRTM major Caitlin Lorenz is one of the student employees at Beans.

Coffee shop run, managed by HRTM students

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Pioneers win 20th skiing national championship Lincoln Benedict / EISA

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niversity of Denver women’s Nordic skier Antje Maempel won her second NCAA

individual championship with a victory in the 15K freestyle March 14, leading the Pioneers to their second-straight NCAA championship and record 20th team title overall. After entering the day with three teams within three points, Denver pulled away in the final two events and beat second-place Colorado by 56.5 points. DU collected 659 points in the eight events, while CU (602.5) surged from fourth place when the day began to edge New Mexico (602). Alaska-Anchorage (584) and Vermont (573) rounded out the top five.

Leif Haugen competes in the giant slalom, in which he placed second. He finished third in the slalom two days later, the best finish for DU’s alpine skiers.

“Every Nordic skier went out and performed as well as they possibly could,” Nordic head coach David Stewart says. “Every person was the best they’ve been all season, when it mattered most. Most importantly all of our skiers — both Nordic and alpine — came into this championship looking to do what they needed to win as a team. I could not be more proud of everybody on the team.” Maempel won by just 0.5 seconds over CU’s Alexa Turzian to become just the second DU women’s skier to sweep the Nordic titles. Lisbeth Johnsen took the classical and freestyle titles at the 1996 NCAA championships. Maempel’s titles marked the 72nd and 73rd NCAA individual titles in DU history, second only to Colorado’s 80. “Antje was the MVP of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association this season, and she really showed it this week,” Stewart says. “She only had two wins during the season, but she skied well consistently, and she really knows how to train in a way that puts her in the best position to succeed at the championships, and she came away with two wins.” Annelise Bailly earned a spot on the All-American first team with a fourth place finish, and Kate Dolan came in 28th. Both Bailly and Maempel have earned All-American honors in all four events over the past two NCAA championships. Mike Hinckley earned All-American second team honors with a sixth place finish in the men’s 20K freestyle. Harald Loevenskiold came in 19th and Dan Clark was 24th. “The women’s Nordic team was remarkable, and the men’s team showed the best fight I’ve seen out of them all year,” DU alpine head coach Andy LeRoy says. “As a coach, I was happy to see the Nordic team finish out the championship. The alpine teams ended the championships the last two years, and it was great to Lincoln Benedict / EISA

see our Nordic teams step up and clinch the title for us,” LeRoy adds. “All of our skiers stuck together as a team, through the good and the bad, and in the end we were the last team standing.” Antje Maempel crosses the finish line after winning the 15K freestyle. She also won the individual title in the 5K classical.

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Housing market down, but not out

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Looking back at the past few years in the housing market isn’t pleasant, but it is easy to see what went wrong. Looking forward isn’t easy, but it sure looks a lot better. Speakers at the University of Denver Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s annual conference March 5 took a hard look at the ongoing crisis and what will have to go right to get the country out of a broken housing market. And they were upbeat. The prospects for recovery starting within a year are good, they said. Arthur “Chris” Nelson, a professor of planning at the University of Utah, and David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, both told a crowd of more than 200 scholars, builders, students and planners to look for a rebound in home prices and demand sometime in 2010, possibly as early as late 2009. Introducing the speakers, real estate attorney and planner Thomas Ragonetti said builders have a history of overbuilding in hot markets, from retail space in the 1960s, to office space in the 1970s to condominiums in the 1980s. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s and early 2000s that builders got into building single-family homes on such a massive, speculative scale, he said. “They built it, and people didn’t come,” he said. “We’re finally going to have to confront the problem that we can build too much, too fast.” Crowe said builders have gotten the message, slashing new construction in 2008 and 2009. By next year, Nelson and Crowe predicted demand will have taken up the surplus housing and prices will rebound. But Nelson predicted the rebound, and demand for housing, will be different in varying sectors of the market both in the near future and going forward. Changing demographics will see stronger growth in and near urban centers and in far rural areas. The big loser, he said, will be in between, in the further-out suburbs, which aren’t rural and aren’t convenient to urban public transportation. Crowe said builders will have to accurately predict consumer demand while waiting for the existing inventory of vacant homes to clear. Foreclosures continue to add more homes to the list, and in the near term, prices will continue to fall. “The good news is this will be the turnaround year,” he said. First-time homebuyers — bolstered by declining prices, low interest rates, and the new $8,000 federal housing contributions under the stimulus package — will be the key to getting the market moving again, he said. Nelson concurred, even predicting new types of growth at the site of abandoned retail properties close to urban centers. “The future is bright,” he said. “We just have to work through the malaise.” —Chase Squires

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Commuting isn’t the problem Only 16 percent of vehicle trips in the United States are for commuting, consultant James Charlier said as part of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute annual conference March 5. The rest is discretionary travel, which is to blame for strangling traffic and the huge increase in vehicle miles. That travel also has driven unsuccessful public efforts to keep up with use by building and expanding roadways. This isn’t sustainable, he said, and won’t be corrected by higher gas prices alone. “We have to think in fresh ways about where people go.” Which means connecting transportation with housing and employment centers, pointed out urban economist Dena Belzer. “If transit doesn’t take you where you want to go, you’re not going to ride it,” she told attendees. Developing desirable places to live and work is as important as linking the centers by rail and bus. The result would be less vehicle use and fewer discretionary miles. “Transit-oriented development is not about onesize-fits-all for every station on every line. It’s about the mix of places and place types. “The real value of [transit-oriented development] is where you can ride the train,” she added. “That’s what’s going to make people own fewer cars.” —Richard Chapman

The Cherrington Global Scholars program sends DU students to the world; two new additions to Cherrington Hall will bring the world to DU. Bustling on the building’s south side are construction crews hard at work creating a distinctive 5,460-squarefoot office and classroom annex, and a 1,656-square-foot office and video-conference complex west of that. When completed this summer, the main annex will house the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy of the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies. The west addition will house the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, a project that uses computers to analyze and forecast global trends and developments. “It’ll be nice to have some space,” says Professor Barry Hughes, who directs the Pardee Center. The Sié Chéou-Kang Center will identify rising stars in the intelligence community, military and diplomatic corps of key Asian states and the United States and invite them to DU for two or three-week bursts of medium- and long-range strategic planning, says Tom Farer, dean of the Korbel school. The Sié Center also is aimed at establishing itself as a magnet for the nation’s brightest students, who will serve as junior research fellows and implement other tasks related to the new center. Scheduled completion of the additions is mid-August, but the formal dedication will be Aug. 7. The date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of Sié Chéou-Kang, father of principal donor John Sie. The Sié Center is the outcome of a recent effort to expand connections with Asia that kicked off in 2006 with the announcement of a new think tank for establishing environmental dialogue between the United States and China. Since then, the concept has embraced security concerns and evolved into an initiative unlike anything in the nation, Farer says. All this will unfold as a $3.5 million construction element designed to harmonize with the DU campus while reminding admirers of Asian styling. “What we are trying to do is pick and choose elements that pull the building closer to DU while at the same time take advantage of long-standing approaches to architecture that Asian cultures have practiced for hundreds of years,” says University Architect Mark Rodgers. Among distinctive elements will be a stone exterior, and references to traditional Asian architecture include a roof of blue-glazed Japanese tiles and a courtyard garden of rock forms focused on a magnolia tree, Rodgers says. “We’re extending the architectural motif of the original building while embracing some of the precepts of Asian architecture,” he says. The additions are being built to LEED standards, Rodgers says, and also will provide significant enhancements to the heating, cooling and fresh air systems in Cherrington Hall. A further distinctive feature will be an experimental “minimal-water garden” on the lawn southwest of the new additions, which Rodgers says will serve as a test on how the University landscape can best thrive without relying as much on irrigated lawns. —Richard Chapman

Wayne Armstrong

Construction on Cherrington Hall additions under way

City Council recognizes DU alumni with justice center naming honors Five judicial luminaries from Denver’s municipal history were chosen for public honors on March 16, and two of the notables have professional roots at DU. James Flanigan (JD ’46), Denver’s first black county court judge and the grandson of a slave, was chosen along with District Judge Benjamin Lindsey for naming honors at the city’s new $265 million courthouse complex. When construction of the new complex on Colfax Avenue at Fox Street is complete in 2010, the central building will be the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse. Within the courthouse will be a Jury Assembly Room named for another DU graduate, former Denver District Judge Roger Cisneros (BA ’50). Cisneros, who hailed from a family of New Mexico sheepherders, began his education in a one-room schoolhouse but eventually earned a spot in Westminster Law School, the only night law program west of Kansas City. While enrolled, Cisneros drove a cab to support his wife and three children. He graduated in 1957, the same year Westminster became part of DU. The merger helped develop the night program at the Sturm College of Law, where the library is today named the Westminster Law Library. Cisneros attended the council meeting March 16, where admirers lined up to offer praise, citing his 12-year service as a state senator, his 11 years on the bench and his long history as a tireless community activist. “Judge Cisneros has been a role model for years,” former councilwoman Ramona Martinez said. The praise for Judge Flanigan was equally effusive, kicked off by testimony from Gregory Scott, a former justice on the Colorado Supreme Court. Scott was an adjunct professor at DU teaching securities law when in 1993 then-Gov. Roy Romer made him the first AfricanAmerican named to the state’s high court. “Judge Flanigan stands with the likes of Thurgood Marshall,” Scott told the council during the six minutes of testimony he was allowed. “He had a love for the rule of law.” Flanigan died in 2008. “I am delighted that the Denver City Council has chosen to honor two of our most distinguished alumni,” Sturm Law School Dean Beto Juárez said. “Their role as pioneers in Denver’s legal community exemplify the University of Denver’s longstanding role in educating the leaders of the Denver bar and judiciary.” Other recipients were Philip Van Cise, a former Denver district attorney credited with “breaking the back of organized crime in the city and the Ku Klux Klan,” and L. Jon Simonet, Denver’s director of corrections for 18 years. Simonet championed “the humane treatment of inmates” and established treatment and education programs aimed at easing prisoners back into the community. —Richard Chapman

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[Events] April

Arts 2 “The Playground,” Lamont artist in residence. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall.

8 Faculty Chamber Music Concert:

Eastern Serenade. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall.

10 Flo’s Underground. 5 p.m. Additional performances April 10, 17 and 24. Williams Recital Salon. Free.

13 Susan McCullough, horn. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall.

17 Third Ricardo Iznaola Jubilee

Concert: Four Great Guitar Sonatas. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall. $30.

22 Percussion Studio Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall. Free.

23 Carmen. A Lamont Opera Theatre and

Lamont Symphony Orchestra production. 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. Additional performances April 24 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. and April 26 at 2:30 p.m. $10–$27; free for Lamont students, faculty and staff.

26 Lamont Saxophone Quartet.

11:30 a.m. Hamilton Recital Hall.

28 Lamont Symphony Orchestra.

7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. Free.

29 “Jazz Night,” Lamont jazz ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. Free.

30 Australian Chamber Orchestra.

7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $28–$52.

Unless otherwise noted, performances are $18 for adults, $16 for seniors and free for students, faculty and staff with ID.

Sports 4 Women’s lacrosse vs. Oregon. 1 p.m. Barton Stadium.

8 Women’s tennis vs. Utah. 2 p.m. Stapleton Tennis Pavilion.

11 Women’s tennis vs. Northern

Colorado. 9 a.m. Stapleton Tennis Pavilion.

17 Men’s lacrosse vs. University of

Detroit. 7:30 p.m. Barton Stadium.

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19 Men’s lacrosse vs. Ohio State. 1:30 p.m. Barton Stadium.

25 Men’s lacrosse vs. Air Force. 7:30 p.m. Barton Stadium.

Tennis and women’s lacrosse admission is free. Men’s lacrosse: $9 for adults; $5 for children and seniors; free for DU students.

Exhibits 1 Una Jornada: A Journey through

Mexican Folk Art. Through April 24. Museum of Anthropology, Sturm Hall, Room 102. Weekdays: 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Free.

The Laughing Bear Print Portfolio Exchange. Through April 30. Hirschfeld Gallery, Chambers Center. Weekdays: 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Free.

23 “Obstacles to a two state

settlement of the Israel-Arab Conflict.” By Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox Jr., president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Noon. Cherrington Hall, Room 301. Free.

Around Campus 7 Music and meditation. Noon. Evans Chapel. Noon. Free.

10 Good Friday service. Noon. Evans Chapel.

11 Festival of Nations. Driscoll Center. Free.

14 Book discussion with Chaplain

Gary Brower. Talking about Abraham. Noon. Driscoll Center South, Suite 29.

21 Walk the Labyrinth. Noon. Driscoll Center, Suite 1864.

Lectures 2 “Hoops, Homosexuals, Hoppers

and Hope: Journeys in DIY Documentary Filmmaking.” With Journalism Professor Sheila Schroeder. 4 p.m. Sturm Hall, Room 286. Free.

9 “The Heart of the University of

Denver: A Human Approach to the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.” By Professor Emeritus Bernie Spilka. Phipps House, Phipps Memorial Conference Center. 1:30 p.m. For more information, call the Women’s Library Association at 303–871–3405 or e-mail [email protected].

10 “After Gaza: The Struggle for

Democracy in the Arab-Islamic World.”1 p.m. Cherrington Hall, Room 201. Free.

13 “From Geologist to Restaurateur

to Mayor: Leadership through Collaboration.” By Mayor John Hickenlooper. 6 p.m. Sturm Hall, Davis Auditorium. Free.

17 Jackson/Ho China Forum: “China’s

Military Modernization and Security Interest in Asia.” By Larry Wortel. 4 p.m. Cherrington Hall, Room 201. Free. For information or to RSVP, contact Yvette Peterson at [email protected] or 303–871–4474.

11 Egg hunt. Run by DU’s Staff Advisory Council. 11 a.m. Humanities Garden. Free.

24 Project Homeless Connect.

8 a.m. Ritchie Center. Visit www. du.edu/homelessness/ for volunteer opportunities.

26 9News Health fair. 7 a.m. Ritchie

Center. See 9healthfair.org for more information.

28 Food for thought: “Who is my

God?” Noon. Nelson Hall Dining Room. Free.

Labyrinth: Meditative Walk. 9 a.m.

Iliff School of Theology, Great Hall. Free. For reservations or information, call 303-765-3115.

May 1 Diversity Summit. Various campus locations. Free. Register at du.edu/ cme/summit. Open to faculty, staff, alumni, students and neighbors. Contact [email protected] for more information. For ticketing and other information, including a full listing of campus events, visit www.du.edu/ calendar.