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Stick-e-Star closes
DUs Rotaract Club
Phipps Mansion sol
Newman Centers
new season
Dance company
New soccer stadium
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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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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.
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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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mery
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
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.