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

• Ski championship
• Housing market

Grounding education
Construction kicked off in late February for DU’s newest project,
Wayne Armstrong

a $21.4 million new college of education building. The Katherine

A. Ruffatto Hall of the Morgridge College of Education will be a
The University is hosting
Project Homeless Connect 7
“centerpiece of the future,” Chancellor Robert Coombe says. The April 24 from 8 a.m.–1:30
p.m in DU’s Ritchie Center.
new building (pictured) will house the Morgridge College as well as Project Homeless is a one-
day event that serves as a
the Learning Effectiveness Program on the north side of East Evans one-stop shop, connecting
homeless individuals to job
Avenue between Race and High streets. Mike and the late Joan opportunities, housing, child
care, healthcare and other
Ruffatto donated $5 million to the project in honor of their daughter vital services. Last year, more
than 800 DU students, faculty
Katherine Ruffatto. Carrie and John Morgridge’s $10 million gift and staff provided one-on-one
support to help 640 adults
helped spearhead construction. Occupancy of the 73,568-square- and 139 children who were
homeless. Visit www.du.edu/
foot building is slated for mid-June 2010. homelessness to volunteer for
the event.
Business students take top honors in national
competition 20 middle school teams
A five-member team from DU’s Daniels College of Business edged out competitors from and 26 high school teams
some of the nation’s leading business schools to take top honors in the sixth annual Race & Case
competition. participated in the World Affairs
The winning team included Erika Braune, Adam Loveland, Rhys Williams, Alex Wilson and
Sayantan Banerjee. Challenge hosted by the Josef Korbel
The event combines a business ethics case competition and NASTAR ski/snowboard chal-
lenge at Vail Mountain Resort. This year’s DU team beat out squads from Brigham Young, George School of International Studies’
Washington, Colorado-Boulder, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Rice, Southern Methodist Uni-
versity, Wake Forest, South Carolina and Boston University.
Center for Teaching International
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 busi-
Relations during February and
ness ethics. March. 421 students competed
Each team was given three weeks to prepare a presentation about a case focusing on mana-
gerial ethics in a corporate environment. The teams gathered in Denver on Feb. 27 to present in solving some of the world’s most
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. pressing problems such as the
Following the case, the teams traveled to Vail, where they competed in a ski and snowboard
competition designed to test the members’ athletic prowess. global economy, alternative energy,
The University of Pittsburgh team won the case competition and the team from Colorado-
Boulder took top honors in the race. The overall winner was the team from DU, followed by human migration and human
the University of Pittsburgh in second place, the University of South Carolina in third place, and
Brigham Young in fourth place. rights. 11 middle schools and
—Jordan Ames
14 high schools were represented.
Brain imaging research shows that readers create
‘movies’ in their minds
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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
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functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as participants
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read and processed short stories. Carol Farnsworth
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when text may provide us with all of the stimulation that we need.” Nicole Speer, lead author Managing Editor
of the study, says findings demonstrate that reading is by no means a passive exercise. Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07)
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 Noodles & Co. moving into University Park Search intensifies for
neighborhood suspect responsible for
The menu of food options near DU continues to grow. string of burglaries
The latest addition is a Noodles & Company restaurant that is seeking to open on Denver Police say the
the north side of Evans Avenue at Williams Street in a location presently occupied by a man responsible for a string
Blockbuster video store. of burglaries around the DU
“We have plans to open in the fall,” says Matt Wagner, communications manager for area attacked a young woman
Noodles. during his latest house break-
The new restaurant would be one of oodles of Noodles operated by the Broomfield- in on March 11.
based company. More than 36 are open in Colorado and 207 nationwide. The restaurant The woman, who is not
boasts “fresh, wholesome, balanced, fast” Asian, American and Mediterranean dishes, a DU student but lives near
and strives to be where pad Thai and whole grain Tuscan linguine can rub elbows with campus in the 2000 block of
Wisconsin macaroni and cheese and chicken noodle soup. A composite
sketch of the South Josephine Street, sus-
“For a college student, it’s really appealing,” says development consultant Melanie suspect, provided tained minor injuries. More
Criss. “It’s quick, there’s no tip, and it’s healthy. It’s totally Denver. You can get a salad, pasta by Denver Police. details about the victim have
and meat for six, seven bucks.” not been released, but police
Wagner said the store would be the same as other Noodles stores. “There will be no say she is cooperating with their investigation.
changes made because we’re at DU,” he says. In previous burglaries, the suspect threatened
One uncertainty is whether the Noodles will have the outdoor patio seating area victims with a weapon but did not attack them.
it is asking the city of Denver to approve. In January, the city rejected property owner The incident is the 13th in a series of burglar-
Robert Wiss’ request for a 15–20 person outdoor patio, ruling it was too close to nearby ies reported in the area since Jan. 1.
residences. Single-family homes are north of the site on Williams Street. A parking lot for Police have released a composite sketch of the
DU’s Fisher Early Learning Center is across Williams Street directly east. Wiss is trying to suspect. He is described as a black male in his mid-
get the approval granted with conditions that would not upset neighbors. 20s to mid-30s with light colored skin and freckles,
Wiss’ request earned tentative endorsement March 11 when the West University about 6 feet tall with an athletic build.
Community Association endorsed the patio as long as approval includes limitations on The suspect’s target area has increased in size,
noise and length of operation. police say. However, no break-ins have occurred
“The previous approval prohibited music and only allowed the patio to operate from on the DU campus.
7 a.m. to 7 p.m.,” Criss says. “We want to extend that to closing at 9:30,” and provide The University’s administration has pledged its
“soft music.” full support to the Denver Police as they work to
Wagner says the restaurant offers limited beer and wine options in all its stores and apprehend the suspect.
has no plans to expand that element of its business. Campus Safety Director Don Enloe says each
Wagner says if the patio request is denied at a hearing on April 7, Noodles will incident occurred in private residences close to the
re-evaluate its plans for the location, but not necessarily back out. University, and that the suspect targets electronics
“It’s not a deal-breaker,” he said. he can sell easily such as laptops and televisions.
—Richard Chapman DU has increased patrols of the area and its
campus safety officers have been instructed to no-
tify Denver Police of any suspicious activity, says Jim
DU and community service go
Berscheidt, University spokesman. DU contributed
together like...peanut butter
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$5,000 to the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers’ re-

and jelly? Since fall 2008, ward fund for information leading to the arrest and
students in the Foundation conviction of the suspect. The reward total is now
$7,000.
Campus Ministry have been
Police are urging residents to keep their doors
assembling sack lunches for locked and make their homes appear to be occu-
workers at El Centro Humanitario, an pied by leaving lights on.
organization offering a safe, indoor place for workers to gather each “We need residents to be extra eyes and
ears,” Denver Police Public Information Officer
day as they seek jobs. Thanks to the efforts of Iliff School of Theology
Sonny Jackson said last week.
student Ryan Canaday, the group and its mission have expanded Anyone with information can call Denver po-
since their initial meeting that produced about 20 sandwiches. The lice at 720–913–6120, the DU anonymous tip line
group now averages 30–50 students who meet every Tuesday night in at 303–871–3130 or Metro Denver Crime Stop-
pers at 720–913–7867.
Nelson Hall and make around 100 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
—Kathryn Mayer
for the organization. Most of the supplies are donated by Sodexho,
King Soopers and various private donors.

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 Faculty work with Aurora

Jeff Haessler
Mental Heath to treat,
research adolescent
depression
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 treat-
ing depression in adolescents at DU for years.
Anne DePrince, associate professor of psy-
chology at DU, has done extensive research
on the effects of violence and trauma.
Now the two are combining their
research and collaborating with Aurora Men-
tal Health to treat and research adolescent
depression.
“We are getting the benefit of their
knowledge and innovation with new treat-
HRTM major Caitlin Lorenz is one of the student employees at Beans.
ment ideas,” says Chris Beasley, deputy direc-
tor of outpatient services for Aurora Mental
Coffee shop run, managed by HRTM students Health.
With a $500,000 grant from the National
The distinctive sound of the espresso machine cuts through the quiet murmurs of Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), Shirk
students studying together at Beans, DU’s newest spot for a cup of joe. and DePrince will study 60 teenagers over a
The small student-run coffee shop in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism three-year period. The teens have all expe-
Management (HRTM) building has been serving students, faculty and staff since October rienced a previous trauma and are suffering
2008. from depression.
HRTM director David Corsun envisioned Beans when he took the helm of the school “How we deliver effective treatment for
in 2007. kids is critical,” Shirk says. “We have a heart-
“We had this fabulous facility, a real learning laboratory, but the space that is now felt desire to reduce their suffering and the
Beans was completely underutilized,” Corsun says. “I knew we could use the space more family’s suffering.”
productively and leverage it to educate students.” DePrince meets weekly with clinicians
Corsun taught a food and beverage entrepreneurship class in spring 2008. Under to collaborate on the treatment techniques
Corsun’s tutelage, the nine students in the class drafted the business plan for the full-service that will be used. In April, the clinicians will
student-run coffee shop. The University invested $20,000 in new fixtures and furniture for start seeing patients and testing the new treat-
the shop and opened in fall with a full staff of students. ment.
“I’ve never worked in a coffee shop before,” says shop employee Caroline Talley, a “I’m excited about the chance to develop
junior HRTM major. “It’s been a great learning experience, and I’ll be able to apply what I’ve a treatment in collaboration with Aurora Men-
learned to my job when I graduate.” tal Health in hopes we can have a bigger im-
Beans is open from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. –1 p.m. pact faster, rather than research that starts first
on Fridays. The shop serves a full range of coffees, teas, pastries and snack items. in the University and later moves to the com-
Corsun plans to expand the shop’s offerings to include lunch items and smoothies. He munity,” DePrince says.
is teaching a food and beverage leadership class spring quarter, in which students will be Aurora Mental Health is a nonprofit cen-
responsible for marketing Beans, managing the other hourly employees, and monitoring and ter that provides a wide variety of therapy
presenting the weekly profit-and-loss statement. options to patients at one of their six locations.
The students also will develop a plan to create a “Beans at Dusk” happy hour/wine bar Founded in 1975, the center saw 10,000 cli-
on Friday afternoons. Corsun also plans to work with the School of Art and Art History to ents last year.
provide rotating gallery space for student artwork. “Depression is a huge problem,” Beasley
Above all, Corsun hopes that Beans will create a culture of involvement in the school. says. “Treating someone during adolescence
“We love having students hang out in the building; we want them there,” he says. “And frees them up to have a higher quality of life.”
people from a variety of offices on campus have been coming to Beans and holding meetings According to NIMH, depression is the
here — this is a way for us to build relationships and build bridges across campus.” second leading cause of disability world-wide.
—Jordan Ames —Kristal Griffith

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 Ski-wiz
Pioneers win 20th skiing national championship

U niversity of Denver women’s Nordic skier

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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
Leif Haugen competes in the giant slalom, in which he placed second. He finished third in the
top five. slalom two days later, the best finish for DU’s alpine skiers.
“Every Nordic skier went out and per-
formed 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
see our Nordic teams step up and clinch the title for
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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.”
—Media Relations Athletics
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
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 Commuting isn’t the problem
annual conference March 5 took a hard look at the ongoing crisis and what will Only 16 percent of vehicle trips in the United States
have to go right to get the country out of a broken housing market. are for commuting, consultant James Charlier said as
And they were upbeat. The prospects for recovery starting within a year are
part of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute annual
good, they said.
Arthur “Chris” Nelson, a professor conference March 5.
of planning at the University of Utah, The rest is discretion-
and David Crowe, chief economist ary travel, which is to
for the National Association of Home
blame for strangling traf-
Builders, both told a crowd of more
than 200 scholars, builders, students fic and the huge increase
and planners to look for a rebound in in vehicle miles. That
home prices and demand sometime in travel also has driven
2010, possibly as early as late 2009.
unsuccessful public ef-
Introducing the speakers, real
estate attorney and planner Thomas forts to keep up with use
Ragonetti said builders have a history of by building and expand-
overbuilding in hot markets, from retail ing roadways.
space in the 1960s, to office space in
This isn’t sustainable,
the 1970s to condominiums in the
1980s. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s he said, and won’t be
and early 2000s that builders got into corrected by higher gas
building single-family homes on such a prices alone. “We have
massive, speculative scale, he said.
to think in fresh ways
“They built it, and people didn’t
come,” he said. “We’re finally going to about where people go.”
have to confront the problem that we Which means connect-
can build too much, too fast.” ing transportation with
Crowe said builders have gotten
housing and employment
the message, slashing new construc-
tion in 2008 and 2009. By next year, centers, pointed out
Nelson and Crowe predicted demand urban economist Dena
will have taken up the surplus housing Belzer. “If transit doesn’t
and prices will rebound.
take you where you
But Nelson predicted the
rebound, and demand for housing, want to go, you’re not
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will be different in varying sectors of going to ride it,” she told

the market both in the near future
and going forward. Changing demo-
graphics 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 aban-
doned retail properties close to urban centers.
“The future is bright,” he said. “We just have to work through the malaise.”
attendees.
Developing desir-
able 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 one-
size-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

—Chase Squires

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Construction on Cherrington Hall additions City Council recognizes DU
under way alumni with justice center

Wayne Armstrong
The Cherrington naming honors
Global Scholars pro-
gram sends DU students Five judicial luminaries from Denver’s municipal his-
to the world; two new tory were chosen for public honors on March 16, and two
additions to Cherrington of the notables have professional roots at DU.
Hall will bring the world James Flanigan (JD ’46), Denver’s first black county
to DU. court judge and the grandson of a slave, was chosen along
Bustling on the with District Judge Benjamin Lindsey for naming honors at
building’s south side are the city’s new $265 million courthouse complex. When
construction crews hard construction of the new complex on Colfax Avenue at Fox
at work creating a dis- Street is complete in 2010, the central building will be the
tinctive 5,460-square- Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse.
foot office and class- Within the courthouse will be a Jury Assembly Room
room annex, and a named for another DU graduate, former Denver District
1,656-square-foot office and video-conference complex west of that. Judge Roger Cisneros (BA ’50). Cisneros, who hailed from
When completed this summer, the main annex will house the Sié Chéou-Kang a family of New Mexico sheepherders, began his education
Center for International Security and Diplomacy of the Joseph Korbel School of In- in a one-room schoolhouse but eventually earned a spot in
ternational Studies. The west addition will house the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Westminster Law School, the only night law program west
International Futures, a project that uses computers to analyze and forecast global of Kansas City.
trends and developments. While enrolled, Cisneros drove a cab to support his
“It’ll be nice to have some space,” says Professor Barry Hughes, who directs the wife and three children. He graduated in 1957, the same
Pardee Center. year Westminster became part of DU. The merger helped
The Sié Chéou-Kang Center will identify rising stars in the intelligence community, develop the night program at the Sturm College of Law,
military and diplomatic corps of key Asian states and the United States and invite them where the library is today named the Westminster Law
to DU for two or three-week bursts of medium- and long-range strategic planning, says Library.
Tom Farer, dean of the Korbel school. Cisneros attended the council meeting March 16,
The Sié Center also is aimed at establishing itself as a magnet for the nation’s where admirers lined up to offer praise, citing his 12-year
brightest students, who will serve as junior research fellows and implement other tasks service as a state senator, his 11 years on the bench and his
related to the new center. long history as a tireless community activist.
Scheduled completion of the additions is mid-August, but the formal dedication “Judge Cisneros has been a role model for years,” for-
will be Aug. 7. The date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of Sié Chéou-Kang, mer councilwoman Ramona Martinez said.
father of principal donor John Sie. The praise for Judge Flanigan was equally effusive,
The Sié Center is the outcome of a recent effort to expand connections with kicked off by testimony from Gregory Scott, a former
Asia that kicked off in 2006 with the announcement of a new think tank for establishing justice on the Colorado Supreme Court. Scott was an
environmental dialogue between the United States and China. Since then, the concept adjunct professor at DU teaching securities law when in
has embraced security concerns and evolved into an initiative unlike anything in the 1993 then-Gov. Roy Romer made him the first African-
nation, Farer says. American named to the state’s high court.
All this will unfold as a $3.5 million construction element designed to harmonize “Judge Flanigan stands with the likes of Thurgood Mar-
with the DU campus while reminding admirers of Asian styling. shall,” Scott told the council during the six minutes of testi-
“What we are trying to do is pick and choose elements that pull the building closer mony he was allowed. “He had a love for the rule of law.”
to DU while at the same time take advantage of long-standing approaches to architec- Flanigan died in 2008.
ture that Asian cultures have practiced for hundreds of years,” says University Architect “I am delighted that the Denver City Council has cho-
Mark Rodgers. sen to honor two of our most distinguished alumni,” Sturm
Among distinctive elements will be a stone exterior, and references to traditional Law School Dean Beto Juárez said. “Their role as pioneers
Asian architecture include a roof of blue-glazed Japanese tiles and a courtyard garden of in Denver’s legal community exemplify the University of
rock forms focused on a magnolia tree, Rodgers says. Denver’s longstanding role in educating the leaders of the
“We’re extending the architectural motif of the original building while embracing Denver bar and judiciary.”
some of the precepts of Asian architecture,” he says. Other recipients were Philip Van Cise, a former
The additions are being built to LEED standards, Rodgers says, and also will pro- Denver district attorney credited with “breaking the back
vide significant enhancements to the heating, cooling and fresh air systems in Cher- of organized crime in the city and the Ku Klux Klan,” and
rington Hall. L. Jon Simonet, Denver’s director of corrections for 18
A further distinctive feature will be an experimental “minimal-water garden” on the years. Simonet championed “the humane treatment of in-
lawn southwest of the new additions, which Rodgers says will serve as a test on how mates” and established treatment and education programs
the University landscape can best thrive without relying as much on irrigated lawns. aimed at easing prisoners back into the community.
—Richard Chapman —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.
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.
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
bpowers@du.edu.
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 ccusc@du.edu or
303–871–4474.
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.
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 Mia.Elizardi@du.edu for
more information.
For ticketing and other information, including a
full listing of campus events, visit www.du.edu/
calendar.