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• B usinessWeek ranking
• Granola lovers
• Student fighter
• U.S. traveler
• T EDxDU conference
• Polio survivor

Helping hands
Just call them do-gooders.
The DU community
raised $11,327 for St.
Rich Clarkson and Associates

Jude’s Research Hospital

during the Up Til Dawn
student group’s St. Jude
Awareness Week held

21 and counting
University of Denver junior Nordic skier Antje Maempel (pictured at center)
in February. The group
has raised approximately
$160,000 for St. Jude’s
celebrated after winning the women’s 15K freestyle national championship on in the past seven years.
March 13, completing the Nordic sweep for the second straight year. The Pioneers Also, DU students, faculty,
won their record 21st overall and third straight NCAA championship. Maempel staff, organizations and
became the second women’s skier in NCAA history to win both the classical and departments donated
$13,610 to the Haiti
freestyle individual championships in two consecutive seasons. Also, senior Harald
relief effort. Originally,
Loevenskiold earned All-America first team honors in the men’s 20K freestyle with a
organizers had hoped
fourth-place finish. After entering the last day of competition with a 54.5-point lead,
to raise $10,000 to help
the DU men’s Nordic team held the lead and the women’s Nordic team blew the gap
the earthquake-stricken
open, winning by 70.5 points with a four-day total of 785.5 points. The University of Caribbean nation.
Colorado finished second and New Mexico finished third.
 DU to sell Phipps estate

Roddy MacInnes
It was home to a senator, the location of hundreds of weddings, and even hosted world lead-
ers for the Summit of the Eight in 1997. But now the Lawrence C. Phipps Memorial Conference
Center, owned by the University of Denver for 46 years, is entering a new chapter in its history.
DU is selling the 6.5-acre estate located in Denver’s Belcaro Park. Proceeds from the sale of
the property, which is valued at more than $9 million, will be added to an existing Phipps endow-
ment. DU Chancellor Robert Coombe said that Phipps family members are being consulted on
use of the funds for educational purposes. 
Coombe noted that the decision to sell the property is consistent with the University’s focus
on its core mission: education. Bookings at the Margaret Rogers Phipps House and adjoining Phipps
Tennis Pavilion have declined due to increased Favorite things
competition from other Denver-area venues DU’s faculty and staff have been
as well as the economy. DU now has ample quietly collecting some odd things
on-campus meeting space, making an off-cam- — and with the Myhren Gallery’s
pus facility unnecessary. new exhibit, Faculty Collects, the
Margaret Rogers Phipps, the widow of
public will be able to see some of
Sen. Lawrence Phipps, donated the pavilion,
them. Sixteen faculty and staff
formerly used as an indoor tennis court, to DU
are sharing their collections in the
in 1960 and the mansion in 1964.
Built between 1931–33, the exhibit, which runs April 1–25.
33,123-square-foot Georgian home has 14 The collections include motel
rooms on the first floor and seven bedrooms keys, airline safety cards, popsicle
on the second. It was built largely from local sticks, bottle caps, Fiestaware and
materials and contains antiques, paintings, tap- antique vibrators.
estries, sculptures and rare books from around
the world.
Correction: An article in the March issue of
The tennis pavilion — topped by a
Community News should have said that a new pro-
125-foot-high glass ceiling — has a living room, gram in DU’s Morgridge College of Education offers
DU Archives

gallery and tennis court and is primarily used a certificate—not a master’s degree—in early child-
for weddings and corporate events. hood librarianship.

—Jim Berscheidt

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BusinessWeek ranks Daniels tops in Colorado Volume 33, Number 8

BusinessWeek magazine has announced that the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Vice Chancellor for University
Communications
Business is ranked No. 74 in the 2010 BusinessWeek undergraduate programs ranking. Carol Farnsworth
Daniels also is the top undergraduate business school in the state, according to BusinessWeek, Editorial Director
which ranked Colorado State University No. 84 and Leeds School of Business at CU-Boulder Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96)
No. 93. Managing Editor
The report, “Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Best Undergraduate Business Programs,” uses a Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07)
methodology that includes nine measures of student satisfaction, post-graduation outcomes and Art Director
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 Alums take a bite of premium
granola biz
When they were seniors at DU, Maddy D’Amato
(BA ’08) and Alex Hasulak (BSBA ’08) called on their fellow
students to help them perfect their granola recipe, bringing
samples to campus for their classmates to sample and evaluate.
Two years later, the pair’s Love Grown Foods granola is
on the shelves at 80 supermarkets in Colorado and Wyoming,
with the promise of more stores to come. In November, the
foodie Web site Chowhound.com named Love Grown’s sweet
cranberry pecan flavor No. 1 in a granola taste test that included
well-known brands such as Udi’s, Olal and Bear Naked. Love
Grown’s cinnamon apple walnut came in at No. 6.
It’s been a nutty ride for the couple who met at DU and
moved to Aspen — Maddie’s hometown — after graduation. In
January they returned to Denver, where they run the business
Sturm College of Law

from their home and bake their granola in a nearby commercial

kitchen.
“When we first got to Denver, the oven wasn’t working
Catherine Smith is the new associate dean of institutional diversity and inclusiveness. right, so we took two trips to Aspen with our cars full of
ingredients,” D’Amato says. “Our first big order for the 80
Sturm College of Law raising the bar stores actually was baked in Aspen — we baked for 24 hours
straight, which was quite the marathon. We had my parents
on diversity and my brother bagging for us; it was a 72-hour weekend of
us just cranking out product up in Aspen because we needed
The University of Denver Sturm College of Law, with a new dean and consistency and we knew those ovens worked.”
a newly developed strategic plan, is taking on yet another new goal in 2010: The oven issues have since been corrected, and Maddy
diversity. and Alex now spend many of their nonbaking hours at the
Dean Martin Katz announced in March the appointment of Catherine Smith regional King Soopers and City Market stores that carry their
to the post of associate dean of institutional diversity and inclusiveness. product, educating consumers on the wonders of naturally
In her new role, Smith says she’ll focus on broadening DU’s commitment sweetened granola made with no chemicals, hydrogenated oils
to diversity, recruiting a broad range of faculty and students and reaching into or high fructose corn syrup.
traditionally underserved segments of the community. “Our goal as a company is not just to make food that’s
Katz says he believes she can excel in the new position, which is believed to delicious and healthy, but also to tell
be one of the first such tenure-track posts at an American law school. people why they should be eating
“She is dedicated to inclusiveness in the truest sense,” Katz says. “She works these foods and explain
tirelessly in pursuit of this goal. She is a unifier, always focusing on the possible to them in person the
and on the positive.” benefits of flaxseed meal
A graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Smith and whole grain oats
was an assistant professor at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas and why that’s
Southern University from 2000–04 before coming to DU. She teaches torts so important
and employment discrimination, and her research interests include civil rights in their diets,”
law and critical race theory. D’Amato
In addition to her teaching duties, Smith says she expects to spend the next says. “They’re
few months learning what other industries and schools have done and reaching more likely to
out to the community. understand it
“We already are doing a lot of good things right here in the building,” she and apply it
Courtesy of Maddy D’Amato

says. “But we would like to pull all of that together and see where we’re going to their lives,
and where we can do more. Really, I’m going to listen a lot.” which at the
Smith says she also envisions building stronger ties to associations and end of the day
organizations that serve minority communities and reach into socio-economically means that we
disadvantaged populations. The goal, she says, is to have a law school and a did our job.”
community of lawyers that better reflect Colorado’s diversity. Diversity, she says, —Greg Glasgow
brings in new ideas and ways of looking at legal challenges and fosters opportunities
for a traditionally disadvantaged population that has much to contribute.
—Chase Squires

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 Right fight
Sophomore credits boxing with path to DU

L orenzo Sanchez had been in fights before, but this one was different.
A California transplant, Sanchez was new to Denver’s Skyview High School
when one of his friends was shoved into a locker. Sanchez and his buddies retaliated
against the bully and his buddies, and the ensuing melee ended with cop cars and
ambulances.
For his role in the fracas, Sanchez was sentenced to community service. A
diversion program gave him the option of where to perform his community service
and he chose a boxing club at the Pecos Community Center in north Denver —
Aztlanecos. Sanchez had been a boxer since age 13.
“In Chicano, it means something like ‘homeland,’” Sanchez explains. “It’s a real
community there. Everyone knows everyone.”
Joining Aztlanecos ultimately led Sanchez to the University of Denver and a
full scholarship from the Daniels Scholarship Fund. He’s now a second-year student
at DU.
At first, per the terms of his community service, Sanchez spent his time at
Atzlanecos cleaning up around the club. Eventually, he caught the attention of
boxing coach Tim Lucero, who began mentoring Sanchez.
“He was something special from the get-go,” Lucero recalls. “He learned
Wayne Armstrong

discipline from boxing, and it’s the kind of lessons we can apply to all areas of our
lives. I think that discipline helped him with his schooling.”
Sanchez began to work out at the club multiple times a week. It was a productive
outlet for him, especially at a time when he was trying to shake the trouble that got him there in the first place.
“It kept me busy,” Sanchez says. “It was something to do after school instead of just hanging out, which leads to some of those other
things.”
His time at Atzlanecos coincided with a period of introspection. Sanchez was washing dishes at a restaurant — an experience that
made it clear he didn’t want that to be his main job after high school. He could be a cook, but that didn’t appeal, either. There was
construction, which paid well, but it was seasonal.
Then he witnessed an incident that illustrated a path he wanted to avoid.
“There was cocaine being sold,” he says. “There was a bust and some people went to jail. That was a real eye-opener.”
That experience, along with the boxing club, helped Sanchez focus on schoolwork. Initially, it seemed daunting. He wasn’t in clubs or
sports or, he acknowledges, much involved with school at all. But his test scores were good, and eventually he decided to do what many
people, including Lucero, were urging him to do — apply himself.
“He’s a good kid … or young man, I should say,” Lucero says. “He makes it clear that he loves boxing and doing things other kids do,
but his schooling is also important to him. We’re all proud of him for that.”
After buckling down and improving his grades during his junior year, Sanchez received a Daniels scholarship and was soon bound
for DU.
Sanchez has selected math as a major and Spanish and sociology as minors. He’s an intern at DU’s Center for Multicultural
Excellence.
Johanna Leyba, assistant provost at the center, says students like Sanchez face many challenges in college.
“Certainly their families are proud and recognize the accomplishment, but it’s also a hardship,” she says. “Being the first one, you’re
paving the way. You face isolation. You’re learning about things people in their community don’t know about.”
Sanchez acknowledges the challenges in his new life but continues to overcome them.
“The school I graduated from didn’t prepare me for it,” he says. “I had to learn a lot of basic things that other people already knew.
I didn’t know how to write a paper.”
Two or three times a week, though, Sanchez returns to Aztlanecos. He often takes his 12-year-old brother, Steve, and 6-year-old
brother, Gustavo.
Sanchez believes the club — and all that can be learned from taking part in the club — can benefit any young man.
“The environment there is what some of them need,” Sanchez says.
—Jeff Francis

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50 states, 52 weeks
Alum travels America to spotlight ordinary heroes

T he stats are right there on the Web site: 50 states and the District of Columbia; 40,000 miles in rental cars; 189,000 page views; 770
Facebook friends; and 500-plus “video interviews of ordinary people doing the extraordinary.”
It’s the tally of a journey that took Dafna Michaelson (MBA ’01) a year to complete, from January through December of 2009.
She spent three days each week in a different state, documenting ordinary citizens who are stepping up to solve problems in their
communities. Her Web site, www.50in52journey.com, is full of blogs, videos and images from her travels.
Among her many interviewees are Troy Gathers, founder of an organization that helps disadvantaged youth in South Carolina; Judy
Wright and Mary Lou Wright, who started Kansas’ Fairy

Wayne Armstrong
Godmother Fund for women in need of a helping hand;
Sharon London, executive director of the Montgomery
County Coalition for the Homeless in Maryland; and
Norman Smith, a New Jersey man with cystic fibrosis who
co-founded a housing development company for people
with disabilities.
“I knew that there were people out there who were
seeing a problem and then making a solution happen,” says
Michaelson, who lives in Denver with her fiancé and her
two children. “These are the people who are taking control
of the situation around them. When you take control of a
situation, you know that you’re going to move yourself and
your community forward.”
Traveling alone with a video camera and a tripod in
her carry-on bag, Michaelson ventured first to Delaware,
where she interviewed the founders of the Delaware
Sports League and the Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor
Foundation, among others. She talked to a family mediator
in Utah, a Holocaust survivor in Ohio and a filmmaking
team in Georgia. Using the power of Facebook and Twitter,
she bypassed politicians and traditional media to go
straight to the source: the people making things happen.
“I wanted to show everybody — my classmates, my
peers, the country — that it is the people who are seeing
a problem, deciding that they’re the person to solve that
problem and putting that solution into action that are
truly moving our country forward,” she says. “And that
there are more people like that than meet the eye.
“I felt like if I showed people that ‘this problem-solver
looks like you, sounds like you, has the same amount of
money as you or the same education as you,’ you might
watch it and say, ‘You know what? I can do that, too.’”
Already Michaelson has heard from people around the
country who found her Web site or saw her on CBS’ “Sunday
Morning” and were inspired to start community efforts of
their own. She’s at work on a book, an independent movie
and a mobile-phone application based on her journey.
The next step for Michaelson — who served as director of DU’s Holocaust Awareness Institute in the late 1990s — is the Journey
Institute, which will help people find solutions to problems in their own communities via social media and in-person conferences.
“I’ve been to every state, and there isn’t a state where I didn’t find somebody — whether it was in some small town with 78 people
or in New York City — who said, ‘OK, this sucks, I’m going to fix it,’” she says. “And they do.”
—Greg Glasgow

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DU’s debt rating raised University of Denver to
The University of Denver’s long-term debt rating has been upgraded to A+ from A by host TEDx conference
Standard & Poor’s. The agency also reports that the University’s rating outlook is stable.
“The upgrade is based on Standard & Poor’s assessment of the University’s continued Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
strong demand trends and healthy financial profile, including continued strong operating sur- discussed the “inconvenient truth” about
pluses and adequate levels of financial resources during an otherwise challenging economic climate change. Novelist Isabel Allende
environment,” according to a Standard & Poor’s statement. shared tales of passion. Global health
The statement notes that the Univer- expert Hans Rosling offered new insights
sity’s debt of $143 million currently on poverty. They had different messages
is structured at a fixed rate. The but a common venue: TED, an annual
maximum annual debt service is gathering of leading “thinkers and doers”
approximately $11.6 million, or who come together to share “ideas worth
a low 2.8 percent of budget, and spreading.”
the University has indicated it has Now, DU is hosting its own version
no near-term debt plans. of a TED conference.
“The stable outlook reflects our The University will host TEDxDU
expectation that DU will continue to re- — a “Celebration of DUing” — on Thurs-
port strong operational surpluses and maintain its day, May 13. The independently orga-
solid demand profile and financial resources as well as nized event, under license from TED, will
conduct a successful capital campaign,” says Blake Cullimore, credit analyst take place in the Newman Center’s June
for Standard & Poor’s. “We also expect that any additional debt will be com- Swaner Gates Concert Hall and will be
mensurate with a growth in financial resources.” simulcast in other campus venues.
“This rating upgrade matches the University’s current credit rating from Moody’s Investors TED — which stands for Technology,
Services of A-1,” says Craig Woody, DU’s vice chancellor for business and financial affairs. “It’s Entertainment and Design — was first
very good news for the University, especially in this challenging economic climate.” held in Monterey, Calif., in 1984. TEDx
—Jim Berscheidt (x=independently organized TED event)
is a new program of local, self-organized
events that bring people together to share
a TED-like experience. Although TED
Business college to launch one-year MBA program provides general guidance for the TEDx
program, individual TEDx events —
DU’s Daniels College of Business will launch a new one-year MBA program specifically for including DU’s — are self-organized.
students who have recently graduated with an undergraduate degree from an AACSB-accred- Presenters at TEDxDU will include
ited business school. International Peace Initiatives founder
The program, which launches in August 2010, is designed to encourage undergraduate Karambu Ringera (PhD human communi-
students to move directly into the graduate school track. The program will provide the same cation studies ’07), Barry Hughes, director
academic rigor and learning opportunities as Daniels’ traditional two-year MBA, but in a format of DU’s Pardee Center for International
that leverages the momentum students have gained during their undergraduate business studies. Futures, and William Espey, marketing
Students can reduce the amount of time spent out of the workforce and reduce tuition dollars director at Chipotle.
spent. Seating will be limited, and registra-
Students will be able to select a concentration in marketing, innovation, entrepreneurship, tion will be by invitation and online appli-
finance, accounting, or real estate and construction management. Business ethics and values- cation. The University will begin accepting
based leadership theories will be integrated throughout the program’s core courses. online ticket requests April 2.
Students also will engage in live consulting projects, development of business plans, and All TEDxDU presentations will be
career and professional development to build their experience and prepare them for the job available online following the event.
market. “TEDxDU is not simply a one-day
“The Daniels College of Business is ranked by the Aspen Institute among the top 20 busi- event, but rather a focal point in our effort
ness schools in the world for integrating social and environmental issues into the MBA program,”
to raise awareness of the great things going
says Christine Riordan, dean of the Daniels College of Business. “Students in the one-year
on at DU,” Chancellor Robert Coombe
program will emerge with not only the critical thinking skills and the technical knowledge that
wrote in a recent letter to campus. “We
the marketplace expects from an MBA graduate, but also with an ability to navigate in times of
hope to leverage the global reach of the
changing business models.”
Web to find new collaborators who share
The one-year MBA is a highly selective program that requires students to start within 11
our interests and passions.”
months of receiving an undergraduate business degree. Students are not required to have pro-
>>www.du.edu/tedxdu
fessional work experience, though an internship is preferred.
—Staff Report
— Jordan Ames

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 Fighting polio
Alumnus and survivor works to eradicate disease

O n April 12, 1955, it was announced that Jonas Salk had successfully developed a vaccine for the prevention of poliomyelitis,
arguably the most notorious disease of the 20th century. Salk’s intravenous vaccine and Albert Sabine’s oral vaccine — developed
in 1961 — helped make polio a thing of the past for much of the world’s population.
But for alumnus Grant Wilkins (BA ’47), nothing short of the eradication of polio will do.
“Until we eliminate the last wild virus everywhere in the world, we can’t guarantee that it won’t come back to any country,”
Wilkins says.
As a polio survivor, Wilkins knows firsthand just how terrible the disease
can be.
Although polio was primarily considered a childhood disease in 1951, doctors
diagnosed the then 25-year-old Wilkins with bulbar polio, a particularly fatal form
of the disease that paralyzes the throat.
That year doctors started performing tracheotomies on patients with bulbar
polio to prevent saliva from entering the lungs, which caused pneumonia and
eventual death. If Wilkins had become infected with bulbar polio a year earlier,
then the husband and father of three wouldn’t have lived.
“I remember I looked around the ward where I
was and I saw all these people in horrible conditions
and dying,” Wilkins says, “and I prayed then that if I
couldn’t get a complete recovery I would rather not
survive.”
Six weeks after entering the hospital Wilkins
recovered. His wife, Diane Schoelzel (attd. 1944–46),
wasn’t as lucky.
She was diagnosed with lumbar polio two weeks
after her husband. Paralyzed from the neck down,
Diane was placed in an iron lung, a cumbersome type
of medical ventilator. Dependent on the machine, she
remained at the hospital for two and a half years until
Courtesy of Grant Wilkins

the advent of portable chest respirators allowed her to

return home. Diane never regained mobility and died
of kidney failure 13 years after contracting polio.
“I know how devastating polio can be to a family,”
Wilkins says. “There is no normal family life anymore
when the mother or the father is totally paralyzed. My wife couldn’t even hold our kids’ hands or brush their hair or anything.”
For more than 20 years, Wilkins has traveled nationally and internationally sharing his story in an effort to raise money for
PolioPlus, a Rotary International program aimed at eradicating the disease.
Wilkins joined Rotary International in 1969, dedicating himself full time to the service organization after retiring in 1985.
“It’s been his life. If he cut himself I think he’d bleed Rotary blue. He’s really inspired a lot of people to donate money,” says Jim
Wilkins, Grant’s younger brother, noting that the Rotary Club of Denver, which Wilkins belongs to, has raised more money than any
other club nationally, contributing $500,000 to the cause.
And the program has delivered results. Prior to the implementation of the PolioPlus program in 1985, 125 countries reported
incidences of the disease. Currently, polio remains endemic in only four countries: Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Rotarians through the PolioPlus program have contributed $1.2 billion to fight polio. Altogether $4 billion has been raised from
various sources around the world and two billion children have been immunized. The result is that polio should be eradicated by 2011.
“That’s a historic event. Only one other disease — smallpox — has been eradicated from planet Earth,” Wilkins says.
“If it hadn’t been for his passion we wouldn’t be as close as we are to eradicating polio,” says fellow Rotarian Frank Sargent.
And when the dream of a polio-free world becomes a reality, Wilkins has no intention of scaling down his involvement with Rotary.
Instead, he plans to focus the organization’s efforts toward addressing another global health concern — unsafe drinking water.
—Samantha Stewart

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[Events]
April
Around campus
1 School Days Off. Also April 2 and 26.
8:15 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Gates Field House.
$50; $45 for DU employees.
2 Good Friday service. Noon. Evans
Chapel.
6 Music and meditation. Noon. Evans
Chapel.
10 World Sport Stacking Association
Championship. 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Magness Arena. Also 8 a.m.–3 p.m.
April 11. $7–$10.
Denver Democratic County
Assembly. 9 a.m. Hamilton Gym and
Gates Fieldhouse. Free.
17 27th Annual Festival of Nations.
A celebration of international education.
Noon-5 p.m. Driscoll Center. Free.
19 Walt Rakowich, chief executive officer
of ProLogis. Lecture. 6 p.m. Cable
Center. Free.
20 Book discussion with Chaplain Gary
Brower. Talking about Meadowlark
Economics: Collected Essays on Ecology,
Community, and Spirituality. Noon.
Driscoll South, Suite 29. Free.
Exhibits
1 Faculty Collects with Master
Watercolors from the Jan Perry
Mayer Collection of Works on
Paper. Myhren Gallery. Open daily
noon-4 p.m. Free.
9 ExtraOrdinary Beauty. Through
May 30. Free reception open to the
public at 7 p.m. on April 9. Chambers
Center, Hirschfeld Gallery.
Arts
1 Karen Gomyo, violin. 4 p.m. Hamilton
Recital Hall. Free.
2 Flo’s Underground. 5 p.m. Also
April 9, 16, 23 and 30. Williams Recital
Salon. Free.
11 The Secret Life of Bees—Literature
to Life Program. 7:30 p.m. Gates
Concert Hall. $30. Free behind the
curtain lecture at 6:30 p.m.
13 Andrew Stevens, clarinet. 7:30 p.m.
Hamilton Recital Hall.
14 Brass Trio. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital
Hall.
15 Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die
Zauberflöte). A joint performance of
the Lamont Opera Program and the
Lamont Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m.
Additional performances April 16 and
17 at 7:30 p.m. and April 18 at 2:30 p.m.
Gates Concert Hall. $10–$27.
20 Essential Graham: Classics from the
Martha Graham Dance Company.
7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall. $28–$48.
21 Richard King and Jesse McCormick,
horn. 7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall.
Free.
Jazz Night. Lamont jazz ensembles.
7:30 p.m. Gates Concert hall. Free.
24 Heide Brende Leathwood, piano,
and Jonathan Leathwood, guitar.
2:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall.
27 Guest artist recital. Featuring
Jonathan Leathwood, classical guitar,
Heidi Brende Leathwood, piano,
Christina Jennings, flute, and Rob
Keeley, composer. Noon. Free.
Lamont Symphony Orchestra, New
Music. 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall.
Free.
Unless otherwise noted, performances cost $18 for
adults, $16 for seniors and are free for students and
DU Pioneer Card holders.
Sports
3 Men’s lacrosse vs. Hobart. 1 p.m.
Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
9 Women’s lacrosse vs. UC Davis.
4 p.m. Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
Men’s lacrosse vs. Bellarmine. 7 p.m.
Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
11 Men’s lacrosse vs. Quinnipiac.
11 a.m. Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
Women’s tennis vs. Middle
Tennessee. Noon. Stapleton Tennis
Pavilion.
Women’s lacrosse vs. Stanford.
2 p.m. Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
17 Women’s lacrosse vs. Fresno State.
1 p.m. Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
Men’s soccer vs. Fort Lewis College.
7 p.m. DU soccer stadium.
Men’s lacrosse: $9; women’s lacrosse: free;
women’s tennis: free; men’s soccer: free.
For ticketing and other information, including a full
listing of campus events, visit www.du.edu/calendar.
Freshman duo starts
alcohol awareness program
Gordie Bailey was an 18-year-old freshman
at the University of Colorado when he died
in 2004 of alcohol poisoning resulting from a
fraternity initiation ceremony.
University of Denver freshmen Gabby
Masucci and Juliet Ourisman want to keep such
a tragedy from happening at DU. Together, they
have formed a chapter of the “Circle of Trust”
program.
The peer-to-peer education program is a part
of the Gordie Foundation, a nonprofit founded by
Bailey’s parents to provide young people with skills
to navigate the dangers of alcohol, binge drinking,
peer pressure and hazing.
The DU chapter is one of more than 50
on college and high school campuses across the
nation. The primary purpose of each chapter
is to promote alcohol awareness and keep the
issue on the minds of students.
Masucci and Ourisman first learned of
Bailey’s story while attending the Taft School in
Watertown, Conn., with his sister, Lily.
“After learning more about the foundation,
we were both able to become involved in the
club established at Taft,” Masucci says. “We
started the chapter at DU because we believe
that college students can greatly benefit from the
foundation and its mission to provide information
about the effects of binge drinking.”
The chapter participated in National
GORDIEday in fall 2009. Masucci and Ourisman
passed out a variety of educational materials on
the Driscoll Bridge throughout the day. They
also hope to present the 2008 documentary
HAZE to the DU community this spring. The
documentary presents the issue of alcohol
abuse through a variety of interviews, real-life
footage and emergency medical calls.
“I think that binge drinking is an important
issue to be discussed because it at times
can result in very, very devastating results,”
Ourisman says. “Both Gabby and I really
hope that the Gordie Foundation becomes a
prominent group in the DU community.”
—Jordan Ames