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Volume 5 • Number 5
Oct. 13, 2003
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Events
Monday, September 29, 2003 - Friday, October 24, 2003

Robert Fry, sculpture, and Neil Jussila, painting, Giles Gallery, Campbell Building, call 622-8135 for Gallery hours.

Monday, October 13, 2003

No classes; University offices closed.

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

"Weapons of Mass Destruction," Eric Welling, FBI supervising agent, 6:30 p.m., Posey Auditorium, Stratton Building, sponsored by the Departments of Government, Loss Prevention and Safety, Chemistry and Criminal Justice Training, the Forensic Science Program and the Chautauqua Series.

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

8 p.m., Alumni Coliseum. Student tickets on sale (limit of 4 per student) for $12 each in the Powell Building. For general admission tickets ($18), call TicketMaster at 859-281-6644 or visit www.ticketmaster.com. Presented by EKU Student Activities Council.


8 p.m., Brock Auditorium.

Thursday, October 16, 2003

"Wars Last Forever: The Grim Legacy of the Vietnam War," Robert Topmiller, 7:30 p.m., SSB Auditorium, part of yearlong lecture series on war and peace.


“Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy,” Dr. Ron Huff, dean and professor of criminology, law and society, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 3:30 p.m., Room 434, Stratton Building, part of the Justice & Safety Distinguished Lecture Series.


Dr. David Saladino, Director of Choral Activities, will host EKU's first Fall Choral Festival featuring up to 25 high schools who each will send four singers. The festival will include all day rehearsals of five festival choral works, a master class for selected members of the festival chorus and a workshop for teachers hosted by vocal coordinator Hunter Hensley and Vertrelle Mickens, Patrick Newell and Joyce Wolf of the EKU voice faculty. The visiting choristers will also receive a tour of the EKU campus. The day’s finale concert, at 7 p.m. in Gifford Theatre in the Campbell Building, is free and open to the public. The concert will feature brief performances by two outstanding regional guest high school choirs—the South Laurel High School Chorale, directed by Mark Felts, and the Model Laboratory School Women’s Ensemble, directed by Senica Taylor and two outstanding high school soloists who participated in the morning vocal master class. The EKU University Singers will also perform at the evening concert.

Saturday, October 18, 2003

EKU vs. Wittenberg, 1 p.m., Intramural Fields.

Sunday, October 19, 2003

Chris Lunsford and Jason Dye, 8 p.m., Gifford Theatre.

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

8 p.m., Brock Auditorium.


"Aside from Obvious Economic Benefits, Does College Education Have Any Other Value?" with speakers Dr. Laura Newhart, Dr. Ron Messerich and Dr. Bonnie Gray, and moderator Dr. Patrick Nnoromele, 7:30 p.m., Adams Room, Wallace Building.

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

"Carbon Flux Through Karst Aquifers," Joe Meiman, 4:40 p.m., Roark 205.


Kerry Evans, 8 p.m., Gifford Theatre.

Thursday, October 23, 2003

Nathan Combs, 8 p.m., Gifford Theatre.


“Criminal Bodies,” Dr. Nicole Rafter, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, 3:30 p.m., Room 434, Stratton Building, part of the Justice & Safety Distinguished Lecture Series.

Friday, October 24, 2003

EKU vs. Tennessee State, 7 p.m., Paul McBrayer Arena.