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opens with 'Don Pasquale' Opera opens with 'Don Pasquale'If you've ever been amused by the flirtatious foolishness of an old man's courtship of a much younger woman, then you are going to fall in love -- so to speak -- with the University of Kentucky Opera Theater's first offering of the season, "Don Pasquale." The opera will be performed Wednesday, Oct. 11, and Friday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. The performances will take place in the Lexington Opera House on North Broadway in Lexington. Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $12 for students and are available by calling the ticket office in the Singletary Center for the Arts at 257-4929. "Don Pasquale" is the story of an eccentric bachelor in his 60s who is tricked into marrying the vivacious Norina who first appears in this timeless comedy as the girlfriend of Don Pasquale's nephew, Ernesto. Pasquale has chosen a wealthy potential bride for nephew Ernesto, to whom he intends to leave all his earthly possessions. But when Ernesto resists his uncle's choice, Pasquale decides to teach him a lesson by himself getting married. Enter the clever Dr. Malatesta who devises a plot to marry Don Pasquale to a disguised Norina who, following the wedding, turns into a horrible shrew who begins frivolously spending all of Don Pasquale's money. The marriage fiasco is finally exposed and, in the end, Norina and Ernesto are joined and Don Pasquale agrees (most likely reluctantly) to act his age. The prolific Italian author Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti wrote "Don Pasquale" and more than 80 other operas. Donizetti was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1797 and died in 1848. "Don Pasquale" was one of Donizetti's most popular works and was written near the end of his career in 1843. Other well-known operas by Donizetti are "Anna Bolena," "L'elisir d'amore" and "Lucia di Lammermoor." UK voice professor Everett McCorvey will produce "Don Pasquale." UK Theater Director James W. Rodgers will perform stage production, and Robert Baldwin will direct the orchestra. The principal actors and actresses will be Cory Crider, a graduate student from Murray, as Don Pasquale; Mark Husseth, a doctoral student from Lexington as Dr. Malatesta; Patricia Andress, a doctoral soprano student from Nashville, as Norina; Judson Perry, a senior vocal student from Johnson City, Tenn., as Ernesto, and Michael Turay, a senior from Greendale, Wis., as the notary. This will be the seventh opera produced by McCorvey in the four years he has headed up UK's Opera Theater program and he has witnessed phenomenal growth in the audiences for them. Last year, the Lexington Opera House was sold out three of the four nights the opera "La Bohemme" was presented. Rodgers, who has taught and directed theater productions at UK for 23 years, said some of the recent increase in audience interest in operas relates to popular movies that are using themes and music from the old operas such as the movie "Moonstruck," starring Cher, that was a take off on the opera "La Bohemme." "All of a sudden, classical music has crossed over," Rodgers said. "Opera has become a most successful art form, particularly among young people," McCorvey said. "And there is a lot of excitement about the UK vocal program. "A lot of people want to come and hear the young stars and see who the next Greg Turay is going to be," said McCorvey, speaking of a successful UK graduate who is now a New York Metropolitan Opera star. Good question. And just who might that be, UK News asks McCorvey. "Well," he chuckles, "I guess you'll just have to come to the opera and find out for yourself." Get your class passThe UK Opera is instituting
a new type of ticket -- the Class Pass. Professors must fax copies of their class rolls to the Singletary Center box office at 323-9991, attention Summer. The students may then receive up to two tickets each to the opera for $8 a piece. After four students in the class purchase tickets, the professor also may purchase two $8 tickets. Everett McCorvey, UK Opera director, said he hopes faculty and students will take advantage of the offer. This offer also is available to Lexington Community College, as well as area elementary, middle and high schools. Gala opens Kade HouseGerman studies gets living, learning center. A new living-learning and outreach facility for German studies at the University of Kentucky is opening at 212 E. Maxwell St. President Charles T. Wethington Jr., Hans Hachmann of the Max Kade Foundation of New York and other dignitaries will cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the Max Kade German House and Cultural Center at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 12. The Kade Foundation and the University as well as several community donors have supported the renovation of the Victorian home, nestled between the Gaines Center for the Humanities and the Kentucky Humanities Council. "This new facility will allow the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures to showcase its programs, host scholars, writers and other professionals from the German-speaking countries, and give students an opportunity to live in a German speaking environment," said Ted Fiedler, director of the Kade House and Cultural Center. The ribbon cutting marks the beginning of three days of celebration and learning, "Crossing Cultures: The Gala Opening of the Max Kade German House and Cultural Center." The keynote event, "An Evening of Music and Reflection," features Dietrich von Kyaw, former German ambassador to the European Union, speaking on "The European Union and Globalization." Members of the UK Opera Theater will perform German and Austrian vocal music as well. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Recital Hall of the Singletary Center for the Arts. The gala will bring together regional and national leaders in international business at the first business conference on Germany-Kentucky trade relations and opportunities Oct. 12-13. "Germany and Kentucky: International Business Conference" will feature Christian Roehr of the German-American Chamber of Commerce; Gene Strong, secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development; a panel of experts from German-owned companies in Kentucky and a panel of education leaders at the University of Kentucky. Ambassador von Kyaw will speak to the business group on the topic "The European Union and the U.S.: Partners and Competitors." "The German department has worked together with generous corporate sponsorships, the Kentucky World Trade Center, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Kentucky Cabinet of Economic Development and key departments at the University of Kentucky to host a conference which we hope will lead to an ongoing relationship between Kentucky businesses and the University," said Phil McKnight, organizer of the conference. "The exchange of ideas should help the University understand the needs of business and enable several departments to establish internships with them, and it should help businesses learn how the University of Kentucky can work together with them in research and skill development." Thursday afternoon, the German department welcomes to the gala the renowned architect Alfred Jacoby, professor of architecture at Anhalt University and member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. There will be a community event, "Jewish Communities in Germany Today: A Discussion with Alfred Jacoby" at the Ohavay Zion Synagogue. Friday, Jacoby will give a slide lecture on the exhibit, "In a New Spirit: Synagogues of Germany" at 3:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Singletary Center, followed by a viewing of the exhibit itself in the President's Room of the center. The exhibit runs through Oct. 20. Friday at 7:30 p.m., there will be a reading of contemporary literature in German by Austrian author, Sabine Scholl, from her new novel, "Die Geheimen Aufzeichnungen Marinas." Two panels for interested teachers, scholars and community members round out the gala on Saturday. A panel on "The German Immigrant Heritage in Kentucky" will present local documents about German, Swiss and Austrian immigrants to Kentucky, including a Shakertown diary, historical documents and a utopian 19th-century novel. The panel "Translating Texts and Cultures" features expert translators discussing the problems of explaining one culture to another through texts and performance. The public is invited to the exhibit, "Places of Origin: Cities and Towns European Immigrants Left Behind, 1845-1914." The Kentucky Historical Society will present the exhibit through Oct. 25 in the Rasdall Gallery, located in the University's Student Center. The exhibit highlights six typical locations County Mayo in Ireland; Manchester in England; the Ortenau of Germany; Naples in Italy; Lowicz, a Catholic area in Poland; and Bialistok, a Jewish community in Eastern Europe. The Rasdall Gallery is open Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 14, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. More than 40 corporations, governmental and community organizations and departments and programs at the University of Kentucky are co-sponsoring the gala. Ground broken for University golf club on Leestown RoadThe weather could not have been better: clear skies dotted by broken clouds, temperatures about 68 degrees and the air stirred by a gentle breeze. A perfect afternoon for golf.
UK entered a licensing agreement last year with University Clubs of America, a Columbia, S.C., firm that has established similar relationships with the universities of South Carolina and Louisville and Auburn University. The agreement makes the facility UK's official course for its golf teams' practices and home matches. The facility offers two 18-hole courses, dubbed Wildcat and Big Blue, stretching over more than 300 acres of rolling terrain. The Wildcat course is remaining open for play while Big Blue undergoes renovations designed by world-renowned golf course architect Arthur Hills. After Big Blue reopens sometime next year, renovations will be performed to Wildcat. Wethington noted the courses are not limited to use by the UK golf teams. The club also is open to University faculty, staff, alumni and students who choose to join. "The University Club of Kentucky will provide a much-needed gathering spot for our faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends to enjoy fellowship and recreational opportunities," he said.
"This will be a boost to recruitment of top-notch players to UK. We're pleased to call the University Club of Kentucky Śthe home of the Wildcats,'" Ivy said. Marketing campaign unveils new attitude, energyDon't blink, or even think about stepping out of the room during halftime. If you do, you might miss the new advertisement for "America's Next Great University." And miss what all the talk is about. While the message is the same, the University of Kentucky's national advertising campaign has a new look and a new attitude this year. And the buzz on the street is all thumbs up.
In addition to the familiar television ads that air nationally during UK's football and basketball games, the campaign includes print, radio and cable advertisements. The ads are scheduled through the year on 75 radio stations, major daily newspapers and television news programs in Kentucky; key media in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Knoxville and Nashville; and in USA Today, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, A&E Biography, CNN, Discovery, ESPN and National Public Radio. Unveiled Sept. 2, the new campaign approach is entirely student-focused, promoting "The Next Great Diplomat," "The Next Great Physician," The Next Great CEO." Featured are tomorrow's leaders who are students at the University of Kentucky today. Plans include a series of ads that feature the next great teacher, author and more, all supported by facts about the University's national achievements. "The campaign is wonderfully flexible and allows us to highlight all things great about the institution," Ripley said. She added that while last year's image campaign was designed to build awareness among opinion leaders and baby-boomers, this year's ads communicate a recruiting message. "This is a natural extension of last year's campaign and gives it new meaning for an entirely new audience," she said. "Its energetic style breaks through the clutter of other academic advertising." MTV...here we come! Kyles opens 'Race and Religion Series'Reverend speaks on civil rights. The University of Kentucky's African-American Studies and Research Program will present "By the Fruit It Bears" by the Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 in the UK Student Center Theater. This event is the first in the program's "2000-2001 Topical Lecture Series on Race and Religion in America." The Rev. Kyles was an eyewitness to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and is the only person still living to have spent the last hour with Dr. King. Having participated in many of the civil rights struggles throughout the South, the reverend is recognized as a resource of information on the Civil Rights Movement.The Rev. Kyles' civic and professional experiences include: € Founding national board member of People United to Save Humanity (PUSH); € National coordinator for Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns; € Panelist at the 1998 White House Conference on Hate Crime; € Television documentaries, "At the River I Stand," "The Trial of James Earl Ray" and "Who Shot Martin Luther King?" UK's Department of History is co-sponsoring this event. For more information, contact the African-American Studies and Research Program at 102 Breckinridge Hall or 257-3593. UK trustees re-elect leadersMiles, Reed and Reedy to serve another term for board. The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees voted Sept. 19 to continue the leadership roles of Chairman Billy Joe Miles, Vice Chairman Steve Reed and Secretary Dan Reedy. The board's decision mirrored a recommendation made to it by its nominating committee.
Trustees heard, but took no action on, a report from architects, consultants and University officials involved in the planning and construction of the $65 million Biomedical Biological Sciences Research Building. Oran Little, dean of the College of Agriculture, reported on the status of the new Agriculture Animal Sciences Research farm and facilities. The Woodford County farm is involved in research in animal science, agricultural engineering and agronomy. A major thrust of the research is animal nutrient management. Trustees toured the research farm following their meeting. Sitting on the edge
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Collins Interior design's White wins international honorsWhite serves as president of group's foundation. Allison Carll White, UK professor of interior design, merchandising and textiles, was inducted into the International Interior Design Association's College of Fellows at the association's sixth annual meeting held during NeoCon 2000 in June.
White is a corporate member of the Interior Design Educators Council and was awarded Fellow status in 1999. She has been a member of IIDA since 1994, served as an editorial review board member for the Journal of Interior Design and chaired the publication board for the journal from 1992 to 1995. Since then she has served two terms as education and research forum director and was a member of the Research Summit Planning Committee. White is serving as president of the International Interior Design Association Foundation, a position she has held since 1999. The International Interior Design Association is a professional networking and educational association of more than 10,000 members in eight specialty forums, nine regions and more than 30 chapters around the world. IIDA is committed to enhancing the quality of life through excellence in interior design and advancing interior design through knowledge. IIDA advocates for interior design excellence; provides superior industry information; nurtures a global interior design community; maintains educational standards; and responds to trends in business and design. Trilobite fossils find new home with stte geological surveyCollector's gift could be 440 million years old, at least. On Sept. 25, George and Janet Stone of Carterville, Ill., donated part of a private collection of trilobite fossils to the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky. The collection of 24 specimens of the genus Isotelus is valued at $5,000. The trilobites will be displayed with other fossils, rocks, minerals and meteorites exhibited in display cases in the Mining and Mineral Resources Building. "This generous gift of trilobite fossils from Mr. and Mrs. Stone will be a welcome addition to the fossil, rock and mineral, and meteorite collections of the survey that are on public display at the Mining and Mineral Resources Building," said James Cobb, state geologist and director of the Kentucky Geological Survey. "Fossils are immensely valuable to us for educational purposes and scientific research; fossils provide a vital record that enables scientists to understand past life on Earth and to study why species became extinct during different periods of geologic time." Since his retirement 10 years ago, Stone has been donating portions of his private collection to universities across the country. In recent years, he has donated fossils to the University of Kansas, Texas A&M, Indiana University, Illinois State Geological Survey and Southern Illinois University. The fossils being donated to the Kentucky Geological Survey were collected primarily from a site in Bowling Green, Missouri, in Pike County; the fossils were found in Maquoketa Shale and are upper Ordovician in age (440 to 450 million years old). Trilobites are a type of extinct arthropod. They were similar to modern-day roly-poly or pill bugs and they lived in marine waters. The Isotelus trilobites are among the largest of the trilobites. The study of fossils, paleontology, has been a lifelong interest for Stone. This interest was sparked when he was 5 years old, when he collected trilobites from outcrops along the shores of Lake Champlain near Chazy, N.Y. He received a degree in geology in 1955 from the University of Rochester in New York. Following 20 years in the U.S. Navy Reserves, he had a distinguished 25-year career in higher education administration. After retiring, he was the president of the Sangamon State University Foundation, now a part of the University of Illinois at Springfield. His wife, Janet, who is the acting deputy director of the Office of Health Protection for Illinois, has shared his interest in fossils and has accompanied him over the years in his field trips to collect fossils. Career center dedicatedThe University of Kentucky will host a dedication ceremony at 10 a.m. Oct. 10 for its new career center --the James W. Stuckert Career Center --located on Rose Street, across from the UK Singletary Center for the Arts. The new $3 million building helps UK's student career services rival those of the nation's top schools. The library offers three times the average space available in the career libraries of UK's benchmark institutions. Stuckert, national chairperson of UK's fund-raising campaign, earned his bachelor's degree in engineering in 1960 and his master's of business administration degree in 1961, both from UK. He is chairman and CEO of J.J. B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons Inc., a full-service brokerage company in Louisville. New supercomputer puts UK in top 10 U.S. universitiesThe University of Kentucky's new high-performance computer places UK 10th among all high-performance academic computer centers in the United States and 200th in the rankings of the top 500 supercomputer sites worldwide. "We're exactly where we need to be," said Doug Hurley, associate vice president for UK Information Systems. "This university has long been committed to being one of the nation's great research universities. This class of high-performance computing capability is essential to achieving that goal." The rankings were compiled in June by the University of Tennessee and Mannheim University in Mannheim, Germany. The rankings are regularly updated. UK's new N-Class high-performance computer is capable of 169 billion calculations per second, a 231 percent increase over UK's previous X-Class computer. The N-Class computer comprised of a "NCX cluster" that includes 12 HP N-4000 servers connected by a high-speed network offers spectacular increases in computing capabilities. For example, the new supercomputer has 50 percent more processors than UK's previous supercomputer. The new computer also offers a 120 percent increase in processing speed, a 500 percent increase in memory capacity and a 375 percent increase in disk space. That level of research computing capability positions UK as a major contributor in national research and instructional innovation. John Connolly, director of the UK Center for Computational Sciences, said UK's commitment to providing state-of-the-art computing resources to faculty and students is key to its leadership position. "UK installed its first supercomputer and established the computational science center more than a decade ago," Connolly said. Equally important, noted Connolly, was the establishment of a financial strategy of continual funding to regularly upgrade core technologies such as the high-performance computer. "That financial vision and strategy, driven by President Charles T. Wethington Jr. and Vice President for Information Systems Gene Williams, put us out in front in computational science," he said. UK's new N-Class high-performance computer is overseen and operated by the UK Computing Center, a division of UK Information Systems. Registration opens Oct. 30All currently enrolled University of Kentucky students who plan to attend the 2001 spring semester must register between Oct. 30 and Nov. 22. Students who do not register by Nov. 22 must late register beginning the first day of classes and pay a non-refundable late fee. Before registering for classes, undergraduates must have their adviser hold released. Undeclared or non-degree undergraduates are advised in the Central Advising Service and Transfer Center in Miller Hall. Visit the Registar's Web site at www.uky.edu/Registrar/help.html for more information, or call the Registration Office at 257-7173. BriefsUKY to air
presidential debates The presidential debates will air at 9 p.m. Oct. 11 and Oct. 17. The station also aired the Oct. 3 presidential debate and the Oct. 5 vice presidential debate. Library group
hosts book sale Hardbacks, paperbacks, music cassettes, LPs and more, donated to the association, will be sold. Most items are less than $1. The sale will benefit UK Libraries. Emerson String
Quartet opens University Artist Series The quartet, one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles, was named Ensemble of the Year in 2000 by Musical America. Tickets are $25 for the public, $22 for senior citizens and $14 for students and children and are available at the Singletary Center Ticket Office by calling 257-4929. Self study
forums invite public Locations are scheduled for both ends of campus in order to make it easier for people to attend. However, all faculty, staff and students are invited to attend either or both forums. This is an opportunity to contribute to the self-study process. All members of the campus community are encouraged to participate. Forum presents
rape talk Bowling lecture inaugurated by journalism school The University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications has established the James C. Bowling Executive-In-Residence Lecture Series sponsored by the UK Journalism Alumni Association. The first professional to speak on campus as part of the series will be Harold Burson, chairman and founder of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller Inc. He will speak on "The Role of Public Relations in Society" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in the William T. Young Library auditorium. Internet talk opens Hardymon convocation Several business and academic innovators, including the man credited as one of the fathers of the Internet, will help open the University of Kentucky Laboratory for Advanced Networking at the James F. Hardymon Building during a special convocation Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 9 and 10. Vinton G. Cerf, senior vice president of Internet architecture and technology for WorldCom Inc., will speak on "The Internet in the 21st Century" at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. From 1976 to 1982, Cerf served with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency and played a key role in leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technology. Send items for "Briefs" to csstev0@email.uky.edu.
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