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Hollow your way to Hancher One especially skilled pumpkin carver will win a pair of Hancher tickets. See the story below for details.

Hancher show features ‘Dracula’ with music by Kronos, Glass

Hancher Auditorium will become a Halloween haunt with a screening of the Bela Lugosi horror classic, Dracula, with live music performed by the Kronos Quartet and composer/keyboardist Philip Glass. Dracula: The Music and the Film will begin at 8 p.m., Oct. 31, and the Hancher lobby will be the scene of a Halloween party before and after the performance, featuring fortune tellers, jugglers, fencers, and strolling fiddlers.

Audience members—who are invited to come in costume—will be greeted by entries in Hancher’s pumpkin-carving contest, Funny Faces, Horrifying Monsters, Friendly Ghosts. The best pumpkin will be announced after the performance, with the winning carver receiving two free tickets to a March performance of the musical Chicago.

The public is invited to enter, and all entrants will receive a coupon for a $5 discount on each of two tickets to Dracula or any remaining 2000-2001 Hancher event with the exception of Ragtime, Chicago, and Riverdance. Attendance at Dracula is not required to enter the contest. To enter, simply bring your pumpkin to Hancher between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Oct. 31. (Do not insert a candle in your pumpkin: Hancher will provide an internal light source.)

For additional information about the pumpkin-carving contest, contact Hancher’s Tim Meier at (33)5-1130. Tickets for the Dracula performance may be purchased by calling Hancher Box Office at (33)5-1160.

Family issues addressed

The Office of Family Services wants to remind faculty, staff, and students of its full array of programs and services.

In addition to child care issues, the office provides information and assistance with elder care resource and referral, the lactation program, housing relocation, and multifaceted resource and referral (information on the Iowa City School system, medical and health providers, cost-of-living data, and other family-related concerns).

In addition, the office holds monthly seminars.

For more information, contact Jane Holland at (33)5-1371 or visit the web site, www.uiowa.edu/~hrpersvc/famserv/index.html.

Library exhibit focuses on fifties

The University of Iowa Libraries has opened The Fifties: From Atomic Power to American Pie, a new exhibition on the 1950s, in the North Exhibition Hall of the Main Library. The exhibit can be seen now through January 2001 during regular library hours.

Materials drawn from the UI Libraries collection and from local private collections include a case of fifties memorabilia: bowling shirts, pulp fiction novels, kitsch ceramic figurines, and toys such as Robbie the Robot.

Hawkeye regalia, photos of the University from that era, and images of TV culture and magazines, including Life magazine’s Feb. 27, 1950, cover of the famed mushroom cloud explosion, are also on display.

Nair speaks on human rights

Ravi Nair, a consultant to the United Nations and visiting faculty member from Yale University, will be the keynote speaker on "Universality and Human Rights: The Asian Perspective" from 9 to 9:30 a.m., Nov. 1, in the Richie Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union as part of International Day 2000. Nair also will conduct a human rights curriculum workshop for Iowa teachers from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.

International Day 2000 offers teachers and students from middle and high schools an opportunity to discuss various aspects of human rights. Students and teachers are expected to carry what they learn to their classrooms and communities.

International Day 2000 is sponsored by the UI Center for Human Rights, College of Education, Associate Provost for Health Sciences, Office of Affirmative Action, International Programs, Diversity Committee of the UI College of Education, Iowa City Human Rights Commission, The Stanley Foundation, Grant Wood Area Education Agency (AEA), and the Iowa City School District. For more information, contact Kris Das at (33)5-6387.

Orders due for ACE evaluation

Requests for Assessing the Classroom Environment (ACE) course evaluation forms that include instructor-selected items must be received at Evaluation and Examination Service by Nov. 10. After that date, only the standard ACE forms will be available.

Requests for printing only of department-generated course evaluation forms requires notice of at least five working days.

The orders will not be filled after Dec. 1.

Latino writers read Oct. 27

The University of Iowa’s Council on the Status of Latinos is sponsoring a reading by several authors as part of Latino Heritage Month.

At 8 p.m., Oct. 27, Latino writers will take part in a reading co-sponsored by the UI Writers’ Workshop. Oscar Casares, Eduardo C. Corral, Mario Duarte, and José Skinner will read from their work in Jones Commons in the Lindquist Center.

All events are free and open to the public. For information contact Adele Lozano Rodriguez at (33)5-0591.

Women’s Studies holds lecture series

The second lecture in a year-long series on "Reproduction, Motherhood, and Women’s Health: Issues for the 21st Century" will be held from 4 to 6 p.m., Oct. 27, in room 204 of the Jefferson Building.

"The social meanings of Ritalin: Mothers’ perspectives on attention deficit disorder" will be presented by Jacqueline Litt, assistant professor of sociology and women’s studies at Iowa State University. Her presentation is co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Sociology.

The Department of Women’s Studies has planned three additional lectures in this series for the Spring 2001 semester.

Join the Herd: order phone books now

Campus delivery of University phone books (Herd books) begins later this month. Departments may order quantities of directories with a General Stores order form, requesting stock item #10000.

Directories cost $3.45.

Iowa Poetry Prize awarded

The University of Iowa Press has announced that Mary Leader, author of The Penultimate Suitor, has won the 2000 Iowa Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the UI Press in a competition open to writers who have previously published at least one book of poetry.

The Penultimate Suitor will be published by the UI Press in spring 2001.

For more information, call Megan Scott, (33)5-2008 or visit the UI Press web site at www.uiowa.edu/~uipress.