University Gazette

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PLAY OF THE CENTURY Saidah Edulona (left) plays Bessie Delany and Brenda Thomas plays Sadie Delany in PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters First 100 Years. The play covers the lives of the sisters, who each lived to be more than 100 years old and experienced the vast social changes of the 20th century. Performances run through Feb. 28. Call 2-PLAY for more information.

Calendar: Feb. 11-24

Exhibits

H.E.E.L.S. for Health

Exhibits

WILSON LIBRARY

Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 9 am-1 pm; Sun, 1-5 pm. For more info call 2-1172.

Through 5/31 -- "Hard Cash and Hard Times: A History of North Carolina Currency." Collector's Gallery.

First (Ground) Floor

The First State University.
The Ancient World--Recreated.
Examples of Early Photography.

Second (Main) Floor

The History of the N.C. Collection.
"As Close to Magic as I've Ever Been": Thomas Wolfe at UNC.
Bayard Wootten: Images of the South, 1930s.
N.C. Collection Gallery.

Third Floor

Rare Book Collection: Poets at Gehenna, 1959-1995.

Fourth Floor

The Photos of Dorothea Lange.
Southern Historical Collection.
University Archives.

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM

Hours: Wed through Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Sun, 1-5 pm. For more info call 6-5736.

Through 3/28 -- "By All Means: The 1999 Faculty Exhibition."

Artists' Talks on Contemporary Art

2/18 -- "Structure and Process in Contemporary Art." Richard Kinnaird (art). 12:15-1 pm.
2/24 -- "Music and Contemporary Art." James Gadson (art). 12:15-1 pm.

Through 2/21 -- "Tradition and Transformation: Contemporary Inuit Art from Nunavut."

Through 5/16 -- Clara and Gilbert Yager Gallery of Asian Art has carved ornaments on display.

NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN

Hours: Weekdays, 8 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Sun, 1-5 pm. All exhibits at Totten Center, located on Old Mason Farm Road. For more info call 2-0522.

Through 2/28 -- "Artists Among Us."

HANES ART CENTER

Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. For more info call 2-2015.

2/22 -- Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Sandy Skoglund, a New York photographer. 4 pm.

NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN

All exhibits at Totten Center, located on Old Mason Farm Road. For more info call 2-0522.

Through 2/28 "Artists Among Us." Totten Center. Weekdays, 8 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-5 pm; Sun, 1-5 pm.

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H.E.E.L.S. For Health

115 Women's Gym. Call 2-2348 to register & for more info & see http://www.adp.unc.edu/hr/es/

Gym/Pool privilege card required unless noted by *

SPECIAL EVENTS

Pre-registration required, call 2-2348.

2/11 -- Learn the fundamentals of chair massage. This class is for members only. 201 Fetzer, Cornwell Room. 6-8 pm.
2/24 -- Positive Pregnancy. Maximize your pregnancy experience. Room 150. 2:30-4:30 pm.

FACILITIES

H.E.E.L.S. Fitness Center

Mon-Fri/Noon-2 pm; 4-7 pm.

Fetzer/Woollen Gym

Mon-Thu/ 7:30 am-10 pm.
Fri/ 7:30 am-9 pm.
Sat/ 10 am-5 pm.
Sun/ 1-8 pm.

Student Recreation Ctr

Mon-Thu/ 6 am-Midnight.
Fri/ 6 am-9 pm.
Sat/ 10 am-8 pm.
Sun/ 1-10 pm.

FITNESS/AEROBICS CLASSES

Call 2-1153 for SRC classes.

Lunch time, 12:10-12:50 pm, SRC-B

Mon, Wed/ Low Impact.
Tue, Thu/ Body Sculpting.
Fri/ Step.

Evening, 5:15-6:15 pm, 112 Women's Gym except as noted.

Mon/ Yoga.
Mon, Wed/ Water aerobics, Bowman Gray.
Tue/ Step & Tone.
Thu/ Low Impact & Tone.

ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES

Individual fitness assessment.
Personal training.
FitPlus incentive program.
Resource Center.

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Miscellanea

INFO-TO-GO WORKSHOP

2/5 "Mime Techniques You Can Use." Jef from the Jelly Educational Theatre. Manning Hall. 9 am-12:30 pm. Fee. For registration info contact Lucia Zonn at 2-0208 or by e-mail at zonn@ils.unc.edu

CONE-KENFIELD TENNIS CENTER

Courts for rent this winter Mon-Fri 8 am, 9:30 am and 11 am. Contracts available. Call 2-6363 for reservations or more info.

CAROLINA TECHNOLOGY EXPO

2/15 -- Expo is designed to increase awareness about information technology across campus. Great Hall. 10 am-4 pm.

CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR LEARNING IN RETIREMENT

Registration required. Contact Meredith Larson at 2-3574 or e-mail meredith_larson@unc.edu Fee.

2/17,24 -- "Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Personality Plus." Participants learn about conductors in a musical performance. Maestro Scott Tilley.

INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION

Fore more info, contact Phillippe Tzou at sharky5@email.unc.edu or 942-6535.

2/15 -- "Celebration of Food and Dance." International Dinner, 6 pm. Multicultural Performance, 7 pm. Great Hall. Tickets available in the Pit.
2/16 -- "Celebration of Peace." Speaker, Jose M. Da Silva Campino, and film. Film Auditorium, 7 pm.
2/17 -- "Celebration of Spirit." International Showcase. Great Hall, 2-4 pm.

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM

2/12 -- "The Lore of Antique Furniture." David Linquist will host at Whitehall at the Villa. Learn from collectors about buying antiques. Pre-registration and fee. 5:30 pm.

SOUTHERN ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM

2/19,20,21 -- "Hx." Features oral historian Gretchen Case, master's degree candidate in communications studies. Studio 6, Swain Hall. 8 pm (2/ 19, 20), 2 pm (2/21).

ADVENTURES IN IDEAS

For more info call 2-1544 or visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human

2/12,13 -- "Walker Percy: Life, Art, and Melancholy." Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Joseph Flora, Linda Hobson.

NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN

For more info, call 2-0522.

2/11,18 -- "Conservation Ecology Reading Group." Johnny Randall. 7-9 pm.
2/17 -- "The Home Landscape." Sue Hinson and Jean Wright. Learn to develop landscapes. Fee. 7-9 pm.
2/24 -- "Pruning." Sue Hinson and Jean Wright will discuss pruning. Fee. 10 am-2 pm.

SECOND SUNDAY READING SERIES

Readings in Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library. 2:30 pm.

2/14 -- Heather Ross Miller, fiction-writer, and Shelby Stephenson, poet, talk about their works.

SEANC DISTRICT 19 MONTHLY MEETING

2/16 -- Second Floor conference room, General Administration Bldg. 5:15 pm.

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Lectures

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Geological Sciences TBA. 205 Mitchell. 4 pm.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Genetics and Molecular Biology "Regulation of Glial Development in the Vertebrate CNS." Robert H. Miller (Case Western Reserve). 321 MacNider. Noon.
School of Public Health "How does an epidemiologist conduct research on environmental injustice?" Steve Wing (epidemiology). 2101G McGavran-Greenberg. 1:30-2:30 pm.
School of Public Health Program on Health Outcomes Lecture. Heather Palmer (Harvard). 105 Berryhill. 1:30-3 pm.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15

Computer Science "Building Topological Maps for Robot Navigation." Leslie Pack Kaelbling (Brown). 011 Sitterson. 4 pm.
Blacks in the Diaspora "Paul Robeson's Impact on the Caribbean." Sterling Stuckey (U. Cal, Riverside). Aud, Tate-Turner-Kuralt. 7 pm.
Cell and Molecular Physiology TBA.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Geological Sciences TBA. 205 Mitchell. 4 pm.
Carolina Union Actvities Last Lecture Series. Jan Boxill (philosophy). Union Cabaret. 8 pm.
Microbiology and Immunology "The IL-4 Receptor: Signaling Mechanisms and Their Role in the Differentiation of T Helper Cells." Hu Huang (microbiology and immunology). 00-002 Lineberger Cancer Center. 2-3 pm.
Pharmacology "Cell Adhesion and Signaling in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer." Leslie V. Parise (pharmacology). 1102 Mary Ellen Jones. 4 pm.
Great Decisions "Implementing NATO Enlargement: Difficult Choices Ahead." Joel Schwartz (political science). 100 Hamilton. 7-8:30 pm.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Lineberger Cancer Ctr "Adhesion, Angiogenesis & Cancer." David Cheresh (Scripps Research Inst, La Jolla). 00-002 Plaza Level, Lineberger. 4 pm.
Cell Biology and Anatomy "Integrin Signaling in Angiogenesis." David Cheresh (Indiana). 00-002 Lieberger Cancer Ctr. 4 pm.
Preventive Medicine "Health, Access and Inequality: Current Status and Research Implications." Gail Henderson (social medicine). Room 357 Wing C. Noon-1:30 pm.
Program on Aging "Relationship of Impairments to Function and Disability in Older Adults." Carol A. Giuliani (allied health). 61 MacNider. Noon-1 pm.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Geological Sciences TBA. 205 Mitchell. 4 pm.
School of Public Health "Development of Human Dietary Recommendations for Selenium." Orville Levander (Dept. of Agriculture). 2217 McGavran-Greenberg. 3:30-4:30 pm.
Program in Cultural Studies "Specters and Angels: Historical Consciousness After Progress." Wendy Brown (California). Toy Lounge, Dey. 7 pm.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

School of Public Health "Raising Resilient Children: How Communities of Color Respond to the Challenge." Minority Health Conference. Stephen B. Thomas (Emory). Friday Center. To register, call 6-4032, e-mail oce@unc.edu or visit http://www.sph.unc.edu/oce
School of Public Health "A proposed case control study of gynecologic cancers and quinacrine use in Vietnam." Margaret F. McCann and David Sokal (epidemiology). 2101G McGavran-Greenberg. 1-2 pm.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture "The Language of Purity and the Purity of the Language in Early Modern Europe." U. Peter Burke (Cambridge). Hanes Art Auditorium. 7 pm.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Cell and Molecular Physiology "Molecular Mechanism of Bone Development." Jill Helms (California). 321 MacNider. Noon.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Great Decisions "Central Asia Pressure Cooker: The Caspian Basin and Iran." Michael Zirinsky (Boise). 100 Hamilton. 7-8:30 pm.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Blacks in the Diaspora "Women in Jazz." Galen Abdur-Razzaq, jazz flutist. BCC, student union. 3 pm.
Lineberger Cancer Ctr "How Immune Priviledge Creates Tolerance." Wayne Streinlein (Schepens eye Research Inst, Boston). 00-002 Plaza Level, Lineberger. 4 pm.
School of Public Health "Localizing Global AIDS: Race, class, gender, and the politics of international health interventions in Nairobi." Karen Booth (women's studies). 324 Rosenau. Noon-1:30 pm.
School of Public Health "The Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment: A Canadian Perspective." Harriet MacMillan (McMaster). 2301 McGavran-Greenberg. 3-4 pm.
Program on Aging "Aging Well into the 21st Century." Mark E. Williams (medicine). 61 MacNider. Noon-1 pm.

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Entertainment

MUSIC DEPARTMENT CONCERTS

All concerts held in Hill Hall Auditorium except as noted. For more info call 2-1039.

2/13 -- UNC Wind Ensemble. Michael Votta, Jr., conductor. 8 pm.
2/14 -- All Carolina Bands. 2 pm.
2/14 -- Fin-de-Siecle Twentieth-Century Violin-Piano Partnerships. Richard Luby, Thomas Warburton. 8 pm.
2/16 -- Duo Nuovo. Terry Rhodes, Ellen Williams, Benton Hess. 8 pm.
2/18 -- UNC Wind Ensemble. Michael Votta, Jr., conductor, Brooks deWetter. 8 pm.
2/19 -- William S. Newman Artists Series: Five Centuries of Polish Music. Ensemble Courant. Also 2/21. 3 pm. Fee.
2/19 -- Jazz for a Friday Afternoon. UNC Jazz Combos. Scott Warner. 107 Hill. 4 pm.
2/23 -- The John Sneider Quartet. Fee. 8 pm.
2/24 -- Galen Abdur-Razzaq, flute. Prelude to jam session. Call 2-9001 or e-mail shsbcc@email.unc.edu for more info. Cabaret student union. 8 pm.

N.C. SYMPHONY

For tickets call 831-6060 or Ticketmaster, 834-4000. Pre-concert discussion. 7 pm. All concerts in Memorial. 8 pm. Fee.

2/13 -- Recorder soloist Michala Petri; Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Set 1; Koppel's Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra, Moonchild's Dream; Vivaldi's Concerto in C major for Soprano Recorder and Orchestra; Poulenc's Suite francaise.

CAROLINA UNION PERFORMING ARTS SERIES

Call 2-1449 for tickets & more info. Memorial. 8 pm. Fee.

2/17 -- Camerata Academica Salzburg chamber orchestra.

SECOND SUNDAY READING

Call 2-3461 for more info. Assembly Rm, Wilson Library. 2:30 pm.

2/14 -- Fiction writer & Albemarle native Heather Ross Miller, Washington & Lee U., & poet Shelby Stephenson, UNC-Pembroke.

CAROLINA UNION MOVIES AND EVENTS

For more info call Union Box Office at 2-1449.

2/12,13 -- A Bug's Life. Fri, 6:30 pm, 9 pm, 11:30 pm; Sat, 8 pm, 10 pm. Union Film Auditorium. Admission: $2.
2/14 -- Swingers. 6:30 pm, 9 pm. Union Film Auditorium. Admission: Free.
2/18 -- Cafe Cabaret: Eighteen. 9 pm. Union Cabaret. Admission: Free.
2/19,20 -- Beloved. Fri, 6:30 pm, 10 pm; Sat, 7 pm, 10:30 pm. Union Film Auditorium. Admission: $2.

PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY

Through 2/28 -- Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years. Paul Green Theatre. Tues-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 2 pm. Fee. Call 2-PLAY for more info.

ACTER PERFORMANCE

2/13, 2/14 -- Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Phillips Middle School on estes Drive. 8 pm and 2 pm respectively. Tickets on sale at the Union Box Office, call 2-1449. For more info visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/acter ACTER is a University-based theater group

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Training

CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR LEARNING IN RETIREMENT

Registration required. Contact Meredith Larson at 2-3574 or e-mail meredith_larson@unc.edu Fee.

2/15 -- Computers: Using Windows 95. Greg Robinson. 9 am-3:30 pm.
2/22 -- Computers: Navigating the Internet. Greg Robinson. 9 am-3:30 pm.

ETG WORKSHOPS

All classes held in 305 Berryhill and are from noon to 1 pm. Open to School of Medicine faculty, staff and medical students working on faculty projects. For more info e-mail jmhahn@med.unc.edu, call 6-3519 or visit http://www.med.unc.edu/ois/etg