News Releases from the Office of Public Relations, 1999-2000

Tip Sheets - Story Ideas from the Office of Public Relations, 1999-2000

Janet Murray will explore the fundamental and sometimes dramatic ways the narrative form can be manipulated on the World Wide Web in a presentation titled "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" on Thursday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapman Center Auditorium.  The presentation is part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series and is free and open to the public.  Read the full news release.

Archeologist Nick Cahill will highlight the research gleaned from the public and private areas of Sardis, the capital of the Lydian Empire of western Turkey, as part of a presentation sponsored by Southwest Texas Archaeological Society.  Nick Cahill will speak on "Recent Fieldwork at Sardis, The City of Croesus" on Thursday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapman Center Auditorium.  This event is free and open to the public.  Read the full news release.

Art historian Mariët Westermann will examine the relationship between Dutch home life and art in the 17th century with a November 15 event titled "Costly and Curious, Full of Pleasure and Home Contentment: Dutch Interiors in the Seventeenth Century."  The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapman Center Auditorium.  It is part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series and is free and open to the public.  Read the full news release.

Trinity's department of Speech and Drama will present Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle as its second main stage production of the 2000-2001 season.  The Caucasian Chalk Circle will be performed in the Jane and Arthur Stieren Theater on November 10 and 11 at 8 p.m., November 12 at 2:30 p.m., and November 15-18 at 8 p.m.  Read the full news release.

Retired Army General H. Norman Schwarzkopf will launch Trinity University’s Distinguished Lecture Series with a November 20 speech at Laurie Auditorium.  The topic of his San Antonio speech is "Leadership: From the War Room to the Board Room."  His talk, which will begin at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.  Read the full news release.

Trinity University named one of "America's Best Colleges." Trinity University was ranked #1 among western universities for the ninth consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report's guide, "America's Best Colleges." Trinity also topped the magazine's "Great Schools at Great Prices" list as the best value in the West.  Read the full news release.

Trinity Elects 2000. This political year, talk about the presidential candidates and the issues is just too big to hold in classrooms alone.  So members of Trinity's student affairs office, faculty, and students have joined together to exchange ideas and debate the issues at a series of events held mostly in residence halls during the fall semester.  Trinity Elects 2000 gives students a chance to stay involved in politics outside of class.  For details go to the Trinity Elects web site.

Alice Aycock, an internationally renowned artist of outdoor and gallery works, will give an illustrated presentation of her life's work in a lecture titled "Alice Aycock: A Survey of Sculptural Works" on Tuesday, October 10, in the Chapman Center Auditorium.  The event is the first of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series' 2000-01 season and is free and open to the public.  Read the full news release.

Art historian Christopher Reed will examine the relationship between Sigmund Freud's notion of the "uncanny" and the representation of domestic life by Surrealists during a presentation at Trinity University.  This presentation, titled "Reservations on the Uncanny: Surrealism and Domesticity," is part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series.  The presentation will take place Monday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapman Center Auditorium and is free and open to the public.  Read the full news release.

Tom DeFayette, science education research technician, and Gene Clark, professor of physics at Trinity University, have won an award for the best low cost demonstration apparatus at the International Conference of Physics Teachers conference.  Read the full news release.

William O. Walker Jr. has been appointed to the Jennie Farris Railey King Professorship in Religion at Trinity University.  Professor Walker, known for his scholarly research on the New Testament, has been a member of the Trinity faculty since 1962.  Read the full news release.

Patricia J. Mitchell, a Tallahassee, Florida resident and a Trinity alumna, donated over $100,000 to the University to establish an endowed scholarship in memory of her father, the late O.R. Mitchell.  The O.R. Mitchell Scholarship will provide financial assistance for business administration students at Trinity University.  Read the full news release.

"The President's Own" United States Marine Band will appear for one concert only in Trinity University's Laurie Auditorium on Thursday, October 19, at 7:30 p.m.  Read the full news release.

Trinity University's Department of Speech and Drama will be presenting Calderón de la Barca's The Phantom Lady as their opening production for the 2000-2001 season.  Read the full news release.

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Last updated on October 31, 2000
by the Office of Public Relations