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The University of Colorado Program Council is proud to announce the theme of this year's Trivia Bowl at the University of Colorado at Boulder, "Trivia Bowl 2002: Beyond Palindrome." A palindrome is a word or number sequence that is the same backwards and forwards, like the year 2002. Beyond Palindrome is an adaptation on the title of the futuristic Mel Gibson movie "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome," as well as the use of the date 2002.

The CU-Boulder Center for Asian Studies will hold its first "Asia Day" on Saturday, March 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fleming Law Building. The event is free and open to the public, and received funding from the Freeman Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.

A CU-Boulder graduate who went on to a 31-year career covering religion for the Los Angeles Times will share humorous stories he's gathered through the years at a free public lecture March 12. John Dart, Hearst Professional-in-Residence at the CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will present "The Odd You See: (The Lighter Side of) a Reporter's 30-year Search for Religion News." The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 250, with a reception to follow.

The College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder approved the use of the student-run Honor Code Feb. 28. The vote means the Honor Code will be in effect in the College of Arts and Sciences for the fall 2002 semester. The Arts and Sciences College is the biggest of the university's schools and colleges to approve the code and the second to last to do so. According to John-John Cord, law student and chair of the CU-Boulder Honor Code Council, 214 votes were cast in favor of the code and only about 20 votes were against it.

"Chemical Fizzics: The World of Bubbles, Beer and Champagne" is the topic of the 37th George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, March 18, by Richard Zare of Stanford University. "It is likely that this lecture will make you never look at a carbonated beverage again in quite the same way," Zare said. "The lecture is loaded with many demonstrations of bubbles in action. Only the brave and the foolhardy should sit in the front row!"

A new CU-Boulder research program, with resources rivaled in few places outside the nation's capital, allows doctoral candidates focusing on Third World development to apply for fellowships that support fieldwork and create a competitive advantage in the pursuit of prestigious national funding. DART, or Developing Areas Research and Teaching, is an interdisciplinary program established at CU-Boulder last year to foster research and teaching activities within the broad field of development studies.

Three national media experts will visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication March 4-15 as Hearst Professionals-in-Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will present a program titled "Nick Perito: Behind the Scenes with Perry Como" on Thursday, March 14. The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Theatre of the Imig Music Building on the CU-Boulder campus. It will celebrate Como's gift of memorabilia to the American Music Research Center in CU-Boulder's College of Music. Perito of Los Angeles, longtime musical director-arranger-conductor for Como, will discuss his professional experiences with Como and provide musical selections.

David Hawkins, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the official historian of the Manhattan Project, died Sunday at the age of 88. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 2, in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. "A giant hole has been created in all of our lives by his passing," said James Scarritt, CU-Boulder political science professor.

Editors: Â鶹ÒùÔº are signing up for University Village apartments today through 5 p.m. at the University Club, Garden Room, near the corner of Broadway and Euclid Avenue at 972 Broadway. Additional housing for students at the University of Colorado at Boulder is now available and more units are scheduled to be completed in the next two years, resulting in 1,379 new beds, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs.