What's Happening This Week

What's Happening at UNCG
Oct. 25 - Nov. 7

Oct. 25

7:30 p.m.
School of Music Recital Hall
UNCG organ lecturer and choir master, Robert Burns King, will perform. Tickets will be $8, $5 for seniors and $3 for UNCG students. Music majors are free. For more info, call 334-4849.

Oct. 25 - 30

Elliott University Center
Unity Week: Celebration of Cultural Diversity
Sponsored by the Academic Affairs & Student Affairs, coordinated by Office of Multicultural Affairs. Free and open to the public. For more info, call 334-5090.

Oct. 27

McIver Building - Room 28
Dr. Susan Martin, a professor at the University of Tennessee, will lecture on Roman Law. Free and open to public. For more info, call 334-5590.

Oct. 27 - 30

8 p.m.
UNCG Dance Theatre - School of Health & Human Performance Building
Department of Dance will present its faculty dance concert. Admission is $10, $7 for seniors & students, and $3 for UNCG students. For more info, call 334-5570.

Oct. 27

7:30 p.m.
School of Music Recital Hall
Michael Nicolella, one of America's most promising young classical guitarists, will perform. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for seniors, and $3 for UNCG students. For more info, call 334-4849.

Oct. 28

7 - 9:30 p.m.
Weatherspoon Art Gallery - Auditorium
"Will Read For Food," annual program of readings by local authors to benefit the Greensboro Food Bank. Suggested donation is $5 for students and $10 for general public. Free parking behind the Weatherspoon. For more info call Michael Parker at 334-4696 or MFA Writing Program at 334-5459.

Oct. 28

4 p.m.
Elliott University Center - Cone Ballroom
James McBride, author and musician, will discuss his book, "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother." Free and open to the public. For more info call 334-5090.

Oct. 28 - 29

The Fallible Eyewitness: Psychological and Legal Implications
Oct. 28 - 7:30 p.m.
Jackson Library - Jarrell Lecture Hall
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, University of Washington Dept. of Psychology, will kickoff this two-day series with a lecture entitled "Illusion of Memory - In and Out of Court."
Oct. 29 - 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Weatherspoon Art Gallery - Auditorium
Eyewitness Memory Symposium
9 a.m. - "Recollections of Long-Past Experience"- Dr. Stephen Lindsay, University
              of Victoria, Dept. of Psychology
10:30 a.m. - "Biased Recollections of the Witnessing Experience - The Effects of
                      Bogus Feedback" - Dr. Gary Wells, University of Iowa, Department of Psychology
1:30 p.m. - "Eyewitness Experts and the Law"- George Castelle, Chief Public Defender,
                    Public Defender's Office, Charleston, WV
3 p.m. - Panel Discussion - Dr. Elizabeth Loftis and Dr. Peter Ornstein, UNC-CH Department of Psychology
For more info, call 334-5700.
Oct. 29
2:15 - 6:30 p.m.
UNCG Campus
Annual Greek Treat will be held. Registration will be held in the lobby of Cone Residence Hall. Cost is one can of food per child. For more info, call the Office of Student Life at 334-5617.

Nov. 2 and 9

6 - 9 p.m.
206 Foust Building
"Make a Living? Or Make a Life?," a University Alumni Career Services workshop. Registration deadline is Oct. 25. Cost is $10, with an additional $33.25 for workbook (opt.). For more info, call 334-3763.

Nov. 3 - 7

7 p.m. Wed. & Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.
Taylor Building
"Greensboro: A Requiem," Emily Mann's play on Klan/Nazi shootings, will open. Cost is $11 for adults, $9 for seniors & children, and $7 for groups of 10 or more. For more info, call 334-4849.

Nov. 4

7 p.m.
Cone Building - Auditorium
Dr. Donald Hellison, professor of exercise & sports science at University of Illinois at Chicago, will speak on the topic "Programs for Kids At Risk: Solutions or Band-Aids?" Free and open to the public. For more info, call 334-5744.

Nov. 5 - 6

Alumni House - Virginia Dare Room
"Stereotyping and Prejudice: Barriers and Breakthroughs," lectures part of "Who R We?" series.
Nov. 5 - 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. - Dr. Maharin Banaji, Yale University, will speak on "The Roots of Prejudice."
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Dr. Galen Bodenhausen, Northwestern University, will speak on "Unique Individual or Interchangeable Group Member? Determinants of Stereotyping in Social Perception."
Nov. 6 - 10 - 11 a.m. - Dr. Monica Biernat, University of Kansas, will speak on "The Role of American Values in Supporting and Thwarting Outgroup Prejudice."
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Dr. Patricia G. Devine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak on "Acceptance or Backlash? Responses to Normative Pressure Discouraging Prejudice."
Free and open to the public. For more info, call 334-5059.

Ongoing Exhibits at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

Gallery Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesday; 1 - 5 p.m. weekends
UNCG Faculty Art Exhibition - through Dec. 19 in the Tannenbaum Gallery
Painter Carroll Dunham, first of the 1999-2000 Falk Visiting Artists - through Nov. 21
"Looking Forward, Looking Black" - through Oct. 31
Free and open to the public. Free guided tours of the gallery are offered at 2 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month by the Weatherspoon Guild Docents Group. Group tours at other times are available by calling the gallery at 334-5770.

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