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The ninth annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference titled "Conservative Judicial Activism" will be held Oct. 19-20 at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law.

The Feminist Student Network at CU-Boulder will host its annual "Take Back the Night" rally and march against sexual assault from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Oct. 10 on the CU-Boulder campus. The rally will begin at 6 p.m. at the University Memorial Center fountain. Speakers at the rally will lend a strong voice to the fight against sexual violence, according to event organizer Rebecca Trinite.

When a nation is gearing up for war, the words its leaders use areimportant -- and follow a predictable pattern, according to politicalscience Professor Francis Beer of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Beer, who specializes in the study of war and peace, has carefullyexamined politicians' use of words in conflicts of the 20th century. The Sept. 11 attacks, for example, were most often compared withPearl Harbor, and the U.S. response generally has been referred to as the"War on Terrorism."

The Center for Humanities and the Arts at CU-Boulder will present a free public lecture titled "Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem - and Mine" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, in the British Studies Room of CU's Norlin Library. Speaking will be James Edward Young, professor of English and chair of the department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1997, Young was one of five persons appointed by the Berlin Senate to a commission to design Germany's national "Memorial to Europe's Murdered Jews," to be built in Berlin.

The University of Colorado at Boulder College of Business has received a $35 million commitment from the Leeds family of New York to endow the CU-Boulder business school. The endowment will support academic excellence, social responsibility and diversity. Michael and Richard Leeds are graduates of CU-Boulder. The CU Board of Regents will consider a resolution next week to rename the college the "Leeds School of Business."

The world's most celebrated Chicano author, Rudolfo Anaya, will receive the 2001 Wallace Stegner Award from the CU-Boulder Center of the American West on Tuesday, Oct. 16. "Power, Magic and Spirit: An Evening with Rudolfo Anaya" will be presented on the CU-Boulder campus in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom at 7 p.m. Anaya also will answer questions from a panel of interviewers and the audience. A book signing and reception will precede the event in the east ballroom starting at 6 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

A surprising new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates that for postmenopausal women, reducing sodium may have a greater effect on lowering systolic blood pressure than regular exercise. The study was carried out by researchers in the department of kinesiology and applied physiology under principal investigator and department Chair Douglas Seals. The results were published in a paper presented in the August Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

One of the most violent explosions in nature - the supernova - will be the topic of a live astronomy show at CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Oct. 12, and Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. CU-Boulder astronomy Professor Richard McCray will talk about why stars become supernovae and how scientists have learned about this fundamental process of nature, as well as the human perspective on the phenomenon.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Astrobiology will host a multi-disciplinary panel of experts for its third annual public symposium titled "What Is Life?" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Cristol Chemistry Building room 140. The field of astrobiology draws from many disciplines to understand what factors determine if there is life beyond Earth

Achievements, challenges and issues for women in the news media are highlighted in a series of special October programs sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Tad Bartimus, a reporter for The Associated Press for 25 years, is a Hearst Professional-in-Residence at the school and will be on campus Oct. 8-13. During her tenure at AP, she served as bureau chief, war correspondent in Vietnam, foreign correspondent in Europe, Northern Ireland and Latin America and as a special correspondent in the United States.