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University of Colorado President John Buechner will draw on his academic background as a political scientist as well as his experience as a public official in an address on Western political behavior sponsored by the Center of the American West at CU-Boulder. Buechner will discuss “Politics of the West: Governing Our States” on Thursday, April 2, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., in room 235 of the University Memorial Center on the campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Although several graduate students had just wheeled in 18 extra large pizzas and several cases of soda and beer into the seminar room, the advice that evening from CU-Boulder Professor Tom Cech was on the money. "Grab some quick," he said. "This stuff goes fast."

Four CU-Boulder faculty members will be named recipients of the 1998 Teaching Recognition Awards by the Student Organization for Alumni Relations on Thursday, April 2. The public is invited to attend the ceremony honoring the four professors in Koenig Alumni Center, 1202 University Ave., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. SOARÂ’s Teaching Recognition Awards are the only awards chosen and administered completely by undergraduate students at CU-Boulder. Presented annually for 37 years, the SOAR awards honor faculty members for their ability to both inspire and work with students.

The search committee charged with finding a new dean of the College of Business and Administration at CU-Boulder has announced five finalists for the position. The candidates, who will each visit the campus in April, are:

A University of Colorado at Boulder conference April 3 and April 4 will feature contests for civil engineering students from the Rocky Mountain region who have designed and built concrete canoes and small steel bridges.

Canon City High School students will see Shakespeare taken from the page to the stage next week by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s acclaimed Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Two professional actors with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will perform scenes, songs and sonnets in a program titled, “Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare,” Monday, March 30, at Canon City High School, 1313 College Ave. The actors will perform at two 50-minute assemblies beginning at noon and 1:30 p.m.

A new ranking of the nationÂ’s law schools by a University of Texas at Austin professor places the University of Colorado School of Law at No. 16 in educational quality, a much higher ranking than the school received this year from U.S. News and World Report, which critics say penalizes public universities in its analysis.

Today is Wednesday, March 18, 1998. The University of Colorado at Boulder will close early today at 2:00 p.m. due to heavy snow. A decision will be made prior to 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 19 as to whether the campus will be open Thursday. With the exception of essential services staff, all university personnel are authorized to leave work at 2:00 p.m. Please call 303-492-5500, or pay attention to local media, for updates. For information concerning Continuing Education classes, please call 303-735-5000.

The forces and technology that make flight possible will be the subject of the next CU Wizards science program for children. The free show begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 28, in Duane Physics room G-030, on the CU-Boulder campus. Duane Physics is located on Colorado Avenue across from Folsom Stadium. Physics Professor Paul Beale, also associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the program he’ll present on “The Physics of Flight” will look at everything from paper airplanes to rockets.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will implement several changes in its commencement ceremony this spring. The College of Arts and Sciences, CU-BoulderÂ’s largest, will hold special recognition ceremonies for all of its graduates, estimated at about 1,700. The college plans to conduct as many as 30 ceremonies at the department level, with some small departments clustering along interdisciplinary lines, before or after the main commencement ceremony at Folsom Stadium on May 15.