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Chairman of the Czech RepublicÂ’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former ambassador to the United States, Michael Zantovsky, is scheduled to give a public lecture on NATOÂ’s enlargement Thursday, Oct. 23, at 3 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

EDITORS: A media tour of the Benson Earth Sciences Building led by Miller will be at 10 a.m. Oct. 28 starting at the buildingÂ’s west entrance. A complete schedule of Oct. 30 dedication events is attached. A new $14.5 million geology building at the University of Colorado at Boulder should help change outdated perceptions about geologists, says department chair Gifford Miller. Contrary to what many people believe, modern geology isn't done just by people in khaki pants banging on rocks with a hammer, he says.

Editors: Photographers are welcome at the performance Oct. 23 at 11 a.m. Contact Kristin Anderson, Macky Auditorium director, at 492-8423 for information. More than 2,000 area students will attend a Lyric Theatre for Children performance of “Guys and Dolls” at the University of Colorado at Boulder Thursday, Oct. 23. Fourth- through sixth-graders from Boulder, Denver, Aurora, Arvada, Englewood, Grover, Longmont, Littleton, Northglenn, Westminster, Windsor and Fort Collins will attend the performance.

CU-Boulder faculty and staff are being encouraged to “Slam Dunk Our CCC Goal!” by continuing to show strong support for the annual Colorado Combined Campaign as the campus kicks off its ninth year. The CCC gets underway on campus Oct. 20. The Colorado Combined Campaign is a state-wide program for channeling employee contributions to more than 600 Colorado charities. Last year the campus raised $145,000 for the campaign.

The Women’s Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host an address by leading black feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins on Oct. 29. Collins will speak on “Moving Beyond Gender: Race, Class and Scientific Knowledge,” at 7:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the CU Heritage Center following the presentation.

Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is reviewing additional options for funding CU-BoulderÂ’s proposed ECO Pass after receiving dozens of comments for and against the plan. Tabolt decided today to ask the ECO Pass Project Team to bring additional funding ideas for his consideration. He made the decision in response to faculty objections and a Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) resolution calling for additional evaluation.

Scholars who study behavioral decision-making will attend a marketing camp at the University of Colorado at Boulder this week to present research and discuss trends. The camp, sponsored by CU and coordinated by marketing professors Dilip Soman and Dipankar Chakravarti, is a precursor to the national Association for Consumer Research conference in Denver. It begins Tuesday evening at the Boulder Broker Inn at 30th Street and Baseline Road and resumes at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday.

About 100 high school seniors from Brush, Keenesburg, Parker, Aurora, Littleton, Lakewood and Greenwood Village will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 16. The students are members of the Colorado-Wyoming Junior Academy of Science, an organization that promotes an interest in science among secondary students. While on campus they will meet with CU-Boulder faculty and students in astronomy, biology, chemistry, paleontology and physics. On the schedule are visits to specialists in snakes, conservation ecology, neuropsychology, engineering and genetics.

New Academic Teaching Program Offered For Teaching English In East Asia Â鶹ÒùÔº wanting to pursue careers teaching English in China, Japan or Korea can now get comprehensive training at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Laurel Rasplica Rodd, chair of the department of East Asian languages and literatures, and Lise Menn, chair of the linguistics department, developed the new offering because the job market for English teachers in East Asia is so strong.

Chemical research at the University of Colorado at Boulder ranks third in the United States for the amount of off-campus funding it attracts. The CU-Boulder department of chemistry and biochemistry received $13.9 million in outside grant support in 1995, a total exceeded only by the University of California at Berkeley with $15.6 million and the California Institute of Technology with $14.9 million. The rankings appear in the Sept. 1 edition of Chemical and Engineering News.