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The mysteries of black holes will be discussed at Fiske Planetarium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, Sept. 12, and Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Professor Andrew Hamilton will present the live star show, "Black Holes and Relativity," as part of the fall 2003 schedule of monthly astronomy talks. The live talks are given by CU-Boulder professors and guest lecturers. Hamilton is a professor in CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

CEOs and executives of Time Warner Telecom, BEA Systems, Procter & Gamble and other leading companies will discuss lessons learned from their successful business careers with CU-Boulder students at lectures throughout the fall semester. The Fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs will speak at class lectures of the Profiles in Business and Society course, which has been offered at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1988.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder specialty programs were ranked in the top 15 nationally in the U.S. News & World Report's 2004 rankings of America's Best Colleges as reported on the magazine's Web site, http://www.usnews.com .

The seventh annual Buffalo Racing Car Show will be held on the CU-Boulder campus Sunday, Sept. 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Check-in begins at 8 a.m. and awards will be given at 3:30 p.m. The event will be held on Regent Drive across from Fiske Planetarium. The show will feature all types of cars from classic to exotic, foreign to domestic, and street cars to race cars. Spectators will serve as judges and proceeds will benefit a project by the CU chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers to design and build a race car. The car will be on display at the show.

CU-Boulder students, faculty, staff and community members are encouraged to dust off their bicycles and get ready to ride at the 10th annual Active and Rapid Transportation Festival Sept. 3 through Sept. 5. The CU Environmental Center and the campus Parking and Transportation Services are sponsoring the bash from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on those dates next week in the Norlin Library Quad.

Safe celebrating and smart partying tips are being sent to all CU-Boulder students in an effort to help them avoid the risks they could encounter if they host irresponsible parties. Injuries, legal charges, fines and suspensions are consequences that often befall those student hosts.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will continue to enforce its "3 Strikes" policy for the 2003-04 academic year. Twenty-nine students were suspended from CU-Boulder for at least one semester during the 2002-03 academic year as a direct result of the alcohol and drug policy that was put into place in the fall of 2000.

As the Internet continues to mature, it has changed the way businesses operate, stocks are traded and news is dispersed. It also is changing the face of the art world. At the forefront of this change is Mark Amerika, a pioneer in the digital arts field and an assistant professor in the University of Colorado at Boulder fine arts department.

Ceramic fine arts might not be the first discipline that comes to mind when students think of renowned programs at large research universities, but one of the nation's best graduate programs in ceramics is found at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In a U.S. News and World Report review of graduate programs in spring 2003, CU-Boulder's ceramics program ranked ninth. But ceramics Professor Jeanne Quinn is quick to point out that CU-Boulder has been well known in the ceramics community for some time, and there is one leading reason for the recognition.

Compiling an encyclopedia of U.S. Latina and Latino popular culture is among the projects of newly appointed Associate Professor Arturo J. Aldama in the department of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "We are extremely fortunate to have attracted Arturo Aldama, one of the brightest stars in his field, to CU-Boulder," said Professor Ward Churchill, chair of the department. "He is enthusiastic, energetic, charismatic, brilliant and an asset not only to the department of ethnic studies, but to the university community."