Join the UConn Stamford community and participate in a musical, cultural and educational experience on Saturday, November 12 in the GenRe Auditorium, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

The Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble will be performing a concert, along with the local O-Tatsu Taiko group. Taiko is Japanese drumming and is performed throughout the world. The Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble is based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has recently begun its East-West Tour of mainland universities and colleges, with UConn Stamford included in their schedule.

The concert will be FREE, with first priority offered to UConn students, faculty and staff.
You may order up to six tickets on-line using the following website: www.acteva.com/go/otatsu

The tickets will be available immediately, and so if you are interested in attending, I recommend that you log-on quickly to secure your tickets. It will be open seating for the concert.

For more information about the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble and current tour details, please go to kennyendo.com/eastwest2005.htm.

The next Sacker Lecture on human rights will be held this Thursday, October 6th, at 7:30 in the General Re Auditorium at the UConn Stamford Campus.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael Marrus, is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society.

He has been a Guggenheim Fellow; a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Cape Town, and a visiting fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He authored The Holocaust in History, Vichy France and the Jews and co-authored The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Mr. Sam: A Biography of Samuel Bronfman.

Professor Marrus was a member of the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission, examining the role of the Vatican during the Holocaust.

This lecture is free and open to the community.

On October 26 from 12-1 p.m. in the Schreiber Room, Student Contributors from the Storrs Creative Writing Program’s publication “The Long River Review” will be on campus to read from their works. Pizza will be served.

Part of October’s UConn LGBTQ
(Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trans/Queer) Awareness Month

Date: October 18, 2005
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: A-1

In October 1998, University of Wyoming college student was murdered for being gay. Moises Kaufman’s Tectonic Theatre project came to Laramie, Wyoming to interview members of the community as Matthew lay dying. The result was “The Laramie Project,” an award-winning, star-studded film that challenges your ideas about life and tolerance in America, and presents a new sense of what it means to be part of a community.

UConn English professor Dr. Fred Roden will lead a discussion about these issues after this powerful film.