Announcements: Around Campus

Recreation planning
A recreation and wellness planning committee has been formed to guide the University’s architects in designing a new recreation building. The committee is anxious to obtain input from the campus community because decisions must be made on design and capabilities of the project.

Members of the committee include: Tom Roberts (co-chair), director of recreation and wellness; John Hoogakker (co-chair), associate vice president; Dr. Scott Allison, faculty representative; Wendy Burchard, staff advisory council representative; Tim Gill, student representative; Dr. Len Goldberg, vice president of student development; Jessica Loman, student representative; Andrew McBride, University architect; and David Walsh, athletic department representative.

Committee members will disseminate project information, and there will be several open meetings this semester. The committee will review and discuss plans for the center with project architects, and a Web site will provide updated project information, illustrations and an opportunity to submit comments and suggestions.

Exhibitions in University Museums
On view through May 6 at the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center is “Then & Now: Dementi Studio Photographs of the University of Richmond.”

Several exhibitions are on view at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art. The semi-annual student exhibition will remain on view through Feb. 6, and on exhibit through July 30 is “Then & Now: Dementi Studio Photographs of the University of Richmond.” “Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Royal House of Stuart, 1688–1788: Works of Art from the Drambuie Collection” will be on view through May 7. From Feb. 1–May 7 “Rococo to Revolution: European Prints of the Eighteenth Century” will be displayed.

Continuing through July 10 at the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature is “Cheers!: Drinking Glasses from the Permanent Collection.” On view through June 26 is “Fancy Rockingham Pottery: The Modeller and Ceramics in Nineteenth- Century America.” On display through July 30 is “Silent Spring: Andy Warhol’s ‘Endangered Species’ and ‘Vanishing Animals’.”

A special online exhibition, “hypertemporality: an exhibition on internet art,” is available through June 30 at http:// oncampus.richmond.edu/museums/hypertemporality/. Included are the works of five artists (Peter Baldes, Joel Holmberg, Lisa Jevbratt, Erik Loyer and Alexander Stewart) who are interested in how the newest technology brings about rapid obsolescence in society today.

University Forum under construction
Construction of University Forum, a large, center-campus plaza, is underway. The new plaza was envisioned in the 2000 campus master plan and includes a pedestrian mall that will extend from Booker Hall to Tyler Haynes Commons, connecting also to Cannon Memorial Chapel. Completion is expected by fall 2005. The road in this area was permanently closed on Jan. 4.

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