PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 25, No. 4, Aug. 18, 2005

brief notes

Faculty and staff members
Free tickets offered for Sept. 3 football game
In appreciation for contributions made by faculty and staff members, Chancellor Richard Herman is offering a free pair of tickets to the Illini football game on Sept. 3 against Rutgers.

Each faculty and staff member who would like to take advantage of this offer must pick up the tickets in person with a staff ID at the Athletic Ticket Office at Assembly Hall now through Sept. 2. The ticket office is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on weekdays. It will remain open until 6 p.m. during the week of Aug. 29. Before going to Assembly Hall, go to www.fightingillini.com/freetickets and fill out the voucher information sheet. Print this form and take it with you to the box office to speed service.

Tickets are for personal use only and may not be resold. Faculty and staff members who are season-ticket holders also may participate in this program.

“Whether or not you are able to join us, please accept my gratitude for your dedication and pride in this institution and in your work,” Herman said in a letter to faculty and staff members. “Collectively and individually, you are the real strength of this place, and I am proud to be associated with all of you.”

Learn about resources, services
Library tours offered Aug. 22 - 25
The Library will offer tours Aug. 22 to 25 to teach users about resources and services. Tours will begin every hour from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Marshall Gallery of the Library building, near the east entrance facing the Undergraduate Library. No registration is required. For more information, call 244-1880 or visit: www.library.uiuc.edu/announce/tours.html.

MillerComm series
Lecture looks at social networks Aug. 29
A look at social networks and how they drive individual and collective behavior will be the subject of the first lecture this fall in the MillerComm series sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study.

“Social Networks and Social Dynamics in a Small World” will be presented Aug. 29 by Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University and author of “Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.” His lecture, free and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center.

The MillerComm series is supported with funds from the George A. Miller Endowment and several co-sponsoring campus units. The Watts lecture is in conjunction with the CAS initiative “Age of Networks: Social, Technological and Cultural Connections.” For more information about this initiative, go to www.cas.uiuc.edu/networks.html. Information about the MillerComm series is online at www.cas.uiuc.edu/casmillercomm.html.

Box-office sales begin
Assembly Hall kicks off season
The UI Assembly Hall box office will open Aug. 20 at noon as tickets for seven shows go on sale.

Individual tickets to the 2005-06 “News Gazette Broadway Series” will be available for purchase. The five shows presented this season: “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Oct. 25; “The Will Rogers Follies,” Nov. 16; “42nd Street,” March 3; “Oklahoma,” March 13; and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” April 14. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Series subscriptions may be ordered through the first show on Oct. 25.

Also on sale Saturday are tickets to two events sponsored by WICD-TV (Channel 15). These shows include “BLAST!,” comprising 37 brass, percussion and visual performers in an explosion of music and theater on Oct. 10, and “Broadway’s Spirit of Christmas” on Dec. 11.

Tickets can be purchased at the Assembly Hall box office, Ticketmaster or charged by phone at 333-5000. Assembly Hall box office hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday noon to 4 p.m.

For more information, visit www.uofiassemblyhall.com/ or call 333-5000.

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