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March 3, 2000 Vol. 52, No. 37

CAGERS FACE NORTHERN IOWA IN MVC TOURNAMENT TONIGHT

Drake men's basketball will take on Northern Iowa tonight in the qualifying play-in round of the 2000 Diet Pepsi Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in The Keil Center in St. Louis. The game will start at 8:30 p.m. and be broadcast live on KJJC Radio (107.1 FM). It also will be possible to listen to the game over the Internet at http://www.drakebulldogs.org.

This will be just the second time these schools have played in the MVC Tournament with the Bulldogs prevailing over Northern Iowa, 63-59, in the quarterfinal round of the 1993 MVC Tournament.

The Bulldogs are out to snap a season-long eight-game losing skid following
back-to-back heartbreaking losses on the road to Northern Iowa and Illinois State (90-88 overtime) Monday. Northern Iowa is seeking its third straight victory after trimming Wichita State, 81-68, Monday.
WINDY CITY COMEDY TROUPE TO PERFORM AT DRAKE SATURDAY

Former Student Body President Sandy Marshall, AS'96, will bring his Chicago-based comedy troupe - Schadenfreude Theater Co. - to Drake for a performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 4, in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center. The troupe also stars another Drake alumnus: Stephen Schmidt, AS'96.

Schadenfreude is a sketch comedy ensemble that performs new material at the Heartland Studio Theater in Chicago. The group has been praised for writing the best and most subversive sketch comedy in the Chicago area.

The performance at Drake, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Student Activities Board Speakers and Issues Committee.
COWLES LIBRARY ADDS ART EXHIBIT IN HONOR OF EDELMAN'S VISIT

In honor of the visit of Marian Wright Edelman to campus and to celebrate Youth Art Month, Cowles Library is currently featuring a display of children's artwork in the main lobby. The artwork comes from children enrolled in Drake Head Start, King Elementary School, Edmunds Academy of Fine Arts, and Moulton Elementary School's "Breakfast Club" program.

Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, will give the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 8, in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main.

In connection with her visit to Drake, a Public Service Advocacy Panel will be held from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Cowles Library Reading Room. In addition, there will be an informal conversation with Edelman from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. that day in the Cowles Library Reading Room. Both the panel discussion and informal conversation are free and open to the public.

On Thursday, March 9, Drake students will join Edelman for a "Day at the Capitol for Iowa's Children." A kick-off rally will start at 8:15 a.m. in the State Capitol Rotunda with a proclamation signing and remarks by Edelman, Gov. Tom Vilsack and Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson. The proclamation will advocate spending "Tobacco Dollars for Health: to provide a better life for Iowa's Children." The rally will be followed by meetings with legislators.
RUBIN 'HURRICANE' CARTER TO SPEAK AT DRAKE TUESDAY

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, human rights activist and former professional boxer, will speak at Drake University on Tuesday, March 7, as part of Drake's continuing celebration of African-American History Month.

Carter's speech, which is free and open to the public, will start at 8 p.m. in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center. Carter, the subject of "The Hurricane" movie, will discuss his rise in the boxing arena and his fall due to the injustices of the legal system. A question-and-answer session will follow the speech.

Carter's professional boxing career began in 1961, and his fast and furious style instantly made him a crowd favorite. Five years later, while preparing for a World Championship fight, Carter was arrested for triple homicide. Although steadfastly maintaining his innocence, Carter was convicted and sentenced to three life terms, narrowly escaping the electric chair.

In 1974, upon publication of his autobiography (The 16th Round: From Number 1 to Number 45472) and the recantations of the state's two key witnesses (criminals, who admitted they had lied at the trial), Carter's case attracted international attention. He became a civil-rights cause celebre and was immortalized in the Bob Dylan song, "Hurricane."

A new trial ensued, but the injustice was repeated. Carter never gave up, however, and was released from prison in 1985. In February 1988, the 22-year-old indictment against him was officially dismissed. The World Boxing Council later awarded Carter the World Championship Belt at its 30th convention in Las Vegas.

Carter now serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Human Rights (Atlanta), the Alliance for Prison Justice (Boston) and the Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted (Toronto, Canada). He has testified before the U.S. Congress on the need for preserving federal review of state court convictions, and has lectured at several universities including Harvard Law School and Yale Law School.
WORLD MUSIC CONCERT SERIES TO FEATURE KOREAN VIRTUOSO

The Drake University World Music Concert Series will present a performance on Tuesday, March 7, by Jin Hi Kim, an internationally renowned composer of major cross-cultural works and a virtuoso on the komungo, a six-stringed fretted board zither that originated in North Korea in the fourth century.

The concert will start at 8 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Tickets are $4 per person or free with a Drake ID or student ID.

A noted ethnomusicologist at Seoul National University who has performed at the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Kim fuses old Korean and new Western concepts into a rich series of compositions celebrating what she calls "Living Tones."

In addition to her concert, Kim will give a workshop and lecture on "Living Tones" at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 7, in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center. This event is free and open to the public.
JANICE WEISSMILLER TO READ HER POETRY AT DRAKE WEDNESDAY

Poet Janice Weissmiller will read from her book titled In Divided Light as part of Drake University's Writers and Critics Series on Wednesday, March 8. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Medbury Honors Lounge.

Weissmiller received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and has long been a staff member at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City, Iowa. She also is a fifth-generation native of Carroll County in northwestern Illinois.
RECITAL TO CELEBRATE MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS

The Pi Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity is sponsoring a recital of music by women composers on Saturday, March 11, 2000, at 8 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. The recital, which is free and open to the public, is part of "In Celebration of Womyn Week."

Linda Robbins Coleman, FA'76, will be the featured composer. Many of Coleman's pieces will be performed as well as works by Ruth Crawford Seeger and Janine Rueff.

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