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Longmont's first Hispanic city councilman, the late Benjamin "Benny" Rodriguez, will be honored in a unique altar created with the help of a University of Colorado at Boulder fine arts professor. The altar was designed by Associate Professor George Rivera and the Rodriguez family. Rodriguez, a Longmont native and local business owner, died Jan. 22 at the age of 75.

During the week of March 10-15, students at the University of Colorado at Boulder will join with their peers on more than 3,000 campuses across North America in observance of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Alcohol educators in CU-Boulder's Department of Housing are sponsoring the week's activities on campus in conjunction with the A Matter of Degree program. Students also take ownership in designing and implementing many of the scheduled programs for their campus communities.

The University of Colorado at Boulder ranks fifth in the nation for the number of graduates currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, according to 2002 rankings released today. For several years, including last year, the university ranked second in the nation in numbers of volunteers. In 2002, the University of Wisconsin at Madison ranked first, with 96 volunteers, followed by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with 76, the University of California at Berkeley with 70, the University of Texas with 69 and CU-Boulder with 64.

The University of Colorado Program Council is proud to announce the theme of this year's Trivia Bowl at the University of Colorado at Boulder, "Trivia Bowl 2002: Beyond Palindrome." A palindrome is a word or number sequence that is the same backwards and forwards, like the year 2002. Beyond Palindrome is an adaptation on the title of the futuristic Mel Gibson movie "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome," as well as the use of the date 2002.

The CU-Boulder Center for Asian Studies will hold its first "Asia Day" on Saturday, March 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fleming Law Building. The event is free and open to the public, and received funding from the Freeman Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.

A CU-Boulder graduate who went on to a 31-year career covering religion for the Los Angeles Times will share humorous stories he's gathered through the years at a free public lecture March 12. John Dart, Hearst Professional-in-Residence at the CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will present "The Odd You See: (The Lighter Side of) a Reporter's 30-year Search for Religion News." The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 250, with a reception to follow.

The College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Boulder approved the use of the student-run Honor Code Feb. 28. The vote means the Honor Code will be in effect in the College of Arts and Sciences for the fall 2002 semester. The Arts and Sciences College is the biggest of the university's schools and colleges to approve the code and the second to last to do so. According to John-John Cord, law student and chair of the CU-Boulder Honor Code Council, 214 votes were cast in favor of the code and only about 20 votes were against it.

"Chemical Fizzics: The World of Bubbles, Beer and Champagne" is the topic of the 37th George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, March 18, by Richard Zare of Stanford University. "It is likely that this lecture will make you never look at a carbonated beverage again in quite the same way," Zare said. "The lecture is loaded with many demonstrations of bubbles in action. Only the brave and the foolhardy should sit in the front row!"

A new CU-Boulder research program, with resources rivaled in few places outside the nation's capital, allows doctoral candidates focusing on Third World development to apply for fellowships that support fieldwork and create a competitive advantage in the pursuit of prestigious national funding. DART, or Developing Areas Research and Teaching, is an interdisciplinary program established at CU-Boulder last year to foster research and teaching activities within the broad field of development studies.

Three national media experts will visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication March 4-15 as Hearst Professionals-in-Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder.