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The University&News
Vol, XXXIV, No. XVIII
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
March 3, 2009
Archaeologist and curator to visit campus
Dr. Elaine Gazda will lecture on the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii
Mary Tetzlaff
Managing Editor
On Monday, March 16 anc!
Tuesday, March 17, Phi Beta
Kappa will sponsor a series of
on-campus events with Elaine Gazda,
professor of classical artand archaeology
in the department of the history of art at
the University of Michigan, director of
the Interdepartmental Program in Artand
Archaeology, and curator of Hellenistic
and Roman Antiquities at the Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology. Ihe events will
include an informal conversation and a
public lecture, as well as meetings with
art and classics students with interests in
archeology and museum curating.
Gazda's current interest lies in the
copies and emulations made of Roman
art amidst the Italian fascist government
duringthe 1920s. Her lecture on Tuesday
night will focus on this topic and more
specifically on the story of Maria
Barosso's replication of the Bacchic
murals from Villa
The Villa of the Mysteries, shown above, and replicas made
of it will be the lecture topic on Tuesday, March 17.
of the Mysteries at
Pompeii. Barosso
was commissioned
to complete large
scale replicas of the
wall-paintings atthe
Villa of Mysteries
in 1924 by
Francis W. Kelsey,
professor of Lati n
at the University of
Michigan. Gazda's
lecture will treat the
story that unfolds
between Kelsey and
Barosso and the
tension between
the patron's vision,
the artist's craft and
the fascist intention
for the replicas.
Gazda is personally involved with
this story, as she is currently the curator
of Hellenistic and Roman antiquities
at the Kelsey Museum in Michigan
where these large-scale watercolor
replicas are on display. The public
lecture will occur on Tuesday, March
17 in Lynch Auditorium at 5 p.m.
Soon-to-be Romers are especially
invited to attend since they will see
the Villa of the Mysteries during their
class trip to Pompeii.
In preparation for the lecture,
students are also invited to an
informal discussion with Gazda
on culture, politics and aesthetics.
This conversation will take place
on Monday March 16, at 3 p.m. in
Gorman Faculty Lounge. The event is
sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and Phi
Alpha fheta and refreshments will be
provided by Bran iff Graduate School.
Readings, including some of Gazda's
articles, will be available on online
reserves and at the event. Students
enrolled in the history seminar on
Hitler, in the philosophy department's
Aesthetics class, or art students studying
the Renaissance and Baroque in Art
and Architecture II might find this
conversation opportunity particularly
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Dr. Elaine Gazda will be visiting UD
on March 16 and 17 to give a lecture
and advise students.
interesting. Also, the conversation might
interestthose who have read and enjoyed
Remi Brague's "Eccentric Culture"
;copies of which will be available on
reserve in the library).
In addition to these public events,
Gazda is scheduled to work with
students who are interested in pursuing
a museum or archaeology career. More
information on all these events will be
posted around campus on flyers and on
posters in Haggar Foyer.
Physics students to
search or new planets
Grant awarded for new research
Monica Diodati
Contributing Writer
If there were the possibility of dis-
covering new, unidentified planets
out there in the universe, wouldn't
you want to be the one to discover
them? Twelve lucky students in Dr.
Richard Olenick's General Physics
class volunteered to go on an excit-
ing planet search this May in Gunni-
son, Colo. Partly funded by the Society
of Physics Students, the team hopes
their recently awarded Sigma Pi Sigma
grant, given to only five teams a year,
will help them get the supplies they
need to go through with the project.
Very excited about the prestigious
award, Olenick explained that the
students will be searching for planets
around other stars and, if found, moni-
toring their movement. To do this, they
will use the coveted Gunnison Valley
30-inch telescope, something most
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students and research teams never get
to do. Staying up all night for six to
ten nights in May, the team will take
shifts observing how the intensity of
light emitted from the stars changes,
the light should diminish as planets
pass in front of them. This method is
called the transit method, and, as their
abstract states, is necessary "to deter-
mine the true nature of a new plan-
etary system."
Participants in the Mayterm As-
tronomy in Colorado program this year
wi 11 be able to see the students at work
and use the telescope themselves.
After the students complete the
project, they will present it to an au-
dience in Gunnison Valley, speak to
their local high schools, give a seminar
at UD next fall, and present their work
to prospective students on Odyssey
weekends. And, Olenick said, "if we
observe some of these [planets], we'll
probably get published."
TGIT
a closer look
at a UD classic
see pages
8 & 9
UD welcomes new
chaplain
Fr. Rudy Garcia will be
6 taking over university
chaplain duties.
Metroplex art museums The value of athletics
Debunking protectionism
11
A review of five different
metroplex art museums.
13
Sports editor Josh Mahan
reflects on the value of
athletics to his college
experience.
14
Contributing writer
Kenneth Spence argues for
specialization of labor and
against protectionism.
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