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HER OWN SHOW - Art Gallery manager Carla Stone got a chance to work the other side of the field with a show she has curated now on exhibit at the University Library Art Gallery. Grafica Contemporenea de Mexico/ Contemporary Prints from Mexico remains on view through Monday, June 30. A reception to celebrate the exhibition is scheduled for Thursday, April 24, from 4-6 p.m. in the Gallery. The exhibit features the work of thirteen emerging, mid-career, and established printmakers from Mexico whose work is as contemporary as it is diverse. Prints include linocuts, lithographs, aquatints, serigraphs, etchings, and even screen-prints on skateboards. Curator Stone, who organized the exhibition as the cumulative project for her master's degree in Museum Studies at San Francisco State University, chose to present the work of artists not based solely on their political interpretations, but selected artists whose work represents a variety of methods, styles, and influences which reveal a vitality of art being made in Mexico today. The University Library Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; weekends, noon-5 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, contact Karen Brodsky at 4-4240.

NYT Technology Reporter Explains How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

New York Times technology reporter John Markoff discusses how a political counterculture converged with the microprocessor during the 1960s and early 1970s to create personal computing at a lecture set for noon on April 24 in Darwin 102. His presentation comes from his book entitled "What The Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." The lecture is a part of the Computer Science Colloquium. Based on interviews conducted with surviving members, "What The Dormouse Said" captures the lives and times of those who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution, such as Fred Moore, a teenage antiwar protester who went on to ignite the computer industry, and "Cap'n Crunch," who wrote the first word processing software for the IBM PC (EZ Writer) in prison, became a millionaire, and ended up homeless. The book also discusses the early split between the ideas of commercial and free-supply computing. For more information, contact George Ledin, professor of Computer Science, 4-2810.

Robert Lang Discusses Origami as An Art And A
Science at Math Festival, April 23

This ancient art of paper folding has never been so practical. Origami has led to the creation of safer air bags, Brobdingnagian space telescopes and can be used to solve engineering problems. Robert Lang explores this topic at the Math Festival Day
on Wednesday, April 23 at 4 p.m. in Darwin 103. Lang presents “From Flapping Birds To Space Telescopes: The Modern Science Of Origami,” describing how the centuries-old Japanese art has made a revolutionary development with mathematical techniques. He will discuss how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami folding problems - specifically, the problem of efficiently folding a shape with an arbitrary number and arrangement of flaps - and along the way, enabled origami designs of mind-blowing complexity and realism. Lang has been studying origami for thirty years, with over 400 designs catalogued and diagrammed. His work combines aspects of the Western school of mathematical origami design with the Eastern emphasis upon line and form to yield models that are at once distinctive, elegant, and challenging to fold. His lecture is part of the M*A*T*H* Colloquium. For more information, contact Ben Ford at 4-2472.

"Save the Males: the Fight Against Gender Integration
at the Citadel" Topic of Brown Bag Lecture

Steve Estes, History, will be speaking on "Save the Males: the Fight Against Gender Integration at the Citadel" on Tuesday, April 22, noon to 1 p.m. in Stevenson 2011 as part of the School of Social Scieence Brown Bag Series. Early in 1993, Shannon Faulkner won admission to The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. Within a few weeks, the admissions office discovered that Faulkner was a woman and sent her a tersely worded rejection. The controversy surrounding gender integration at The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute (VMI) was more than a local skirmish in
the culture wars of the 1990s. The Citadel and VMI were quite literally the last bastions of a tradition of southern military manhood that harkened back to the antebellum period. "The fight against women's admission to these schools revealed much about southern conceptions of tradition, honor, military duty, femininity, and of course, manhood," says Estes who will explore the subject in detail.

National Universities on Hand at North Bay College Fair

More than 135 colleges and universities from across the United States will be represented at the North Bay College Fair at Sonoma State University from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22 in the main gymnasium.

The fair is free of charge for students, parents and others interested in learning more about colleges and universities across the nation. Representatives from such institutions as the Academy of Art College, Hawaii Pacific, Pepperdine, and UC Berkeley will be on hand to answer questions and provide information on financial aid and the admissions process.

The fair is broken up into two sections in order to accommodate as many students as possible. More than 1,500 students within SSU's six-county service area will be bused to the campus for the morning session. Organizers anticipate that more than 1,000 students and parents will be attending the evening session.

This event is sponsored by the Western Association of College Admission Counselors and Sonoma State University. For further information, please visit the SSU Prospective Students Web site at www.sonoma.edu/ar/prospective or call the Student Outreach Office at 4-3029.