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The College of Arts and Sciences at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ 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-Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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-Â鶹ӰԺ 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-Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ.

The Friends of the University of Colorado Libraries will present a program titled "Nick Perito: Behind the Scenes with Perry Como" on Thursday, March 14. The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Theatre of the Imig Music Building on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. It will celebrate Como's gift of memorabilia to the American Music Research Center in CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Music. Perito of Los Angeles, longtime musical director-arranger-conductor for Como, will discuss his professional experiences with Como and provide musical selections.

David Hawkins, distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and the official historian of the Manhattan Project, died Sunday at the age of 88. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 2, in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. "A giant hole has been created in all of our lives by his passing," said James Scarritt, CU-Â鶹ӰԺ political science professor.

Editors: Students are signing up for University Village apartments today through 5 p.m. at the University Club, Garden Room, near the corner of Broadway and Euclid Avenue at 972 Broadway. Additional housing for students at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is now available and more units are scheduled to be completed in the next two years, resulting in 1,379 new beds, according to Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs.

Scientists from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences accurately forecasted two earthquakes greater than magnitude 5.1 while a paper describing the forecasting method was still in press.

Statistically significant differences among salaries of male, female and minority faculty members have disappeared at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ following five years of annual studies of salary inequity, according to Bill Kaempfer, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. Kaempfer also is a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ economics professor. He has undertaken studies of the problem in each of the last five years.

Deirdre McCloskey, a well-known economist once known as Donald, will speak at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ on Friday, March 8, at 3:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50. McCloskey, who is a professor of economics, English and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss capitalism, globalization and the middle class during her lecture "Bourgeois Virtue and Globalization." She will be on campus March 7-8 as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public.