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A mock urban-rural divorce trial that will explore the complex relationship between urban and rural interests will be conducted at the new Montrose County Court House beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19. The fun and engaging Urban-Rural Divorce in the American West program, which is free and open to the public, will be presented by the Center of the American West from the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, and is another in the ongoing CU in Residence program.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Resource Center at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will present a discussion called "Trying Not to be Gay: Reconciling Faith and Sexuality" on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235. The featured speaker is Brent Coleman, a locally noted professional counselor and former fundamentalist Christian who speaks both personally and professionally about his experiences with religion and sexual orientation.

John Taylor, a CU-Â鶹ӰԺ physics professor, will present an interactive lecture on the importance of understanding mathematical concepts on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Â鶹ӰԺ Public Library. The lecture, titled "Johnny Needs to Know More Math," is part of the spring Chancellor's Community Lecture Series, which is featuring CU arts, science and music faculty this spring. The talk is at 7:30 p.m. in the library's main auditorium.

Robert D. Schulzinger, professor of history and director of the International Affairs program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, has been elected vice-president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for 1999. He will succeed to the presidency in 2000. The society has a membership of about 2,100, one-third of whom live outside the United States.

Norman Pace, one of the world's leading experts on molecular evolution and molecular microbiology, will leave the University of California-Berkeley July 1 to join the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ biology faculty.

The Building Community Committee at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will host an open campus discussion on "Building Community: Working Towards a Hate-Free Campus" on Tuesday, Jan. 26, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Recreation Center conference rooms. The committee wants input from the campus on proposed university policy and protocol for responding to acts of hate.

The Archives of the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ today announced the acquisition of 20 years of files amassed by the nation's pre-eminent non-governmental human rights organization, the New York-based Human Rights Watch, according to Archives Curator Bruce Montgomery. Montgomery made the announcement today on behalf of CU-Â鶹ӰԺ's Human Rights Initiative, a project of the Archives which has made it the largest academic repository of contemporary non-governmental human rights material in the world.

EDITORS: Computers will be delivered at 10 a.m. Jan. 27 and set up by Avitek employees, who will also provide instructions. The Family Learning Center is at 3164 34th St., north of Valmont, across from Sutherland Lumber. Follow 34th Street past San Juan Del Centro until the road curves east and ends at the Family Learning Center. The center can be reached at 303-442-8979.

The first year of a two-year pilot program providing 5,600 CU-Â鶹ӰԺ employees with metro-wide bus passes has ended with an 80 percent increase in transit ridership and a 5.7 percent decline in on-campus parking demand among eligible employees, an RTD survey shows. But that success must be surpassed in the program's second year with an even greater ridership increase and parking demand reduction if the program is to continue next year, according to Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration.

The CU Wizards Series at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will present its first program of the spring semester, "The Biology of Muscles and Movement," on Saturday, Jan. 30. Professors Todd Gleeson and Mark Osadjan of the environmental population and organismic biology department will present the show in the Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry Building, room 140, at 9:30 a.m.