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CORRECTION: Re: Old Glory to Fly Again at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ A release issued yesterday incorrectly stated the last time the United States flag flew from the top of Old Main at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. The last time the flag flew on Old Main was in 1973. A new flag was raised in a ceremony at Old Main at 1 p.m. today. We apologize for any inconvenience. For more information contact Dirk Martin at (303) 492-3140 or Mary Ann Myer at (303) 492-6222.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ will hold a public meeting on the Williams Village student housing expansion project on May 30 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the University Memorial Center, room 235. According to Derrick Watson, project manager, the purpose of the meeting is to provide information on construction logistics and timetables.

Reporters planning to cover the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals on the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus Wednesday, May 22, through Saturday, May 25, should pick up press badges from the pressroom in the Coors Events/Conference Center, room 2. The pressroom will be open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will provide reporters with competition information and badges allowing reporters in closed events, including the Opening Ceremonies. Highlights of World Finals events follow:

The public is invited to see the competition among 700 student teams from around the world during the annual Odyssey of the Mind World Finals, Wednesday through Saturday at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ. The Odyssey of the Mind is an international program that challenges students to come up with the most creative, original and imaginative ways to solve a selection of problems. The program's mission is to develop creative-thinking skills in students from kindergarten through college.

For the first time since the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Old Main was restored in the 1980s, the United States flag once again will fly from the north tower, thanks to several individuals and campus committees that donated time and money to erect a new aluminum flag pole. Tomorrow (May 22) at 1 p.m., an ROTC color guard will raise the all-weather flag. Work crews secured the pole on top of old Main last weekend. Lights also were installed at the base of the pole to illuminate the flag around the clock.

Ancient, buried footpaths visible using satellite instruments but invisible on the ground to the human eye will be studied in Costa Rica this summer after a 20-year hiatus by University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ and NASA archaeologists.

The origin of light will be explained through a number of experiments, and will use lasers to drill through materials, during the Saturday, May 25, CU Wizards show titled "Lasers and Light." Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, physics professors at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in Duane Physics, room G1B20. Murnane is one of five CU-Â鶹ӰԺ faculty members who have received the MacArthur Fellowship or "genius grant."

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ has announced several immediate changes to its lawn irrigation program in an effort to support city of Â鶹ӰԺ plans to reduce water consumption in light of recent drought conditions. The Â鶹ӰԺ campus is implementing an irrigation water conservation plan that will reduce historical spring and summer irrigation consumption by a minimum of 25 percent to 50 percent, according to Jeff Lipton, executive director of Facilities Management.

Students at the University of Colorado have redesigned their zero-energy solar home -- Colorado's only entry in the national "Solar Decathlon" contest -- to make it more adaptable to a variety of building sites, construction budgets and homeowner needs. The team will present its new design to the public on Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to noon, in the Environmental Design Building, Room 134, on the CU-Â鶹ӰԺ campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that occurred near Gilroy, Calif., on Monday was the fourth to have been correctly plotted on a forecast anomaly map developed by researchers at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.