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NEWS TIP SHEET Clare Huntington, associate law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law, recalls the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist as a man who "administered the court with terrific efficiency." Huntington clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justices Harry A. Blackmun and Stephen Breyer from 1998 to 1999. She said no clerk could spend time working with the court without getting to know Rehnquist.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has established a "CU Campaign for Dillard University" to assist the New Orleans university in its rebuilding effort and has secured a $10,000 challenge grant from two anonymous donors in the first few days of the drive. The challenge grant will match the first $10,000 in donations received by the campaign, which would ensure a total of $20,000 in contributions once the goal is met. The campaign aims to exceed this goal. Anyone interested in assisting Dillard University is welcome to contribute.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has welcomed 138 new students from universities damaged by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region since last week. According to Kevin MacLennan, interim director of admissions for CU-Boulder, 136 undergraduate students have been through the admissions process and are already attending classes or will be shortly. The School of Law also admitted two students.

Universities' struggles to attract and retain international graduate students and the potential fallout from this trend will be discussed in a Sept. 14 symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The CU-Boulder Graduate School will present the symposium titled "Loss of International Graduate Students: Causes and Consequences" from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Fiske Planetarium. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Author and lecturer Paul Loeb will present "Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Sept. 13. The presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. in MCD Biology Building room A2B70 and is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Sept. 24 with a gala beginning at 6 p.m. in the planetarium. The event will include dinner, a live jazz concert under the planetarium dome and a look at the past and future of the planetarium by director Doug Duncan and others from CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 3:45 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept 5. A graphic of the ring clusters is available at http://www.nasa.gov/cassini . New observations from the Cassini spacecraft now at Saturn indicate the particles comprising one of its most prominent rings are trapped in ever-changing clusters of debris that are regularly torn apart and reassembled by gravitational forces from the planet.

Many people want to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but helping in the wrong way can create greater problems for people coping with catastrophe and in some cases, it may be help that never gets to the victims at all, according to Sylvia Dane, emergency management coordinator for the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Campus police at the University of Colorado at Boulder and city authorities have a reminder -- or a first warning -- for students as they approach the opening home football game of the fall semester: state law restricts out-of-control celebrating, and a rioting conviction will curtail your Colorado public college career for a year.

College students and their families displaced by Hurricane Katrina can get assistance finding free or discounted housing in Boulder through the University of Colorado at Boulder's Off-Campus Student Services office. Director Susan Stafford said the office has put out a request to landlords and property managers in Boulder County for flexible housing options specifically for southeastern college students and their families.