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The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder's student government is hosting a lecture by Spike Lee, acclaimed filmmaker and director, on Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium on campus. Tickets for the talk went on sale today, Jan. 26, at 10 a.m. at the Connection in the games area of the University Memorial Center at Broadway and Euclid. Cost of the tickets for non-students is $10. CU-Boulder students are allotted two free tickets each, while supplies last.

The many missions of the space shuttle Columbia, including its tragic final mission, will be discussed at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. Rob Morris, an astronomy educator at Fiske Planetarium, will present his show, "Memories of Columbia." During the show, Morris will talk about the nation's first space shuttle, its many achievements over the years and its last mission. The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts on board, including CU-Boulder alumna Kalpana Chawla.

The impact of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the Navajos, community divisions over Rocky Flats and the good news about Colorado landscapes will be addressed in three lectures by University of Colorado at Boulder faculty in February and March. Each talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and addresses the theme of "Healing the West." All lectures will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, in Boulder and are free and open to the public.

Theater enthusiasts of all ages are invited to check out "Simply Shakespeare" in two free public performances presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26. The Boulder Public Library will host the Saturday, Jan. 24 performance - featuring a smattering of scenes from different plays - at 11 a.m., followed by a show at the Lafayette Public Library on Monday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m.

NEWS TIP SHEET Jan. 21, 2004 CU-Boulder Research Associate Mark Serreze of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences will examine the state of the Arctic in a public seminar on campus on Friday, Jan. 23. The talk, titled "Arctic Perspectives on the Climate Change Debate," will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Administrative Research Center, 3100 Marine St., in Room 620.

NEWS TIP SHEET Jan. 21, 2004 CU-Boulder will hold a second open house for the public at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics facility at the CU Research Park in conjunction with NASA's second Mars Rover landing slated for the evening of Jan. 24. The evening open house at LASP's Space Technology Building will be held from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. MST. A live NASA feed is expected to broadcast the landing.

Exploring how public land conflicts, such as the historic road "rights-of-way" debate in Colorado's Moffat County, are fought and resolved in the political arena will be the focus of the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law's 11th annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference. Titled "Constitutional Conflicts on Public Lands," the two-day conference will take place in the Fleming Law Building Jan. 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. and Jan. 31 from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. All presentations are open to the public, and continuing legal education credit is available.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Michael Powell will deliver the keynote speech at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law's fourth annual conference on regulatory policy in the Internet age. Sponsored by the University's Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program, the conference, called "The Digital Broadband Migration: Toward a Regulatory Regime for the Internet Age," will be Feb. 8 - 9 in the law school's Lindsley Memorial Courtroom on the Boulder campus.

The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder will feature two keynote speakers addressing issues related to HIV and AIDS on Jan. 20 and Jan. 22 on campus. Professor Mark Thrun of the CU Health Sciences Center will speak on the topic "Silence = Death Comes Full Circle: HIV and AIDS in 2004." The talk is on Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. in Ramaley Biology, room C250.

The executive vice president of merchandising and marketing of The Home Depot Inc., the second largest retailer in the United States, will speak to CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business students on Jan. 27. John Costello will speak at 3:30 p.m. in room 100 of the Mathematics Building on the CU-Boulder campus. The talk is part of the school's Profiles in Business and Society class which brings in top executives and entrepreneurial leaders to speak to students.