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Note to Editors: Members of the media are invited to all symposium events and should check in at the event registration desk, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Imig Music Building lobby. Photographers should contact Professor Tom Riis in advance. Photography during concerts is not permitted. Nadia Boulanger, the master musician and teacher of luminaries like Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Elliott Carter and Quincy Jones, said the biggest question ever asked of her came from a young boy in Boston. He wanted to know what constituted a masterpiece.

The University of Colorado at Boulder has completed a $1 million facility at the Mountain Research Station west of Boulder, providing researchers, students and visitors with comfortable, year-round living and teaching quarters.

University of Colorado at Boulder officials are urging students to register their bikes with campus authorities after 21 bikes were reported stolen in the first few weeks of the fall 2004 semester. Officials estimated the total value of the stolen property at nearly $14,000, adding that most of the 21 stolen bikes were not registered with the CU Police Department. Thieves cut through cable locks to take 16 of the bikes.

Glaciers in Antarctica's most rapidly warming region have quickened their pace following the collapse of a Delaware-sized ice shelf in March 2002, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and a related study by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Osram Sylvania, a leading lighting company, has lit some of the nation's most important treasures including Niagara Falls, the Hoover Dam, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Boston's Old State House. The company announced today that it is committed to illuminating a different kind of national resource: students in the field of lighting.

Although tobacco addiction is the leading cause of preventable death in Colorado, the state's cigarette tax is ranked lowest in the nation and some critics say the rate encourages tobacco use. The cigarette tax and other tobacco-related health topics will be explored during a monthlong series of conferences and presentations offered by the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law and the university's Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Over the next few days the University of Colorado at Boulder will acknowledge the loss of 18-year-old freshman Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr. in several ceremonies and also will begin examining the relationship between the university and the Greek system. Chancellor Richard L. Byyny met with Bailey's family on campus today to offer his support and sympathy in the death of Gordon Bailey. Bailey was pronounced dead at the scene at the Chi Psi fraternity house, 1080 14th St., on Friday.

Today I learned of the tragic death of a freshman CU-Boulder student that occurred at an off-campus fraternity. Our hearts go out to the young man's family and friends and I share their grief and sadness. The investigation into this tragedy is being conducted by the City of Boulder Police Department with assistance from the University of Colorado Police Department. It is premature for me to comment on the progress of the investigation. As we learn more from the police investigation, we will take decisive action as appropriate.

Campus police at the University of Colorado at Boulder and city authorities have a constructive reminder for students as they settle in for the fall semester: be aware that state law targets out-of-control celebrations. Inciting or engaging in a riot, disorderly conduct and damaging personal or public property are all against the law in Colorado. According to a state law that took effect in June 2002, college students convicted of rioting offenses will be prohibited from attending any state-supported college or university for one year.

Overall enrollment for fall 2004 at the University of Colorado at Boulder is slightly higher than fall 2003, with 29,258 degree-seeking students enrolled, or 107 more than last year, according to final fall census figures. CU-Boulder's fall 2003 enrollment totaled 29,151 degree-seeking students. Freshman numbers are down as planned, however, in keeping with Quality for Colorado goals. A total of 5,128 new freshmen are attending this fall, a decrease of 443 or 8 percent from last fall's total of 5,571.