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The University of Colorado at Boulder has launched a campaign aimed at improving the game-day experience for fans attending campus athletic events that will combine increased communication about expectations for fan behavior with strengthened enforcement of university policies.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation's annual luncheon honoring some of Colorado's top science students on Thursday, Nov. 13, at noon at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder. At the private luncheon, the Denver chapter of the ARCS Foundation Inc. will give $149,000 to 29 science students from CU-Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and CU-Health Sciences Center. The scholarships go to students who demonstrate strong character, excellence in their work and financial need.

NEWS TIP SHEET CU-Boulder's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research will host a public debate on current American foreign policy, including the recent preemptive invasion of Iraq by the United States. The event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in room 250 of the Eaton Humanities Center. The Eaton Humanities Center is located on the Norlin Quadrangle northwest of CU-Boulder's Norlin Library. The event is free and open to the public.

The CU-Boulder Friends of the Libraries will present five films and discuss the life and work of internationally known avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage in "Movshovitz 'Illuminates' Brakhage" on Friday, Nov. 14. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in room 1B50 of the Eaton Humanities Building on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. A reception will follow the presentation. Pay parking will be available in the Euclid Avenue Autopark.

News Release from the Office of the Attorney General Denver-- Attorney General Ken Salazar on his own behalf and on behalf of the Columbine Records Review Task Force today recommended to the U.S. District Court the use of the Colorado State Archives as a repository for all Columbine shooting records and evidence.

More than 400 of the most creative people in engineering and computer science education will convene in Colorado Nov. 5-8 for Frontiers in Education, a national conference showcasing the latest innovations in the field. Outreach to K-12 schools to encourage more diversity in the study of engineering, integration of humanities and social sciences into the engineering curriculum, and the use of virtual laboratories for distance education will be among the topics discussed at this year's conference hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the keynote address by Beth Finke on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 8 a.m. in UMC room 235. Accessing Higher Ground, the sixth annual conference on Assistive Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education, will be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder University Memorial Center Nov. 11-14. Beth Finke, author and National Public Radio commentator, will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, Nov. 13. A registration fee is required.

The University of Colorado, a member of a consortium of universities and federal agencies dedicated to helping improve the scientific base for managing Rocky Mountain ecosystems, will hold a public colloquium on the Boulder campus Nov. 5.

Sommers-Bausch Observatory on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a number of public activities during the weekend of Nov. 14-16. Public tours, lectures, celestial and solar viewing and a fundraising dinner and silent auction will be part of the anniversary celebration. Former astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, who has flown five space shuttle missions, is expected to speak at the fundraising dinner.

The unique properties of water will be the subject of the CU Wizards show "H2O!" on Saturday, Nov. 15. University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Casey Hynes will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry room 140. The show is aimed at students in grades five through nine and is free and open to the public.