October 6, 1994: Vol26n5: Gala events highlight Parents & Homecoming Weekend

By LISA WILEY
News Bureau Staff
A parade, a football game between the UB Bulls and Colgate University,
a performance by comedian Steven Wright and RHollywood Comes to
BuffaloS will highlight Parents and Homecoming Weekend T94, to be held
at UB on Friday, Oct. 7, through Sunday, Oct. 9.
	The weekend is co-sponsored by the UB Office of Student Life,
Office of Alumni Relations and Undergraduate Student Association.
Corporate sponsors are Campus TeeUs & Sweats, and Rise, Inc. 
	Check-in for parents will be held from 4-9 p.m. on Friday,
Oct. 7, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 8, in the Student
Union Lobby on the North Campus.
	 Alison L. Des Forges, UB adjunct assistant professor of
history, will discuss RExplaining the Unexplainable: Rwanda and
BurundiS at the RUB at Sunrise Speaker Series,S to be held from 7:30-9
a.m. on Oct. 7 in the University Inn and Conference Center on North
Forest Road, adjacent to the North Campus.
	Students are invited to meet seven UB graduates who have
become successful in the Hollywood entertainment industry, as part of
RHollywood Comes to BuffaloS at 1 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the Screening Room
of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus. 
	RPhysical Activity and Cognitive Function in the ElderlyS will
be the topic of the sixth annual J. Warren Perry Lecture, to be held
at 6 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the Katharine Cornell Theater in the Ellicott
Complex on the North Campus. The free lecture, sponsored by the UB
School of Health Related Professions, will be delivered by Waneen
Wyrick Spirduso, Mauzy RegentsU Professor of Kinesiology and Health
Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
	A Shabbat service and kosher dinner are scheduled for 6 p.m.
on Oct. 7 in the Hillel House on Capen Boulevard in Buffalo, adjacent
to the South Campus. Also that evening, the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences will honor the classes of T54, T69 and T84 at an
Alumni Reunion Dinner at 6 p.m. in the University Inn and Conference
Center.
	RKickinU to the Beat Coffeehouse,S featuring The Sam Falzone
Jazz Combo and the UB Undergraduate Library Society, will be held from
8-11 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the Student Union Lobby. Free coffee and
desserts will be provided. 
	A homecoming pep rally and bonfire, sponsored by the
Undergraduate Student Association, will be held from 7 p.m. to
midnight on Oct. 7 in Goodyear Field on the South Campus.
	Football will not be the only featured sport of the weekend.
The UB womenUs volleyball team will play St. Francis of Pennsylvania
at 7 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the Triple Gym of Alumni Arena on the North
Campus. The UB menUs volleyball team will face St. JohnUs University
at 1 p.m. on Oct. 9 in the same location. The UB womenUs soccer team
will play the University of Michigan at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 8 on the
soccer  field near the UB Stadium on the North Campus.
	Two movies are scheduled for Oct. 7 in the Student Union
Theater: RRomeo is Bleeding,S an AIDS premiere film, at 6:30 and 9
p.m. and RThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzi Across the 8th DimensionS
at 11:30 p.m.
	An Early Bird Workout from 7-10 a.m. will kick off activities
on Oct. 8. Parents and alumni may use the indoor track and co-ed
weight rooms in Alumni Arena for free.
	Educational events on Oct. 8 will include several lectures on
the North Campus that are free and open to the public. The topics,
speakers, locations and times are: 
	n 	RAn Anti-sensible Approach to the Cure for Cancer,S
Janet Morrow, UB associate professor of chemistry, 10 a.m., Room 205
of the new Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM) Complex.
 	n 	RStudy Abroad Opportunities,S Arthur Neisberg, UB
study abroad coordinator, 10 a.m., Room 330, Student Union.
	n 	RChanging Lives,S Diane Gale, director of the UB
Counseling Center, and UB students Theresa Fulcher and Rebecca Von
Holtz, 10 a.m., Student Union Theater.
	n 	RWatch Your Language,S Wolfgang Wolck, UB professor of
linguistics, 11 a.m., Room 330, Student Union.
	n 	RPitfalls in Choosing a Mutual Fund,S Charles
Trzcinka, UB professor of finance and managerial economics, 11 a.m.,
Student Union Theater.
	n 	ROrganic Gardening with Superconductors,S Michael
Naughton, UB associate professor of physics, 11 a.m., 205 FNSM
Complex.
ree tours will be conducted of the Fisk
	Organ in Slee Hall (10 a.m.), the Center of Excellence for
Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) (10 and 11 a.m.), the
National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (10, 10:30, 11 and
11:30 a.m.), the Center for the Arts (10 and 11 a.m.) and the FNSM
Complex (10, 10:30 and 11 a.m.).
	Rudolph A. Marcus, the 1992 Nobel Prize-winner in chemistry
and Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the California
Institute of Technology, will lecture at the Department of Chemistry
open house for undergraduates from noon to 5 p.m. on Oct. 8 in the
FNSM Complex. Tours will be given of the new building.
	The homecoming float parade, sponsored by the Undergraduate
Student Association, will take place at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 8. It will
depart from the South Campus, proceed north on Bailey Avenue to Grover
Cleveland Highway, and then follow Grover Cleveland/Millersport
Highway to the UB Stadium. Floats will be displayed at the north end
of the stadium.
	The homecoming football game at 1:30 p.m., in which the UB
Bulls take on Colgate, will be preceded by a tent party sponsored by
the UB Office of Alumni Relations near the south entrance of the
stadium. Highlights will include the Twelve Eight Path Band,
face-painting and a rally with the UB cheerleaders and UB Pep Band.
	A postgame party, sponsored by the Inter-Greek Council, will
be held in the Student Union. A jazz band will perform, and
entertainers will include the Step Troupe and the African-American
Dance Troupe.
	Alumni of the UB School of Nursing will hear Joy Feldman, an
alumnus of the UB nursing and law schools, speak at a homecoming
dinner at 6 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. Her
topic: RTake Charge of Your Health - Treatment Choices Are Your
Choices.S
	Comedian Steven Wright - SThe man with the monotoneS - will
perform at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 in Alumni Arena. Any remaining tickets
may be purchased at the door. Wright has performed on RSaturday Night
Live,S the former RLate Night With David LettermanS and  the RTonight
ShowS with Johnny Carson. He received an Academy Award for writing and
starring in the short film, RThe Appointments of Dennis JenningsS in
1989.
	The weekend closes with a brunch from 10 a.m.-noon Oct. 9 in
PistachioUs in the Student Union. Reservations are limited to 325
people on a first-come basis.            n