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NEWS
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Campus Briefs
Convention honors student,
lecturer with Studio Award
Today begins the 66th annual Texas Society of Architects Convention
and Design Products and Ideas Exposition.
UTA architecture alumni and friends are invited to the reception
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Hyatt Regency hotel’s Pecan Room
in San Antonio. The convention lasts through Saturday.
More than 2,500 design professionals and industry suppliers are
expected to attend. There will be opportunities to visit colleagues
and organizations from across the country and two keynote speakers:
Freeman Hrabowski, University of Maryland president and Jeremy Harris,
former mayor of Honolulu.
Exhibitors’ booths will include representatives from Acme
Brick Co., Kenmark Inc., Kraftsman Playground and Park Equipment
and The Sherwin Williams Co.
Awards will be given Saturday, including a Studio Award for architecture
graduate student Victor Ramirez and lecturer Chris Hill’s
energy efficient “Mountain Hut.”
For information, visit http://www.architectureweek.com
or call Gayle Pickering of the Texas Society of Architects at 512-478-7386.
— Alicia Kania
Democrat group holds event to educate on war in Iraq
The University Democrats are holding an Iraq War Awareness event
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m today on the Central Library mall.
Jeremy Serna, treasurer and political science junior, said there
will be a flag in the grass for every 20 soldiers that have died
in Iraq. He said a poster will represent the number of Iraqi civilian
deaths, and information will be offered on the financial costs of
the war, specifically in relation to things like how many children
could have been insured or how many teachers could have been hired
for the same cost.
He said the theme of the event is not “anti-war” but
“Why?”
Serna believes it is important for people to be aware of the facts
surrounding the war, so that they can form their own opinions.
For information, call 817-272-2716.
— Alicia Kania
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