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Emory professor to give Transylvania’s 2006-07 Rick O’Neil Philosophy Lecture

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Why is terrorism not going away? How do we deal with this phenomenon? Do we counter terrorism with terrorism? Should we hold the moral high ground? Emory University philosophy professor Nicholas G. Fotion will discuss these and other questions when he presents the 2006-07 Rick O’Neil Philosophy Lecture, “Terrorism: New World Disorder,” Tuesday, November 21, at 3:30 p.m., in Carrick Theater. This lecture is free and open to the public. Fotion is the author of numerous books and articles dealing with ethics, both medical and military, as well as terrorism. Fotion has presented papers at many national conferences and given lectures at universities including the University of Melbourne in Australia, the University of Ryazan and the Golitsino Education Center in Russia, the University of KwaZulu in South Africa and the United States Military Academy at West Point. The lecture is sponsored by Transylvania’s philosophy program and Sophia, the University’s philosophy society in honor of the late Transylvania philosophy professor Rick O’Neil. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or philosophy professor Peter Fosl at 233-8129 or pfosl@transy.edu.

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream rolls on stage at Transylvania for six performances

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Transylvania opens its 2006-07 theater season with Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Thursday, November 2, in the Lucille C. Little Theater. This classic tale of fairies and mismatched lovers, which has become one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, runs November 2-3 and 9-11 at 7:30 p.m., and November 4-5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written sometime in the mid-1590s, follows an original plotline in which several characters face difficulties in the form of social hierarchy, artistic license, love and magical fairies. The play follows Lysander and Hermia, two lovers torn apart by Hermia’s engagement to Demetrius. The two agree to elope, but their plan is foiled when Helena, a woman in love with Demetrius, informs him of the plot. The resulting confusion is intensified by the involvement of kindhearted woodland fairies, whose antics ultimately bring about a happy ending for everyone. This classic comedy is directed by Tim Soulis, drama program director and professor of drama.  Call (859) 233-8141 for more information, and (859) 281-3621 for tickets.

Transylvania University invites high school juniors and seniors to Fall Open House

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University will host an open house for high school juniors and seniors and their families Saturday, October 21, from 9 a.m – 2 p.m. Student will have the opportunity to attend faculty presentations, an academic information fair, a student panel and a session about scholarships and financial aid. They will also have the opportunity to tour campus, meet the president and talk with faculty members and current students about all aspects of life at Transylvania. A complimentary lunch will be served. Registration begins at 9 a.m. in the Clive M. Beck Center. Interested students may register for the open house and obtain more information by calling Transylvania’s admissions office at (800) 872-6798 or (859) 233-8242. Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution of higher learning and is consistently ranked in national publications as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

Four emerging artists are exhibiting their newest work at Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opened Monday, October 23.

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Four emerging artists from New York, Philadelphia and Virginia will exhibit their newest work at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opens Monday, October 23, and runs through Friday, November 17. Andy Byers, Ryan Kelly, Morgan Herrin and Andrea Moreau are four up-and-coming visual artists who have two things in common: They are 2005 Ohio State University masters graduates and they are meeting with great success in their first year out of grad school. Kelly and Byers are ceramicists, Herrin is a sculptor and Moreau is a painter. Kelly was just awarded the prestigious Resident Artist position at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Byers has been working as an art director’s assistant in New York and playing with his critically successful band, Minus Story; Herrin received rave reviews for his new work in the exhibit Diamonds Cut Diamonds at Rare Gallery in New York; and Moreau was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, the largest and most international artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States. The jazzy one-word title, SNAP!, is a slang term to describe disbelief, which is what viewers will feel when taking in the sculptures and drawings in the exhibition. “Each of these artists has a real gift for taking mundane and ordinary materials from our everyday lives and turning them into the magical, the beautiful and the humorous,” said Andrea Fisher, director of the Morlan

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Morlan Gallery opened new exhibition year on September 11 with Murmuration of the Filth: New Work by Kurt Gohde; exhibition runs through October 11; part of Lexington Gallery Hop September 15

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Noted Lexington artist Kurt Gohde had a busy year: he witnessed a Sandhill Crane migration in Indiana, dodged 17 tornados in Wisconsin and watched a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts. He visited Alex Jordon’s House on the Rock, Terry Brown’s Mushroom House, Father Mathias Wernerus’ Holy Ghost Grotto and Loy Allen Bowlin’s Rhinestone Cowboy House. And when things started to slow down he headed out to see the world’s largest ball of paint, the world’s largest tree stump and the Circus World Museum. Gohde, an art professor at Transylvania University, is back from a year long sabbatical and will share his many experiences in Morlan Gallery’s first exhibition of the 2006-07 year. Murmuration of the Filth: New Work by Kurt Gohde opens Monday, September 11, and runs through Wednesday, October 11. Murmuration is a one-man show for Gohde who collaborates with local art stars Michael Goodlett, Vandaver, Mike Howe and Melissa McEuen. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, also features the local premiere of a Ben Fryman video installation. The title of the exhibition Murmuration (the term for a group of starlings) of the Filth (also a starling group name) addresses Gohde’s interest in group and individual thought processes. “I am fascinated with the difference between mass mentality and maverick individualism,” Gohde said. “For example, when starlings murmur or swarm, they create aerial patterns that make them appear to share a single brain. It can be

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