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“An Evening at the Cabaret: Outer Space” at Transylvania Jan. 27 and 28

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s vocal ensembles will present “An Evening at the Cabaret: Outer Space,” Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. All tickets are $5. The box office next to Carrick Theater will be open for ticket reservations Monday, Jan. 23-Friday, Jan. 27, from 12-3 p.m. The phone number is (859) 233-8601. “An Evening at the Cabaret,” featuring the Transylvania Choir, the Transylvania Singers, the Pioneer Voices, a capella groups TBA and Grace Notes and several soloists, will include a variety of songs including “Moon River,” “Space Jam,” “Star Wards—John Williams is the Man,” and “On the Sunny Side of the Street.” For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or the fine arts office at (859) 233-8141.

Transylvania accounting students offer free tax service to those with incomes $50,000 or less

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Students electronically file tax forms. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of $50,000 or less in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. All forms will be filed electronically. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (1, 8, 15 and 22) from 3-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of Transylvania’s Cowgill Center for Business, Economics and Education on Third Street. This is a popular program and taxpayers will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. Transylvania accounting students, who have completed an income tax preparation training program, will work under the supervision of accounting professors to aid taxpayers. Individuals interested in this free service should bring with them all of the necessary information including: their W2s, 1099s (interest income), state and federal tax returns from last year, the IRS forms received in the mail and the birthdates and social security numbers for any dependents. Transylvania has offered this free program to the Lexington community for more than 20 years. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Stephanie Coriale at (859) 233-8104.

The Rambler wins 30 awards in Kentucky’s annual student newspaper competition

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—The staff of The Rambler, Transylvania University’s student-run newspaper, had its best showing ever in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association’s annual awards competition. The yearly competition for campus newspapers features a variety of categories designed to showcase the talent of student journalists throughout the state. The staff brought home 30 awards, including 11 first-place honors, and-for the third year in a row-a first place for senior John Johnson in the deadline copy editing competition. Johnson bested copy editors from both the large- and small-school divisions. He has been the copy editor for The Rambler since his sophomore year. The awards were announced in Lexington last weekend during the annual gathering of student and professional journalists from across the state. “I could not be more proud of the staffers who volunteer their time and energy every week to give their fellow students a voice on Transylvania’s campus,” said Terri McLean, student media adviser. “Unlike many of the other schools in the state, Transylvania does not have a journalism degree program. So they learn by doing. It’s just amazing to me how well they’ve done.” Other notable winners included senior sports editor Abby Ferguson for her coverage of the UK-Transylvania basketball game in November. She won a first-place award for sports game story and sports headline and a second-place award for sports game story. Editor-in-chief Erin Brock, also a senior, won a first-place award for a sports column comparing the coaching

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Bob Zellner, civil rights activist and author, to speak at Transylvania February 1, at 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Bob Zellner, civil rights activist and author of “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement,” will speak at Transylvania University on Wednesday, February 1, at 7:30 p.m. The talk, in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center’s Carrick Theater, is free and open to the public. Zellner was born in Alabama in 1939, the son and grandson of Klansmen. After graduating from the Huntingdon College in 1961, Zellner became the first white southerner to serve as field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zellner’s father rejected his past Klan associations and supported his son in his civil rights efforts. Arrested 18 times in seven states, Zellner organized in McComb, Miss.; Albany, Ga.; Danville, Va.; Talladega, Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala.; New Haven, Conn.; and Boston. From 1963-65, Zellner studied race relations in the Graduate School of Sociology at Brandeis University. During Mississippi’s Freedom Summer of 1964, he traveled with Rita Schwerner while taking part in SNCC’s and CORE’s investigation of the disappearance of her husband Mickey, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. When SNCC became an all-black organization in 1967, Bob and his wife, Dottie, joined the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) to organize an anti-racism project for black and white workers in the Deep South called GROW, Grass Roots Organizing Work. In the early 1990s, studying at Tulane University for a Ph.D. in history, Zellner wrote a dissertation on the southern civil rights movement.

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"Preserved" installation explores personal relationships through memory capsules.

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Kathleen Burke ’10 spent the past year noticing how her daily interactions with friends had changed since graduating. She found that the information she was getting about her friends through her Facebook newsfeed was the kind of information she used to receive in person. As part of her studio assistant position at Transylvania, she was encouraged to put on a show. Her ponderings on how her relationships and interactions were different post-college and the recent passing of her grandfather led Burke to formulate the concept for “Preserved,” a participatory installation that opens in Transylvania’s Shearer Art Building on January 17 and runs through January 27. “I was playing around with ideas of memory and using mason jars,” said Burke. “I was originally going to can my own childhood memories, but then after talking to so many people about my experiences regarding the many people who have come in and out of my life, I realized the show could become an opportunity to engage people in a creative way to represent the memories of those who were influential in their life.” In October 2011, Burke announced her plans for “Preserved,” on Facebook and on a blog she created for the exhibit, preservedinstallation.blogspot.com, and asked people to submit their own memory capsules of people of influence in their life with whom they no longer interacted. In some cases, the person of influence had passed away, but that was not always the

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