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Transylvania University invites high school sophomores and juniors to Spring Preview Day, March 26

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University invites high school sophomores and juniors and their families to campus for Spring Preview Day, Saturday, March 26, from 9 am.-2 p.m. The event will take place in the Clive M. Beck Athletic Center on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street. Spring Preview Day includes a welcome with President R. Owen Williams, group meetings with admissions counselors, a session on preparing for admissions interviews, a financial aid session for parents, campus and residence hall tours, discussions with current students and a complimentary lunch. For more information or to register for Spring Preview Day, call Transylvania’s admissions office at (800) 872-6798 or (859) 233-8242, or register online. Founded in 1780, Transylvania 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.

“Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls,” opens Thursday, Feb. 17 at Transylvania University

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Babies, wild dogs, komodo dragons and hula dancers abound in Naomi Iizuka’s “Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls,” which runs Feb. 17-19 and 24-26 at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 20 at 2 p.m., in Transylvania’s Lucille C. Little Theater.  Presented by Transylvania University Theater and directed by Sullivan Canaday White, visiting assistant professor of drama, the fantastical play is about finding your tribe in a world gone haywire. Winner of the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award in 1999, Iizuka’s play received its world premiere in the 1999 Humana Festival of Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. “‘Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls’ is a hilarious show with characters who are searching for what they are missing in their lives, something not only the actors, but all of us, can relate to,” said senior Emileigh Burns, assistant director of the play. “Working on this show has been an experience of a lifetime. As a senior, this is my last department show, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.” A post-performance colloquia on the play will begin immediately following the shows on Feb. 17 and 24. Tickets are $10 and may be reserved by calling the box office at (859) 281-3621, Monday-Friday from 1-4 p.m. For more information, contact the fine arts office at (859) 233-8141.

Transylvania professors find art and stories in curbside furniture

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—On January 8, 2010, Transylvania professors Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova took a photograph that would become the first of their 277 images for their exhibit “Discarded.” On that day, they spotted a sofa on the curb and asked the owners to sit on it one last time before it was taken away. One year later, they took the last photo. The photographs are labeled with the location, date, time and temperature. They offer glimpses into frozen moments in the lives of discarded pieces of furniture, and the people willing to pose – families, college students, couples, children, hipsters and tradesmen. A small collection of images from “Discarded” is on displace the Good Foods Co-op Café on Southland Drive through February 28 and the entire exhibit, which also includes music and poetry inspired by the photographs, will be on display at the Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery beginning February 18. An opening reception will be held on February 18, from 7-10 p.m., featuring a song by Vandaveer and poems, including pieces written by Bianca Spriggs ’03, Eric Sutherland, Kenan Visiting Writer and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor and fellow Transylvania professors Martha Gehringer and Jeremy Paden. The installation at LOT will also feature some of the discarded pieces of furniture and floor-to-ceiling drawings of the locations where the furniture was found. For gallery information, visit www.landoftomorrow.org.

“Can We Talk? Problems in Race and Conversation” is topic of Transylvania’s Kenan Lecture, Tuesday, Feb. 15; free and open to the public

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LEXINGTON, KY.—Randall Kennedy, one of the preeminent voices on race in America and a Harvard law professor, will tackle sensitive racial issues in his lecture titled “Can We Talk? Problems in Race and Conversation” on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. Known for his fearlessness, Kennedy brings the divisive issues that plague black America to the forefront of mass culture. With wit and accessibility, he challenges audiences to confront society’s—and their own—racial prejudices.  Frank conversations include the ongoing linguistic and historical baggage of loaded words like “nigger” and “sellout,” interracial intimacies and adoptions and overt (and covert) racial lines. Kennedy’s bestseller, “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” sparked a firestorm of national debate, including articles in The New York Times, Newsweek and TIME, as well as in the popular consciousness. Kennedy studied at Princeton, Oxford and Yale and served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. While a faculty member at Harvard Law School, he has written extensively for academic and popular journals and served on the editorial boards of The American Prospect and The Nation. Kennedy is also the author of “Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal and Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption.” This lecture is part of Transylvania’s

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Transylvania accounting students offer free tax service to those with incomes under $40,000

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of less than $40,000 in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (2, 9, 16 and 23) 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.