No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures By Seth Masket University of Michigan Press, 2009 No Middle Ground explains how moderates have been left out of politics. “Activists, donors and a few key office-holders work together to pick candidates they like and give those […]
Thirty years ago, Tom Farer was on the ground in Latin America, investigating mass killings, torture and violations of due process as a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Farer and his six colleagues delivered scathing reports documenting gross human rights violations to the very governments committing […]
Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: A Photographic Study of Faulkner’s County By George Stewart (MA libarianship ’67) University of South Carolina Press, 2009 Yoknapatawpha County—the Southern setting for William Faulkner’s novels—is a fictional place, but as fictional places go it’s one of literature’s most enduring locales. Faulkner based Yoknapatawpha on […]
To cheers and applause, Kate Thorne beat out nine other students and was named the 32nd annual Miss Derby on May 5. Competition was fierce as the women showed off their talents, withstood an evening gown session and a mystery event of musical chairs. In the end, the final […]
Most Americans can thank Duane Pearsall for making their lives a little safer. Pearsall, the University of Denver alumnus who invented the home smoke detector in 1965, died April 11. He was 88. The discovery of one of the most important safety contributions of the 20th century wasn’t on purpose. Pearsall […]
As a vocal performance major in DU’s Lamont School of Music, junior Paul Lannon is surrounded by music all day, every day. But his favorite people to sing with are his fellow members in the Idiosingcrasies, a campus a cappella group that includes music majors and non-music majors. “We do […]
Law Associate Professor Christine Cimini co-presented “Nuts and Bolts: What Do We Mean By Outcomes and Assessment” at the AALS Annual Clinical Conference in Baltimore on May 5, 2010. She was appointed the Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director of the Sturm College of Law in May. Adjunct faculty member […]
The University of Denver men’s tennis team received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and will play the University of Michigan in first-round regional competition. “We’re really excited. I think it’s a winnable match,” head coach Danny Westerman said after DU’s selection was announced on ESPN on Monday afternoon. […]
May 1, 1984 Pioneers radio station KEGH goes on air When KEGH—pronounced “Keg”—hit the airwaves on May 1, 1984, the campus radio station hoped to provide a better programming line-up than its recent predecessor, KAOS, which, according to a Jan. 11, 1982, article in The Clarion, was notorious for […]
Post-1960s musicals 1. Avenue Q 2. Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk 3. Cats 4. Company 5. The Lion King 6. Sunday in the Park With George 7. Tommy 8. Urinetown 9. Wicked 10. The Wiz In alphabetical order; compiled by Allison Horsley, assistant professor of […]
Those who think “shredding” has more to do with snowboarding than document destruction may not appreciate the community Shred-a-thon coming up. But those with basements and garages full of old bank statements and canceled checks might want to put the morning of May 8 on their calendar. On that day […]
University of Denver (DU) law students are suing Colorado prison officials, claiming authorities are refusing care to a mentally-ill inmate.
There’s more than one way to tell a story, and Zak Kadison wants control over all of them. Through his company, Blacklight Transmedia, Kadison (BSBA ’03) is pioneering a new approach to show business, developing original stories that can be told across multiple platforms: movies, video games and comic books. […]
KVDU has its finger on the pulse of the Denver music scene, and to prove it, DU’s web-only radio station has put together a 13-track CD of live in-studio performances from a who’s who of local bands, including Everything Absent or Distorted, Paper Bird, Widowers, Kissing Party and Dualistics. All […]
The University of Denver (DU) Italian program in the Department of Languages and Literatures is hosting the 1st Annual Italian Film Festival April 6 through May 18.