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With classes in full swing and a crisp breeze in the air, "fall" back into life at Maryland with a visit to campus. We're hosting events
this season that will get you thinking, clapping and cheering. 2009 Homecoming and
Reunion Weekend
OCTOBER 16-17
Throughout campus
Reunite with old friends and make
new ones, as you rediscover
Maryland during Homecoming and
Reunion Weekend. The campus will
be buzzing with a variety of festive
activities:
- Homecoming parade, including floats, live music, special guests
and more. October 16, Main
Administration Building
- 50th reunion for the Class of
1959, featuring the Emeritus
Alumni Club induction with a formal
medallion ceremony and an
Alumni College event with a faculty
speaker. October 16, Samuel Riggs
IV Alumni Center
- An All-Reunion Lunch for all
Maryland classes, with celebrity
host and nutritionist Joy Bauer '86,
where guests will enjoy a student
performance. October 16, Samuel
Riggs IV Alumni Center
- Maryland Alumni
Association
Homecoming Festival
with activities for the
entire family, game fare and
beverages. October 17, Samuel
Riggs IV Alumni Center (three
hours prior to kickoff)
- Maryland vs. Virginia.
The Terps
take on the Cavaliers in this ACC
match-up. October 17, Capital One
Field at Byrd Stadium
Alumni Association Members-Only
Backyard Bash
OCTOBER 17 | THREE HOURS PRIOR TO KICKOFF
Sponsored by GEICO
Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center
This members-only event features complimentary
tailgate fare and beverages and live music. Reunite
with former classmates and friends at this exclusive
party held just for members in the Samuel Riggs IV
Alumni Center's Moxley Gardens. Be sure to carry
your membership card on
Homecoming for
entrance to this
special celebration!
"Voices of the Vanquished:
Censored Print Publications
from Postwar Japan, 1945-
1949," Showcasing
Materials From the Gordon
W. Prange Collection
THROUGH DECEMBER 30
Hornbake Library
University Libraries shed light on the
world of print publications during the
first years of the Allied Occupation of
Japan, with a display that includes
books and short stories censored by the
Allies, pulp fiction, children's textbooks
on democracy and materials related
to the drafting of the Japanese
Constitution of 1947. Discover Japan
as it rebuilt, recovered and redefined
itself after World War II.
Step Afrika!
NOVEMBER 12-13 | 8 P.M. | $37/$9
Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center
Step Afrika delivers the highenergy
tradition of stepping, an
art form born at African American
fraternities and based in African
traditions, to the Ina and Jack
Kay Theatre. With its intricate
kicks, stomps and
rhythms mixed with
spoken word, the
troupe seeks to build
connections between
people and to highlight
the similarities in dance
forms, lives and communities.
To mark the company's 15-year
anniversary, Step Afrika will perform
some its most celebrated
works with a remarkable choral
collaboration.
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The First Year Book Program
Presents Dave Eggers, Author of
"What Is the What"
NOVEMBER 5 | 5:30 P.M.
0130 Tydings Hall
Eggers offers Maryland's freshmen insight into
the power of community amid chaos in an
overlooked part of the world with this
year's program selection. His book,
provided to all first-year students, is a
novelized biography of one of the
more than 20,000 children who fled
during the Second Sudanese Civil
War. Eggers chronicles the harrowing,
sometimes humorous and
always inspiring journey of
Valentino Achak Deng, who
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