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Get thee to a discounted Shakespeare Festival

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The open-air Colorado Shakespeare Festival, now in its 52nd season, is offering a 20% discount off orchestra level seating for all CU alumni. The promotion code for this discount is ALUZ9. There is no limit on the number of tickets it can be used for but it is not valid on previously purchased tickets and may not be combined with other discounts. The plays this summer are Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and To Kill a Mockingbird. Go here for information and tickets or call 303-492-0554.
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Late Boulderite largest-ever donor to CU Buffs

Louise Bennett Reed

A woman who had a long history of volunteering and otherwise supporting CU athletics but didn’t attend CU except for summer courses has left $4.75 million to the athletic department for scholarships, the largest gift ever to the department. Louise Bennett Reed died in June and her family home was in Boulder’s Chautauqua area.
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The University Memorial Center, with its beautiful Dalton Trumbo fountain court just outside, continues to be a hub of activity in the summer, since some 7,500 students attend classes at CU-Boulder between early May and August. For more information about summer session, go here. Photo by Casey A. Cass.
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Hawkins draws crowd in Basalt

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CU football coach Dan Hawkins shared some of his wisdom in a motivational yet entertaining speech in Basalt, central Colorado, during a visit by several CU administrators that drew about 150 alumni and friends. The Alumni Association sponsors many events throughout the year; go here to find out more.
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Boulder Yesterday and Today

Boulder: Yesterday and Today: A Photographic Retrospective by Robert Castellino

Boulder: Yesterday and Today: A Photographic Retrospective by Robert Castellino A Photographic Retrospective is a photographic compendium and chronicle of how local and world events and intrepid people have made this place into the Boulder we know today. As the story in this book unfolds, it will highlight eight photographers’ lives during a period of time when they were influential
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Space shuttle astronaut CU bound

Astronaut John Grunsfeld

Astronaut John Grunsfeld, nearing the end of a successful NASA mission on board the space shuttle Atlantis to repair and refurbish the aging Hubble Space Telescope, has been named an adjoint professor at CU- Boulder.
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