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The CU-Boulder Facilities Management department is planning to spray weeds bordering streets and in certain lawn areas this weekend in order to help re-establish healthy grass in places where it has been choked off by a proliferation of weeds. Most playfields and other major lawn areas will not be sprayed.

Residents of Smiley Court, a family housing facility at the University of Colorado at Boulder, are being offered temporary relocation to other on-campus housing while problems with some gas lines are repaired, according to Deb Coffin, director of housing at CU-Boulder. In order to repair inferior gas-line welds, gas service was turned off Thursday, resulting in the loss of hot water and heat for residents. Relocation is not mandatory, but is offered as an option for those inconvenienced by the gas shut-off. The apartments are safe for habitation, Coffin said.

MEDIA ADVISORY The Boulder Faculty Assembly will meet from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today to discuss a draft proposal for reform of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The meeting will be held in room 157 of the Fleming Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus. Television crews planning to attend should arrive before the meeting begins and set up in the left rear corner of the room.

The booms and bangs of chemical reactions will reverberate at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, May 15, during the CU Wizards show "Polymers, Foams and Pressures." Associate professor of chemistry Tarek Sammakia's show will take place at 9:30 a.m. in Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry room 140. It is free and open to the public. CU Wizards is an annual series during the school year that introduces topics in astronomy, chemistry and physics and is intended primarily for students in grades five through nine.

The CU-Boulder Friends of the Libraries will present a talk by local mystery writer Bonnie Ramthun at the l2th annual Just Desserts event on Friday, May 21. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fleming Law Building on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. A dessert reception will precede the program.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the May 12 groundbreaking adjacent to the LASP building at 1234 Innovation Drive, bordering Colorado Avenue between the Foothills Parkway and 30th Street. CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics will break ground May 12 on a $13 million expansion of its primary research building, adding much needed elbow room for LASP's booming space construction, mission operations and research programs.

MBA students from the University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Denver will square off on Wednesday, May 12, to see who has the best development plan for one of the premier sites in downtown Denver. The Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge will be held at Invesco Field at Mile High beginning at 5 p.m. The competition will put Leeds School of Business real estate students and Daniels College of Business students on a collision course to see whose plan to develop the Tabor Center II site will win out.

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People who plan to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder commencement ceremony May 7 at 8:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium will join a crowd of about 20,000 and should plan an early arrival. No tickets are required for the ceremony, which will be held in Folsom Stadium regardless of the weather. The majority of the parking for the ceremony will be in lot 436 on Regent Drive, just south of Colorado Avenue.

When University of Colorado at Boulder senior Jennifer Willeke of Otis, Colo., attends commencement on May 7 she will become the second Willeke family member to graduate as a Boettcher Scholar from CU. Her sister, the third to hold the distinction, is currently enrolled at CU. All grew up in the town of about 500 people on the plains of northeast Colorado.