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Officials from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Department of Athletics respond to recent allegations. Statement By Phil DiStefano, Provost, University of Colorado at Boulder I am Phil DiStefano, provost of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Chancellor Byyny is out of state dealing with a family emergency and so cannot be here. He and all of us at the university are deeply disturbed by recent statements in the media regarding our Athletics Department.

Editors: A complete schedule of events is available at http://www.bsa.U4l.com/ . Spike Lee, independent film director, actor, writer and producer, will give a special guest lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder in honor of Black Awareness Month on Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Macky Auditorium. A special showing of "Get on the Bus," Lee's film about a group of men headed for the historic Million Man March, will be held prior to the lecture from noon to 2 p.m. in Willard Hall, room 24.

Scientists at JILA, a joint laboratory of the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) report the first observation of a “fermionic condensate” formed from pairs of atoms in a gas, a long-sought, novel form of matter. Physicists hope that further research with such condensates eventually will help unlock the mysteries of high-temperature superconductivity, a phenomenon with the potential to improve energy efficiency dramatically across a broad range of applications.

As cold weather continues in Boulder, fire safety officials are urging University of Colorado at Boulder students to check for discarded smoking materials and to never leave burning candles unattended. Already this winter, a CU-Boulder student narrowly escaped a house fire early New YearÂ’s Day that was believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette. Though there were no injuries, the fire caused $30,000 in damage and left the home uninhabitable.

The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder's student government is hosting a lecture by Spike Lee, acclaimed filmmaker and director, on Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium on campus. Tickets for the talk went on sale today, Jan. 26, at 10 a.m. at the Connection in the games area of the University Memorial Center at Broadway and Euclid. Cost of the tickets for non-students is $10. CU-Boulder students are allotted two free tickets each, while supplies last.

The many missions of the space shuttle Columbia, including its tragic final mission, will be discussed at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium on Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. Rob Morris, an astronomy educator at Fiske Planetarium, will present his show, "Memories of Columbia." During the show, Morris will talk about the nation's first space shuttle, its many achievements over the years and its last mission. The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts on board, including CU-Boulder alumna Kalpana Chawla.

The impact of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the Navajos, community divisions over Rocky Flats and the good news about Colorado landscapes will be addressed in three lectures by University of Colorado at Boulder faculty in February and March. Each talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and addresses the theme of "Healing the West." All lectures will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, in Boulder and are free and open to the public.

Theater enthusiasts of all ages are invited to check out "Simply Shakespeare" in two free public performances presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26. The Boulder Public Library will host the Saturday, Jan. 24 performance - featuring a smattering of scenes from different plays - at 11 a.m., followed by a show at the Lafayette Public Library on Monday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m.

NEWS TIP SHEET Jan. 21, 2004 CU-Boulder Research Associate Mark Serreze of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences will examine the state of the Arctic in a public seminar on campus on Friday, Jan. 23. The talk, titled "Arctic Perspectives on the Climate Change Debate," will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Administrative Research Center, 3100 Marine St., in Room 620.

NEWS TIP SHEET Jan. 21, 2004 CU-Boulder will hold a second open house for the public at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics facility at the CU Research Park in conjunction with NASA's second Mars Rover landing slated for the evening of Jan. 24. The evening open house at LASP's Space Technology Building will be held from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. MST. A live NASA feed is expected to broadcast the landing.