Campus and Community Briefs

Cowboy concert comes to SLC

Award-winning singing cowboy Michael Martin Murphey will perfom his Cowboy Christmas Concert at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City on Dec. 4, 2002.

Murphey is best known for his hit songs “Wildfire” and “What’s Forever For.” He is a Cowboy Hall of Fame winner and American Country Music award winner.

Tickets have been available since Friday, Oct. 25 at Abravanel Hall, Capitol Theatre Ticket Offices and selected ArtTix outlets. Those interested can also visit the Art Tix Web site at www.arttix.org or call 355-ARTS or 1-888-451-ARTS.

Infomation on Murphey can be found on his Web site, www.michaelmartinmurphey.com.

English professor presents research

English professor Kathryn Fitzgerald will present “Textually Taming the West” on Nov. 5 at noon in the Center Colony Room of the Taggart Student Center.

Fitzgerald’s research was funded by The Women and Gender Research Institute Brown Bag Series at Utah State University. Research led to the discovery of a cache of student papers written in 1898 and forgotten. The papers were written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wisconsin’s statehood.

The event is free and all are

welcome.

Student artists show off artwork

Juror Ric Collier, director of the Salt Lake Art Center, began his survey of Utah State University student artwork Nov. 1.

Collier’s selections can be seen by the public at the Undergraduate Art Exhibit from Nov. 7 to 14 in the Tippetts Gallery of the Chase Fine Arts Center on weekdays from 1 to 5 p.m.

All undergraduates were invited to submit their work to be judged by Collier.

“It’s a good opportunity to share ideas and see what everyone else is doing,” said Shasta Fletcher, a photography major.

The exhibition will close with a reception Nov. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. The reception is free and everyone is invited. Awards donated by the USU Bookstore and others will be

presented.

Head of history to present book

Norm Jones, head of the history department, will read from his new book, “The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation,” at Chapter Two Books on Nov. 8.

The book examines how, over the course of three generations, a nation of habitual Catholics turned into Protestants.

The store is located at 130 N. 100 East, and the reading will take place at 7:30 p.m.