News Briefs

Light Opera Society to present “Ruddigore”

The Rice Light Opera Society will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s supernatural opera “Ruddigore” March 30 and 31 and April 1.

The performances will be held at 8 p.m. in Hanszen College. General admission is $10, and reservations are recommended.

For more information, e-mail the Rice Light Opera Society at <rlos@rice.edu>.

To purchase tickets and reserve seats, visit <www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/>.

Rice Players performance runs this weekend

The Rice Players will present “Buried Child” by Sam Shepard at 8 p.m. March 30-April 1. All performances will be held in Hamman Hall.

Led by local director Ilich Guardiola, the dark comedy turns the entire conception of the American family upside down as one man’s homecoming drags a host of secrets into the spotlight. Old emotions surface as a long-lost grandson arrives and shatters a family’s bubble of isolation. Personal relationships and notions of family are questioned as everyone confronts their past secrets.

A leader in contemporary American theater, Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize for “Buried Child” in 1979.

Tickets cost $5 for students, $8 for faculty, staff and seniors, and $10 for the general public. For more information, visit <www.ruf.rice.edu/~players>.

Nominations for GSA awards due

The deadline for submitting Graduate Student Association (GSA) awards nominations is April 3.

Designed to encourage and recognize outstanding service to graduate student life and education at Rice, the five awards include the Faculty

Teaching/Mentoring Award, the Faculty/Staff Service Award, the GSA Service Award, the Friends of Rice Graduate Students Award and the Robert Lowry Patten Award.

Letters of nomination should be submitted to the GSA, MS 527, or e-mailed to Lerzan Celikkanat, GSA internal vice president, at <lerzan@rice.edu>.

For more information, visit the GSA Web site at <www.ruf.rice.edu/~gsa>.