Feb. 4, 1998                                                    
                                             Contact: Katherine Jackson
					     (804) 924-3629

                        WHAT'S HAPPENING AT U.VA. ON FRIDAY

                  SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
                  AMONG SPEAKERS ON FEB. 6

	U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala will 
speak at the University of Virginia's Wilson Hall auditorium, at 7 p.m.  
Shalala, who has served in the Clinton administration since 1993, previously 
served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will respond 
to questions directly after her talk. It is sponsored by the Jefferson 
Literary and Debating Society. 
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	Robert A. F. Thurman, a friend of the Dalai Lama and one of Time 
magazine's 25 most influential Americans of 1997, will speak at 3 p.m. at 
U.Va.'s Minor Hall Auditorium. Thurman, a world-renowned expert on Tibetan 
Buddhism, will discuss "Discovering Death:  The Tibetan Exploration of the 
World Beyond Death."  His talk is sponsored by the Associates of the 
University Library.
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	The Virginia Project on the Economics of Higher Education will 
sponsor a talk, "Part Church and Part Car Dealer: The Odd Economics of 
Higher Education,"  at 2 p.m. in U.Va.Us Ruffner Hall, Room G004B.  
Gordon Winston of Williams College will discuss how large student subsidies, 
with students paying two-thirds of the cost at the average U.S. college or 
university, relate to the economic behavior of colleges and universities. 
For more information contact Sarah Turner at  (804) 924-7857 or via e-mail 
sturner@virginia.edu 
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	The series on The Digital Age and Its Implications will sponsor talks 
at 1:30 p.m. in U.Va.Us Newcomb Hall Theater. "Do Computers Have Hearts?" 
will be discussed by Rosalind Picard of MIT. Johanna Drucker of Yale 
University will discuss ROntology of the Digital Image."  This series is 
sponsored by The Office of Information Technologies, University Libraries 
and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
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	Ted Supalla from the Univ. of  Rochester will discuss "Historical 
Films: A Window to Deaf America in the Early 20th Century" with video 
segments from the archives of Gallaudet University and the National 
Association of the Deaf at 7 p.m.in McLeod Hall auditorium.  His talk is a 
part of U.Va.'s annual Deaf Culture Lecture Series.  Voice-over English 
interpretation will be provided for the non-signing public. 

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