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It’s election season once again, but the political fun continues even after votes are cast. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will host “Playwrights and Politics: Two Acts on the National and International Scene.” The symposium will examine the nature of political theatre and the impact of the arts on national and international politics.

Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoThe Kemper Art Museum, designed by Fumihiko Maki, is both the centerpiece and the public face of the university’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The five-building, $56.8 million complex also features Maki’s new Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall, which will house studios, classrooms and offices for art students and faculty. Click to see photos from the Oct. 25 dedication of both buildings.

bell hooks, the ground-breaking feminist author, teacher, social activist and cultural critic, will give the Black Arts & Sciences Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m., Wednesday, November 1 in Graham Chapel. The lecture, “Self-Determination: Where Do We Begin?” is free and open to the public.

The Law School’s Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series, in conjunction with the Federalist Society and the Assembly Series, will present Richard Epstein at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 31, in the Anheuser Busch Moot Courtroom (Room 310). The lecture is free and open to the public. The well-known libertarian and influential legal scholar will discuss the question, “Has Modern Complex Litigation Outgrown the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures? The Case of Antitrust.”

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The annual Dance Marathon charity fund-raising event will be held Nov. 4-5 at the Athletic Complex. Dance Marathon is a year-long effort to raise funds and awareness for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) of Greater St. Louis. Planned and executed entirely by undergraduate students at WUSTL, all proceeds go directly to St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. While fund-raising events take place throughout the entire year, the main event is the 12-hour dance-a-thon.

The football team notched its third consecutive victory with a 13-6 win over Case Western Reserve University Oct. 21 at Francis Field.

New research from WUSTL economists offers strong evidence that Soviet chess masters very likely engaged in collusion.

Using radiofrequency devices, School of Medicine heart surgeons have shortened atrial fibrillation surgery and made it easier to perform.

James C. Sisk, M.D., a retired assistant professor of medicine in dermatology at the School of Medicine, died Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, of cancer. He was 83.