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Assistant Professor of Music Ashley Sidon will perform a cello recital at 8 p.m., featuring music by Edvard Grieg, David Popper and Alberto Ginastera.

Drake Law School's Constitutional Law Center will hold its 2008 symposium, which will explore the Ninth and 14th Amendments.

Alan Nadel, the endowed chair of American literature and film at the University of Kentucky, will share his analysis of Mel Gibson's films as part of the Drake's Writers and Critics Series.

Rika Uchida, visiting assistant professor in piano and music theory, will give a solo piano recital featuring Debussy's "Claire de Lune" and Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz."

Dennis Goldford, professor of politics at Drake University, will give a talk titled "The First Amendment Does Not Protect Religion" on Tuesday, March 25.

Assistant Professor of Music Ashley Sidon will perform a cello recital at 8 p.m., Thursday Mar. 13, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 2507 University Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

The Drake community gathered Monday to honor the Bulldog women’s basketball team, which won its first Missouri Valley Conference regular season title since the 2000-01 campaign.

Keno Davis, who has guided the men's basketball team to its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1971, has been named National College Basketball Coach of the Year by Sporting News Magazine.

Justice Richard J. Goldstone will present "The South African Constitution: The Recognition of Social and Economic Rights" at Drake University's spring 2008 Constitutional Law Distinguished Speaker series.
Goldstone at 4 p.m. in room 213 of Cartwright Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Drake secured its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1971 with a 79-49 victory past Illinois State in the championship of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Sunday.