- Lanterns illuminate Chinese culture
The Fairplex began holiday celebrations with its annual Chinese Lantern Festival, a colorful event featuring lantern displays that blend both Chinese and western culture. - Vendors sell goods on Antique Row
Treasure hunters eager to find deals on the antiques flooded the sidewalk at the Downtown Pomona Collector’s Street Faire on Sunday. - Downtown La Verne welcomes new tapas bar
Taberna is a new tapas bar in downtown La Verne that provides people a place to enjoy classic drinks like martinis, margaritas, red and whites wines as well as rotating draft beers from local breweries.
Entertainment Briefs
Campus and community arts events for the week of Sept. 21, 2001.
ULV to hire activities coordinator
Fall semester is underway, but the Division of Student Affairs has yet to hire a coordinator of campus activities and commuter programs.

World issues overshadow student concerns
I’m not sure what state of mind I’m supposed to be in. I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel right now. On the one hand, I still cry when I watch the news, and I sit at home and tremble at the thought of war.

Thomson focuses on death penalty
His warm smile and easygoing demeanor seem almost to contradict the grim, though important, research to which he’s devoted so many years.
Letters to the Editor
There is no question that the events that transpired on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, were a tremendous tragedy. I grieve for the victims and their families and hope that they may find some measure of comfort in the tremendous outpouring of sympathy the world has shown.

Men’s soccer sluggish against UC Santa Cruz
Men’s soccer opened up its season play with a strong win against Biola, 3-1, but fell to UC Santa Cruz, 2-0, in their final pre-season match.

Keck returns to ULV to find new voice
Michael Keck returned to the intimate Cabaret Theatre at the University of La Verne this week to work with new material and music as he prepared an updated version of “Voices in the Rain – The Struggle for Survival and Hope” which he will perform in October at the Merle Reskin Theatre in Chicago.
In the News
Campus and community news for the week of Sept. 14, 2001.

Meat eaters should reconsider their choices
Together they march in step, clothed entirely in black, carrying with them the weapons of a modern war. Family crests portraying terrifying images of pain and suffering identify the army, while hand-tempered swords are laid down and replaced with pen and ink.

Kinder, simpler, funner fair reopens
Themed “Kinder. Simpler. Funner,” the Los Angeles County Fair is town again until Sept. 23. Despite closing Tuesday because of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., the fair reopened as scheduled.