This weekend marks the Easter holiday, and, for Davidson Wildcat fans,  Good Friday will prove very good indeed if the men’s basketball team is able to win its first-round game that day at the NCAA tournament in Raleigh.  Besides Holy Week and the Holy Brackets, the weekend also features baseball, tennis, music at Summit Coffee and a talk on globalization.

Weekend of March 20-23

EVENTS –

Holy Week, the most important event on the Christian liturgical calendar, will conclude this weekend with daily services at many area churches.  Town Hall and other locations will be closed on March 21 for Good Friday. Easter Sunday is March 23.  For our listing of local church services, click here. Several churches will be holding egg hunts Sunday, as will the McConnell neighborhood, which will have a pot-luck dinner and egg hunt on the McConnell green Sunday from 4-6:30 p.m.

Franklin Foer, author and editor of The New Republic magazine, will speak on how soccer culture illustrates themes in globalization Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Davidson College union’s 900 Room His free lecture, titled “How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization” is based on his 2004 bestseller.

Summit Coffee will have live music this weekend, featuring house band The Pocket Thursday and folk rock band Rick Spreitzer Trio Saturday.  Bands play from 8-11 p.m.

SPORTS –

In Wildcats sports this weekend, the Big Game dominates.  The Davidson College men’s basketball team will face Gonzaga at 12:25 p.m. in Raleigh’s RBC Center.  This is the first round of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I championship tournament.  (Click here for a report on Davidson’s seed.)  Tickets to the game are hard to come by, but the game will be televised on CBS and by several radio stations (click here for the college website’s info page on the tournament).  There will also be fan gatherings to watch televised broadcasts at the college union and, in Raleigh, at the Hi5 Raleigh restaurant, located at 510 Glenwood Avenue.

This is Davidson’s ninth appearance in the NCAA tournament, though the team has not advanced past the first round since 1969.  The Wildcats have a 5-10 record in the NCAAs.  If Davidson wins on Friday, the team will advance to the second round, playing the winner of the Georgetown/Maryland Baltimore County game.  That second round game will also be in Raleigh, and is scheduled for either 2:40 or 5:15 p.m. Saturday.

In other sports this weekend, the men’s tennis team will play Chattanooga at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, while the baseball team will open Southern Conference play by hosting a three-game series with College of Charleston, March 21-23.

Click on Wildcat Athletics for more details. 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

• THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Davidson Town Hall – education forum on elementary school issues in the public schools.  See our school news posts for more informatin.
• FRIDAY, MARCH 28, Davidson College Presbyterian Church – Bach Birthday Bash organ concert.
• WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 , 7:30 p.m., Davidson College Alvarez College Union 900 Room – William G. Ross, Jr., Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, presents a free talk. For more information, call 704-894-2201.
• THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 6:30-8 p.m., Davidson Town Hall – education forum on middle and high school issues in the public schools.
• THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 7 p.m. and Friday, April 4, 2:30 p.m., Davidson College – Public lectures by N. David Mermin, Horace White Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University. Thursday in the Alvarez College Union 900 Room, he will discuss “Spooky Actions at a Distance?” And Friday afternoon, he will talk about “What Has Quantum Mechanics to Do with Factoring?” in Room 146 of the Dana Science Laboratory. For more information, call 704-894-2073.
• SATURDAY, APRIL 5, all day beginnng at 9 a.m., Catawba Wildflower Glen – The Davidson Lands Conservancy and the Catawba Lands Conservancy sponsor guided tours or hands-on wildflower identification classes. To register, call Davidson Lands Conservancy at 704-892-1910 or Catawba Lands Conservancy at 704-342-3330. No pets. Registration limited.
• SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Davidson College Sloan Music Center Tyler Tallman Hall – Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium in Classics. Students from numerous colleges and universities will present and discuss academic papers on Greco-Roman antiquity. Free. For more information, call 704-894-2934.
• SATURDAY APRIL 5,, 8:30 a.m., Davidson College Alvarez College Union 900 Room – Alexander Capron, Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Southern California, will present the keynote lecture “Authority and Responsibility in Medicine and Health Care” during the annual Frederick Womble Speas Symposium. Free. For more information, call 704-894-2482.
• SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 8 a.m. to noon, Village Green, Downtown Davidson – Community Rummage Sale. Details in our Feb. 9 news item.
• WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 7 p.m., Davidson College Duke Family Performance Hall – Lecture “Do We Want to be the New Rome?” by Ambassador Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the final installment of the college’s Bank of America Lecture Series, Mr. Haass will be speaking about principles, power, and the future of American leadership. Admission is free, but tickets are required. They may be obtained in person at the College Union ticket office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, or at the door beginning an hour before the talk. For more information, call 704-894-2135.
• SUNDAY, April 20 , 7:30 p.m., Davidson College Alvarez College Union 900 Room – Free literary reading by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, prize-winning author of young adult novels. Ms. Murdock will read from her books “Dairy Queen” and “The Off-Season” For more information call 704-894-2254.
• SATURDAY, MAY 3, Davidson Town Day

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