Annual celebration honors CU founders
This year Creighton celebrates its 134-year anniversary, and it’s doing so in style.
Founders Week officially kicked off Wednesday with the men’s basketball team’s game against Illinois State University. The commemoration will continue until Feb. 11 and will feature a flurry of events.
Some of the events that highlight the special week are the Thursday “All Things Ignatian” poster presentations, sponsored by the Creighton University Jesuit Community and Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality. Faculty, staff and administration presented projects and efforts that highlight the Ignatian spirit in action.
There is also the Founders Week mass on Monday at St. John’s church. This event starts at noon. 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. classes will be cancelled in order for students to attend.
Creighton will also be dedicating a Nebraska Historical Society marker documenting the presence of Native American populations in the general area of the University for some 12,000 years. This event will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the Opus Hall Community Room.
For a full list of events check out the Creighton University website.
Original play set to open next week
“Gone the Rainbow, Return the Dove,” an original play by theatre faculty member Michael McCandless, will present its collegiate premiere at Creighton next week. Performances will be held Feb. 8-11, at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 12 at 2 p.m., in the Studio Theatre of the Lied Education Center for the Arts.
The play presents Americans at war from a uniquely personal perspective. The title is derived from an 18th century Irish song about a woman who laments her lover going off to war and her fears of never seeing him again. Based on original letters and diaries written to and from battle zones, the play dramatizes the lives of individuals from the American Revolution to present-day Afghanistan.
Ticket prices: $10 for general audience; $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students.
Men’s basketball draws record crowd
On Saturday night the largest home crowd in school history, 18,436, witnessed the then No. 14 Jays defeat
Bradley University.
The sellout was the fourth of the season for Creighton, whose stands were decked in a sea of pink for breast cancer awareness as fans witnessed the Jays beat the Braves by a score of 73-59.
Creighton is averaging 16,470 fans per game, which is good enough for eighth in the NCAA. If the Jays keep these figures up they would break the MVC record for average attendance.