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Monday, April 17, 2006

The University of Notre Dame's $64 million Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in September 2004, features five performance venues:

The 900-seat Judd and Mary Lou Leighton Concert Hall is used primarily for music performances
The Patricia George Decio Mainstage Theatre, which seats 350, serves as a home for undergraduate theater, touring theater companies and Shakespeare at Notre Dame, as well as lectures and dance events
The Regis Philbin Studio Theatre, which seats 100, is used primarily as an undergraduate theater facility
The Michael Browning Family Cinema, a 200-seat theater with 35mm projectors and a state-of-the-art sound system
The Chris and Anne Reyes Organ and Choral Hall, which features a hand-crafted organ of some 2,550 pipes, is designed to seat 100 guests and serve Notre Dame’s program of sacred music.

The DeBartolo Center also is home to Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television and Theatre and includes classrooms, editing studios, a recording studio, a scene and prop construction shop, a sound stage, a costume shop, a computer-aided design lab, a lighting lab, and music and theater rehearsal halls. In addition, all five performance spaces are designed to support academic instruction.

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The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is an international association of education advancement officers, who include alumni administrators, fund raisers, public relations managers, publications editors, and government relations officers. The ultimate goal of advancement professionals is to enhance their institutions by bringing in support — be it in the form of money, alumni loyalty, public esteem, or new students. In turn, CASE's purpose is to help these people advance the cause of education. It does this by offering information resources and training opportunities to aid its members.

CASE District V includes members from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.