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Going Wilde
Merlin Holland, the grandson of Oscar Wilde, is giving a lecture Monday, Feb. 5, in Great Hall, Memorial Union, 7:30 p.m. Holland is author of “The Wilde Album” and co-editor of “The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde.” His lecture is entitled “Confounding the Critics, Surviving the Scandal: The Remarkable Reputation of Oscar Wilde.”

The lecture is part of an interdisciplinary program, “Oscar Wilde and His Times: A Centenary Celebration,” funded by The Anonymous Fund, Department of English, UW–Madison and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Information: http://www.Oscar100.20m. com/madison.htm

Hoofer Winter Carnival
Don’t let the cold weather get you down; celebrate it at the annual Hoofer Winter Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 3.

Events, centered at the Memorial Union Lakefront and on frozen Lake Mendota, are free and open to the public.

Hoofer Winter Carnival events include:

• SCUBA ice diving demonstration, noon-2 p.m.
• Ice sculpting, 12:30 p.m.
• Brat fry, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
• Greater Mendota Open ice golf, 1 p.m.
• Carriage rides, Park Street circle, 1-3 p.m.
• Broomball, 2 p.m.
• Alt country music in the Rathskeller, with Simon Joyner and Lofty Pillars, 9:30 p.m.

The Hoofer Winter Carnival is sponsored by Associated Students of Madison, the Wisconsin Union Directorate film, art and music committees, and the seven Hoofer Clubs: sailing, outing, mountaineering, snow and ski board, riding, scuba and gliding. Information: 262-1630, smthoma2@students.wisc.edu.

Gass to speak about poet
Award-winning novelist, essayist and teacher William Gass will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, in the Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons.

Gass’s talk, “Rilke and the Requiem,” is part of the Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series.

Gass will discuss writer and poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Gass is a professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. Information: 263-3409.