Recent sightings

Having a ball
Hundred of students put on their finery to kick off Homecoming week activities at a charity ball Oct. 20. About 800 tickets were sold for the ball, a non-alcohol dance with live music staged on the first and second levels of Grainger Hall. The event, like all traditional Homecoming events since 1987, benefited the Dean of Students Crisis Fund. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Facilities repair worker Bruce Davis washes windows at the Law School, just in time to give jurisprudent inhabitants an unimpeded view of Bascom Mall foliage at its alleged fall peak. More views of changing seasons. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Bookworms browse an estimated 15,000 volumes at the Friends of the Libraries book sale in Memorial Library last week. The fund-raiser helps support an annual lecture series, special purchases for the library collections, a visiting scholar program and grants to campus libraries. (Photo: Stephanie Judge)