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Campus celebrates Great Choices Week Sept. 22-26

September 18, 2003 By

The Office of Transportation Services is planning a series of events on campus to celebrate Great Choices Week, which helps students, employees and visitors learn more about their campus transportation options, and to provide commuter-related services.

Tables will be set up around campus offering information on different forms of transportation, refreshments and, for the first 100 people to stop by each day, a free Great Choices T-shirt.

The tables will be staffed from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following locations:

  • Monday, Sept. 22, on Library Mall
  • Tuesday, Sept. 23, on Linden Drive between the Steenbock Library, and the Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences building
  • Wednesday, Sept. 24, near the fountain on Engineering Mall
  • Thursday, Sept. 25, at the WARF Building circle drive on Walnut Street
  • Friday, Sept. 26, on Library Mall

Bicyclists can get a free bike adjustment between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., register their bikes, pick up maps and get tips on bicycle safety. They will be able to try out one of the bike racks provided on the front of Madison Metro buses.

Bus riders can pick up a Madison Metro schedule and get their free employee bus pass if they haven’t done so already. A university ID is required to obtain the pass. On Monday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., a Madison Metro customer service representative will be on hand to help riders determine their best routes to take to and from campus.

Also available at the sites will be free tickets to the “Bike-In” Film Festival, which will offer an intimate glimpse into the bicycling culture in the United States and internationally.

The free, public festival will be held in the Memorial Union’s Play Circle, 800 Langdon St., Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 23-24.

Matinees will be held each day starting at 4:30 p.m. “Riding the Black Mamba,” which explores the use of bicycles in Africa for transportation and income generation, will be shown on Tuesday. Wednesday’s matinee will be “Hardihood,” which follows a group of women who are downhill mountain bike racers.

At 7:30 each night, the festival will feature “Song of the Bicycle,” followed by “The Hard Road.” “Song of the Bicycle” is a 17-minute film billed as “an oddly insightful look at the divide of Chinese and Western lifestyles as manifested in the simple use of the bicycle.” “The Hard Road” director Jamie Paolinetti will attend the screening of his feature-length documentary, which follows his NetZero team through an entire season as its members experienced the highs and lows of professional cycling. Following the film, Paolinetti will take questions from the audience.

The first 50 students to arrive at the theater each night each will receive a free bike headlight courtesy of Bucky’s Bike and Pedestrian Ambassadors.

UW cycling team members and Bucky’s Ambassadors will serve as ticket-takers and ushers for the festival.

Advance tickets will be given away at the Great Choices information tables Monday through Wednesday, and all remaining tickets will be available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.