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Patten lecture tonight, Wednesday\nDarlene Clark Hine and John A. Hannah, professor of history at Michigan State University, will present Patten Lectures at 7:30 p.m. today and Wednesday in Myers Hall 130.\nToday Hine will present "Black Professionals: The Intersection of Race, Class and Gender, 1890-1930." "Black Before Brown: Health, Education, Social Welfare Professionals 1930-1954" will be presented Wednesday.\nFor more information, e-mail mtilton@indiana.edu.\n\nSheldon Hochheiser will give a lecture titled "The Innovative Monopoly: AT&T 1914-1984" today as part of the Informatics Colloquia series. The lecture, which begins at 2 p.m. in Informatics 107, focuses on the AT&T/Bell System monopoly of the American telephone system until 1984 and the innovations it introduced.\nHochheiser is Corporate Historian for AT&T Corp., Bedminster, N.J. He has spent the past 15 years studying the history, technology and social context of the telephone system and the telecommunications industry and is an expert in the field.\nFor more information, visit www.informatics.indiana.edu/colloquia.

Physics professor to give lecture today\nAlex Dzierba, professor of physics at IU since 1973 and this year's Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer, will present a lecture about quarks titled "Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks" today.\nDzierba, who is the leader of an international collaboration of 100 physicists in experiments to study quarks, will describe for a general audience these "fundamental constituents of matter."\nThe annual Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture, which begins at 3 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union's Whittenberger Auditorium, is co-sponsored by the Office of the Bloomington Chancellor and the Office of the Vice President for Research. For more information, visit www.homepages.indiana.edu./031204/text/research.shtml.