Date: Feb 01, 2008

Super Bowl Stars at Hofstra

University offers alternative Super Bowl Sunday event featuring more stars than a halftime show

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – Not all the stars on Super Bowl Sunday will be in Arizona on February 3.

In place of Eli Manning and Tom Brady, Hofstra is offering Mars and Saturn, along with the Orion Nebula and the Pleiades star cluster.

Non-football fans, football widows and kids, and anyone else who won’t be in front of a TV set for the Giants-Patriots game are invited to do some star-gazing from 7-9 p.m. atop the Chemistry and Physics Building, California Avenue at Huntington Place, south campus.

Hofstra will have several telescopes set up to ensure adequate star-gazing for the evening, or for a quick look at half-time. Hofstra astronomers will be on hand to talk about the wonders of the Winter Sky.

Updates and the latest weather information is available at (516) 463-2 SKY (2759), or at www.hofstra.edu/astronomy. For more information e-mail: observatory@hofstra.edu

Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from about 145 undergraduate and 155 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business, communication, education and allied human services, and honors studies, as well as a School of Law. With a student-faculty ratio of 14-to-1, our professors teach small classes averaging 22 students that emphasize interaction, critical thinking and analysis. Hofstra offers a faculty whose highest priority is teaching excellence, cutting edge technology, extensive library resources, internships and special educational programs that appeal to their interests and abilities