MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University will present an outdoor showing of box-office hit Grease on Friday , September 14 at 9:00 p.m. in the quad of the university’s main campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. The movie is free to the public.

Families are invited to bring blankets and lawn chairs to the film. Popcorn and drinks will be available for sale. Call Dominican University’s campus activities at (708) 524-6037 for more information.

Grease is the story of Danny Zuko, played by John Travolta, and Sandy Olsson, played by Olivia Newton-John, and the brief summer romance they share before Sandy has to return to Australia with her parents. However, when her parents’ plans fall through and Sandy moves to the United States, she unknowingly attends the same high school as Danny. Danny, the leader of the T-birds, a guy gang at Rydell High School, thinks he can’t be with a goody-two-shoes like Sandy, until they both begin to realize their summer romance was just the beginning of the “real thing.”

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.