Sophomore Riquna Williams was Miami’s second leading scorer a season ago.

The University of Miami women’s basketball team will open its 2009 season against the Barry University Buccaneers in an exhibition game on Saturday, November 7 at the BankUnited Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

The 2009-10 Hurricanes feature rising sophomore Shenise Johnson. The Henrietta, New York native won a gold medal with the U19 USA National Team in Bangkok, Thailand, over the summer and was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference All-Freshmen Team for her efforts during her rookie campaign.

The exhibition against Barry will be the first opportunity to see the five newcomers on this season’s roster. Freshmen Lee Anna Osei (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Hannah Shaw (Nottingham, England), Stefanie Yderstrom (Ostertalje, Sweden), Shanel Williams (Chesapeake, Virginia), and 2009 McDonald’s All-American Morgan Stroman (Hopkins, South Carolina).

The Hurricanes open the regular season on the road against UC Riverside on Friday, November 13. The 2009-10 home opener will be Wednesday, November 18 against Bethune-Cookman at the BankUnited Center at 7 p.m.

For ticket information, visit www.hurricanesports.com or call the Hurricane Ticket Office at 1-800-GO-CANES.

Nearly 3,000 alumni from around the country will return to South Florida to join current students, faculty, and community members to celebrate the University of Miami’s Homecoming 2009 festivities.

Returning alumni will have a chance to go back into the classroom with leading UM faculty members for the Audrey Finkelstein UM Experience, an interactive education program. They will also have the opportunity to reconnect with former classmates at the reunion parties on Alumni Avenue. This block party will feature entertainment, food, and spirits and will take place on Friday, November 6 from 6:30 p.m. until 11 p.m. at Stanford Circle on the Coral Gables Campus.

Rock down to ‘Electric Avenue’ during UM’s annual homecoming parade, which kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 6. Grand Marshal Bennie Blades (former defensive back for the Hurricanes from 1985-1987 and third overall pick by the Detroit Lions in 1988), UM President Donna E. Shalala, Sebastian the Ibis, the Band of the Hour, and UM cheerleaders will join 20 colorful floats on the parade route.

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Don Giovanni, probably Mozart’s most famous opera, was the opening presentation of the Salzburg Festival in 2008. This production is directed by Claus Guth; Bertrand de Billy directs the Vienna Philharmonic. In the title role is British baritone Christopher Maltman, winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, making his first appearance in Salzburg; Annette Dasch, highly celebrated last season as Armida, takes the role of Donna Anna. Dorothea Roschmann, renowned for her interpretation of the great Mozart roles, sings Donna Elvira; Erwin Schrott appears as Leporello. Recorded in High Definition and presented in 5.1 surround sound, the screening lasts three hours with one intermission. Admission is $18 for all UM alumni, faculty, staff, and students. General admission is $20. The opera screens on Saturday and Sunday at 12 p.m.  For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

In 1970s Germany, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the young and still-fragile democracy. Radicalized children of the Nazi generation Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin are leading a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment. Their aim is to create a more humane society, but by spreading terror and bloodshed, they lose their own humanity. The head of the German police force, Horst Herold, relentlessly pursues the young terrorists, even though he knows they are only the tip of the iceberg. In German, English, French, and Swedish with English subtitles. Admission is $6 for all University of Miami alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, November 6 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, November 7 at 5:15 p.m.; and Sunday, November 8 at 3:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small-town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home. The film is in English and Arabic with English subtitles. Admission is $6 for all UM alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, November 6 at 7 p.m., Saturday, November 7 at 3:30 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, November 8 at 6:15 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.