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If you can handle big piercing and tattooing needles, you can handle the little ones they use to draw blood. Do your good deed for today by donating some of your precious red (or blue) stuff at the Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration: "Keep Dreams for Good Health Alive" Red Cross Blood Drive. There is a blood shortage, so if you have a few minutes between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., stop by the Rincon Room in the Student Union and consider yourself a potential hero. All blood types will be accepted, but types O+ and O- are in particular demand. Contact the Red Cross at 623-0541 for further information.
College has long been touted as the place where one frees his or her mind of all pre-existing notions or preconceptions about life and learning. Why, then, does racism still rear its destructive head on campuses nationwide? Share your ideas about how to defeat the beast today at the Racial Legacies and Learning: How to Talk About Race videoconference. It will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in rooms 201 and 205 of the Harvill building, but seating is limited. The sponsors - the Main Library Diversity Team, Africana Studies and the Department of Multicultural Programs and Services - say it's okay for you to bring your lunch. More information can be obtained by calling Olga Carranza at 621-1094.
When most of think of a "drum," we probably visualize skin-covered (synthetic or real) barrel-shaped objects that produce distinct rumbles and rat-a-tat-tats. However, I urge you to think again. Certain regions of the world are known for percussion instruments that are made of metal. Jamaica is one of those regions - and so is Tucson. Find out how this could be at the Drums Across Cultures event on the Mall. The UA Steel Drum Band will strut their metallic stuff from noon to 1 p.m., courtesy of the Department of Multicultural Programs and Services, KAMP Radio and DMPS. Olga Carranza can tell you more at 621-1094.
It's baaaaack! The Building Academic Community Speaker Series, that is. (No cause for alarm. Really.) Help inaugurate the program into 1999 by attending Robert Burns' lecture on "America and the Islamic Religion" from 12:15 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. in Gallagher Theatre. Oh, and tip your figurative hats to the Faculty Fellows and the American Council on Education, for they have made it all possible. Get the inside scoop from Sue Robison at 621-4700.
Think writing's just about doing research and pecking out your ideas on the computer? Be pleasantly proved wrong, then, at The Speakers' Series - Learning to Look: Using Visual Resources. A moderator and three panelists will guide your curious mind on a journey to the unknown from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in room A314 of the Main Library. Contact Louise Greenfield at 621-9919 for details.
And you thought it was all math and hard stuff: John Terning (University of California) will test the "Glueballs and String Theory" at today's Physics Colloquium in room 201 of the Physics and Atmospheric Sciences building. The discussion will last from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., but refreshments will be served in room 218 at 3:30 p.m. Nancie Nunez can give you the dirt at 621-2249 or 321-7760.
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