Are you ready to get your foot in the professional door and hold it open for your fellow community members? If you are looking for a way to apply your UA education to the real world, check out today's Main Event on the Old Main balcony. The activities will begin at 10 a.m. and last until 3 p.m. for interested students. Information will be available on career opportunities, internships and small businesses. If you have any questions regarding future business opportunities, please call Susan Miller at 621-1408.
You stayed up late studying, reviewed your notes before class and were still surprised by the low grade on your morning test. Test anxiety is very common among students and is the topic at today's Learning Strategies Workshop. Instructors will address such stress factors as distractions, mistakes and sleeplessness at the 2:15 p.m. lecture. Advice regarding improved study habits and exam preparation will also be available for students. For more information regarding other workshops on campus, please call Karen Guitierrez at 621-4548.
If binoculars aren't giving you the view of the sky you crave, check out tonight's lecture on "Looking for Globular Cluster Tidal Tails with the Slogan Digital Sky Survey." Constance Rockosi, University of Chicago professor, will lead the discussion, and viewings of the night sky will be available for interested students. The lecture will be held in the Steward Observatory, room N210 at 4 p.m. For more information regarding other Steward Observatory events, please call Pat Breyfogle at 318-8115.
Interracial relations take center stage as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee presents, "Come See the Paradise" at 6 p.m. The full-length film features Dennis Quaid portraying an ex-union organizer who falls in love with a Japanese American woman. The story is set in the 1930s, but many of the ethnic topics are still relevant today. The showing will take place in the Modern Languages auditorium, room 350. For more information regarding events occurring at the Martin Luther King Jr. building, please call Beretta Smith-Shomade at 621-5899.
The sound of strings and classical period music will fill the UA fine arts complex as Anonymous 4 and Chillingirian String Quartet pick up their instruments and raise their voices at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The group returns to the Tucson area for the first time in three years, and tickets for the Crowder Hall performance are being sold for $35. For more information regarding the 12th and 13th century musical group or to reserve seats for tonight's performance, please call the Centennial Hall box office at 621-3341.
-Compiled by Mindy Jones
