By Dylan McKinley
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday Apr. 9, 2002
Learn a little bit more about Latin America and its cultures, traditions and histories every Tuesday from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Center for Latin American Studies Brown Bag Series. Today, Dr. Raul Saba, an associate research professor for the center, will present "Liberation Theology." The sessions are free and take place in the Douglass building, Room 10. For more information, contact Robin Zenger at 626-7242 or e-mail her at rzenger@u.arizona.edu.
It's still Math Awareness Week. Though you won't see numbers and fractals zinging through the air on campus, you can check out "Mapping Chromosomes Using Combinational Optimization." John Kececioglu of the department of computer science at UA will lecture from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the Mathematics building, Room 501. For more information about the free lecture or Math Awareness Week, contact Chris Mikel at 621-2056, send e-mail to mikel@math.arizona.edu .
The Black History Film Series continues today with a modern film. Check out Denzel Washington in one of his most acclaimed roles to date in "The Hurricane," a film about former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. The movie plays for free from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Pima Residence Hall in the conference room. For more information, contact Ruby Shelton at 621-5664 or e-mail her at sheltonr@u.arizona.edu.
For a little more entertainment, Nations Hall in Muse, 516 N. Fifth Ave., should be your destination. At 7:30 p.m., UApresents "Charlie Victor Romeo," a live theatrical documentary taken from black-box transcripts from cockpits of planes in battle. The show goes for an hour and 15 minutes with no intermission. Tickets cost $25, are general admission and can be purchased at the door. For more information, contact the Centennial Hall Box Office at 621-3341 or visit one of the Web sites at http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/cvr_fdr.htm, http://uapresents.arizona.edu/0102performance.html, or http://www.charlievictorromeo.com.
Marketing 452, an Eller College of Business class, wants to show off its acquired skills by helping the Immigration and Naturalization Service Officer Corps Marketing Program hold an event near the southwest corner of Old Main tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event aims at providing information about careers with the U.S. Border Patrol. For more information, contact Matthew Giardina at 629-0696 or e-mail him at giardina@u.arizona.edu.