UA students are invited to attend and participate in an Israel solidarity rally today at noon near the Old Main Fountain. For more information, contact Michelle Blumenberg at 624-6561.

The Arizona Board of Regents convenes for its monthly meeting today at Northern Arizona University. The two-day meeting lasts until tomorrow afternoon. For agenda information and meetings times, visit the Web site at http://www.abor.asu.edu/1_the_regents/meetings/agenda/agenda.html. For more information, call Judy Garza at 602-229-2507.

The UA library will celebrate poetry month with a reading today by a faculty member of UA's Creative Writing program. Boyer Rickel will read today at 1 p.m. in the UA Main Library. For more information, contact Veronica Reyes at 621-8366 or visit the Web site at http://www.library.arizona.edu.

Insects are a large part of the natural world around us. Whether you hate them or think they are cute, you can't avoid them. Find out the latest about "macroevolutionary approaches to understanding insect distribution, abundance and population dynamics" when Dr. Peter Price of the biological sciences department at Northern Arizona University gives his spiel. The talk will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Marley building, room 230. For more information, contact the department of entomology seminar series organizer at 621-5346 or e-mail to dhiggins@ag.arizona.edu.

UA's talented theatre arts program presents a unique play experience this evening at the UA Laboratory Theatre. Stop by at 7:30 p.m. to check out a series of one-act plays. "The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, "Lone Star," by James McClure, and "American Tropical," by Richard Ford are on the lineup. For more information, contact the Fine Arts Box Office at 621-1162 or visit the Web site at http://www.arts.arizona.edu/theatre.

The German Film Series continues this evening with a tale of the owner of a failing chocolate shop who feigns his own suicide. "Eine Reise ins Licht," written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1978, plays at 7:30 p.m. for free in the Modern Languages auditorium. For more information, call 621-7385, send e-mail to bkosta@u.arizona.edu or visit one of the Web sites at http://www.coh.arizona.edu/german/, or http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0077421.