By Dylan McKinley
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday Jan. 10, 2002
Find your calling. UA Career Services will hold walk-in, free counseling at Old Main in the lower level at the reception desk from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information about the session, contact Career Services at 621-4224 or at http://www.career.arizona.edu.
Wonder how much your city council representative spends on travel? Curious about how much the mayor spends on long-distance cellular phone service at the taxpayers' expense? Go to the Steward Observatory, Room N305, from noon to 1 p.m. for the Legal Issues Brown Bag Speaker Series to find out more about what government records are public. David Nix will lecture during lunch about "Public Records: Read All About It." The series is sponsored by the University Attorney's Office. Coffee will be provided. For more information, contact Marsha Dixon at 621-3175.
Join Broadway song-creating stars Elton John and Tim Rice on a journey through old Egypt at Disney's "Aida" at Centennial Hall this afternoon at 2. A tale for all ages, "Aida" shows love, politics and conflict in action - enough to garner four Tony Awards. Tickets are $20, $30, $40 and $46 dollars at the Centennial Hall box office. For more information, contact Centennial Hall at 621-3341 or visit its Web site at http://www.uapresents.arizona.edu/0102performance.html.
Fiber is more than a gastrointestinal regularity solution or what your pants are weaved from. Find out more about fiber amplifiers at the Optical Sciences Center Colloquium today at 3:45 p.m. George C. Valley of the Aerospace Corporation will lecture about "Modeling cladding-pumped Er/Yb fiber amplifiers" in the Meinel building, Room 410. For more information, contact Alan Kost at 626-7596.
Stop by McKale Center this evening to watch our Arizona women's basketball team take the court against the Washington State Cougars in a Pacific 10 Conference match-up. The teams tip-off at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students, staff and faculty with valid identification, $3 for senior citizens and $3 for children. Contact the McKale Center ticket office at 621-2287 or visit http://www.arizcats.com for more information.
UA professor Martha Sandweiss, on behalf of the departments of history and American studies, will speak this evening about early photography of American Indians. The lecture, titled "Picturing Indians: Photography and the Invention of the Vanishing Race," begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Harvill building, Room 204, and ends at 9 p.m. The lecture is free. For more information, contact Katherine Morrissey at 626-8429, or e-mail her at kmorriss@u.arizona.edu.