Kellogg Foundation Award

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded $100,000 to Knowledge River at the School of Information Resources and Library Science to create public awareness of a national celebration of children, reading and multiculturalism.

Funds will be used to encourage national recognition of El D’a de los Ni–os/El D’a de los Libros, which is celebrated annually in the United States on April 30. Based upon a traditional Latin American holiday, El D’a de los Ni–os/El D’a de los Libros has been embraced by many public libraries as a day to encourage children to read about different cultures.

Knowledge River will create a national D’a network, establish a Web site for information sharing, work with library and school organizations and associations, and generally promote El D’a de los Ni–os/El D’a de los Libros nationally. It will also support El D’a de los Ni–os/El D’a de los Libros at several Tucson public schools and libraries including Davis Bilingual Magnet School, Wakefield Middle School in partnership with Hollinger Elementary School, Marshall Elementary School, Walter Douglas Elementary School and Craycroft Elementary.

For more information about El D’a de los Ni–os/ El D’a de los Libros, call 621-6428.

SETA on the Mall tomorrow

Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will be out on the UA Mall tomorrow from noon until 1:30 p.m. encouraging other students to join in the annual worldwide "Meatout." SETA will be offering information concerning the vegan diet and pursuing vegetarianism. There will also be free food.

The menu will include vegan "burgers," "cutlets," "ribs," "chicken nuggets," "meatballs," chili and full burritos. Dessert includes dairy-free ice cream bars, gelatin-free gummy bears and Desserts Alternative cookies.

"These are amazing cookies. Make sure you say something about that in the article," said Annie Baril, philosophy graduate student and SETA member.

"We're doing it to show how delicious vegetarian food is," said Baril. The Meatout is also meant to debunk stereotypes about veganism and myths about factory farming.

"Veganism is an environmentally friendly and humane alternative to meat-eating," said Baril. For more information, please see goveg.com, or visit themeatrix.com for the story of how a pig named "Leo" learns the evils of factory farming from a cow named "Moopheus."