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By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 21, 1996
- The Center for Computing and Information Technology is offering a free workshop on how to use the Pine e-mail system in CCIT Room 311 from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m.
Workshop topics include composing, sending and replying to e-mail messages as well as deleting them. Creating an address book and folders to organize e-mail messages will also be discussed.
An e-mail account at the University of Arizona is required prior to the class.
CCIT is also offering a workshop on how to use the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online in the Main Library Room A315 from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m.
- The Free Burma Coalition is showing the British television documentary "Inside Burma: Land of Fear" at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Student Union's Cactus Lounge Room 284.
The documentary will expose how American-based companies in Burma are supporting a military government that uses and promotes the forced labor of its citizens.
- The University of Arizona verses Arizona State University Blood Donor Challenge begins today at 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the UA Mall.
The blood drive is an effort to help the Red Cross while raising school spirit. Each donor receives a free T-shirt.
The competition will continue through Friday.
- Steward Observatory presents Tom Gehrels to speak on "Update on Project Spacewatch Programs," in the Steward Observatory Auditorium Room N210 at 7:30 p.m.
Gehrels' Spacewatch program, based on Kitt Peak, is used for detecting and tracking Earth-approaching asteroids. Spacewatch is adding a new 72-inch telescope over the Christmas break, making it the largest telescope devoted to tracking these asteroids.
After the lecture, the public is invited to observe the night sky through telescopes at Steward, weather permitting.
- The Memorial Student Union's Gallagher Theatre is showing "The Nutty Professor" at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Fact of the Day
In 1986 the total value of the University of Arizona's buildings and the contents in them totaled $1,200,488,436. Within nine years, the buildings and their contents nearly doubled to $2,108,590,465 in1995.
Source: the University of Arizona Fact Book, Page 93
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