By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 30, 1996
- Today is last day to drop a class with the instructor's signature. A drop will result in a "W" on one's transcript.
- The Math department presents Math Movies at 4 p.m. in the Family and Consumer Resources building, Room 202.
"Introduction to Pure Mathematics" will explore the implications of abandoning Euclid's Parallel Postulate allowing several parallels through a given point outside a given line or allowing none at all.
"Not Knot" will show how to introduce a structure on the complement of the Borromean, or Ballentine, rings. Computer graphics will show what it is like to move around inside this structure.
- The Program in Integrative Medicine at the college of Medicine presents "The Basics of Mind/Body Medicine," in the DuVal Auditorium of the University Medical Center from 1:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Andrew Weil, M.D., director of the program, will address scientific basis of mind/body interventions and diseases with prominent mind/body components.
- The Physics Department presents Adriana Pesci, of the UA, to speak on "Leaky Faucets and Dynamic Bifurcation of Hamiltonian Systems," in Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, Room 201 at 4 p.m.
The talk will focus on new developments in the study of hydrodynamic instabilities and shape evolution.
- The Memorial Student Union's Gallagher Theatre is showing "A Time To Kill" at 7:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Admission is $2.50.
Fact of the Day
The novel Gone With the Wind originally weighed three pounds, ran 1,037 pages and sold for $3.
Source: Trivial Pursuit game