• The Center for Computing and Information Technology offers a free workshop on how the use a variety of UA databases in the Science and Engineering Library Room 311 from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m.

  Using the OVID search software the workshop will teach participants how to use ABI-Inform, BIOSIS, Current Contents and health related databases.

• "Eat to the Beat" and Rising Star Entertainment of the University of Arizona launches its event concert series on the UA Mall today from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.

  Feature bands include "Sour" and "Everybody Duck." They will perform on the newly built stage at the west end of the Mall. Admission is free.

• The Arizona State Museum at the UA hosts "Hopi Baskets Today Gifts from the Past," tomorrow and Sunday at the museum located just inside the Main Gate at University Boulevard and Park Avenue.

  Tomorrow there is a lecture on Hopi basket weaving - its origins, development, and significance in the Hopi Pueblos.

  Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. a slide illustrated discussion will be held in the museum, on the care and display of baskets.

• The ASUA Women's Resource Center is offering a free self defense class on Sunday from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the Student Recreation Center Room A.

  Pre-registration for the class is preferred at 320-0490.

• The Memorial Student Union's Gallagher Theatre shows "Matilda" at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m today and tomorrow. Admission is $2.50.

Fact of the Day

On this day in 1942, the United States and its European allies began their first offensive against Nazi Germany by invading Northern Africa. The North African campaign would eventually culminate in the invasion of Italy the following September.

Source: The 1991 World Almanac and Book of Facts page 446

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