By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 14, 1996
- Career Services is offering a free workshop on how to plan your job search from 10 p.m. until 11 p.m. Students are required to check in at the Career Services reception desk located in the lower level of Old Main.
The workshop will discuss which strategies are most effective and where resources are available.
- The Memorial Student Union's Gallery presents "Zoo-Anthropomorphic Stories" by Sol Zimmerman.
Zimmerman, a master of fine arts student at the university, said "I am currently trying to determine the nature of this literacy, particularly as it related to contemporary society's new class of visually literate: the television watchers, the Web surfers, the movie addicts."
- The College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Fine Arts and the Department of Art present Ellen Dissanayake to speak on "Is Art Innate?" in the Architecture auditorium at 7 p.m.
Dissanayake will discuss the phenomenon of art from a biological or Darwinian perspective as an evolved and necessary component of human nature.
- The Parking and Transportation committee and Parking and Transportation Services is holding a symposium at the University Medical Center's DuVal auditorium from noon until 1 p.m.
The symposium will discuss next years parking and transpiration program and is open to the public.
- The Theater Arts Department presents "Going Up!" in the Fine Arts Complex, directing studio 116 at 8 p.m.
Going Up! is about eight young actors' fun and poignant look into what it takes to make it as an actor.
- The Memorial Student Union's Gallagher Theatre is showing "Trainspotting" at 7:30 p.m. and 9:25 p.m. "Goonies" is showing at midnight. Admission is $2.50.
Fact of the Day
The first Olympic Games on record were held in 776 B.C. and consisted of one event, a foot race of about 200 yards. It was from that date the Greeks began to keep their calendar by "Oympiads," the four-year spans between the celebrations of the famous games.
Source: 1995 Information Almanac