MSA kicks off awareness week
The Muslim Student Association will sponsor a week of Islamic
awareness starting today.
Today’s lecture will discuss “Muslims Around the
World: Different Faces, One Religion” at Kinsey 51. A lecture
on Muslim women will take place on Tuesday in Moore 100.
Wednesday’s lecture will discuss “Muhammad: The
Bible’s Last Prophet” in CS 76. A lecture titled
“Breaking down the Misconceptions” will take place on
Thursday. All lectures will commence at 6 p.m., and the Friday
prayer will occur in Kerckhoff Grand Salon at 1 p.m.
Independence week begins
Today the Jewish Student Union, Bruins for Israel, and UCLA
Hillel will head Israel Independence Week.
Today is Israel Culture Day, and the groups will have a bake
sale from 10-2 p.m. to support the Israeli Red Cross and have
signing cards for terrorists’ victims in Israel. Tuesday will
hold remembrance of Israeli soldiers, and “Moving in Search
of Peace” will be screened in Rieber Hall at 7 p.m. Israeli
Independence Day is Wednesday, commemorated from 12-1 p.m. in
Meyerhoff Park. Wednesday night will host an Israel block party
from 7-11 p.m. on Landfair Avenue. The week ends Friday with
Israeli Shabbat 6:30 p.m. at UCLA Hillel.
Center, schools follow Chavez
Elementary school students will pick strawberries for a day;
high school students will spruce up a spring; and other children
will help clean the Los Angeles River. Students from seven Los
Angeles-area schools will perform these projects as part of the
César Chavez Day of Service and Learning grant received by
UCLA’s Center for Experiential Education and Service
Learning.
The center is working with teachers at seven schools to educate
students about Chavez, the prolific farm labor leader. The students
then will engage in community-based service-learning projects, and
will also organize a performance at their school or in the
community to inform others about Chavez. About 600 students are
participating in the project.
Anderson to hold IT program
The Anderson School is now accepting applications for its
Managing the Information Resource Program, to be held April 29-May
3 at UCLA. The intensive five-day program focuses on important
leadership and management challenges faced by information
technology executives with decision-making responsibilities, and it
includes the latest issues and trends in technology.
Reports from Daily Bruin Senior Staff and wire services.