Drinks, food and tattoos for seniors
The Alumni Association is sponsoring the Senior Sendoff today
from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the James West Alumni Center.
Free drinks, food and activities will be provided, including
henna tattoos, caricatures and opportunities for networking.
Students must present an ID as proof of their status.
Experts speak on bioterrorism
A two-day bioterrorism conference, sponsored by the Burkle
Center for International Relations, continues today.
“Bioterrorism in the New World Order: Managing a
Multifaceted problem” featured Ken Alibek, deputy chief of
Biopreparat, the operation at the heart of the Soviet Union
biological weapons program. He was one of the Soviet scientists to
defect to the U.S.
His speech will be followed today by Bill Patrick, president of
BioThreats Assessment, and founder of the U.S. biowarfare
program.
Admission is $10 for students and $30 for non-students.
Attendees must fill out a registration form. The conference lasts
from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the University Synagogue at 11960 Sunset
Blvd.
For more information call the Burkle Center at 825-0604.
“˜Gay L.A.’ discussed in campus
lecture
Moira Kenney, a UCLA alumnus and a senior planner and policy
analyst for the San Francisco Children and Families Commission, is
speaking today in an event, “How gay is L.A.?”
Kenney, author of Mapping Gay L.A. , will be at Public Policy
2270 at 4 p.m.
The lecture is last in the Queer Los Angeles series. The
sponsors are the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered studies
department, the Center for the Study of Women, the humanities and
social sciences division and the English department.
Students to light up the stage at UCLA
The New Play Festival will put the spotlight on student writers,
actors, directors, designers and stage managers from the film and
theater departments starting today.
“From Nowhere to Tomorrow” by Jesse Spero and
directed by Alberto Barboza, will be featured Wednesday and
Thursday. It will be followed by “The Color of Ice” by
Rose Martula and directed by Maeve McQuillan June 5-7 and
“The Daughter of Donovan” by Aleks Merilo and directed
by Natalia Futasova June 7-8.
Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.