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April 24, 1997

Today 10 a.m.

Armenian Students’ Association

Dark & Silent March (10:30)

Perloff Quad

Noon

Bible Studies in Old/New Testament

Bible Study

Ackerman 2410 * 836-3713

Environmental Coalition

EARTHWEEK ’97: Kevin Danaker of Global Exchange speaks about
alternatives to Globalization

Kerckhoff State Room * 206-4438

Al Anon

Meeting

152 Kerckhoff * 206-4028

University Catholic Center

Roman Catholic Mass

Ackerman 3508 * 208-5015

2 p.m.

Polis

Marxist Discussion Group

Ackerman 3508 * 824-7121

3 p.m.

Baha’i Club

Meeting

Ackerman 2412 * 453-9594

4 p.m.

Center for the Study of Women

Ellen Ross, "Historicing Motherhood: Guilt, Gratitude, and
Freedom"

1329 Public Policy * 825-0590

Hong Kong Student Union

Movie Nite

Ackerman 2408 * 445-9331

6 p.m.

Environmental Coalition and Urban Planning Department

EARTHWEEK ’97: Carl Anthony from Earth Island Institute speaks
on "Fighting Sprawl and Urban Abandonment: A Strategy for
Environmental Justice"

Public Policy 2355 * 206-4438

Korean American Christian Fellowship

Speaker: Won Bin Song from VKCC on "Practical Purity"

Kinsey 169 * 478-1176

Latina/o Business Student Association

Careers in Advertising Night

Career Center

Golden Key National Honors Society

General Orientation Meeting

Kinsey 364

Samahang Pilipino

25th Anniversary Dinner/Dance Volunteer Meeting (6:30)

MS 3915 * UCL-A727

7 p.m.

Ballroom Dance Club

Dance Lessons

Ackerman Level A Lobby

[email protected] * 284-3636

African Student Union

General Meeting

135 Kerckhoff * 825-8051

8 p.m.

UCLA International Folk Dance Club

Learn Fun Line Dances

Ackerman A Level lobby

[email protected] * 284-3636

Friday Noon

UCLA Center for the Study of Religion

"Writing in the Dust: Lynch Law and Irony in the Fourth
Gospel"

10383 Bunche Hall

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Today’s weather will be mostly sunny with a few low clouds.
Mostly clear skies and slightly cooler temperatures will continue
the next few days.San Diego

San Diego

66/57

Long Beach

71/52

Van Nuys

75/53

Sacramento

75/47

San Francisco

69/48

Today Sunny

High 74 / Low 62

Friday Mostly Sunny

High 76 / Low 60

Saturday Mostly Sunny

High 78 / Low 58

SAGE kicks off protest with card signing

Prompted by the continued refusal of chancellors and other UC
officials to recognize their unions, academic student employees at
UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara officially
kicked off yet another statewide campaign for administrative
recognition.

At UCLA, representatives from the Student Association of
Graduate Employees (SAGE/UAW) were in front of Powell Library
collecting signatures of support from students while explaining how
SAGE employment issues affect undergraduates.

The strikes on other UC campuses are set to begin next week,
SAGE officials said. Members of the Association of Graduate Student
Employees (AGSE/UAW) at UC Berkeley voted overwhelmingly to strike
from April 30 through May 2, and academic student employee unions
at other campuses will likely follow suit.

This most recent action is the latest in a long string of
protests against the university and administration from teaching
assistants (TAs), research assistants, readers and tutors who want
collective bargaining rights with the university.

Over the past two years, increased discontent over working
conditions and benefits among SAGE members has driven the group to
stage increasingly disruptive strikes. During Fall Quarter, several
hundred SAGE members at UCLA, in conjunction with similar groups at
Berkeley and San Diego, kept TAs and research assistants out of the
classroom for five days late last November.

At the end of those strikes, the unions voted for a UC-wide
escalation before the end of this academic year if the UC
administration did not agree to begin collective bargaining.

Girls benefit from ‘Take our Daughters to Work’

Today marks the fifth-annual public-education program, Take Our
Daughters to Work Day.

Created by the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1993, the program
invites parents or relatives to bring adolescent girls to work with
them. Studies by Harvard University researchers, the American
Association of University Women and the Minnesota Women’s Fund show
that adolescent girls often receive less attention and suffer from
lower expectations than boys their age do.

The program was designed specifically to make up for those
differences and to show girls they can become whatever they
please.

For girls, early adolescence marks the time when distress most
often takes place. For this reason, the Ms. Foundation created Take
Our Daughters to Work Day to intervene at this crucial period. Boys
are also invited to participate in the program.

Family gains upper hand in UCI suit

Relatives of a mother left comatose after surgery at the
University of California, Irvine Medical Center got the upper hand
in a lawsuit in which a judge ruled the hospital could not offer a
defense because of attorney deceit.

Superior Court Judge C. Robert Jameson concluded Tuesday that
lawyers for the hospital and the UC Board of Regents obstructed
justice and so would not be allowed to present a defense to a
medical malpractice suit filed by the family of Denise DeSoto.

The judge, in granting a motion filed by attorneys for the
DeSoto family, ordered a default judgment entered against UCI and
the regents. The unusual ruling permits attorneys for the Garden
Grove woman to present uncontested evidence about her injury at a
hearing before the judge in the next 30 days.

DeSoto’s attorney, Neil Bahan, said he will ask that UC Irvine
be ordered to pay $10 million to $15 million.

The judge will decide what damages, if any, the university
should pay. Only then can UCI appeal. A trial is still possible for
the UCI doctors also named in the suit.

Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT:

For non-SOAA undergraduates to add courses with PTE number and
$3 per course fee through URSA Telephone.

For non-SOAA undergraduates to file Late Study List by petition
with $50 fee.

For all undergraduates to drop nonimpacted courses (without
transcript notation) with $3 per transaction fee through URSA
Telephone.

LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT:

Until the last day to submit final drafts of dissertations to
doctoral committees for degrees to be conferred in current
term.

Last day for undergraduates to change grading basis (optional
P/NP) with $3 per transaction fee through URSA Telephone

DON’T FORGET

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Need someone to talk to? Call the UCLA Peer Helpline at
825-HELP.