Spring Break
UGA Today
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News
- "The 11th Hour." Film screening by the Young Democrats. Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
5:45 p.m. SLC 348.
- Blood drive. American Red Cross. 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Rooker Hall, Fireside Lounge, East Campus Village.
- Delta Sigma Pi Philanthropy. The event is to help raise money for St. Jude's Children Hospital. The theme is "Risky Business" and the club is open to anyone 18+. $2 per person. 10 p.m. to midnight. Level 131. Contact: Stewart Parnacott, stubaby@uga.edu.
- Dessert Social benefiting sex slavery victims in Burkina Faso, Africa. Hosted by the Creative Consultants, a student-run public relations internship under the Public Relations Student Society of America. Features entertainment line up of local band, Bandits of Love, the dance group the Georgia Dymes, Miss UGA and the University's nationally recognized Indian Dance Group, Bulldawg da Raaj. A raffle, at an $800 value, will follow the entertainment. All attendees will be invited to enjoy desserts and snacks. 6 p.m. to
8 p.m. Mahler Auditorium (entertainment) and Hill Atrium (dessert).
- "My year inside radical Islam." Co-hosted with the Georgia GuardDawg, Daveed Gartenstein will discuss his memoir. Come out and hear an informative talk about one man's firsthand experience with the world of Islam. This week is Islamofascism Awareness Week. 7 p.m. SLC 214.
- 2008 Parthemos Lecture. Sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs Department of Political Science. UCLA political scientist John Zaller delivers the lecture. Zaller studies American politics and public opinion. 3:30 p.m. 214 Student Learning Center. Contact: 706-542-4147,
bobgraf@uga.edu
- 2008 Ramsey Lecture: Time to Live - A Forgotten American Dream? Sponsored by the Recreation and Leisure Studies Program. Benjamin K. Hunnicutt, professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa, discusses the origins of how Americans have traded leisure for luxuries to three different sources: The emergence of commercialism in the 1920s; politics and the Great Depression; and a change in values and in culture. Reception to follow. 3:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Contact: 706-542-4330, dkleiber@uga.edu
- Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com. Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis.
5:45 p.m. SLC 348.
- Blood drive. American Red Cross. 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Rooker Hall, Fireside Lounge, East Campus Village.
- Delta Sigma Pi Philanthropy. The event is to help raise money for St. Jude's Children Hospital. The theme is "Risky Business" and the club is open to anyone 18+. $2 per person. 10 p.m. to midnight. Level 131. Contact: Stewart Parnacott, stubaby@uga.edu.
- Dessert Social benefiting sex slavery victims in Burkina Faso, Africa. Hosted by the Creative Consultants, a student-run public relations internship under the Public Relations Student Society of America. Features entertainment line up of local band, Bandits of Love, the dance group the Georgia Dymes, Miss UGA and the University's nationally recognized Indian Dance Group, Bulldawg da Raaj. A raffle, at an $800 value, will follow the entertainment. All attendees will be invited to enjoy desserts and snacks. 6 p.m. to
8 p.m. Mahler Auditorium (entertainment) and Hill Atrium (dessert).
- "My year inside radical Islam." Co-hosted with the Georgia GuardDawg, Daveed Gartenstein will discuss his memoir. Come out and hear an informative talk about one man's firsthand experience with the world of Islam. This week is Islamofascism Awareness Week. 7 p.m. SLC 214.
- 2008 Parthemos Lecture. Sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs Department of Political Science. UCLA political scientist John Zaller delivers the lecture. Zaller studies American politics and public opinion. 3:30 p.m. 214 Student Learning Center. Contact: 706-542-4147,
bobgraf@uga.edu
- 2008 Ramsey Lecture: Time to Live - A Forgotten American Dream? Sponsored by the Recreation and Leisure Studies Program. Benjamin K. Hunnicutt, professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa, discusses the origins of how Americans have traded leisure for luxuries to three different sources: The emergence of commercialism in the 1920s; politics and the Great Depression; and a change in values and in culture. Reception to follow. 3:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Contact: 706-542-4330, dkleiber@uga.edu
- Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com. Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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