UCSD Cares campaign hits campus March 1

Organizations will showcase service projects and recruit volunteers for community service projects on Library Walk from March 1 to March 5 for the third annual UCSD Cares campaign. Sponsored by Associated Students, Student Organizations & Leadership Opportunities and UCSD Bookstore, student organizations will be tabling to have volunteer sign-ups and to ask for donations for local charities.

Some of the services that students can join include Habitat for Humanity and UCSD Student Life, which are asking students to donate 10 inches of hair to benefit Locks of Love, a program aimed at helping children with rare hair loss syndromes. Stylists will also be available all week for free to cut and style hair.

The Premedical Association Students for Services is asking for toiletries, canned food and clothes to be donated to various charities. International House Cares will try to raise money for a trip to a Tijuana orphanage and supplies that they can donate to the children. There will also be a dunk tank where students can dunk their resident dean and resident advisors.

Students Against Animal Suffering will also have an information table on Seeds for Change Humane Education and additional information on animal protection issues. Other organizations asking for donations include the Alumni Association, who is holding its second annual Kiss the Pig fundraiser where prominent students and administrators will kiss a pig for every $25 the organization receives for diabetes research.

Students can also round their purchases to the nearest dollar at UCSD Bookstore, and the change will go to local charities. UCSD Bookstore will also have a window display for food and clothing donations throughout the week.

The campaign week first began in 2001 after Sept. 11 when the UCSD community rallied to give to local charities. Last year, over 40 student organizations were able to raise more than $3,000 for various charities in addition to clothing, food and other donated items.

A list of activities planned by participating organizations is available at http://as.ucsd.edu/ucsdcares.

Students can cast ballots at Price Center on March 2

A polling site will be set up at Galleries A and B at Price Center on March 2 for students to cast their vote in the state primary.

Voters will be voting on presidential primary candidates as well as U.S. senator, U.S. representative, state senators, state assembly members and local offices. State and local propositions will also be on the ballot. The poll will be open from 7:30 a.m. to approximately 8 p.m.

The Registrar of Voters is providing information for each party in one sample ballot pamphlet which will include samples of official ballots for each of the parties and nonpartisan contests that all voters are eligible to vote on.

Sample ballots will be available at poll locations for those who registered between Feb. 3 and Feb. 17.

For sample ballots and additional voter information including a list of all candidates, visit the Registrar of Voters Web site for San Diego County at http://wwwsdvote.com/election/march2004.html. Election results will also be available at the Web site after the polls close.

UCSD to commemorate Dr. Seuss on March 2

To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, there will be free birthday cake and punch for students on March 2 at 11 a.m. at Geisel Library.

One thousand slices of cake will be served to the first 1,000 attendees.

The event, which will be held at the forum level of the library, will also feature speakers including Audrey Geisel, the widow of Theodor Geisel. She will unveil the Seuss Memorial, a life-size bronze sculpture of the author with the “Cat in the Hat” standing on his shoulder. The sculpture was created by Rancho Santa Fe artist Lark Grey Dimond-Cates, daughter of Audrey Geisel.

Additionally, U.S. Postal Service dignitaries will be unveiling a commemorative stamp designed by a Carlsbad artist.

Acting Chancellor Marsha Chandler and university librarian Brian E. C. Schottlaender will also speak at the event.