In response to recent budget cuts and increased UCSD enrollment, the Revelle College Council has proposed a $4 raise to the Revelle College Student Activities Fee.
Voting will be held on from Jan. 27 to Jan. 31 at stations in Revelle Plaza, Library Walk and the Matthews Apartments from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The referendum is designed to protect programs like the Emerging Leaders Program, Express to Success, the watermelon drop, Welcome Week and Spirit Night.
UCLA author named finalist for national award
“”Sleeping with the Dictionary,”” a poetry book written by UCLA African-American studies and English professor Harryette Mullen, has been named a finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.
The book, which explores Mullen’s love of language, word play and experimentation, was also one of five poetry books nominated for a 2002 National Book Award.
The other poetry book nominations are “”Leaving Saturn”” by Major Jackson, “”Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest”” by B.H. Fairchild, “”The Unswept Room”” by Sharon Olds and “”Without End: New and Selected Poems”” by Adam Zagajewski.
Hip-hop events hosted by Cross Cultural Center
As part of a community effort to rebuild, recreate and re-present the positive forces of the hip-hop culture explosion, the UCSD Cross Cultural Center, in cooperation with hip-hop club Living in Four Elements, will present “”Up With Hip Hop.””
The first free event is a screening of the award-winning film “”SLAM”” on Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. in the Cross Cultural Center. The second event is a panel discussion titled “”Hip Hop for the People,”” to be held Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Cross Cultural Center and will be led by George Lipsitz and Victor Viesca.
The final event in the series is a hip-hop show titled “”Wink of a Third Eye,”” which will be held at Porter’s Pub on March 1 at 8 p.m.
For more information visit http://ucsd-hiphop.org.
Black History month kicks off with Feb. 1 brunch
UCSD will kick off Black History month with a lecture by author and syndicated columnist Julianne Malveaux at a Faculty Club brunch, Feb. 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The brunch program will also include performances by community choirs and a silent auction to benefit undergraduate scholarships. Brunch tickets are $17, available in advance at Price Center Box Office or by phone at (858) 534-4559. Tickets are $20 on the day of the event.
Malveaux’s comments on national affairs, the American workplace and the economy appear each week in more than 20 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the Detroit News and the Oregonian, among others. She also appears regularly on network television and writes a monthly column for USA Today and the journal Black Issues in Education.
Malveaux is the immediate past president of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, and serves as treasurer of the board of directors of the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation.
For more information on UCSD’s Black History Month celebration, visit the Web site at http://blackhistorymonth.ucsd.edu or call (858) 534-3492.
Attorney to appear at roundtable on Feb. 12
Trial attorney William S. Lerach will give a lecture titled “”The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost: How the Big Accounting Firms and Corporate Interests Chloroformed Congress and Cost America’s Investors Trillions”” as part of the UCSD Economics Roundtable, Feb. 12 from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club.
Lerach, who has prosecuted hundreds of corporate offenders — including Enron, Dynegy, Qwest and WorldCom — is a partner in the law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, LLP. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation section committee on class actions and derivative skills.
