Take Back the Night is approaching! It is an evening of entertainment, speakers, and open mic testimonials that allows for the UCSD community to speak up against sexual assault and support survivors. Thursday, April 25th @ 7 pm - 10 pm - Price Center Click the picture for the website and more information! The Sixth College Writing Studio (Studio 261) is OPEN! Come get free writing help with any of your CAT writing assignments. Your tutors will be a highly-trained, highly-motivated, incredibly kind and generous group of your peers. They are students have seen and written assignments like these before. No appointments necessary! Free snack foods! OPEN: Mon-Thurs @ 6 - 10 pm CAT Writing Studio - 2nd Floor Pepper Canyon Hall For more information, contact: Alexandra Sartor - asartor@ucsd.edu OR Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi - harakika@ucsd.edu Near or far - by bike, car, train, or jet pack Show Sixth what you see on your trek to and from UCSD! CONTEST GUIDELINES: * Entry requires a series of 4 photos of what commuting is like for you. * One entry per person * Sixth College undergrad students only * Photos must be in digital format and in high resolution **entries that do not follow guidelines will be disqualified** Please submit to cia.sixth@gmail.com with subject title: "COMMUTER"_YOUR LAST NAME SUBMISSION DEADLINE:Friday, May 3rd @ 4 pm Up Til Dawn is a letter-writing campaign to raise money and awareness about the amazing things this hospital does for children with devastating illnesses. The letters are pre-written, so you don't have to write a letter. All you have to do is bring your family's and friend's home addresses and write them on the envelopes. If you bring 15 addresses, you will be enetered into a raffle for a Samsung Tablet or a Nook. More is always better! There will be live entertainment; including Uncle Jesse, Treble Singers, and Soda Pants. There will also be a dessert buffet, games and prizes! April 23rd @ 8 - 10 pm - West Price Center Ballroom Sixth College Practicum Fair - learn about Fall and Summer 2013 practicum programs May 1st @ 11:30 am - 1 pm - Cross Cultural Center - PC East Level 2 Practicum Info Sessions - have questions about the Practicum? 1st session -May 7th @ 3:30 - 4:30 pm (Village West Lounge) 2nd session -May 15th @ 2:30 - 3:30 pm (Pepper Canyon, Conference Room 280) Practicum Excellence - Did you have an amazing practicum experience? Get recognized and you could win an award for your work! E-mailMarissa Martinez for more information @ mlm003@ucsd.edu Attention Sixers! Did you know that there's a program that allows you to have dinner with one of your professors, for free? UCSD wants you to interact with your professors outside of the classroom. Three easy steps: Ask, Sixth College Hub, then Grub! Ask: Ask your professor! They're busy people but they have to eat too! Hub: Bring their information (name, email, date) to the Sixth College Hub and get your meal card! Grub: Choose from 1 of the 3 locations to eat: UCSD Faculty Club, Porters, or the Loft! <-- For more information, click the picture! Come into the HUB, located on the 2nd floor of Pepper Canyon Hall. Buy a Sixth College Stole! Only $20.00! Check it out today!

UCSD's CHI OMEGA is having a fundraising event in order to raise funds to grant a wish for a Make-A-Wish child. The event is open to all - every bit helps! Come out May 10th @ Muir Field For more information, check out the Facebook page by clicking the picture!

The Good Life Festival is a free event focusing on well-being related FUN! All aspects of the event are intended to promote on-campus wellness resources, encourage healthy living and engage students in fun and exciting activities such as: live zumba session, climbing wall, henna tattoo booth, face painting, photo booth, sticky velcro wall, chair massage, inflatable pillow fight, and human hamster balls in a pool. Additionally, there will be a live DJ, student performances, healthy food options, prizes, and give-a-ways offered throughout the night. Thursday, May 2nd @ 5 - 9 pm - Matthews Quad and Town Square areas

"Making Zero a Reality” helps illustrate the university's strive to reduce its carbon footprint by aiming to produce zero waste that goes to landfills and zero carbon emissions. Events include a screening of the documentary "Bag It,” campus cleanup, sustainability organization fair, "reduce your waistline” trash sort and more. In addition, on Earth Day April 22nd, the Student Sustainability Collective will host a talk by Van Jones, former special advisor for green jobs in the Barack Obama administration. Jones will be appearing with activist, environmentalist and former vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke; the two will discuss how issues relating to sustainability and social justice intersect. Join UC San Diego in celebration of Earth Week April 17-24. Click the picture for more information!

Colonies of Humanity? Violence and Humanitarianism in the Modern French Empire - Defenders of modern French imperialism always claimed a sacred duty to spread their nation's "civilization” – including medical knowledge, technology, literature, and political philosophy – to the societies they colonized. But did the rhetoric of civilization blind many Frenchmen to the suffering caused by colonialism itself? Monday, May 13th @ 3 - 4:30 pm - Social Sciences Building, Room 107 <-- Click the picture to register!

Do you want to reach your fitness goals, but unsure how to get the most out of your gym experience?Come check out the Student Personal Wellness Program with UCSD Recreation's FitLife! This eight week program is FREE for current UCSD students. In this program, you will learn about fitness equipment, proper lifting techniques, training routines, and healthy nutrition. Small, intimate classes of about 6 students are taught by FitLife personal trainers in our private Wellness Studio downstairs in RIMAC. This program helps students gain confidence with fitness in a gym setting and learn stress reducing techniques. Each participant will also receive a personalized workout designed by the fitness trainer. Learn how to be time efficient at the gym and become your very best. Click the picture for more information!

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