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 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!

Congratulations Study Abroad Graduates! We are offering country graduation sashes again, at $28.00 per sash, shipping and tax included! For the special $28 price, place your order with a credit card through the website beginning May 1st, 2013. Orders must be received by Sunday, May 19th for this special offer. Sashes will be available for pickup June 5-14 in the Programs Abroad Office at the International Center, 2nd Floor, M-F 9 am - 4 pm!

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

Love and Dissolution: Toward a Gendered Ethic of Psychiatric Care in India - Critiques of psychiatry in India and, especially, of its care of women, tend to focus on notions of stigma, seeing the family as agent of either abandonment or embracing care, views that coincide with differing visions of India's place on a global stage. This talk will consider the limits of this framework, asking how dissolutions inherent to kinship, and the ways women bear the burdens of those vulnerabilities, figure in decisions small and large surrounding the care of women with mental illnesses. Thursday, May 9th @ 3:30 - 5 pm - ERC Room 115 <-- Click the picture to register!

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!

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