Tuesday, May 19, 1998
Community briefs
Commencement dates incorrect in letter
Last week, a mass mailing to all Social Sciences seniors gave
the wrong dates for several commencement-related ceremonies.
Although letters sent to Life Sciences, Humanities and Physical
Sciences students were correct, the Social Sciences dates for
commencement and tickets sales were those from 1997.
Tickets can be picked up starting May 19, not May 12 as the
letter says.
The Social Science commencement will be held on June 21 at
Pauley Pavilion from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The letter was on Office of the Provost letterhead. Revised
letters should be distributed to all graduating seniors, but
seniors will need to bring the original incorrect letter to the
Central Ticket Office to obtain tickets.
For more information, students with World Wide Web access can
look at UCLA’s commencement information at
http://www.commencement.
ucla.edu/commencement
Maya Angelou brings poetry to UC Davis
Renowned poet, author and activist Maya Angelou made her second
appearance at UC Davis in two years Thursday when she spoke to a
near-capacity crowd in Recreation Hall, as the closing event of the
ASUCD Student Forums 97-98 Speaker Series.
Angelou drew a standing ovation as she took the Rec Hall stage,
telling the audience that she was proud to be a repeat guest at
UCD.
She began her hour-long speech with a series of poems by
19th-century African American poets, interlaced with a spiritual
folk song.
"Oh, when the saints, go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that
number, when the saints go marching in," she sang.
The poems – selections from poets including County Cullen,
Langston Hughes and James Herbert Johnson – spoke of home, she
said. The song that bridged each poetic selection was a song of
hope, as well, Angelou commented, only when sung as it was
intended.
"That means that one has acquired a kind of sainthood," she
said. "Not that kind developed and given to one by some particular
potency, but an interior saintliness. It means that a person
believes she or he can live a life so responsible, so wonderful
that she becomes a saint."
Angelou added that all poetry is a way of affirming the fluidity
of human nature: the notion that one person only serves to learn
what those before them have and to then pass on that knowledge.
"To say, ‘I know someone was there before me and I am here
because it is my responsibility to make way for the people yet to
come,’" she said.
The audience’s expectation, Angelou said, for her to perform
poetry would not be disappointed, and she told them her poetry
reading would come as no surprise.
"Poetry allows us to see how wondrous we can be, how fabulous we
can be," she said. "We can’t help but yet compose ourselves,
compose our lives, into beacons of joy and encouragement.
Make appointments for Student Health on web
Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center is now offering
appointments on their web page.
Students can request appointments at the page 24 hours a day.
Messages will be picked up from the web page 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Monday through Friday doing Spring quarter.
The address is http://www.saonet.ucla.
edu/health/appointments/request.html
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.