Tuesday, 4/29/97 Community Briefs
HR to offer insurance seminar for employees Campus Human
Resources and the Emeriti/Retiree Relations Center will present a
symposium on "Understanding Long Term Care Insurance," on Monday,
May 5, in the Faculty Center. Representatives of various
organizations will be on hand to distribute materials and answer
questions regarding LTC insurance. The Health Insurance Advocacy
and Counseling Program, an organization that provides community
education programs on long-term life insurance, will also be
conducting seminars. All interested employees are invited to attend
the symposium. Advertising, Marketing Club clinches top spot
Advertising pays, especially for the members of the UCLA
Advertising and Marketing Club. In its rookie year, the club won
top honors at the American Advertising Federation’s District 15
National Student Advertising Competition. "It’s pretty amazing that
we won," said Katie Krum, a third-year communication studies
student. "We have no advertising major, but we were beating schools
(with an advertising major) in the top 10." The competition
consisted of a live presentation in front of a panel of judges, of
an advertising campaign for Pizza Hut, the national sponsor of the
event. In addition, the team had to present its 40-page plan book,
which was "an innovative marketing plan conceptualized by the
group," said Ryan Takeuchi, a fourth-year economics student and one
of the team leaders. The 20-member team spent nine months on the
project, even shooting a commercial for the client. "The great
thing about the team was that it was hand-picked," said Takeuchi,
adding that the team had a lot of help from Neil Malamuth, the
chair of the communications department. Surprisingly enough, noted
Takeuchi, few of the students in the club are interested in
pursuing a career in advertising or marketing. Honors for winning
the event included industry and resume exposure and networking
opportunities. "It’s nice to be on winning team, because they
(advertising companies) approach you," said Takeuchi. The club
competed against five other schools, including Pepperdine
University, California State University, Northridge, and San Diego
State University. They will compete in Kansas City in June for the
national title. First ‘SEPPI’ award goes to film student Scott
Sieffert, a graduate student in the School of Film and Television,
was the recipient of the first annual "SEPPI" award. Sponsored by
the UCLA KELPS, a spirit organization in the 1950s and 1960s which
has been revived as an alumni-support group, the prize was named
after Irv "Seppi" Sepkowitz, a UCLA alumnus who died in 1992. In
his honor, the KELPS have established an annual $2,500 Comedy
Screenwriting Award for a student in the School of Film and
Television. Sieffert was the first winner of the award. Sieffert
won for his comedy screenplay titled "The Old Woman in the Pink
House," which received high praises from the five judges, all of
whom are KELPS. The panel included Joel Siegel of ABC-TV,
Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Tony Auth, Frank Marshall, a
producer/director for such films as the "Indiana Jones" trilogy and
"Congo," B. Kipling Hagopian, also a producer/director and Lew
Weitzman, a literary agent. The award was presented at the KELPS’
third Golf Classic Awards Dinner, a fund-raising dinner which
finances the SEPPI and the organization’s efforts to create a UCLA
Humor Center. Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports