Staff to raffle Red Sox tickets for AIDS fundraising Staff participating in the Massachusetts Red Ribbon Ride Aug. 13-14 are holding a raffle for Red Sox tickets to help raise money for the ride, said Bridgid Myers, an administrative secretary in the Office of the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs. Myers, along with other students and staff members, will be riding 175 miles to support AIDS research and support organizations. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20, Myers said. Students can contact Myers in 137 Richards Hall or call extension 4810 to purchase tickets. The drawing for one pair of tickets will be held July 31.
Tickets for Maya Angelou made available today Free tickets for Maya Angelou’s July 21 appearance on campus will be made available starting today, said John Silveria, director of the Student Leadership Office. Students with a valid Husky Card can stop in the Student Activities Office in 228 Curry Student Center from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday to pick up tickets. Tickets will be available up through the day of the event, and students must pick up tickets before the event, Silveria said. Students can obtain a maximum of two tickets per Husky Card. The doors of Blackman Auditorium will open at 6 p.m., and the event will begin at 7 p.m., Silveria said. Anyone with questions can call 617-373-2790.
Library receives grant for two-year archiving project Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department has been awarded a $175,000 grant for its two-year project, “Processing and Providing Access to Boston African-American and Latino History,” said Joan Krizack, university archivist and head of the special collections department. The money will go toward hiring a full-time archivist and two graduate students, Krizack said. The three will then organize the materials, consisting of documents, photographs, videotapes and other forms of media, Krizack said. The records, created by members of the African-American and Latino communities, document themes relating to school desegregation, public policy formation and health issues, among others, during the last decades of the 20th century. The materials will then be made available “for research for people at Northeastern or anybody who wants to do research on it,” Krizack said. The materials will be stored in the archives department in Snell Library.
— Compiled by staff writer Jennifer Nelson.
