TOMORROW

Can’t make it home for Thanksgiving? Join OCCSS for its annual Thanksgiving meal for fun and food.

RSVP by calling 480-965-2940. Include your name, e-mail address, student ID, session you will attend (11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 to 3 p.m.) and how many will be attending in your group.

We look forward to sharing this time with you and yours.

For more information on the free lunch, e-mail dede@asu.edu or call 480-965-2940.

SATURDAY

The off-campus portion of Devil's Detour includes an excursion to Superstition Farm in Mesa.

Students will learn about farm life, take a hayride around the farm and sample 12 different flavors of milk from the milk bar.

Transportation will be provided.

The excursion will be reserved for the first 50 students, and a $5 security deposit will be collected and returned on the day of the event.

For more information, e-mail ayumi.kunihiro@asu.edu.

MONDAY

Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, assistant research professor from Rutgers University and Childhood Obesity Fellow for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will speak on the Polytechnic campus.

The talk, "Childhood Obesity Prevention-A Social-Ecological Approach," begins at 2 p.m. with a question and answer session to follow.

The free presentation will be held in HSC 1349.

GSEA Colloquium: "Eco-elements in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘A Wizard of Earthsea'” begins at 1:30 p.m. in Language and Literature 248 on the Tempe campus.

Sponsored by the Graduate Scholars of English Association, this event features Chia-Yen Chang, an MA student in the comparative literature program, who uses Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Wizard of Earthsea" as a vehicle to explore similar eco-ideas embedded in Eastern Taoism and Western eco-criticism.

For more information, e-mail jlclift1@asu.edu.

In conjunction with the ASU School of Life Sciences and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Superstition Review proudly announces Reading 3, featuring renowned nonfiction writer and journalist Carol Ann Bassett.

The reading lasts from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in Pima Auditorium in the Tempe campus Memorial Union.

Author of three books of literary nonfiction, Bassett's work has received high acclaim, being anthologized in the American Nature Writing series.

Her work focuses on natural history, the environment and traditional cultures in transition.

The event is free of charge and open to the public.

For more information, e-mail derrick.laux@asu.edu.