Weekly Bulletin

Weight Watchers

A new, 13-week session of the Weight Watchers Winning Points Program will begin on Monday, May 5. Meetings are held at Boyden Gymnasium from noon to 12:30 p.m. each Monday the University is open.

Potential new members are welcome to meet the WW leader and sign up for the session on Monday, April 28. For more information, contact Jill (5-3321) or Cheryl (548-9404).

People's Market founders to speak

As part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the People's Market, founders Ellen Gavin and Gail Sullivan will speak in the Student Union's Cape Cod Lounge on Friday, April 25 at 2 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public and will include refreshments from the student-run market.

Location corrected on housing law forum

A forum for area landlords and other interested people on "Eviction Law and Procedure" scheduled for Thursday, May 1 at 7 p.m. will be held at the Howard Johnson Inn, 400 Russell St. (Route 9) in Hadley, not the location listed last week.

Guest speakers will include Robert Fields, assistant clerk magistrate of the Housing Court, Western Division, and tentatively, a clerk magistrate of the Eastern Hampshire District Court in Ware. They will discuss substantive law and procedures relating to the eviction process in court, and will answer questions from the audience.

This event is sponsored by Commuter Services, with support from the Amherst Community Problem Solving Partnership and the Pioneer Valley Housing Association. For further information, call Commuter Services at 5-0865.

Basketball coaches featured at Weekly Sports Luncheon

Women's basketball coach Marnie Dacko and men's basketball coach Steve Lappas are scheduled to speak at the next Weekly Sports Luncheon on Wednesday, April 30 at noon in 1009 Lincoln Campus Center.

The cost for the buffet lunch is $6.50. Call 5-4289 for reservations.

Planters still up for adoption

About two dozen planters across campus are still available for summer cultivation as part of the annual Adopt-a-Planter program sponsored by the Campus Beautification Committee.

Participants receive certificates for $40 of plant material at the Annie's Garden and Gift Center on Route 116 in North Amherst. Coupons also will be given for one bag of compost and one bag of cedar bark mulch per planter box also available at Annie's.

Planters must be planted by Monday, May 19.

For information, contact Pam Monn, manager of Landscape and Construction Services, at 7-3106.

Men needed for diabetes study

The Energy Metabolism Laboratory is currently studying different methods of screening and diagnosing men with either pre-diabetes or Type-2 diabetes.

Men who have or who are concerned about Type-2 diabetes are needed to serve as subjects.

Participants will receive a free diabetes screening with results that may be taken to a doctor; a bone density scan and body fat analysis.

For more information, contact Carrie at 5-0331 or by e-mail (csharoff@excsci.umass.edu).

Training and Development workshop offered

Training and Development is offering the workshop, "Organizing Ourselves and Our Work," on Tuesday, April 29, from 9 a.m. to noon, as part of the Developing Organizational Skills to be More Effective in the Workplace Certificate Series."

Call 5-5428 to register.

Everywoman's Center Counseling Services offers workshops

Two workshops are being offered by Everywoman's Center Counseling Services:

"Shaking It Up and Breaking It Down: A Conversation about Class and Classism" will be held Monday, April 28, 4-5:30 p.m. at Eliot House, Mount Holyoke College. The program is co-sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and CAUSE at Mount Holyoke and Resource Generation.

"So, You Want to Be a MOM?: A Workshop for Prospective Mothers Who Identify as Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer" will be presented Thursday, May 1, 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center, Amherst. The workshop is co-sponsored by the EWC Rape Crisis and Violence Prevention Programs and the Stonewall Center.

The workshops are free and open to women from the Five Colleges and the surrounding community. For information, call 7-0077.