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Drinks, food and tattoos for seniors

The Alumni Association is sponsoring the Senior Sendoff today from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the James West Alumni Center.

Free drinks, food and activities will be provided, including henna tattoos, caricatures and opportunities for networking.

Students must present an ID as proof of their status.

Experts speak on bioterrorism

A two-day bioterrorism conference, sponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations, continues today.

“Bioterrorism in the New World Order: Managing a Multifaceted problem” featured Ken Alibek, deputy chief of Biopreparat, the operation at the heart of the Soviet Union biological weapons program. He was one of the Soviet scientists to defect to the U.S.

His speech will be followed today by Bill Patrick, president of BioThreats Assessment, and founder of the U.S. biowarfare program.

Admission is $10 for students and $30 for non-students. Attendees must fill out a registration form. The conference lasts from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the University Synagogue at 11960 Sunset Blvd.

For more information call the Burkle Center at 825-0604.

‘Gay L.A.’ discussed in campus lecture

Moira Kenney, a UCLA alumnus and a senior planner and policy analyst for the San Francisco Children and Families Commission, is speaking today in an event, “How gay is L.A.?”

Kenney, author of Mapping Gay L.A. , will be at Public Policy 2270 at 4 p.m.

The lecture is last in the Queer Los Angeles series. The sponsors are the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered studies department, the Center for the Study of Women, the humanities and social sciences division and the English department.

Students to light up the stage at UCLA

The New Play Festival will put the spotlight on student writers, actors, directors, designers and stage managers from the film and theater departments starting today.

“From Nowhere to Tomorrow” by Jesse Spero and directed by Alberto Barboza, will be featured Wednesday and Thursday. It will be followed by “The Color of Ice” by Rose Martula and directed by Maeve McQuillan June 5-7 and “The Daughter of Donovan” by Aleks Merilo and directed by Natalia Futasova June 7-8.

Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.

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