Taken from the September 22 issue of 93106


MONDAY 22
VOTER REGISTRATION
8 a.m.-4 p.m., The Arbor & UCen
Tables with registration cards and absentee ballots will be at the above locations today, perhaps the last day to register to vote for the recall election.

RE-ENTRY STUDENT COFFEE HOURS
8:30 a.m., Women's Center
Enjoy a cup of coffee while meeting other re-entry and nontraditional students in a relaxed setting. Repeats Tuesday and Wednesday.


TUESDAY 23
"SUSTAINABLE SEAS"
5 p.m., Corwin Pavilion
Aquanaut Sylvia Earle, National Geographic explorer-in-residence, argues for better treatment of the marine environment.


WEDNESDAY 24
MEN'S SOCCER
7 p.m., Harder Stadium
UCSB hosts Cal Poly.

"THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS"
7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall
This 1965 film story of how the French won a 1954 battle and lost their colony of Algeria still resonates with audiences, including those in the Pentagon where it was recently screened. Admission is $6, $5 for students.

RAZBAR ENSEMBLE
8 p.m., Hatlen Theatre
Guest artists Razbar, an ensemble of Kurdish musicians based in Germany since 1997, will present an evening of sacred music and dance. Admission is $20; $12 for students.


THURSDAY 25
"THE MATRIX"
7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall
Psychologist James Blascovitch will introduce this 1999 film of humans in revolt against machines and a virtual reality-type world. It is the first of three films in the Visions of Technology series organized by the Center for Information Technology & Society.


FRIDAY 26
WOMEN'S SOCCER
7 p.m., Harder Stadium
UCSB hosts Cal State Fullerton.

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
7 p.m., Harder Stadium
UCSB hosts UC Riverside.


SATURDAY 27
EL PILAR FESTIVAL LECTURE
7 p.m., MultiCultural Center
UCSB archeologist Anabel Ford, who discovered the El Pilar Maya site in Belize in 1983, sponsors this annual potluck and fund-raiser. She will discuss a new partnership to help preserve and study the ancient Maya center. Guests are asked to bring food for the 5 p.m. meal and to make a donation.

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
7 p.m., Events Center
UCSB hosts Cal State Fullerton.


SUNDAY 28
WOMEN'S SOCCER
7 p.m., Harder Stadium
UCSB hosts UC San Diego.


MONDAY 29
"SPELLBOUND"
7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall
Eight youngsters go for the National Spelling Bee championship in this Oscar-nominated documentary.


OCTOBER


WEDNESDAY 1
CAPPS CENTER LECTURE
5 p.m., Hatlen Theatre
Albert Raboteau, a Princeton University professor of religion, will discuss "Day, King, Merton, and Thurman: Suffering and Social Justice" in a free lecture for the Capps Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life.

WAR REPORTER LECTURE
5 p.m., Campbell Hall
Former CNN correspondent and author Anita Pratap reports on south Asian conflicts in a free lecture titled "Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and other South Asian Flashpoints."

"LE FATE IGNORANTI (HIS SECRET LIFE)"
6 p.m., MultiCultural Center
This Italian film, directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, is the story of a wife who, on the death of her husband, discovers his long-time affair with another man. English subtitles.


THURSDAY 2
WOMEN FACULTY UPDATE
1:30 p.m., Corwin Pavilion
An all-campus forum on the "Status of Women Faculty" at UCSB will be keynoted by state Sen. Jackie Speier and will discuss faculty diversity and gender equity issues.

PROP. 54 DISCUSSION
5 p.m., MultiCultural Center
UCSB students involved in the local "No on Prop. 54" campaign participate in an open forum addressing the politics and facts surrounding the so-called racial privacy constitutional amendment on the Oct. 7 ballot.


SUNDAY 5
PIANO CONCERT
4 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Pianist Karen Follingstad performs Chopin and Liszt in this concert. Tickets are sold at the door.

MEN'S SOCCER
5 p.m., Harder Stadium
UCSB hosts Loyola Marymount.


MONDAY 6
MUTINY LECTURE
8 p.m., Campbell Hall
Historian and author Caroline Alexander will discuss her latest book, "The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty," and how much the popular version of the saga rests on fabrications served up by politically well-connected mutineers and their families.
EXHIBITIONS
"LOT/EK: MOBILE DWELLING UNIT"
Oct. 3-Dec. 7
University Art Museum Plaza*
The Mobile Dwelling Unit is a standard shipping container with customized extrusions that create fully functional living and work spaces. The prototype MDU was jointly commissioned by the UCSB museum and the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis, which debuted the unit last June. Reception is on Oct. 3 at 6 p.m.

Interior view of the Mobile Dwelling Unit.


DESIGNING FOR CLEANLINESS
Through Nov. 2
University Art Museum*
 "Aesthetics of Hygiene: Modernist Kitchen and Bathroom Design in Southern California, 1928-1955," explores how hygienic concepts influenced kitchen and bathroom designs of six 20th-century architects.

Maynard Lyndon's vision of the bathroom of the future.

(*Note new hours: Wed.-Sun. 12-5 p.m.; closed Mon.-Tues. and major holidays.)
 
ONGOING
THE MARKET THEATRE JOHANNESBURG
Oct 7-8, 10-11, 7 p.m.
Oct 9, 9 p.m.
Oct. 11-12, 2 p.m.
Center Stage Theater
A two-man cast portrays dozens of characters in a play that imagines the 1981 second coming of Christ to Johannesburg, via jumbo jet. Admission $25; $20 for students. Call 963-0408 for information.

SWING & BALLROOM DANCE CLUB
8:30-10:30 p.m.,
Mondays
Rob Gym 2320
 <www.sa.ucsb.edu/orgs/sbdc/>

CARE-GIVERS SUPPORT GROUP
Noon, 2nd Wednesdays
Women's Center

TOASTMASTERS
Noon, Thursdays
SAASB 4101WW

AIDS INFORMATION
Contact Carola Alden, x3434.
 
UC television programming includes cablecasts of past UCSB events and speakers over Cox's cable Channel 21 on the South Coast. Currently, UCTV is on Chan. 21 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and Saturdays 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. UCSB-originated programs run 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, and Sundays from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., but may be recablecast at different times.
For a complete program guide, go to <www.uctv.tv>. A sample of the material available from UCSB follows.
Sept. 26, 7 and 10 p.m.: Jonathan Z. Smith explores religion in civic discourse in terms of the constitution and the court in "God Bless This Honourable Court: Religion and Civic Discourse."
Oct. 3, 9 a.m.: Daniel Matt explores the Big Bang as creation myth in "Kabbalah and Contemporary Cosmology." At 11 a.m., high-tech innovator Steve Jurvetson talks on "Technology Innovation."
 
 
 
Director Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 film "The Battle of Algiers," often described as a dramatization of how the French won the battle but lost the war in Algeria, will screen on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.