BRIEF: SCUE kicks off prof. lunch week

SCUE kicks off prof. lunch week "Take a Professor to Lunch Week" -- which happens once a semester -- kicks off today, according to Student Committee on Undergraduate Education Chairperson Matthew Kratter, a Wharton and Engineering senior. The week provides an opportunity for students and professors to interact outside the classroom and discuss topics of mutual interest, he added. Although Kratter is not sure when the tradition of Lunch Week began, he said it now involves students at all of the University's educational levels. "We do encourage students to meet with professors other than their own," he said, explaining that this emphasis is a shift from the program's original intention to create relationships between students and the professors whose courses they are taking. -- Lisa Levenson Latino Awareness Week begins Celebrating Latino culture, the Sigma Lambda Upsilon sorority will sponsor the fourth annual Latino Awareness Week this week. Discussing the vital issues for the Latino community, Executive Director of Congresso de Latinos Unidos, Inc. Alba Martinez will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Greenfield Intercultural Center. Additional events will be held throughout the week. --Tammy Polonsky