IN BRIEF: Sen. Chafee to speak on campus

Chafee serves as a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and was chairperson of the Senate Republican Task Force on Health Care Reform. He was a Republican leader on health care issues and led a bipartisan group of Senate moderates called the Mainstream Coalition in an attempt to forge a legislative compromise during last year's debate over health care reform. Chafee is the 1994 Visiting Health Policy Fellow with the University's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a program that brings prominent federal health policy makers to the University. Chafee will take questions from the audience immediately after his remarks. The lecture will take place at 1 p.m. --Randi Feigenbaum SPEC organizes two activities The Social Planning and Events Committee has organized two activities for this week, according to Chairperson and College senior Lissette Monge. The first is a virtual reality presentation which will be held in Bodek Lounge tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. According to promotion flyers, this is "a stereoscopic 360 degree walk-through visit to cyberspace," which allows students to try the state-of-the-art interactive exhibit. The special events committee has also planned a Luscious Jackson concert that will be held in Irvine Auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m. This all-female alternative, hip-hop band will be preceded by an opening act by Cake Like. Tickets, which can be purchased on Locust Walk, at the Annenberg box office and Discovery Disks and at the door, cost $7 for students and $10 for non-students. --Kara Blond IFC elections to be held tonight The Interfraternity Council will elect its new executive board tonight in Stiteler Hall, Room B21 at 9 p.m. According to IFC President and Phi Sigma Kappa brother Hayden Horowitz, the following people are running for board positions in the election: For president, College juniors Brian Bohr, Anthony Scioli and David Treat; for executive vice president, Wharton junior Matt Gilroy; for secretary, Wharton sophomore Tim Lash; for treasurer, College sophomore Paul Andersen, Engineering sophomore Scott Rownin and Wharton sophomore Clint Schmidt; and for member-at-large, College sophomores Cliff Cohn and Matt Veneri. Currently, there is no one running for either vice president for rush or judicial manager, but Horowitz expects losing candidates to "drop down" to those positions. Nominations are still open until the election, which is open to IFC members only. --Daniel Gingiss