CAMPUS BRIEFS: Monday, February 17, 1997

SEAS joins celebration of Engineering Week Activities planned by the Engineering Student Activities Council include a coffee hour in the Towne Building's Reisler Lounge from noon to 2 p.m. today, where students will have the opportunity to relax and talk with faculty, according to ESAC President Margaret Jones, an Engineering and Wharton sophomore. ESAC will also host a Cinnabon study break Tuesday night from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Reisler. SEAS Dean Gregory Farrington will present Engineering's portion of the "Agenda for Excellence" strategic plan between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Other SEAS administrators will be on hand to answer student questions. Engineering students will gather to watch a movie in the Towne Building's Alumni Hall at 7 p.m. Wednesday night, and NBC's Thursday night television lineup will be shown in Alumni Hall. Friday, Jones said there will be booths representing various Engineering organizations -- such as the Society of Women Engineers -- on the first floor of the Towne Building. And the building will be decorated with posters celebrating different Engineering departments and organizations throughout the week. "It's a chance for the Engineering School to show everyone what we are doing," Jones said. The celebration will culminate Friday night with a winter ball co-sponsored by SEAS and the School of Nursing at the Warwick Hotel. --Shannon Burke