Notes

Shelter seeks volunteers for spring break

Volunteers are needed to help at the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter over spring break. For information, call Scott at 493-2415 or seider@fas.harvard.edu.

President to hold office hours for students

President Rudenstine will hold office hours for students on Tuesday, March 17, starting at 4 p.m. in his Massachusetts Hall office. Office hours are held on a first-come, first-served basis.

DeWolfe Howe Fund offers grants in civil rights, civil liberties

The Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund for study and research in civil rights-civil liberties and legal history is offering grants for the coming summer or for the academic year 1998-99.

The Fund supports study and research in civil rights or civil liberties in the United States by students, faculty, officers, or recent graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe; or study and research in Anglo-American legal history.

A brief proposal may be sent to Professor John H. Mansfield, c/o Susan Norton, Hauser Hall 506, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Former Irish cabinet member to speak at KSG

A brown-bag lunch with Dick Spring, the Republic of Ireland's former minister of foreign affairs, will be held at the Kennedy School on Tuesday, March 17, at noon in Littauer 166. The topic is "The Future of the European Union." Tea and scones will be served.

Cornel West, professor of the philosophy of religion and of Afro-American studies, and David Carrasco of Princeton University will participate in a public discussion, "Whose Eyes on What Prize?": A Black-Brown Discussion on Shades of Invisibility."

The aim of the exchange is to take African-American and U.S. Latino dialogue to the next level, say the organizers.

The discussion takes place Tuesday, March 17, from 4:15 to 6 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The event will be moderated by Doris Sommer of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

West and Carrasco, former colleagues at Princeton, have long been engaged in often-heated discussion and debate. They are expected to address the importance of similarities and differences between the African-American and Latino struggles for freedom and equality, the issue of "brown invisibility" within dominant race-talk, and future possibilities for African-American-Latino coalitions.

The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.