[sic], UDM's student arts journal, is looking for submissions for the 2012-13 issue.

Do you write? Make or take pictures? Want to be published? Then submit your poems, short stories, personal essays, academic essays, photographs, and other visual art work to [sic]. We want to see your stuff!

All written submissions should be emailed to Prof. Rosemary Weatherston at weatherr@udmercy.edu. Please send your submission/s as a single MS Word file attachment (do not send multiple submissions in multiple files) and include your contact information. No individual submission should be more than 10 double-spaced typed pages.

Photographers and other visual artists may submit their images on disc (preferred) or as high-resolution printouts to Prof. Weatherston's mailbox in the CLAE main office, Briggs 122. The original resolution of digital photographs and images must be at *least* 300 dpi. Students who wish to email their visual submissions should contact Prof. Weatherston first to make arrangements for large file transfers. Please be aware that [sic] is a black and white publication; all color images will be reproduced in grayscale. Please be sure to include your contact information with your submission/s.

There is no limit to how many submissions a student may make. Early submissions are encouraged! Copies of previous issues of [sic] are available outside the door of Briggs 227 and online in the Library's special collections (http://research.udmercy.edu/find/special_collections/digital/sic/).

Please contact Prof. Weatherston with any questions.

Chaungo Barasa, a water engineer from Kenya, will talk about his long career in humanitarian emergency assistance in Africa and Haiti. He has worked for Doctors without Borders, CARE International-Kenya, and now serves in Haiti with Concern International.

This event is sponsored by the James Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA). Programs are free and open to the public, and are held at UDM's McNichols Campus (4001 W McNichols at Livernois). For more info call Director Gail Presbey , 313-993-1124, presbegm@udmercy.edu or http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/clasa/events/index.htm.