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Heald to hold battle on beach
Hundreds of Heald College students and employees will meet at Ala Moana Beach Park from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday to take part in a long-standing campus tradition — The Battle of the Majors.
The day of competitive games will pit student teams against each other in such events as an obstacle course, volleyball tournament and more, ending with a dance contest.
It's all part of an effort to support the Hawai'i Food Bank and the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots Foundation. Heald has combined this community service effort with its Battle of the Majors competition since 1997, donating more than 30,000 food items and 3,000 toys in that time.
Legal aid group marks third year
The Legal Aid Society of Hawai'i's Center for Equal Justice is celebrating its third anniversary of providing free legal services to low-income and disadvantaged people with noncriminal matters.
Since opening in November 1999, the center has helped more than 3,100 people with civil legal needs.
"Not everyone has access to a computer or can afford an attorney," legal advocate Katie Dzombar said. "The center provides a variety of free services to help overcome these obstacles."
The center includes computers with Internet access, a law library and notary services. The center is at 924 Bethel St. and is open from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays.
For details call 536-4302.
Yo-yo champ shows tricks
Joe Harris, the state yo-yo champion, will give a demonstration this week on the routine he performed at last month's national yo-yo championship in California.
The demonstration will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Kalihi-Palama Public Library, 1325 Kalihi St.
Harris, 15, a McKinley High School sophomore, is ranked seventh in the nation. He will teach tricks to people who bring their own yo-yos.
The program is free and prizes will be given away.
For details call 832-3466.
Theorist lecture planned at UH
Feminist theorist Donna Haraway, known for her exploration of theories involving cyborgs — creatures half-human, half-machine — will give a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Campus Center Ballroom as part of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Distinguished Lecture Series.
Haraway's subject is "The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness." Her lecture is free and open to the public.
A former UH-Manoa Women's Studies professor, Haraway has been called one of the most gifted postmodern cultural critics. She is credited with influencing cultural studies, women's studies, political theory, literature, philosophy and primatology.
She holds a doctoral degree in biology from Yale University and has spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Paris studying philosophies of evolution. She teaches at the influential History of Consciousness Program at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
