Canned Food Drive
St. Mary’s Food Bank, in partnership with Bally Total Fitness and Jamba Juice, is holding the event, "Get Your Can to the Gym!" during March.
Donations of five cans of food per person will be accepted at any Bally Total Fitness or Jamba Juice location in the Valley. In return, each person will receive a free one-day pass to Bally Total Fitness, as well as an opportunity to enter in a drawing for a chance to win prizes.
The event will kick off March 1 at Bally Total Fitness, 40th Street and Indian School Road, in Phoenix. For information, call (602) 352-3640, ext. 1505.

Dr. Suess Birthday Bash
Dr. Suess’s birthday will be celebrated on March 2 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the grass area east of the old library. "Green eggs and ham" will be served along with other activities. For information, call (480) 461-7393.

ASU BIS Information
An ASU Bachelor of Inter-disciplinary Studies (BIS) meeting discussing various majors in the program will be March 6 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Kirk Center’s Maricopa Room. For information, call (480) 461-7452.

DANCE

Spring Dance Concert
MCC’s Spring Dance Concert, "Goin’ west: A Dancing Diary of Old America," will be March 8-9 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Theatre Outback.
Dance performance, evening dance and tap classes will perform several styles of dance including Modern Jazz, Tap, Modern Dance, and Hip-Hop.
Tickets range from $5 to $8 and will be sold at the Theatre Box Office, (480) 461-7170. For information, call (480) 461-7597.

Archaeology Lecture
C. Brian Rose, associate professor of classical Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati will speak on "Recent Greek and Roman Excavations at Troy, Turkey," Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in Room 340 of the Anthropology Building on ASU Main Campus, in Tempe. A reception will follow at 8 p.m.
This free lecture will present the results of the most recent bronze Age, Greek, and Roman excavations at the site. For information, call (602) 543-6327.

Honors Lecture Forum
The Honors Program presents honors Lecture Forum: "Water: Origin and Destiny of Life" will have speaker Dr. Donald C. Johanson, renowned Paleoanthropologist, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bulpitt Auditorium at Phoenix College, 1202 W. Thomas, in Phoenix.
Johanson discovered the 3.18 million-year-old skeleton "Lucy." Free. For information, call (480) 731-8026.
On March 21, Dr. Carl Sefina, researcher and conservationalist, will speak on the potential for the regeneration of ocean life for his lecture titled "Song For the Blue Ocean." Same time and place as the above lecture.

Psychology Lecture
The Evening Lecture Series in Psychology will have speaker Danny L. White, Psychology Associate II with the Arizona Department of Corrections, March 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Navajo Room.
White’s presentation, "Battering: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence," will explain the four forms of battering, the impact on children, the community, and extended family members; and diagram the continuum and cycle of violence.
Seating begins at 6:40 p.m. and is limited. For information, call (480) 461-7032.

CULTURE

World Language Day
MCC’s Foreign Language department is sponsoring its third annual World Language Awareness Day Feb. 28, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kirk Center’s foyer and Navajo Room.
Activities and displays will spotlight the 13 languages taught at MCC. For information, call (480) 461-7451.

Mesa Day Festival
The Mesa Day Parade, an annual miniature parade with floats, bands, dance troupes and antique cars, will be March 3 from 10 to 11 a.m. in Downtown Mesa.
It will spark the beginning of the Mesa Day Festival, a community festival featuring games, rides, crafts, entertainment, and exhibits from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Pioneer Park, 526 E. Main, in downtown Mesa. For information, call (480) 644-2351.

ASU World Festival
ASU will have a World Festival March 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the Student Services Lawn on Main Campus in Tempe.
International students will provide entertainment, sell food and have displays from their home countries. Free. For information, call (480) 965-7451.

MUSIC

Wind Ensemble Concert
MCC’s Wind Ensemble concert will be March 1 at 8 p.m. in Room MU14. Free. For information, call (480) 461-7573.

Watercolor Art Exhibit
Waterworks, an invitational critique group of watercolor artists, will exhibit a variety of watercolors in "H2O Commotion: Mixing it Up," opening March 2 and running through April 1 at ASU’s Gammage Auditorium.
Gallery hours at Gammage are 1 to 4 p.m., Monday thorugh Friday. For information, call (480) 965-4050.

"Goodbye, My Fancy!"
Auditions for "Goodbye My Fancy," a comedy by Fay Kanin and directed by Lyn Dutson, will be March 7 and 8 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Theatre Outback’s Green Room.
The play is about a former war correspondent turned liberal Congresswoman who returns to her old college to receive an honorary Degree. Confronted by illusions from the past, she must find a new love and a way into her future.
For information, call (480) 461-7165.

Asian Film Festival
The ASU Spring Asian Film Festival features films from China, Japan, Korea and the United States and will be shown Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the Nursing Building on Main Campus, in Tempe. The first film, "The Emperor and the Assassin," will show March 21. For information, call (480) 965-7184.

Information provided by MCC College Safety

Feb. 7
Two certified officers on patrol in the south and west parking lots observed a white man operating a vehicle aimlessly. They approached the vehicle and discovered that the driver was naked from the waist down. The officers called Mesa police, who indicated that the man had been arrested before for a similar violation and is a registered sex offender.

Feb.13
To date, college officers have issued 344 citations and 672 written warnings for parking violations this semster.