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Scholarship offered in memory of student slain at church\nIn remembrance of Won-Joon Yoon, an IU graduate student who was killed in 1999 as he was entering a Bloomington church, the Office of Student Financial Assistance is offering a $2,500 scholarship open to any IU undergraduate or graduate student.\nCandidates must be full-time students pursuing IU degrees and may nominate themselves or be nominated by IU faculty. They must submit a statement of 750 words or less describing what they have done to advance religious and racial understanding and what they hope to accomplish toward these goals as well as in their academic programs. \nCandidates should also submit a resume and three letters of recommendation.\nAll materials should be sent to the Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship Committee, Bryan Hall 205. Application deadline is Feb. 11.\nUnion Board seeks new members\nUnion Board, IU's largest student programming organization, will hold its spring callout meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Frangipani Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. \nStudents can learn about Union Board's 13 committees, including arts, comedy, concerts and Live From Bloomington, a project that produces a compilation CD of local artists each year.\nStudent Athletic Board to hold spring callout meeting \nStudent Athletic Board will hold its first annual spring callout meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Assembly Hall. Interested students will be provided the opportunity to meet directors and chairmen of SAB, which consists of 16 directors and more than 100 members whose responsibilities include selling programs, organizing Homecoming and Parents Weekend events and working with alumni at the Athletic Department's Varsity Club.\nPanel to discuss implications of white privilege \nA panel will meet at 8 p.m.tonight in the Teter Quad formal lounge to discuss the implications of white privilege.\nTeter CommUnity Educators and representatives from the Black Student Union Central Committee will moderate the discussion and answer questions.\nFor more information contact oma@indiana.edu\nSwing Dance Club offers first meeting of the semester\nThe IU Swing Dance Club will hold its first callout meeting and open dance session of the semester from 8-11 p.m. tonight in Alumni Hall of the IMU. The event is open to all students.\nFor more information, contact iuswing@indiana.edu or visit www.indiana.edu/~iuswing.\nSeries of meetings to provide chance for religious exploration \nAn assortment of campus groups have come together to offer opportunities for religious exploration in an informal setting.\nThe first series, "Common Quest: Following the Thread of Faith," meets at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday in the Foster Quad formal lounge. The meetings begin tomorrow and will discuss such topics as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. \nFor more information, contact comu@indiana.edu or call 855-4463.\nThe second series, "Interfaith Exploration Dinner Series," will meet at various locations on- and off-campus for discussions over dinner. \nThe first discussion will be at the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at 6 p.m. Jan. 16. The topic will be "Understanding Adonai, Allah, Krishna, Buddha and Jesus."\nFuture topics include "Love, Relationships, and Marriage," "The Stories, Heroes, and Prophecies that Shape Our Traditions" and "Practicing Faith as a Religious Minority."\nFor more information, contact ministry@indiana.edu or hillel@indiana.edu\nThe series is sponsored by the Commission on Multicultural Understanding, the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center, the Center for University Ministry, the Indian Student Association, the Community Education Program and the Muslim Student Union.