New student health group to hold its first callout meeting\nThe IU chapter of the Student Health Outreach Project will have its first callout meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in the psychology building, Room 101. SHOUT helps enroll all eligible children for the health insurance they deserve through either Children Health Insurance Program (Hoosier Healthwise for Children in Indiana) or Medicaid. SHOUT also works to improve the health of the community through health-related educational programming and legislative advocacy for health issues. Even though the club is new, it already has a health fair planned for Nov. 5 and a lecturer from the IU School of Medicine scheduled for Nov. 13 who will talk about the insurance crisis in the United States. \nLeadership positions are still available in the group. For more information, e-mail director Andrea Cowden at acowden@indiana.edu.
sh: Mongolian poet to give reading at IU
Luvsandamba Dashnyam, a Mongolian poet and scholar, will give a poetry reading at 4 p.m., Thursday at Woodburn Hall, Room 205. Dashnyam is the president of the Mongolian Knowledge\nUniversity and of the Academy of Humanities. He was one of the ideological leaders of the pro-democracy movement which brought about a peaceful revolution in Mongolia in 1990, worked as vice speaker of parliament from 1990-1992, and in 2001 ran for the presidency as the Civil Will party candidate. He has published more than 30 books of poetry, fiction and scholarship, most recently Hero Yesugei, published in 2003, about Genghis Khan's father. He is participating courtesy of the William B. Quarton International Writing Program Scholarship. The event is sponsored by the Mongolia Society, the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center. For more information, e-mail kniggle@indiana.edu.
sh: SNL star to perform at IMU
New "Saturday Night Live" cast member Seth Meyers will perform with IU graduate Jill Benjamin at 8 p.m. Friday at Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union. The Union Board is presenting the event, entitled "Pick-ups and Hiccups." Meyers is known for his role as DJ Jonathan Feinstein on the recurring SNL sketch, "Jarret's Room." Benjamin returns to perform on campus for the first time since her days as an undergraduate performing with Full Frontal Comedy. For more information, call Adam Hitchcock, Union Board director of comedy, at 855-4682 or e-mail him at ahitchco@indiana.edu.
