In Brief
Wesley Woods, Emory offer depression screenings
Wesley Woods Geriatric Center, Emory Hospital and the Emory Clinic
Department
of Psychiatry will offer free depression screenings on Thursday, Oct. 5,
as
part of the fifth annual National Depression Screening Day.
The screenings will be offered from 10 a.m.- 7 p.m. on the third floor
of the
Wesley Woods Health Center. The screenings are open to adolescents and
adults
of all ages, and no appointments are necessary.
Participants will complete a written screening test of depression
symptoms and
will be interviewed by a mental health professional. Psychiatrists,
nurses and
social workers will be available for consultation. For information, call
728-6222.
Tickets available for Latin American film festival
Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the High Museum of Art are
sponsoring
a Latin American Film Festival, which begins Oct. 7 and runs through Nov.
19.
All movies are in Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles. General
admission is $5; $4.50 for students and senior citizens. However, LACS is
selling season passes (limited number available) for the film series at
$20.
They may be purchased at the LACS office (116 Social Sciences) or the
Spanish
Dept. (501 Humanities).
Films will be shown at the High Museum of Art, Rich Auditorium, 1280
Peachtree
Street NE, or AMC Phipps Plaza 14, 3500 Peachtree Road. For more
information,
call 727-6562 or 733-4570.
Britannica Online now available
Emory students, faculty and staff now have 24-hour access to Britannica
Online,
an electronic version of the Encyclopedia Britannica and
Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, which is more up-to-date and inclusive than the
printed
encyclopedia. Britannica Online contains 1,000 more articles than the
print
version, some 200 "classics" such as Albert Einstein's essay on
"Space-Time,"
which have been superseded, and, using hypertext, more than 1,000 links
to
other Internet resources worldwide.
Britannica Online is available to Emory students, faculty and staff
directly
(http://www.eb.com) as well as through the World Wide Web pages of each
of the
libraries on campus: General Libraries
(http://www.emory.edu/LIB/glhome.htm),
Health Sciences Center Library (http://www.emory.edu/
WHSCL/resource.discovery.html), Law Library (http://www.
law.emory.edu/LAW//refdesk/genref.html), Oxford College Library
(http:www.emory.edu/OXFORD/ library.html) and Pitts Theology Library
(http://www.pitts. emory.edu/put_ref.html).