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The Hindu Students’ Association and ADITI are hosting a Diwali Dinner on Saturday, Nov. 17. The event, which celebrates the Festival of Lights, will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Douglass Dining Center.

Juniors (and 4th-year T5/Key students) majoring in arts, humanities, and social science fields can apply for the Beinecke Scholarship, which provides a $34,000 scholarship for future graduate study in those disciplines.

If you have a record of campus leadership, civic engagement, and community service and are also committed to a career with a public-service orientation, then you may be a good candidate for the Truman Scholarship Program, which provides a $30K scholarship for future graduate study, a paid summer internship, policy training seminars, leadership development, and professional networking.

Active Minds, a campus group dedicated to reducing stigma surrounding mental illness, asks that you answer a survey question about your own experience with stigma and how it has affected you.

Lectures, art exhibitions, music and dance performances, family events, and more will mark Native American Heritage Month at the University in November.

The inaugural meeting of the Inclusive Possibilities Cluster (formerly the Interdisciplinary Disabilities Cluster) will feature guest speakers Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake from Not Dead Yet, a grassroots disability rights group. Their talk will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the Evarts Lounge at Helen Wood Hall, at the Medical Center.

Join Louvre Performance Ensemble, a small group of advanced, technically trained dancers, for its fall production, “Impact,” at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, and 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, in Spurrier Dance Studio.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a lecture, “Justice Under Siege? Increasing Threats to Judicial Independence,” with U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ’66 of the Southern District of New York. The event begins at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the Hawkins-Carlson Room in Rush Rhees Library. A reception will follow in The Meliora, Salon D.

Interested in running or attending an alternative spring break trip to do community service? Email CSN.UofR@gmail.com for more information, and be on the lookout for future interest meetings.

Times Higher Education (UK) asked its top-ranked universities to make a 10-second video that complete the sentence: “My university is world-class because ...” for the launch of its World University Rankings 2012-13. Rochester’s video, based on the University’s mission statement, is a finalist.

Undergraduate Admissions has launched “It’s Who You Know,” a referral program to provide the necessary tools for students, faculty, and staff to recruit prospective Rochester students. The office invites University…

For the past several months, the University has been actively engaged in negotiations with the Service Employees International Union/1199 and Local 200 with regard to a renewed contract for its union workers. The University and SEIU have reached consensus on the non-compensation aspects of a renewed contract, but have yet to reach agreement on the economic aspects—pay, health insurance, time off, and outsourcing.