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What's up on campusBy CATHERINE CUSHING
© St. Petersburg Times, Eckerd College 4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg, 864-8297 Russian Heritage will present a Russian Film Festival in Dendy-McNair Auditorium. Tuesday: 6:30 p.m., Come Look at Me (in Russian with no subtitles), a comedy about love and the irony of fate; and 8:15 p.m., East/West (subtitled), a historical drama of post-World War II Russia. Friday: 6:30 p.m., Ivan the Terrible Changes His Profession (subtitled), a comedy in which Ivan travels to 20th century Russia in a time machine; and 8 p.m., The Romanovs: The Royal Family (in Russian with no subtitles), a drama. * * * Randa Edmunds will speak on Peacemaking in Northern Ireland at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Griffin Chapel. Edmunds recently returned from a year of mission work in Northern Ireland through the Presbyterian Church's Young Adult Volunteer Program. Call 864-8587 for information. * * * Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez, a marine biologist and dolphin specialist from Mexico City and a senior aquatic educator at the California Academy of Sciences, will present A Day in the Life of the Blue Whale at 8 p.m. Thursday in Dendy-McNair Auditorium. * * * University of South Florida,140 Seventh Ave. S, St. Petersburg Brian Schrag, executive director of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and senior scholar at Indiana University, will speak on Civility, Loyalty and Free-Enterprise Culture at 6 p.m. Monday in the courtyard of the Florida Center for Teachers. Schrag also will be the guest speaker at a luncheon forum at noon Wednesday at the Florida Center for Teachers. He will speak on the moral responsibilities of faculty and the ethics of faculty governance. Schrag is here as part of USF's Ethicists in Residence program. Call 553-3851 or 553-1579 for information. * * * University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa USF's Fall Plant Festival 2001 continues today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Botanical Garden, at the corner of Pine and Alumni drives. Exhibits by The Tampa Bay Fern Club and the Croton Society will be featured. There will be a variety of plants for sale, and an activity area and scarecrow exhibition for children. Admission is $2. Children younger than 12 and Botanical Garden members are free. Call (813) 974-2329 for information. -- Area universities and colleges offer educational lectures and programs open to the public. Send information two weeks in advance to Catherine Cushing, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.
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