Deadline for Fill the Trolley approaches

The deadline to register for “Fill the Trolley,” an annual CART initiative that reaches out to OU departments and organizations donating gifts, is Oct. 28.

The 2009 trolley will drive around campus to collect boxes Dec. 2.

Last year, three trolleys were filled with toys, household items and teen gifts, according to a press release.

For the first time, this year CART has set its goal to fill four trolleys.

The departments and organizations wishing to participate in this event will receive a large, decorated box the first week of November.

Those wishing to participate can e-mail CART at FillTheTrolley@ou.edu or call 325-6080 with department or organization name, contact name, phone number, e-mail address and campus address.

-Daily staff reports

Award-winning director to screen documentary

Gini Reticker, an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary director and producer, will visit OU today to screen her documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” chronicling the Liberian women’s peace movement. The public is invited to both the screening and Reticker’s talk following the lecture beginning at 7 p.m. in Gaylord Hall, room 1140.

Reticker’s visit was organized by Women’s and Gender Studies Program director Jill Irvine as part of the program’s Women and World Politics Presidential Dream Course series, in which activists involved in the struggle for women’s and human rights around the globe were invited to campus for public lectures, film screenings and other activities.

Reticker produced the Academy Award-nominated short film “Asylum” and the Emmy Award-nominated film “A Decade Under the Influence.” Director for the PBS series “Wide Angle,” she received an Emmy and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for “Ladies First,” which focused on the role of women in the rebuilding of post-genocide Rwanda.

For more information about Reticker’s visit, contact Barb Houser at (405) 325-3481.

-Daily staff reports