New University choir to sing Handel’s “Messiah..” The newly formed St. Louis Community Chorus will sing with the SLU Chorale on Wednesdays from 4 to 5p.m. to prepare this piece. Opportunities are currently available to participate. Please contact Angela Haas at 423-2913 or Dr. Becker at 977-2409 to express interest or to request more information.

Griesedieck Dining Hall offers pizza service. On Friday and Saturday nights, students can call 977-1522 to place orders from 7 to 10 p.m. In exchange for two meal-plan meals students can order one large pizza and one two-liter of soda. Students should allow 30-45 minutes before pizza pickup at Griesedieck Dining Hall.

Benefit concert planned to fund Lutheran campus ministry trip to Costa Rica. Lutheran campus ministry intern Gretchen Weller will perform Friday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will take place at Bethel Lutheran Church, which is located at Forsyth and Big Bend. A $7 donation is requested. For more information, please call 863-8140.

St. Mary’s Health Center offers rape crisis counseling. In response to the 10,000 rapes and rape attempts that occur annually in the U.S., St. Mary’s Health Center has partnered with the YWCA and the St. Louis Sexual Assault Center recently to open a new rape crisis center with services available 24 hours, 7 days a week. For more information, call Debbie Johnson at 768-8806 or page her at 999-2021.

SLU hosts executive Master of International Business information session. Executives from across the region can learn more about advancing their knowledge of current international business practices and culture Friday, Feb. 16 at 4:30 p.m. The Executive Master of International Business degree program is a two-year, part-time weekend program. The event will take place in room 240 of Cook Hall. The John Cook School of Business of Saint Louis University is located at 3674 Lindell Blvd. For more information or to make a reservation for this event, call (314)977-3630. The information session is free and open to the public.

SLU to welcome sexual assault awareness speaker. Nationally-known speaker Luoluo Hong will present “The Date that Lasts a Lifetime” on Monday, Feb. 5. By discussing her own freshman-year rape experience Hong addresses strategies that both sexes can use to reduce campus rape incidences. Hong will speak at 7 p.m. in the St. Louis Room of the Busch Memorial Center. For more information on this and other events during Sexual Assault Awareness Week, contact Debbie Scheff at 977-2802.

SLU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa sponsors essay contest. Students are encouraged to submit original essays on “A Person or Experience that Changed my Life.” Essays are due by Friday, Mar. 2. For information, call 977-3109. It is not necessary that students be Phi Beta Kappa members. This is not an research project but a chance for students to present their original thoughts on how a person or experience has impacted them.