UNIQUE is presenting five award-winning films from the 25th Anniversary Student Academy Awards competition.

Sponsored by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences, the mini-film festival begins Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the University Union Auditorium. It will be the first event held in the new auditorium, which features tiered seating for 170 people.

"It's an unusual program where people on this campus who are interested in films can see student films they probably wouldn't get a chance to see anywhere else," said Dean Sorenson, program advisor for the University Union.

The films are judged in four categories; alternative, animation, documentary and dramatic presentation.

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Run of a lifetime: Student turns his life around to help others
When Paul Dickey was a child, he and his best friend Alex, a tan Chesapeake Bay retriever, used to play by a lake. In the winter, when the lake froze over, Dickey and Alex would race to the other side. Dickey always won.

Beating all of the odds
Six years ago, Rebecca Dowd was driving to Santa Rosa from a weekend in Bodega Bay with her boyfriend, at the time. During the hilly and curvy trek home on the two-laned Highway 1, the steering went out on her sporty Honda CRX.

Golden paintings of Mexico
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Natural highs event
If you are tired of waking up on the living room floor and enduring a hang-over after a night of drinking, then walk, stumble, or crawl over to the seventh annual Natural High Fair.

M-e-d-i-t-a-t-i-o-n spells relief
An ornately-decorated Oriental rug is sprawled across the floor of a dimly-lit room.

Oldest club has big plans
Attention skiers! The oldest club on campus will be entertaining its 33rd annual ski swap on October 25th in the South Gym of Yosemite Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The milkman visits campus
Jack Gallagher, comedian and spokesman for Crystal dairy products, is coming to CSUS.

Uncle Nick's Factory o' Fun: Money for College!
Like many students, I am paying for my college education with money I win at the horse track.