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Several campus projects are using the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day to send a message – you don’t have to drink to excess to have a good time.

“St. Patrick’s Day is the biggest drinking day of the year for university students,” says Catherine Joyce, who works with Campus Police as student alcohol education coordinator. “It’s a nice target for us to get to them before the event.”

She organized an information fair in the CAW Student Centre Thursday, with booths on a variety of topics related to alcohol awareness.

There’s a difference between math and baking, says Kevin St. Denis: “Math is easier.”

The third-year mathematics major prepared a couple of pies in celebration of Pi Day, Wednesday in Erie Hall.

“It’s just some premade crust and I poured in two cans of filling – cherry and blueberry,” St. Denis said. “I tried to shape them like the letter R because I was going for two pie R.”

Six students in their first year of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts will offer a sneak peek at their work and practices in a group exhibition opening Saturday at SB Contemporary Art.

The exhibition, appropriately titled PEEK, features works by Patricia Coates, Nicolas de Cosson, Michael DiRisio, Tommy Mayberry, Bruce Thompson and Owen Eric Wood. They explore a range of issues and themes, including the environment, gender issues, queer theory, identity and relationships, says curator Sarah Beveridge.

When Ian Campeau hits the stage at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts this Saturday night he hopes to create a vibe that will help aboriginal students get in touch with their roots and stimulate a discussion to bridge the divide between first peoples and the rest of Canadian culture.