Attend the annual fundraising luncheon hosted by the Division of University Advancement tomorrow, Friday, October 30 from 12 to 2 p.m. at the Gables One Tower, suite 300.  The lunch is $5 ($7 at the door) and all proceeds benefit the United Way.

Don’t forget to wear a creative costume to be considered for the costume contest! Attendees in a Power Rangers costume will be eligible for a special prize. Pick-up a small pumpkin when you purchase your tickets and decorate it for the pumpkin decorating contest as well. Contests are judged by Advancement’s United Way ambassadors. For tickets and/or more information, e-mail [email protected].

Attend the Legal Theory Workshop featuring Alejandro Portes, the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, who will present “The American Health System and Immigration:  An Institutional Interpretation” on Friday, October 30. Lunch will begin at 12 p.m. followed by the session at 12:30 p.m. in the Law School Faculty Meeting Room, room G480.

The lecture will focus on examining the institutions that comprise the American health system and their relationship to a surging immigrant population. The clash between the system and this human flow originate in the large number of immigrants who are unauthorized, poor, and uninsured, and are unable to access a system largely based on ability to pay.

David Andrews, assistant professor of clinical pathology and director of the Special Coagulation Laboratory at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Multi-Disease Genes (Gene Variants): Ethical and Educational Challenges” on Friday, October 30 from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

Taxidermia contains three generational stories, about a grandfather, a father, and a son, linked together by recurring motifs. The dim grandfather, an orderly during World War II, lives in his bizarre fantasies; he desires love. The huge father seeks success as a top athlete—a speed eater—in the post-war pro-Soviet era. The grandson, a meek, small-boned taxidermist, yearns for something greater: immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by stuffing his own torso. Historical facts and surrealism become intertwined as magical realism, such as in the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or the Hungarian writer Lajos Parti Nagy. The script is based on two of the latter’s stories. Director György Pálfi added the third story about the taxidermist grandson. Please Note: This film is extremely graphic. Viewer discretion is advised. In Hungarian, English, and Russian with English subtitles. Admission is $6 for all University of Miami faculty, staff, and alumni; free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, October 30 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, October 31 at 4 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, November 1 at 2 and 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

Paul Aufiero (Patton Oswalt), a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described “world’s biggest Giants fan.” His family berates him for doing nothing with his life, but they don’t understand the depth of his love for the Giants or the responsibility his fandom carries. One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop. They follow him to a strip club, where they hang in the background, agog at their hero. Paul cautiously decides to approach him, stepping into the rarefied air of football stardom—and things do not go as planned. The fallout from this chance encounter brings Paul’s world crashing down around him as his family, the team, the media, and the authorities engage in a tug of war over Paul, testing his allegiances and calling into question everything he believes in. The film screens on Friday, October 30 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, October 31 at 2 and 6 p.m.; and Sunday, November 1 at 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.