Students wanting information about lectures, sporting events and other activities going on around campus will now have new resource: an all-encompassing calendar sponsored by student government's Executive Cabinet.

"We want everything to be on it," said Casey Fitzmaurice, one of the students coordinating the calendar within the office of the student body president.

The Executive Cabinet will be distributing the first edition of the calendar today. Issued weekly, subsequent calendars will cover events occurring from Wednesday to Wednesday. It will be posted in dorms and outside the Maximum Resource Center on the first floor of LaFortune, as well as other locations around campus.

"We're trying to show there are things going on on-campus," Fitzmaurice said. "The University calendar barely scratches the surface."

To make the calendar a success, however, Fitzmaurice said academic departments, student clubs and other groups sponsoring events on campus must e-mail details about those events to eventmax@nd.edu.

Eventually, the Executive Cabinet would like to post the calendar on the student government Web site, once the site is completed. The office of the president recently hired Dome Designs to build the site.

"Our long-term plan is to have the calendar coordinate with a Web site and a hotline," Fitzmaurice said.

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