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from the issue of January 13, 2005
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Student to keynote Jan. 17 King Day Observance Ceremony
BY TOM SIMONS, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
UNL student Collin Sullivan will give the keynote address Jan. 17 at UNL's ceremony for the national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The first student to give the keynote address in the UNL celebration's eight-year history, Sullivan will speak as part of a program beginning at 2 p.m. in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The program, which will kick off a weeklong series of activities at UNL, will also include musical performances by Ellie Kirke and the River City Mixed Chorus, and the presentation of the "Fulfilling the Dream" Awards by Chancellor Harvey Perlman. The program will be followed by a 3 p.m. reception in the great hall of the adjacent Van Brunt Visitors Center.
Sullivan, a junior from Pawtucket, R.I., is co-president of Amnesty International-UNL and writes weekly opinion columns for the Daily Nebraskan student newspaper. He is a first-year participant in the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences program, studying human rights in comparative foreign policy, and is a community assistant in the Cornhusker Courtyards residence hall. He has majors in political science, international studies and Spanish.
Thomas Christie, multicultural/community administrator for Lincoln Public Schools, and Chuck van Rossum, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs at UNL, will receive Fulfilling the Dream Awards.
The Jan. 17 program and reception and all MLK Week activities are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted, and are presented under the theme "Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On . . . Not at Day Off."
Activities Jan. 18-22 will include a series of brown-bag discussions, film reviews, a display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the Rotunda Gallery of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., and several other activities. The Rotunda Gallery display will include a historical time line of student activism at UNL, a presentation on the factors that led to the civil rights movement, the movement itself and the effects it had on other causes.
A new activity this year will be a Janteenth Celebration at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Nebraska Union's Centennial Ballroom. Hosted by OASIS, the Office of Academic Support and Intercultural Services, the event will encourage students to continue their path towards self-development and respect through community support and creative expression. The celebration will feature Lincoln activists Leola Bullock and Lela Shanks, and the musical group Voices of Destiny.
For more information and the full schedule of events, visit the MLK Week Web site http://mlkweek.unl.edu.
Following is a list by date of activities during MLK Week at UNL:
Jan. 17: 2 p.m., official celebration, Ross Media Arts Center; 3 p.m., reception, Van Brunt Visitors Center.
Jan. 18: 12:30 p.m., brown-bag lecture, "Racial Profiling: Myth or Reality?" Sam Walker, professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Rotunda Gallery; 3:30 p.m., film review, "Two Towns of Jasper," a PBS documentary about a 1998 murder when three white men in Jasper, Texas, chained a black man, James Byrd Jr., to a pickup truck and dragged him to his death, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium, Leon Caldwell, assistant professor of educational psychology, will moderate the discussion.
12th and R streets; 7, p.m., vigil hosted by the Innocents Society featuring UNL students Marcus Sedberry as keynote speaker and Nick Aguirre as emcee, with entertainment by The Bathtub Dogs, Van Brunt Visitors Center.
Jan. 19; noon, brown-bag lecture, "The Dream and the Scheme: How the Land Grant Mission Can Help America Accomplish the Dream of MLK," James L. Smith, professor emeritus of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System based at Auburn University, where he was also a professor in the College of Education, Dixon Auditorium, College of Dentistry, East Campus Loop at 40th Street; 6:30 p.m., Janteenth Celebration, Nebraska Union Centennial Ballroom.
Jan. 20: noon to 7 p.m., paint-a-thon sponsored by the Student Alumni Association at the home of an elderly or disabled person in the Lincoln community (visit www.saa.huskeralum.com or telephone 402-472-2841 for more information); 12:30 p.m., brown-bag panel discussion, "Reparations for Slavery in America, " with UNL political scientists Michael Combs, D'Andra Orey and David Forsythe (moderator), Rotunda Gallery; 3:30 p.m., film review of the PBS documentary "Not in Our Town," about the 10-year-old national movement of the same name that encourages community response to hate crimes, Sheldon auditorium (moderated by Gina Matkin, assistant director of the Nebraska Union).
Jan. 21: 12:30 p.m., brown-bag lecture, "From the Lockerroom to the Boardroom," Paul Miles, associate athletic director, Rotunda Gallery.
Jan. 22: 5 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. program, "Waking up from the Dream: Are We Really There Yet?" Afrikan Peoples Union student group's 10th-anniversary Martin Luther King Jr. banquet, Nebraska Union Centennial Ballroom. Advance tickets on sale by APU members in the Nebraska Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 12-21 at $10 for students and $15 for non-students; tables for eight can be reserved for $150. Tickets at the door will be $15 for students and $20 for non-students. For more information, contact Candy Alexander at (402) 436-8449 or apu_candy@hotmail.com.
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