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Monday, January 15
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
"The Dream: Believing, Achieving, and Exceeding"
Speakers: J. Herman Blake and Emily Moore, husband and wife team from Iowa State University where both are professors in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. J. Herman Blake is also the Director of the African American Studies Program, and a Professor in the Department of Sociology.
Location and Time: Rodman Playhouse, 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday, January 23
Speaker: Brian Bedford, leading actor of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall, 10:35 a.m. Note: The 10:35 convocation is canceled, but the 8:00 performance will still be held.

Then at 8:00 p.m. in Rodman Playhouse Brian Bedford will present the Wolf-Eckler Lecture performance of his one man show "The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet".

Thursday, February 8
"Images of My Life: A Photography Exhibit Created by Child Laborers"
Speakers: Alexandra Forter and Lauren Schiff
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall, 10:35 a.m.

Wednesday, February 14
McKinley Scholar
"Multiculturalism in American Society"
Speaker: Linda Chavez, President of the Center for Equal Opportunity. Chavez was a nominee of President-elect George W. Bush for Secretary of Labor, but she later withdrew her nomination.
Location and Time: Mount Union Theatre, 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 15
International Experiences
Speakers: MUC Professors Indra de Silva, Naoko Oyabu-Mathis, Ernest Pratt, and Liangwu Yin
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall, 10:35 a.m.

Thursday, March 1
Presenters: MUC Black Student Union
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall, 10:35 a.m.

Thursday, March 15
Women's History Month Lecture
"Women in Jazz"
Speaker: Galen Abdur-Razzaq, Nationally known jazz flutist and lecturer
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall, 10:35 a.m.

Thursday, March 22
Performers: Marronprater dance and music company
Location and Time: Rodman Playhouse, 10:35 a.m.

Marronprater will also perform this same evening, in Rodman Playhouse, at 8:00 PM.

Thursday, April 5
Note location change
"Report on MUC Student Work Trips"
Speakers: Representatives from: a trip to Mexico (work on building a house); the McCurdy school in New Mexico (manual labor); Charleston, South Carolina (working at the inner schools and after-school programs); and the Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico (cultural exchange and a variety of environmental projects)
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall Correction: Rodman Playhouse, 10:35 a.m.

Monday, April 9
Schooler Lecture
Speakers: Cokie and Steven Roberts
Location and Time: Timken Gymnasium, 8:00 p.m.
Complimentary tickets available in the Office of Alumni and College Activities. Student tickets available at the HPCC Information Desk

Thursday, April 12
"Emerging Fungal Infections of the 21st Century"
Speaker: John R. Perfect, Infectious Disease Clinician and Professor of Medcine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Duke University
Location and Time: Presser Recital Hall, 10:35 a.m.

Thursday, April 26
Honors Convocation
Location and Time: Mount Union Theatre, 10:30 a.m.