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Western Carolinian Volume 45 Number 19

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  • Page 14 /THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/February 7, 1980 Black history week to feature many events Black History Week will be observed at Western Carolina University Feb. 10-16 with films, forums, seminars, lectures and workshops highlighting the ro'e of black Americans in the nation's history. The observances will be preceded by a Black Campus Ministry Conference sponsored by the Baptist Student Union of Cullowhee Feb. 8-10. The conference will include a Black Appreciation Service in the First Baptist Church in Sylva at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 10. The Rev. Ed Wheeler of Atlanta will be the speaker. That afternoon a cinema festival of black experience films will begin at 3 p.m. in the Grandroom of the University Center. Among films to be shown are Paul Lawrence Dunbar, George Washington Carver, Free At Last, History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed; Black Music in America, Our Country, Too; I Am A Man, Lorraine Hansberry and others. Dr. Alton Hornsby Jr., editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Natural Sciences Building auditorium as part of the University Forum on Contemporary Events series. Hornsby, appearing at WCU under the Visiting Scholars program, also will lecture in classes Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Evan Firestone, head of the Department of Art at WCU, will lecture on the influence of African Art on Major Artists at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, in the Catamount Room of the University Center. Two films about blacks in America will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 in Hoey Auditorium. They are Purlie Victorious: Gone Are the Days, and Harriet Tubman. Career Opportunities for Black Americans will be a seminar at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the University Center. Representatives of a number of Western North Carolina industries are scheduled to take part. Amiri Baraka, formerly Leroi Jones, a well-known contemporary black poet and secretary general of the National Black Assembly, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 on the history of the black liberation movement. Baraka's address will be held in Hoey Auditorium. Also on Thursday, Feb. 14, Kwasi Aduonum, a native of Ghana, an authority on black music and dance, will conduct three workshops, starting at 9:30 a.m., in the Music-English Building Recital Hall. He will give a performance at 8 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Grandroom of the University Center. Black activist and poet to lecture Black activist and poet Amiri Baraka, formerly Leroi Jones, will speak at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 14 in WCU's Hoey Auditorium. Baraka, secretary-general of the National Black Assembly, will discuss the history of the black liberation movement. He is a 1965 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Baraka was educated in Newark, N.J., and attended Rutgers, Howard and Columbia universities. His visit to WCU is in conjunction with the university's observance of Black History Week, Feb. 10-16. Also on Feb. 14, Dr. Evan Firestone, head of the WCU department of art, will discuss the influence of African art on modern painting and sculpture. Hjs lecture will be at 3 p.m. in the Catamount Room of Hinds University Center. i £H....HouJ A6O0T DAVE'S /viUNCH PALACE, The Resident Hall Coordinating Council [RHCC] is X;sponsoring: "The Name the Snack Bar Contest." •S First prize will be a $25 gift certificate from T.D.'s. Second prize will be dinner for two at the Top of the xStairs Restaurant. Third prize will be choice of sandwich and drink at the Snack Bar. Entry forms may be obtained from your local Resident Hall Office or in front of the Snack Bar. Deadline is Feb. 27, so get your ideas in now. Kwasi Aduonum, a native of Ghana and authority on black music and dance will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University. The principal drummer and dancer in an African music and dance ensemble that has traveled throughout the world, Aduonum holds the Ph.D. degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan. On Feb. 14, he will conduct workshops on African music, using authentic African instruments. The workshops will be held at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., and 2 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. Aduonum's visit to WCU is in conjunction with the university's observance of Black History Week Feb. 10-16. why do we people who people to show that killing people is wrong? More than 500 people await execution by hanging, electrocution, gas or the firing squad. Their deaths won't solve the problem of crime. Executions don't deter, they don't help the victim. You can help stop the killing. FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION Box 271, Nyack, New York 10960 Please send me: D A WHY button with the slogan above (enclosed 50*) D More information on the death penalty Name Address Zip
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