KENT KSU adds events to honor King

The president of Bowling Green State University will give the keynote address.
KENT -- Kent State University will continue its commemoration of the national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hosting events the week after the national holiday -- Thursday and Friday -- to better involve students, faculty, staff and area communities, and to usher in Black History Month activities.
Black History Month is celebrated in February.
Events in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will include a keynote speaker, community panel discussion, essay, poetry and art competition and presentation by area high school students, performances by Kent State students and faculty of theater, dance and music, and two performances by the Central State University Chorus.
"The 2004 theme, 'Roadmap to the Mountaintop,' refers to King's vision of a diverse society based on equality of opportunity," said Dr. Steve Michael, KSU's vice provost for diversity and academic initiatives.
The keynote address will be given at 11:30 a.m. Friday, by Dr. Sidney A. Ribeau, president of Bowling Green State University.
Also planned
Other highlights:
UA community panel discussion at 3 p.m. Friday on the topic, "Affirmative Action: Are We Closer to the Mountaintop?"
U Evening performances Friday by Kent State theater and dance students. The theater offering will be "Children of Eden," directed by Terri Kent, and the dance presentation "Journey to the Mountaintop," choreographed and directed by Darwin Prioleau.
UThe Kent State Gospel Choir, directed by Linda B. Walker, will perform Friday before the keynote address.
All events will be in the ballroom of the Kent Campus Student Center and are free and open to the public.
A complete schedule of events can be found at www.kent.edu.