YSU Lecturer to detail tragedy in Sudan

The university also is hosting a diversity forum Friday.
YOUNGSTOWN -- "Darfur and the Politics of Genocide" will be presented by Dr. Eric Reeves, professor of English language and literature, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Smith College in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.
The United Nations estimates more than 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes in the Darfur region of western Sudan and up to 50,000 people killed by fighting, disease and famine.
Reeves has worked as a researcher and consultant to numerous human rights and humanitarian organizations working in Sudan and has testified before the U.S. Senate and other government forums.
The free lecture is sponsored by the YSU Judaic and Holocaust Studies Program and co-sponsored by the YSU history and African Studies departments, the William B. and Hilda Clayman Endowment, the Frances and Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Youngstown.
Parking is available for $4 on the fourth level of the Wick Avenue parking deck.
Asian-Americans
On Friday, YSU's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity will sponsor a free, two-hour diversity forum on Asian-Americans from 1 to 3 p.m. in the McKay Auditorium of Beeghly College of Education.
The forum will focus on how Asian-Americans are doing in 21st-century America, issues of concern, the rapid growth of this minority community on the national level, and its future.
The forum will include questions addressed to a seven-member panel of YSU faculty and staff by moderator George McCloud. McCloud, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts and special assistant to the president for development and public relations, has traveled extensively in Asia.
Panel members are Hy Kim, professor of teacher education; Qi Jiang, associate professor of sociology and anthropology; Rammohan Kasuganti, professor and chairman of the department of management; Gail Okawa, associate professor of English; Ikram Khawaja, emeritus professor of geological and environmental sciences; Misook Yun, assistant professor of music; and Frederico Garriel, chief engineer of the power plant and distribution system.