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INSIDE IOWA STATE
January 18, 2002

King observance continues today on campus

by Linda Charles
Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered on campus during a musical celebration beginning at noon Friday, Jan. 18, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The Point of Grace Choir, Ames, and members of the ISU Chamber Choir will perform. There also will be a dramatic reading by the World Theatre Group, and remarks by President Gregory Geoffroy, Government of the Student Body President Andy Tofilon and Black Student Alliance President Robert Price. A reception will follow; birthday cake will be served.

King's birthday is Jan. 15. If he were alive today, he would be 73 years old this year. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis by James Earl Ray.

A community interfaith worship service will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at Northminster Presbyterian Church, 416 20th St.

The King celebration will conclude with a lecture by Jamal-Harrison Bryant on "Living with a Purpose," at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. Bryant directed the youth and college division of the NAACP, where he led the "Stop the Violence, Start the Love" crusade. He hosts Keepin' it Real, a Baltimore Sunday talk show, and co-hosts The Larry Young Morning Show. He has appeared on CNN, C-Span and Politically Incorrect.

Bryant has a master's of divinity from Duke University and is pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal Church.

University offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 21, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.