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Campus groups prepare for Keenum’s visit Diversity
Center
them a summation of to success as president.”
prepares
Interview sessions scheduled all the numerical rank- One hour later,
ings by question and Keenum will meet with
throughout Wednesday group,” he said. “We MSU deans, associate
for fair
also will provide a deans and department
printed report with all heads in the Parker
of the comments.” Ballroom.
BY CARL SMITH At 8 a.m., Keenum Keenum
Higher Learning’s Board of Trustees General staff mem- Kibler
News Editor will vote either to make Keenum the will have breakfast with bers and the Alumni
next MSU president or reopen the the MSU vice presidents and athletic Association Board will respectively have
International
presidential search process. director Greg Byrne in the Shackouls the chance to address Keenum at 10 and
Various Mississippi State University
Evaluation forms will be provided Room of the Hunter Henry Center. 11 a.m. in the Parker Ballroom and the
constituency groups will have the
Education Week
to session participants in order for the Kibler said he believes the collection Shackouls Room.
chance to address the next potential
board to gauge campus reaction.
continues
of vice presidents will ask Keenum to Jimmy Abraham, executive director
MSU president during interview ses-
Vice president for student affairs address the main issues he faces if named of alumni activities, said many alumni
sions throughout Wednesday.
Bill Kibler said IHL staff will supervise the next MSU president. want Keenum to be accessible and visible
Preferred candidate Mark Keenum’s
MSU data-entry staff as the evalua- “I’m sure he’ll address issues of com- to as many alumni as possible.
public interviews will be held from 8
BY COLIN CATCHINGS
tions are processed after each interview munication and how he will plan to get “Alumni want to hear his vision and
a.m. to 5 p.m. in various rooms of the
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session. up to speed as president,” Kibler said. how he plans to take our university
Hunter Henry Center.
“Shortly after the board begins their “Overall, he will be talking about his to the next level,” he said. “He holds
Shortly after the final interview ses-
Students will have a chance to learn
meeting, we will be able to provide own experiences and how they translate
sion, the Mississippi Institutions of INTERVIEWS, 2
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about foreign cultures at a variety of
events in this week’s celebration of
International Education Week.
Mississippi State University Cricket
Club president Arun Sampathkumar
HYPNOTIC STATE said the cricket club is hosting a
cricket clinic on the Drill Field from 2
to 5 p.m. today.
“The cricket clinic is an event where
we let non-cricket playing cricket
enthusiasts, people who do not know
this game, we introduce them to this
exciting game of cricket,” he said.
“We basically give cricket enthusiasts
an opportunity to try this game first-
hand.”
A Maroon vs. White cricket exhibi-
tion match will be held from 2 to 5
p.m. on the Drill Field Saturday.
“We put all the new members and
the MSU alumni on the white team,
and the maroon team is for the regular
MSU team,” he said. “This basically is
a match where the new members get a
feel of how their team plays.”
Holmes Cultural Diversity Center
assistant director Shaz Akram said
there will also be a panel discussion
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the forum
room in Griffis Hall today.
“We’ve got some economic profes-
sors on board who are going to con-
duct the discussion on the economic
global crisis,” she said. “It’s something
that not only affects American stu-
dents, it affects international students,
so we’ll get a diverse group of students
to listen to that panel discussion.”
She said there will be an interna-
tional fair on the Drill Field from 12
to 2 p.m. Wednesday.
“This year at the carnival we have
African drumming,” Akram said. “Dr.
Robert Damm’s percussion class I
think is performing.”
MSU Ballroom Dance Club presi-
dent Brandon Smith said the club
will be performing at around noon or
12:30 p.m. on the Drill Field.
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Auditorium performance. He proceeded to convince them that they were petting exotic animals and traveling to New York City.
AAS begins scholar-in-residence lecture series
“During their period safe and center position so they will be
Asante discusses the problems of of residency, they are a able to see the world clearly through their
part of the faculty in own eyes.
the U.S. education structure African-American stud- “There is no problem with someone
ies,” he said. “We hope from China to have a Sinocentric world
that during this period view, but the problem is ethnocentrism,”
of residency that we will he said. “Ethnocentrism is when you
BY LAWRENCE SIMMONS build a relationship with Middleton degrade other cultures and you impose
University, helped to create the first
Staff Writer [each] international your culture as if it is universal.”
doctorate program in 1987 and is the
scholar and establish a wonderful rela- Asante also discussed why AAS was
most published African-American schol-
tionship with him and our university.” not simply talking about black people.
ar, having written nearly 70 books and
The newly-founded African-American
Asante said his purpose was to discuss “The first lesson we learned was that
published 300 articles.
studies program invited a nationally
the problems of the American education African-American studies is not and
African-American studies director
and internationally renowned orator to
structure, to demonstrate the necessity of should not be an aggregation of courses
Stephen Middleton said the scholar-in-
speak last week as part of the scholar-in-
AAS and to point people in the direction about black people,” he said. “We got to
residence program is where AAS brings
residence program at Mississippi State
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of Afrocentricity. that lesson because we discovered that
scholars who have national and inter-
University.
Lecturer Molefi Kete Asante addresses the Asante said Afrocentricity is about universities had courses that talked about
national reputations in their respective
Molefi Kete Asante, a professor of
African people being located in a healthy,
fields to MSU. SPEECH, 2
African-American studies at Temple
McCool Hall crowd on Afrocentric history. SEE
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