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4 Thursday 7:30 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Lecture: "Beyond Integration, Affirmative Action and Black Power: The African-American Search for Legitimacy." Romney M. Moseley, Associate Professor of Divinity, University of Toronto.
5 Friday 4 p.m. Ferris Lounge, SU Bohan Lecture: "Information and the Financial Markets: An English Major's View." William Barnhart, Associate Financial Editor of the Chicago Tribune.
5 Friday 7:30 p.m. Kresge Hall,CFA Concert: Knox College Choir, directed by Laura Lane, Assistant Professor of Music. Program features Mexican, American and Spanish music.
5 Friday Alumni Career Panels. Knox College alumni in a variety of fields give career planning advice for students interested in sociology/anthropology (3 p.m., Founders Lounge, SU); classics (4:30 p.m., Founders Lounge, SU) and music (3 p.m., Round Room, CFA)
12 Friday Alumni Career Panels. Knox College alumni in a variety of fields give career planning advice for students interested in philosophy (3:30 p.m., Common Room, OM) and modern languages (4 p.m., Founders Lounge, SU).
April 12-14 -- A Celebration of Feminism A Student-to-Student Conference 12 Friday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Keynote Address: Maria Lugones, Professor of Philosophy, Carleton College.
13 Saturday 10 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: Blues singer/guitarist Judy Gorman. Additional conference information available from Lisa GoldbergBelle, 309-343-0112, ext 225.
13 Saturday 3 p.m. Sandburg Birthplace 331 East Third St. Award Ceremony. Presentation of awards in the Knox College-Sandburg Historic Site Association Poetry Contest. Ceremony held in the cottage where Carl Sandburg, the great American poet, was born.
13 Saturday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: The Nova Singers, directed by Laura Lane, Associate Professor of Music, present "A Festival of Folk Songs" from England, France, Sweden and Israel. Tickets available at the door.
14 Sunday 3 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Concert: Western Illinois University Steel Band
April 14-21 -- Earth Week Activities 14 Sunday 1 p.m. Multipurpose Room, SU Children's Environmental Workshop. Games, skits and songs on ecology, wildlife and conservation.
16 Tuesday 7 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Symposium on Solid Waste. Representatives of the chemical and food industries and environmental lobbying groups. Moderator, Roy Andersen, Professor of Economics, Knox College.
17 Wednesday 7 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Lecture: "Clear-Cutting Our National Forests." Representative of RACE (Regional Area Concerned Environmentalists), a group opposed to commercial logging in the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois.
19-21 Friday-Sunday 7 p.m. Round Room, CFA Earth Week Film Festival. Discussion period following films each night.
20 Saturday 7 p.m. Sandburg Mall Children's Environmental Workshop. Games, skits and songs on ecology, wildlife and conservation.
16 Tuesday 4 p.m. Common Room, OM Lecture: "Dance as a Career." Alan Lommasson, director of Dance Gallery, of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
16 Tuesday 8 p.m. Kresge Hall, CFA Performance: Dance Gallery, a four-person dance troupe from Ann Arbor, Michigan, will present an "informance" -- a performance followed by a discussion period.
17 Wednesday 4 p.m. Auxiliary Gym Master Class in Dance, led by Alan Lommasson, director of Dance Gallery.
18 Thursday 4 p.m. Common Room, OM Lecture: "Comparing Collectivist and Individualist Societies." Harry Triandis, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois.
18 Thursday 8 p.m. Ferris Lounge, SU Lecture: "Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Myth Making." Michael Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School, will discuss the presence and interpretation of mythic elements in the Bible.
20 Saturday 8 p.m. Orpheum Theatre 55 South Kellogg St. Concert: Knox-Galesburg Symphony, directed by Bruce Polay, Associate Professor of Music. Works include Mahler's Symphony No. 1 and Schumann's Cello Concerto, with guest artist Marc Drobinsky. Tickets available at the Orpheum Box Office, 342-2299.
22 Monday 7:30 p.m. Round Room, CFA Lecture: "Digging For a Legend: The Gottschall Project." Robert Salzner, Department of Anthropology, Beloit College, will present a slide talk on recently discovered prehistoric cave-paintings in Wisconsin, thought to depict the Winnebago Indian "Legend of Red Horn."