UGA Logo UGA Office of Public Affairs top bar image UGA Home
Columns faculty staff newspaper News Service
Contact Us
Text-Only
top bar image
SEARCH
  Columns   UGA    
 
  January 17, 2006
  In this issue
  News
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Around Academe
  Worth Repeating
  Go Figure
  Digest
  UGA Guide
  Newsmakers
  Campus Closeup
  Administrative Changes
  Questions&Answers
  Weekly Reader
  Cybersights
  Bulletin Board
 
  Back Issues
  Publication Dates
  Contact Us

campus newS

University of Georgia partners with community to celebrate life, legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

By Mary Jessica Hammes
mhammes@uga.edu
This week, UGA and the Athens community continue their partnership in offering several events for King Week, a celebration of the life and legacy of the late civil right leader Martin Luther King Jr.

“The University of Georgia is about service,” says Vanessa Williams Smith, associate dean of students of UGA’s Minority Services and Programs and organizer of the week’s events. “We are part of this community. The university is not an island. I’m very pleased that we’ve been able to partner with the Athens community.”

So far, the celebration has included a Freedom Breakfast kick-off, a youth pow wow, a downtown march sponsored by the Hispanic Concerns Committee of Athens, and two church services.

On Jan. 17, local high school students gave presentations for the Education Day activities in the Tate Student Center’s Georgia Hall. A third interfaith service is scheduled for Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Tate Student Center’s Reception Hall.

The sounds of a GospelFest will fill the Greater Bethel AME Church, 140 Rose St., at 7 p.m. on Jan. 19. Scheduled talent includes the Billups Rogers Young Generation Choir, Ebenezer Baptist Church West Praise Team, Mt. Pleasant Young Adult Choir, Purpose, Deborah Favors and Friends and New Grove Baptist Church Ensemble.

More music is to come; Jan. 20 begins with an 11 a.m. coffee hour at the Memorial Hall Ballroom, and ends with a music fest by Kaizen Entertainment at 7 p.m. in the Tate Student Center’s Georgia Hall.

The King Week observance concludes Jan 21 with the Black Affairs Council-sponsored Unity Ball at 8 p.m. in the Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center. Tickets are $5 for singles or $8 for couples in advance, and are available at the Tate Student Center, or by phone (542-8074). The ball is a perfect example of King’s influence, according to Smith.

“All students from all backgrounds and cultures come together,” she says, “as in Dr. King’s dream—and, of course, students want to do it in the form of a party. The students work really hard in putting it together.”
 


Columns is produced by the UGA News Service, a unit of UGA Public Affairs.
286 Oconee St., Ste. 200N, Athens, GA 30602-1999
Juliett Dinkins (jdinkins@uga.edu): editor (706) 542-8017,
Janet Beckley (jbeckley@uga.edu): art director (706) 542-8170, Peter Frey (pfrey@uga.edu): photo editor (706) 542-8086,
Matthew Weeks (mweeks@uga.edu): senior reporter (706) 542-8024, Sara Freeland (freeland@uga.edu): reporter (706) 542-8077
Questions or comments should be directed to columns@uga.edu

Back Issues | Publication Dates | Subscribe to Columns | Contact Us | Text-only Version

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 2008-2009 University of Georgia. All rights reserved
The University of Georgia • Athens, GA 30602 | UGA Directory Assistance 706/542-3000
UGA Home | UGA Today | Public Affairs Directory