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Diversity Week stresses empathy


Diversity Week, sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs, the Student Activities Council and the Student Government Association, will feature a different event each day.

This year’s theme is “Seeing Ourselves in Each Other.”

Diversity week began Monday in the Watkins Auditorium with J. J. Kent, an American Indian of the Lakota tribe, speaking about American Indian culture and problems facing many American Indians today.

Tonight, Pinpoints Theatre, an educational theater group out of Washington D.C., will present “The Meeting” at 7 p.m. in the Student Life Center. “The Meeting” depicts a fictional account of what would happen if Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had met before they were assassinated.

Tomorrow, At 7 p.m. a diversity rally will be held in the Student Life Center. UTM student organizations will have a chance to promote their organizations at the rally.

Thursday, at 5 p.m. there will be a flag ceremony at the University Center. “One of the biggest things is Thursday night, the flag ceremony,” said SGA President James Orr. “We’ve purchased the flags that represent each country of international students here at UTM.” Flags will be hung in the UC after the event. Chancellor Nick Dunagan will speak at the flag ceremony.