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February 14, 2003
Vol. 27, No. 11

• Chancellor, staff reps urge salary increase
• To catch
a thief
• Female prof ranks high in Nat’l Guard
• ‘One-stop’ exit service expediates military leave
• Multicultural Scholars Program expands, adds two new units
• Dockings give $1M gift to KU
• Meetings will debate civil service alternatives
• Student for a day
• Professor profiles composer for Kansas Public Radio
• Staff tuition assistance program sees increase
• Steinem speaks
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author to give Dole lecture
• KU administrators win awards
• KU filmmaker’s faux documentary takes new look at slavery
• December employees honored
• $2M gift funds new program
• Digital Library announces internal grants
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Festival to celebrate Kansas art, literature

 


To celebrate literature and art in Kansas, Lawrence and KU sponsors are preparing the five-day Langston Hughes February Festival, Feb. 19 through 23, which includes two writing conferences and a film festival.


Speakers invited include native Kansan Gordon Parks, nationally recognized photographer, composer and author of The Learning Tree; MacArthur Award winner and author of The Fisher King Paule Marshall of New York University; and KU alumnus and author of The Last Cattle Drive Robert Day of Washington College, Chestertown, Md.


In addition, two films will have Lawrence premieres as part of the festival: Confederate States of America by Kevin Willmott, KU assistant professor of theatre and film, and Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel by Madison Lacy, independent film producer from New York City.


Parks has been invited to speak at the Lied Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, about his illustrious career and the influence of his native Kansas on his works.


More information about all events is available online at www.visitlawrence.com/hughes/.

 

 

    
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