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[MLK Keynote]
Honoring
Dr. King
NAACP chairman
shares memories of civil
rights founder
Veteran civil rights
activist and naaCP
chairman Julian
Bond, who had a personal
relationship with Martin
Luther King Jr., told a campus
audience, “We all have a
responsibility to carry on dr.
King’s legacy.”
Bond delivered the keynote
address of JMU’s annual
MLK Celebration Week,
which is sponsored by the
JMU Center for Multicultural
student services. Bond
told students, professors
and community members,
“even though the times have
changed, there is still room
NAACP chairman
Julian Bond, a founding
member of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, addresses
a Wilson Hall audience
at the university’s MLK
Week main event.
hodges and degrazia photograph by steve baedke
‘Even though the times have
changed, there is still room for
more progress.’
— Julian Bond
for more progress.”
Bond also promoted affirma-
tive action and encouraged
students to vote in the upcoming
presidential election. “The
spirit of dr. King hangs over
any election, and his spirit is
especially evident this year
with its diverse candidates.”
other events during the
campus celebration included
the annual MLK March
and speak out and a “unity
day” event sponsored by the
alpha Kappa alpha sorority.
The JMU gospel Choir
performed and students led
a trip to the Harrisonburg
Children’s Museum to educate
area children about the
life and legacy of Martin
Luther King Jr.
[Geology Honors]
Extra effort
pays off
Geology Society of America
recognizes student researchers
By Tim O’Keefe (’10)
They spent three weeks of
their summer along the
shores of Lake Huron
in Michigan, but the time
was anything but a vacation.
senior geology majors amanda
Hodges and Lisa degrazia
spent that time hard at work,
researching the hydrology of
the albert e. sleeper state
Park near Caseville.
“We were 100 percent dedicated
to this project,” says Hodges.
The duo’s extra effort paid
off. Hodges and degrazia
won the national Council
award for outstanding student
Research at the 2007
geology society of america
conference in denver. a
poster about their research
highlighted groundwater flow
through the study area, which
was tracked using chemical
indicators such as PH values.
The ground water flow plays
Hard work along the shores of
Lake Huron last summer paid
off for Amanda Hodges and Lisa
DeGrazia at the Geological Society
of America annual meeting.
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