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are three notable events happening on campus today and tomorrow,
April 6 and 7.
Blood Drive
The Auraria Blood
Drive will be Wednesday, April 6 and Thursday, April 7. The drive
will go from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. each day in the North
Classroom
Atrium. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact
Corrie Santos at 303-556-6791.
Under the Taliban:
The Compelling Stories of
an Afghan Woman
On Thursday, April 7, the Metro community can hear about the struggles
of Afghan families under the totalitarian regime of the Taliban.
The Student Activities office, together with Student Life and Activities
at UCDHSC, present “Under the Taliban: The Compelling Stories
of an Afghan Woman,” a lecture by University of Nebraska at
Omaha Professor Farooka Guahari at 1 p.m. in Tivoli 320. Guahari’s
lecture will describe the harrowing encounters of Afghan families,
their sufferings
and their struggles to maintain their identities under the Taliban’s
rule. Her experience typifies the kinds of human rights violations
practiced against Afghans by the Taliban.
Gauhari is the
author of “Searching
for Saleem: An Afghan Woman’s
Odyssey,” a first-person account of the national tragedy
that interrupted daily life in Afghanistan after the communist
coup of
April 1978. In
her book, Gauhari narrates her desperate attempts to find out what
happened to her missing husband, Saleem, and her gradual, painful
decision to
leave her homeland with her three children. She is the first Afghan
woman to publish a memoir in English.
For more information
go to
http://studentactivities.mscd.edu/modules/events/
Public
art in Denver
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art Program and Metro’s
Center for Visual Art will be holding a joint information session and celebration
on April 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. The reception and program will include a discussion
of Denver’s Public Art Program and a celebration of an art installation
project by Metro alumnus and former art professor Carlos Fresquez and
Metro State students.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Center
for Visual Art, 1734 Wazee St. Call (720) 913-8220 to RSVP.
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