This week on campus Maya Angelou will speak and a Holocaust Awareness Day will be held.

Tickets still available for Angelou
Last-chance tickets are still available to hear Maya Angelou speak on campus.

Angelou, celebrated poet, author, educator and civil rights activist, is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. She has written extensively on issues of race and class in poems, autobiographies and fiction.

Angelou will speak tomorrow, Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in the Auraria Events Center. Tickets are $5 for Metro State and other Auraria students (ID required), $10 for faculty and staff and other students (ID required), and $20 for the general public.

Tickets can be purchased at the King Center Box Office, 303-556-2296.

Holocaust Awareness Day on campus
On Tuesday, May 3, the Auraria campus will host a series of films and discussions that share different viewpoints of the Holocaust. The day's events, titled "Death and Humanity: A Painful Revisiting of the Holocaust," are free and open to the public and will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Tivoli 320.

• 10:30-11:30 a.m.: "Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future," film and panel discussion. Panelists include Ishka Lichter, a Czech American Holocaust survivor and Metro professors Robert Hazan, Lawrence Glatz and Thorsten Spehn.
  
  This film deals with the 1.5 million children who were murdered under Nazi persecution. Director Roy Errol Fox talks with people from all walks of life as they express their profound shock at the incomprehensible realities which are confronted upon visiting the children's memorial in the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. Current news footage of racist violence around the world is juxtaposed with images from the children's museum to make a powerful experience for the viewer.
  
  
• 2:30-4 p.m.: "The Cross Inscribed Within the Star of David," film and discussion hosted by Metro political science Professor Robert Hazan.
  
  This film, directed by Grzegorz Linkowski of Poland, shows a man's search for his own identity. Father Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel, professor and priest, learns that he is a Jew saved from the ghetto of Swieciany, Poland. His mother handed him over as a 6-day-old baby to new foster parents.

Holocaust Awareness Day is co-sponsored by Metro's Office of Student Activities, the Offices of Student Life and Activities at UCDHSC, and the Political Science Department at Metro.

For more information contact Student Activities at 303-556-2595.