campus visitors
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Visiting writer speaking Feb. 22
Visiting Writer Rob Schlegel will read from his work. He is the author of BLOOM, which won the Midwest Chapbook Series Award in 2010, and The Lesser Fields, which won the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry.
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Final Music Monday of the year
Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato will perform at the final Music Monday of the year on Feb. 21, 2011 in King Chapel on Cornell College’s campus.
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Documentary on the Postville raid
Cornell College will host a screening of the documentary film “abUsed: The Postville Raid” by director Luis Argueta on Wednesday, Feb. 9 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The screening will take place in the Hedges Conference room in The Commons on Cornell’s campus.
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Incoming president visiting campus
Incoming President Jonathan Brand and his wife, Rachelle LaBarge, will be on campus to meet the community on Friday, Feb. 18.
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Rockapella coming to campus Jan. 15
World-renowned a capella group Rockapella will be on Cornell College’s campus on Saturday, Jan. 15, to perform their dynamic mix of pop music and acrobatic vocal stylings and give a workshop to the winners of a campus-wide a capella contest.
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Economist to speak on regulation
Sam Peltzman, a leading authority on the economics of government regulation, will give a talk titled “Financial Crisis: Does Government Regulation Help or Hurt?” on Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hedges Conference Room in The Commons.
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Lecture on the roots of hip-hop
Lasana Hotep, a consultant, educator and researcher, will give a multimedia lecture Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m. about the roots of hip-hop and rap music.
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Music Mondays start Oct. 11
Cornell College will host Music Mondays with four performances starting Oct. 11.
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Author, feminist to speak Sept. 30
Cornell College’s Third Wave Resource Group is presenting a talk by Jennifer Baumgardner titled “Can I Be A Feminist and….?” on Sept. 30 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in The Commons on Cornell’s campus.
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Cornell part of Private College Week
From Aug. 2 to 6, hundreds of college-seeking students and their families will participate in what is becoming a rite of summer, Iowa Private College Week, sponsored by the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (IAICU).
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Habitat for Humanity video tour of campus
Habitat for Humanity volunteers staying on campus this weekend took a walk around campus and shot some video.
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VIDEO: Gergen: Millennials can be the next great generation
Speaking to a crowd of hundreds in King Chapel, political analyst and author David Gergen gave a message of hope: that although the political system in America might not be working the way we’d like, there are many positive signs.
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Scholar to speak about Near East archives
Matthew W. Stolper, The John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago, will spend two days on campus and deliver a lecture on Thursday, May 6 at 4:30 p.m. in the Hedges Conference Room in The Commons.
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Amina Wadud talks about Islamic feminism
Amina Wadud, a professor and Islamic feminist scholar, gave the Small-Thomas lecture on April 22. She spoke about the relationship between Islam and gender.
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Economist to speak at Berry Center March 16
Robert Frank, a world-renowned behavioral economist, author and teacher, will speak at 7 p.m. on March 16 at Cornell College.