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Monday, November 18, 2013

Michigan Tech's Center for Diversity and Inclusion: Events on campus this week

HOUGHTON -- Michigan Tech's Center for Diversity and Inclusion announces several campus events happening this week:

Alpha Gamma Delta is hosting a fundraiser for diabetes research and awareness TODAY, Monday, Nov. 18. Please stop by the Michigan Tech library café today. An anonymous donor will match all sales at the café today up to $5,000.

Global City will host local resident and former Peace Corps Volunteer Linda Belote who will present "La Mega Cooperativa Artesanal: How Ecuadorian Indian Women Found Economic Success through Hand-Woven Beadwork" at 6:30 p.m. TONIGHT, Monday, Nov. 18, in Fisher 133. Refreshments will be provided and the cooperative's beadwork will be for sale. Click here for details.

Michigan Tech's USG (Undergraduate Student Government) is hosting an open forum on "The Future of Higher Education in Michigan." Representative Scott Dianda and a representative from State Senator Tom Casperson’s office will be present to answer questions from students. The event will be at 7 p.m. TONIGHT, Monday, Nov. 18, in 202 Great Lakes Research Center.

 Keweenaw Pride will host a film screening of Southern Comfort at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Fisher 135 in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance. There will be free admission and concessions. For more information, visit http://diversitycenter.mtu.edu/SoCo.pdf.

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