Last updated on 01/16/2017
Update: My apologies to those who wanted to hear the UO Gospel Singers and went to Beall Hall at 3 today. The information provided by Around the O in its list of MLK Day events was wrong. The link was for last year’s performance. So far as I can tell there is no performance this year.
“Which Martin Luther King Are We Celebrating Today?” Some reminders from the historian Jason Sokol in the NYT.
MLK day events, from Will Campbell in the Emerald:
The Eugene NAACP chapter is hosting a march on MLK day, Monday, Jan. [16], to honor the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
From 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the march will set off from Autzen Stadium and PK Park at the north gate. The march will end at the Shedd Institute, after which UO President Michael Schill will give a speech around 11:00 a.m., according to an AroundtheO article.
Several hundred people marched at last year’s MLK Day march at the University of Oregon.
Also on Monday, the UO Gospel Singers plan to host a free concert at Beal Concert Hall at 3:00 p.m., and it will be live-streamed via its website.
The MLK march was really well attended. Great to see! 1K? More?
However, I didn’t feel compelled to listen to the president of a university where racism and sexual harassment is acceptable speechify.
I, along with a group of other minority students, once told Schill the issues we faced as minorities in the graduate programs. After describing how, amongst other things, we weren’t seen as students like fellow White students but means to an end, Schill said we needed to speak more because he just didn’t see what the problem was. That was the last conversation we ever had.
I role my eyes at anything Schill has to say about diversity, promoting acceptance, or anything of the like on campus.