In Brief
Islamic scholar, activist to speak at law school
Asghar Ali Engineer, human rights activist, social reformer, intellectual
Islamic scholar and writer, will speak on "Prospects for Communal and
Ethnic
Peace and Conflict in India: A Contemporary Perspective" at 4 p.m.
Wednesday,
Oct. 25, in the Tull Auditorium at the law school. The Law and Religion
Program
and the Department of Religion are sponsoring the event.
Engineer is vice president of the Peoples' Union of Civil Liberties, the
leading human rights group in India; and chair of the Centre for Study of
Secularism and Society in Bombay.
Attendees are invited to a reception following the lecture in the Agnor
Room
of the law school. The event is free and open to the public. Call
727-0699.
`Women, Authority and Ministry' theme of 1995 Candler Women's
Week
The School of Theology will present its 1995 Women's Week program,
"Women,
Authority and Ministry," Tuesday, Oct. 24, through Thursday, Oct. 26. The
series of discussions, workshops and dinners will be held in Cannon
Chapel.
Speakers include Toinette Eugene, associate professor of Christian
social
ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.;
Millicent
Feske, assistant professor of theology at St. Joseph's University in
Philadelphia; and Jeanette Stokes, former director of the Resource Center
for
Women in Ministry in the South.
Events include a panel discussion Wednesday and worship services Tuesday
and
Thursday, all at 11 a.m. in Cannon Chapel. Also offered will be community
dinner-workshops Tuesday and Wednesday beginning at 5:15 p.m. at Brooks
Commons
in Cannon Chapel. A $3 donation will be collected at the dinners. To make
a
dinner reservation or for more information, call 727-4430.
Friends of Libraries hosts mystery writers
Mystery writers Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Joan Hess and Deborah Adams will
participate in "Murder, They Write, Part II," a panel discussion on
techniques
of mystery writing, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. in the Cox Hall
Ballroom.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries, the event will be moderated by
Susan
Peters, the libraries' language and literature coordinator. Light
refreshments
will be served. For more information, call 727-2245.
Fun Run to benefit Habitat House
The first annual Ghost and Goblins Fun Run will take place on Oct. 28, at
10
a.m. in Lullwater Park. The run benefits the Emory Student Chapter of
Habitat
for Humanity. The registration deadline is Oct. 23. The entry fee is $10
per
person before the registration deadline and $14 per person on the day of
the
race. Fees should accompany entry form.
The course of the race, entirely within Lullwater, is approximately 1.5
miles.
There will be prizes for male and female participants in each age group
who
finish closest to their predicted time. All participants will receive
free
t-shirts. Watches cannot be worn during the race.
Proceeds from the Ghost and Goblins Fun Run will help underwrite the
construction of a Habitat for Humanity home to be built by students,
staff and
faculty of Emory and Morehouse College. For more information, call
712-1546.