Weaving New Beginnings, an event designed to bring together students and faculty of color to foster new relationships, will take place in the EMU Ballroom at 6 p.m. tonight.
This is the eighth year of the annual free event, sponsored by The President’s Fund, Enrollment Services, Office of Student Affairs, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Multicultural Center, University Housing and the ASUO.
“The point of the reception is to bring people together,” ASUO Muticultural Advocate Eddy Morales said. “We’re really stressing the interaction.”
University President Dave Frohnmayer will provide the opening address for the event.
“This annual gathering is an important opportunity for us to make individual connections and to celebrate the significance of diversity to our institutional mission,” Frohnmayer said in a statement. “Diversity, in all of its aspects, is essential to effective teaching and learning.”
There will also be open mic sessions, where students and faculty can showcase talent in poetry and music.
English Professor Emeritus Edwin Coleman, whose three-member jazz band is scheduled to perform, said the event is a great opportunity for people who usually do not come in contact with each other to interact.
“This is a tremendous opportunity, and I am hoping there will be a large outpouring of not just faculty, but students,” Coleman said.
Student and faculty art will be on display, and food and beverages will be served.
— Roman Gokhman
