The Lincolnian

Issue date: 4/6/09 Section: News

Dr. Cornel West will speak at the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 5 p.m.

Lincoln University students are anxiously awaiting the lecture by Dr. Cornel West, noted author and celebrity scholar who currently teaches at Princeton University.

The event, which is scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. in the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel is sponsored by the School of Humanities and Graduate Studies. The event is free and open to the public on a first come basis. University officials recommend that students arrive as early as 4:30 p.m.

Given the interest in the lecture, some university offices have rearranged other activities to allow students to attend. For example, Lincoln University's Football team was scheduled to play at a scrimmage at the area high school in Avon Grove at 6 p.m. but the event-which will also feature The Orange Crush Roaring Lions marching band-has been pushed back to 7 p.m.

Many students have delayed plans to go home for the three-day weekend, opting instead to hear West speak. The university which chartered a bus for students to go home to New York, pushed back the departure time to 7:30 p.m. Originally, the trip was planned to leave at 6 p.m.

Erica Douglas, a junior from New York, says that she was relieved that she will be able to attend the lecture.

"To be honest, I'm very interested in what he has to say," says Douglass, a Black Studies minor. "I have heard he has many disagreements with the Obama administration. Luckily, the trip was moved back so that I can be there."

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