WednesdayFilm: Sex+Money 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Location: 268 KSC Cost: Free In accordance to January being the month of Sex-Trafficking, the Women’s Resource and Action Center is planning to show the documentary Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth. The documentary is about domestic minor sex trafficking and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it. Since September 2009, the crew has traveled to over 30 states and conducted more than 75 interviews with federal agents, victims, politicians, activists, psychologists and porn stars, among others.
Thursday Information Meeting: Spring Break Service Trip 6:00 p.m. Location: RDC 333 Cost: Free Join volunteers from the University of Minnesota Duluth as we help reconstruct homes in and around Biloxi, Mississippi. Volunteer leaders are coordinating the effort through Seashore United Methodist Assembly and work-site agencies in the area. The trip is open to students of all faiths, spiritualties and ways of understanding. Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age, in good physical condition and have an open and flexible attitude. The Diversity Commission and Lutheran Campus Ministry of UMD are coordinating the trip.
Friday Glensheen Flashlight Tours 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Location: Gleensheen Cost: $25.00
Monday Walking in Two Worlds 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Location: KSC Ballroom Cost: Free Prepare to take a journey through the upbringing of America, as well as your own upbringing. You will learn how a nation has a bent toward racism, sexism, etc. You will learn why Affirmative Action is such a hot topic in today's news. You will learn why, in the late 20th century, Caucasian Americans and Native Americans almost came to blows over treaty rights. Hang on, and be open! Discussion topics: Ethnocentrisms, Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination, Diversity through Cloning, and "Walking in Two Different Worlds."
Tuesday Tweevenings with Jim Klueg and Liz James 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Location: Alice Tweed Tuohy Gallery Duluth, Tweed Museum of Art Cost: Free Jim Klueg, ceramist and head of the Department of Art & Design and Liz James, ceramics area head, will team up to do a couple of presentations related to the exhibition Resurfaced and Reformed: Evolution in Studio Ceramics. Jim will present about works related to the European and Bauhaus Influence group and Liz will focus on works from the grouping Variations on Form: The Vessel moves toward Sculpture.