April 17, 2001

Events Calendar

Listings:

Saturday, April

28

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

UNICEF Global Emergencies Benefit

Show: “Voices of Youth”

Middlebury College students of all

nations will perform dances, songs, poetry readings and music to

raise funds for the children of the world caught in ethnic conflict,

famine, poverty, ignorance, abuse and societal injustice. In between

performances, there will be inspirational film clips that peek into

the homes and lives of these children. Exotic snacks and drinks will

be available.

McCullough Student Center, Old Chapel

Road off South Main Street (Route 30)

Tickets are $6 for general admission

and $2 for children. Tickets are available daily beginning Monday,

April 23, from 5-7 p.m. outside Proctor Hall on Hepburn Road off

College Street (Route 125), and at the Grille in McCullough Student

Center on Old Chapel Road off South Main Street (Route 30). Tickets

will also be available at the door.

For more information, contact student

organizers Syed Masood at 802-443-4303 or Natasha Shevde at

802-443-7174.

Monday, April

30

4:30 p.m.

Lecture: “The People of Iraq:

Burdened by Oil and Sacrificed for Sanctions”

Abbas Alnasrawi, professor of

economics at the University of Vermont, will speak about the current

humanitarian crisis in Iraq, and the relationship between the crisis

and the sanctions against this country by the United

States.

Center for International Affairs,

Robert A. Jones House, Hillcrest Road, College Street (Route

125)

Admission is free.

For more information, contact student

organizer Wasim Rahman, president of the Middlebury College Islamic

Society, at 802-443-4251.

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