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FOUR DAYS IN MAY

May 3

Sign in at 130 Taylor Hall
Enjoy coffee and bagels in the morning,see campus, meet old friends, visit familiar haunts, do alumni things.
A message board will be available.
A program in appreciation of Kent State faculty who enabled students to complete their course work after the school wasclosed in the spring of 1970 will be from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in 306 Student Center. "Finishing theSpring 1970 Quarter: A Tribute to Kent State Faculty" will feature Mike Lunine, former dean of the Honors College andJerry M. Lewis, emeritus professor of sociology.
A documentary film by Kent State technology professor Drew Tiene, "The Story of the Kent State Shootings," will show May 1-5 in the Music Listening Center of the Student Center. A discussion of the film will take place at 9 a.m. on May 3 in 200 White Hall.
An exhibit in the Kent State University Museum Alumni Gallery called "Revolutionizing Fashion: The Politics of Style" features the experimental fashions of the 1960s.
Prof. J. Gregory Payne from Emerson College presents his drama students and his play, "Kent State: A Requiem" at noon in the Kiva at the Student Center.
The May 4 Oral History Project, begun in 1990 by Sandra Perlman Halem and University Archivist Nancy Birk will be taking stories from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in 308 of the Student Center.
Journalists will speak on "Media and Democracy" at 1 p.m. in 115 Taylor Hall. The panel will feature Bob Carpenter, who worked for WKSU and WKNT in May of 1970 and caught the sounds of the May 4 shootings on audio record, former DKS editor Saul Daniels of the Los Angeles Times and Kent State journalism professor Timothy Smith.
The grandson of Mahatma K. Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Kiva. "Lessons MyGrandfather Taught Me" is sponsored by the College and Graduate School of Education and the Gerald H. Read Distinguished Lecture Series.
A dance performance in the Prentice Hall parking lot and on the Commons will begin at 5:30 p.m. The Pittsburgh-based Dance Alloy company, students and faculty from the Kent State School of Theatre and Dance andcommunity members will perform.
Open microphone for poetry, music and other artistic expressions 6-10 p.m. Local musicians Pat Sweeney and Muntu Kuntu Energy will perform on the Commons.
Join the silent candlelight march starting 8 p.m. at Taylor, movingthrough campus ending up in Taylor parking lot.
There's an all-night vigil at the shooting site. You can signup to stand in place of one of the fallen students for a 1/2 hour. An alumni group vigil is scheduled for 9:30-10 a.m., May 4.

May 4

JMC alumni Candlelight Vigil 9:30-10 a.m.
All alumni are invited to stop by the Williamson Alumni Center for an informal reunion. Complimentary refreshments will be served. A guided bus tour of campus and the May 4 Site and Memorial will depart from the Williamson Alumni Center at 10 a.m. The tour will conclude by 11:30 a.m.
Special remembrance 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Commons.
The Victory Bell is rung at 12:45 p.m. on the Commons - once for each of the 13 students killed or wounded at Kent State on May 4, 1970; and once each for the two students killed at Jackson State University on May 14, 1970.
This year's theme is "Peace: Live It, Learn It, Teach It." Beginning 12:24 p.m. on the Commons, the speakers include: Family and friends of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder; Dr. Gene Young, Jackson State faculty member; Gloria Green-McKray, Jackson State graduate and sister of the late James Green, one of the students killed at Jackson State College on May 14, 1970; Demetrius Gibbs, Jackson State graduate and son of the late Phillip Gibbs, who was also killed at Jackson State on May 14, 1970; Ramona Africa, environmentalist, social activist, political prisoner and spokesperson for the Philadelphia-based MOVE organization; Juliette Beck, economic rights coordinator of Global Exchange, and one of the organizers of the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle; Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini), principal spokesperson for the American Indian Movement; Julia Butterfly Hill, an environmental activist who spent two years perched in an ancient Redwood tree in California to protest logging; Noam Chomsky, professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There will be musical performances by Country Joe McDonald and Alice DiMiceli.
May 4th Taskforce workshops continue from 4-6 p.m.
Reunion 2000 will meet 3-4:30 p.m. at the KSU Archives on 12th floor of the KSU Library, across from the Student Center, to view the special exhibit based on work done by our fellow alumni. It is called... "A Moment in Time 1967 - 77: Kent State Print and Broadcast Journalists Capture the Decade."It includes never-before seen photos and broadcast tapes. We plan a short remembrance ceremony during the visit.
Stater, Burr, WKSU and TV-2 alumni will have an informal get-together from6:30 p.m. until whenever they kick us out, upstairs at Ray's Place in downtown Kent.
"East 79th Street," a thought-provoking drama at 7 p.m. on May 4,5,6 and 3 p.m on May 7 at the African Community Theatre, second floor, Oscar Ritchie Hall, provides viewers with a glimpse of one of Cleveland's most turbulent decades through poetry, music and dance. Local playwright Fred Taylor has captured the 1966 Hough Riots and the Kent State tradegy from the perspective of homeless travelers.
An 8 p.m. concert in the University Auditorium will feature the School of Music's Wind Ensemble, the Jazz Ensemble, and the Kent Chorus. The Wind Ensemble and the Kent Chorus will premiere a work written by a Kent State alumnus, Dr. Kenneth Langer. This four-work movement is entitled "Dona nobis pacem" (Grant Us Peace).

May 5

Reunion of 1968-1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Members with registration and a reception at Oscar Ritchie Hall from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. followed by a documentary film from 1- 3 p.m. There will be a jamboree on Saturday, May 6 from 1-5 p.m.
"Dialogue, Student Unrest at Kent State, 1969-70, The Light and the Dark": This 5:30 p.m. program will feature Mike Lunine, former dean of Kent State's Honors College, (1968-72) and Peter Jedick, Honors student (1967-71)and author of "Hippies," a novel about student life in 1969-70, at Van Campen Hall.
A JMC panel discussion may be planned for the afternoon at Taylor Hall.
Reunion 2000starts at 6:30 p.m. at the dinning room in the Kent Student Center with acash bar. we have a "grazing buffet" planned starting at 7:30 so you caneat, walk and talk while you get to know each other again. the Beach Boyz, aDJ group, will spin your favorites from the '60s and '70s.
Reflections on War Resistance Panel Discussion features speakers Larry Gara, Jerry Gordon, Staughton Lynd, and Carolyn Harper Knox (Candy Erickson). Mark Weber will be the panel moderator 3 p.m. at the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room, 12th floor, University Library.
The Kent State Gospel Choir will commemorate the events of May 1970 at Kent State and Jackson State universities through spiritual and gospel music at 8 p.m. in the E. Turner Stump Theatre.
May 4th Taskforce plans psychedelic concert by Country Joe Macdonald along with singer Alice Di Micele, 7 p.m. in the Kiva, Student Center.

May 6

You're on your own. Make plans to hook up with old friends for brunch ortake a side trip to Cleveland and the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. The Alumni Association will have discount coupons. If you haven't been to Cleveland in 30 years you won't recognize the place.