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What's up on campus
By Times staff writer Eckerd College4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg, 864-8297 Jessica Archer, director of media, education and outreach at Equality Florida and founding director of the Florida Organization for Gender Equality, will present Escaping the Gender Matrix, 7:30 p.m. Monday at Dendy-McNair Auditorium. Through interactive skits, exercises, poetry slam and motivational speaking, Archer will address gender in our society and the need for change. Dr. Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Law at Emory University, will speak on Islam and Human Rights at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Dendy-McNair Auditorium. As an internationally recognized scholar, An-Na'im has held numerous positions including scholar-in-residence at the Ford Foundation office for the Middle East and North Africa in 1992 and director of Human Rights/Africa from 1993 to 1995. Friends of the Library will hold an auction of authors' autographs at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday at Lewis House. The autographs are on catalog cards and include Tom Clancy, Tom Brokaw, John Updike and the Dali Lama. Some books also will be auctioned. Judge Greg Mathis, a television courtroom judge, will speak on Violence, Crime and Drugs at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Raymond James Room at Fox Hall. Mathis was a high school dropout who earned his GED by order of a judge and then went to law school. Call 864-8421 for information. Eckerd College will present Collected Stories, a play about the evolving friendship between a famous writer and her student protege. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and March 6-9, and at 2 p.m. March 3 at Bininger Theatre. Cost is $10, $5 for seniors and $1 for students with ID. Call 864-8279 for information and tickets. Richard T. Dasher, member of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, continues his series on the evolution of the Broadway musical with Vaudeville and Variety Shows, 3 p.m. Friday at Lewis House. Dasher will talk about George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin and Lerner and Loewe. A $3 donation is suggested. Call 864-8834 for information. * * * University of South Florida4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa USF Tampa will host a Student Leadership Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Marshall Center, Room 270. Featured guests will be Felecia Wintons, owner of Books for Thought, and Andre Steadman, owner of Urban Printing. Reservations required. Call (813) 974-8892 for information. -- Area universities and colleges offer educational lectures and programs open to the public. The Times lists these events in an occasional column. All events are free unless otherwise indicated. Send information at least two weeks in advance to Catherine Cushing, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.
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