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What's up on campus

By TIMES STAFF
Published February 21, 2007

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.

Eckerd College

4200 54th Ave. S

St. Petersburg, 864-7979

Claire Stiles, professor of human development at Eckerd, will present Getting to Forgiveness at 7 p.m. today at the Triton Room. Stiles is a member of the Council of Faculty Fellows, who will discuss Stiles' topic after her presentation.

Eckerd College president Donald Eastman will speak on the State of Eckerd College at 4 p.m. today at Lewis House. This is part of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College 25th Anniversary Public Forum Series.

The 2007 documentary film Arid Lands will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday at Miller Auditorium. The film is about Washington state's Columbia Basin, where 60 years ago a nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Today it is the site of the largest environmental cleanup in history.

Kent Curtis, assistant professor of environmental studies at Eckerd College, will speak on the Nature of Childhood Questioning in an African Folktale at 7 p.m. Monday at Miller Auditorium. The French film Kirikou and the Sorceress will be shown.

Korean filmmaker Joon-ho Bong's 2006 film The Host will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Miller Auditorium. When a military scientist disposes of deadly chemicals in a Korean sewer, a mutant monster emerges from Seoul's Han River. In Korean with subtitles.

University of South Florida St. Petersburg

140 Seventh Ave. S

St. Petersburg

Paul Rusesabagina, the former Rwandan hotel manager who sheltered more than a thousand refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, will speak about his experiences of that time at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Campus Activities Center. Parking will be available in the parking garage at 250 Fifth Ave. S. For information, call 820-0100, ext. 265.

Spring College Day, an open house for prospective students, will be from 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday at the Campus Activities Center. Those attending can tour the campus, speak to faculty members, staff members and students, and attend information sessions at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on admissions, financial aid, housing and the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Education. Students who apply for admission at Spring College Day will not be charged the $30 application fee. College Day credit will be provided. For information, call 873-4800.

St. Petersburg College

6605 Fifth Ave. N

St. Petersburg

Maxine Thevenot, associate organist for the Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, N.M., will perform on the Heissler organ at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Music Center. For information, call 341-4360.

SPC concludes its celebration of Black History Month this week with Gospel Explosion at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Music Center. Singing groups from SPC and local churches will participate. For information, call 341-4345.

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