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What’s up on campus?By Times staff writer © St. Petersburg Times, published April 8, 2001 Eckerd College4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg 864-8297 Eckerd Senior College will host a Spring Term Open House at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Palms of Largo Retirement Community, 200 Lake Ave. NE, Largo. Senior College offers a variety of classes and educational day trips to students 50 years and older. Subjects include the arts, political science, computers and the Internet, philosophy, history and science. Call 864-7600 for information. John Hankinson Jr., former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, will speak on Environmental Leadership in the 21st Century: Critical Strategies for Global Sustainability or 50 Ways to Save Your Mother at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Dendy-McNair Auditorium. Hankinson graduated from Eckerd College in 1970 and received his law degree from the University of Florida in 1979. He worked with Marjorie Carr and the Florida Defenders of the Environment in their fight against the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Since leaving the EPA in January, he has been working with clients on land protection and urban revitalization efforts. Eckerd College Theater will present Marisa Wegrzyn's Polar Bears on U.S. 41, a play workshopped at WordBRIDGE 2001, at 8 p.m. Wednesday through April 15 in Bininger Studio Theater. Wegrzyn is a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis. Her play is about a woman with a unique relationship to alphabet soup. Tickets are $3. Call 864-8279 to hold tickets. * * * University of South Florida140 Seventh Ave. S, St. Petersburg 553-3458 Susan MacManus, professor of government at USF, will speak on Young vs. Old: Florida's Developing Intergenerational Conflict at 6 p.m. Monday in the Campus Activities Center. MacManus will compare the needs and issues of Florida's young people with those of senior citizens. This is part of "Ethical Issues in Florida's Future," a lecture series exploring issues confronting Florida in the 21st century. Members of the Florida Death Penalty Moratorium Tour will present a forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Campus Activities Center. Panelists will include tour members Bud Welch, whose daughter was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing; George White, whose conviction for his wife's murder in a store robbery was later overturned; and Bill Pelke, co-founder of The Journey of Hope . . . From Violence to Healing, an organization of families of murder victims who oppose the death penalty. The tour is sponsored by Amnesty International's Special Initiatives Fund and by Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. - 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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