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What's up on campus?By CATHERINE CUSHING © St. Petersburg Times, published April 15, 2001 University of South Florida 140 Seventh Ave. S St. Petersburg 553-3458 Marvin Berkowitz, Sanford McDonnell Professor of Character Education at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, will speak on Character Education: Making Students into Citizens at 6 p.m. Monday in the Campus Activities Center. This is the last lecture of "Ethical Issues in Florida's Future," a series exploring issues confronting Florida in the 21st century. Eckerd College 4200 54th Ave. S St. Petersburg 864-8297 Richard E. Lapchick, executive director of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports and the director and founder of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society, will speak on Bridging the Racial Divide: The Role Students Can Play at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Dendy-McNair Auditorium. For more than 20 years, Lapchick was the American leader of the international campaign to boycott South Africa in sports, and in 1993 his Center for the Study of Sport in Society launched a program designed to use sports to help improve race relations and help with sports development in post-apartheid South Africa. Eckerd Senior College will host Spring Safari: Adventures in Learning, an open house, from 1-4 p.m. Wednesday in the Continuing Education Conference Center. Senior College offers a variety of classes and educational day trips to students age 50 and older. Subjects include the arts, political science, computers and the Internet, philosophy, history and science. Call 864-7600 for information. Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, will speak on Direct Action Environmentalism at 7 p.m. Thursday in Dendy-McNair Auditorium. St. Petersburg Junior College 6605 Fifth Ave. N St. Petersburg The SPJC Concert Chorus and Madrigalians will present 2001: A Voice Odyssey at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. The program will feature contemporary choral music by local and visiting members of the Tampa Bay Composers Forum. Admission is $8, $4 for seniors and students. Call 341-4678 for information. - 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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