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Speaker Series hosts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday

As concerns for the U.S. environment and economy elevate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a strong voice in the creation of a green economy as a solution. Kennedy will bring his knowledge of the issue to CMU Nov. 19.

Presented by the CMU Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the CMU President's Office and Provost's Office, Kennedy's speech will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Admission to this event is free and open to the public, yet tickets are required and are available through the Central Box Office on the lower level of CMU's Bovee University Center or by calling 3000.

Kennedy's presentation, "Green Gold Rush: A Vision For Energy Independence, Jobs and National Wealth," will focus on the creation of a green economy as an increasingly promising solution to multiple challenges. Read more...

Celebrating the NAACP's 100th year

Paula Giddings, who works to recover the lost voices of silent generations of African-American women, spoke on "Ida B. Wells and the Beginning of the Modern Civil Rights Movement" for the Seventh Annual Campus Diversity Forum last week. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor in Afro-American Studies at Smith College, and she's the author of "Ida: A Sword Among Lions."

Student builds scrap metal T. rex

Sale to benefit charity

CMU senior Robert Lefief has always been able to piece together ideas for artwork in his mind and turn them into something worthwhile. Most recently, his creativity evolved into a 22-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex, which he welded together using thousands of metal scraps.

"I guess you could say Scrappy is a green dinosaur," said Lefief, an engineering major from Caseville. "He originated from 100 percent recycled scrap metal. I used everything from chains, shovels, sheet metal and plow parts to old oil drums to make him what he is today."

Lefief built the T. rex in about a week and a half to help out a friend from his hometown who was looking for something to add to his dinosaur-themed corn maze. Scrappy quickly grew in popularity, and its food dish became a source for people to donate canned goods and cash to benefit a local food pantry. Read more...

Sen. Levin to discuss ethics as inaugural Hart/Milliken speaker

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin will be the inaugural speaker for the Philip A. Hart and William G. Milliken Endowed Speaker Series for Integrity in Politics, which encourages political compromise.

Sen. Levin's speech, "Keeping an Ethical Course In a Political Storm," will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 22 in Moore Hall's Bush Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.

Levin, the choice speaker of former Michigan Gov. Milliken and Sen. Hart's widow, Jane, will encourage interested parties to approach politics in a way that embraces America's diversity of ideas and perspectives, just as Hart and Milliken had. Read more...

ROTC hosts tailgate reunion

Veterans and their family members, CMU ROTC cadets, new military enlistees, and many others came together before the CMU football game on Veterans Day for a tailgate hosted by CMU's ROTC program.

Shown here are, from left, Denise Gallagher, retired secretary from Military Science, and alumni Al Tennant and Dean Roberts, both of the Class of 1955.

A patriotic demonstration by a professional skydiving team kicked off the football game, and 45 new military enlistees were sworn in at halftime.

Go here for a video of the event.

Historian discusses local boarding school

American Indian historian and scholar Brenda J. Child discussed "Ojibwe History and the Mount Pleasant Boarding School" last week as part of Native American Heritage Month events. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, and she wrote "Boarding School Seasons: Americfan Indian Families, 1900-1940," which won the North American Indian Prose Award.

Native American Heritage Month events end Monday with the showing of the documentary "In Whose Honor" at 5 p.m. in the Bovee University Auditorium, followed by discussion of the film.