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Events continue during gala week

Thursday, March 29, 2007

There’s still a lot of inauguration week left before Michael Lane is formally installed as president of Emporia State University. Here are some of the events still ahead:

• From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight, a Business After Hours will be held at the Sauder Alumni Center.

• On Friday, a student parade down Commercial Street will be held at noon. Following that, a student involvement fair will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Kellogg Circle, with entertainment, activities and several of ESU’s student groups and organizations.

• A free gala concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Albert Taylor Hall, with a reception afterward in the Plumb Hall rotunda. The performance is by ESU’s jazz ensemble, wind ensemble, orchestra and a cappella choir.

• On Saturday, a continental breakfast will be held from 8 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. in the ESU Memorial Union’s “Main Street.” Campus tours will be given from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., beginning at Main Street.

• The Kansas Business Hall of Fame and the Sherrer Leadership Room, in Cremer Hall rooms 205 and 206, will be open from 9 a.m. until noon.

• A processional to Albert Taylor Hall in academic robes will begin at 1:40 p.m. The inauguration ceremony will run from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. in Albert Taylor Hall. A public reception will be held afterward from 3:30 p.m. until about 6 p.m. in Webb Lecture Hall and the Colonial Ballroom at the ESU Memorial Union.

Comments

midnight_rider (anonymous) says...

What a joke. ESU has no money, but them seem to be able to pay for a week-long "party." I think if Lane really cared about the education of the students and the finances of ESU , he would have just settled for a simple ceremony.

March 30, 2007 at 8:05 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Emporia_Proud (anonymous) says...

What is your problem? Just SHUT UP! YOU JACK ASS!!

March 30, 2007 at 11:52 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

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