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Campus Briefs: Emergency sirens to be tested today
Issue date: 2/3/09 Section: News
Eastern and the Coles County Emergency Management Agency will test their emergency sirens at 10 a.m. today. The singular, continuous tone would be used to notify the community about severe weather conditions in the immediate area.
At 10:30 a.m, the university will test the pulse-tone siren, which would be used to alert the university about potentially dangerous non-weather related threats.
Outside of monthly testing, the students, faculty and staff should check their Eastern e-mail or visit Eastern's homepage for information on the emergency.
Professor to present at exhibition opening
Robert Petersen, associate professor of art, will present "Kente in Context," the keynote address for the national traveling exhibition "Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African-American Identity."
The opening program for the exhibit begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Booth Library's West Reading Room. The exhibition will be on display through March 10.
Admission is free and open to the public.
"Wrapped in Pride" examines the art and symbolism of kente cloth in Ghana and the expression of identity in African-American communities.
- Compiled by News Editor Matt Hopf
At 10:30 a.m, the university will test the pulse-tone siren, which would be used to alert the university about potentially dangerous non-weather related threats.
Outside of monthly testing, the students, faculty and staff should check their Eastern e-mail or visit Eastern's homepage for information on the emergency.
Professor to present at exhibition opening
Robert Petersen, associate professor of art, will present "Kente in Context," the keynote address for the national traveling exhibition "Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African-American Identity."
The opening program for the exhibit begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Booth Library's West Reading Room. The exhibition will be on display through March 10.
Admission is free and open to the public.
"Wrapped in Pride" examines the art and symbolism of kente cloth in Ghana and the expression of identity in African-American communities.
- Compiled by News Editor Matt Hopf
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