Campus News in Brief

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

An Evening of Reflection will be observed on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 5 p.m. in Dewberry Hall.

The evening will include a reception with refreshments, a keynote address by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, a child leader of the Civil Rights Movement and the present president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the awarding of the Spirit of King Awards for one faculty member and one student who have made contributions to the development of a multicultural campus through their teaching, research or leadership.

Alana Melanie Williams Scholarship

A scholarship fund has been dedicated to the life of Alana Melanie Williams, a late George Mason University student killed in an automobile accident on Nov. 23, 2008.

On Jan. 26, 2009 the Andrews Osborne Academy in Willoughby, Ohio, the high school at which Williams excelled in basketball, will be holding a tribute and scholarship fundraiser, the Melanie Williams Memorial Basketball game.

Fall Buy Back Numbers Reported Strong

Last fall, a total of 634 textbooks were collected for Books for Africa through Better World Books. Tables were located at Patriot Corner, Southside and Eisenhower Hall, and the project was jointly overseen by the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement and the George Mason University Bookstore.

Better World Books is an organization that helps reuse books through a variety of methods. Books collected through their drives may be resold when possible or donated to schools in Africa.

Any proceeds from the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement’s textbook drive will go to school in Africa, as well as help fund students’ service trips for Alternative Breaks, which focus on issues such as Conservation, Habitat for Humanity and according to Sustainability Projects Manager Dan Waxman, “much more.”

Better World Books began with three college friends who formed a social venture to promote literacy.
They began with one textbook drive at a single university. Mason is one of 1,800 colleges and universities who has since partnered with Better World Books to improve the quality of life through literacy worldwide.

For more information about Better World Books: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/

For more information about CLCE: http://clce.gmu.edu/