Through a variety of interactive, entertaining and educational events, this year’s Cultural Awareness Week, Nov. 4 – 8, will help students appreciate the many cultures at Oakland University.

“Cultural Awareness Week is important because it recognizes, educates and celebrates the diversity of cultures on OU's campus,” said Jean Ann Miller, director of the Center for Student Activities. “OU is more multicultural than it has ever been — reflected in the diversity of students who attend, faculty who teach, and staff who work here.”

The theme of this year’s Cultural Awareness Week is “Lighting the Way.”

“Lighting the Way is closely linked with the unity sun, the image used to promote Cultural Awareness Week 2002,” said Rachel Brown, Cultural Awareness Week co-chair. “Students have the opportunity to create their own bright future and we know OU students are dedicated and determined to do so.”

CULTURAL AWARENESS WEEK SCHEDULE

Monday, November 4

• Diversity Day — 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. — Formal welcome by Glenn McIntosh, dean of students, Fireside Lounge and Oakland Center Hallway

• Storyteller Afi-Tiombe Kambon — Noon–1 p.m. — Fireside Lounge, Oakland Center
   
• The Sounds of Culture: Recital Hour — Noon–1 p.m. — Varner Recital Hall
   
• OU Pan Jumbies — 5–7 p.m. — Vandenberg Dining Center
   
• Hip Hop Around the World, Dance Lessons — 8–9 p.m. — Studio 897, Recreation Center

• The Write Way Translation Contest — 10:30 a.m.–Noon. — Lake Michigan Room, Oakland Center
   
• Lights, Camera, Action! A Modern Languages and Library Production — Noon–1 p.m.
   
• Parlez vous Francais? Dictation Contest for French Students — 4–5 p.m. —Lake Michigan Room, Oakland Center
   
• Movie “Lola Rennt” (Run Lola Run), winner of the Sundance Film Festival — 5–7 p.m. — Fireside Lounge, Oakland Center
   
• A Taste of Culture — 7–9 p.m. — Pioneer Room, Recreation Center

• OU’s View: Faculty, Staff and Student Photo Contest entries due by noon at the Center for Student Activities, 49 Oakland Center. Winners will be announced at the Closing Reception.
   
• Say What? Speech Contest — Noon–1 p.m. — Lake Michigan Room and Lake Superior Room A, Oakland Center
   
• Travel the World in the Oakland Center, Study Abroad Fair — Noon–1:30 p.m. — Fireside Lounge, Oakland Center
   
• Ninth Annual Ambassador Leonard Woodcock China Seminar — 1–5 p.m. —Meadow Brook Hall, RSVP to (248) 370-2154
   
• International Night Café — 7–10 p.m. — Pioneer Food Court, Oakland Center

• Formal Closing and Announcement of Photo Contest Winner — Noon–1 p.m. — Fireside Lounge, Oakland Center