
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 7, 1991                   TAG: 9104070141
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: RADFORD                                LENGTH: Short

UNIVERSITY BEGINS HONORS WEEK SYMPOSIUM

Radford University's first Honors Week Symposium kicks off Monday evening when Alfred Kazin, a distinguished professor at the City University Graduate Center in New York, speaks on "A Brief History of Nature in America."

The theme for the week is "Environmental Sanity."

Justin Askins, an English professor helping to direct the symposium, said the university hopes to make it an annual event.

Kazin, a critic, has written several books including "On Native Grounds" and "A Walker in the City."

The speech will take place at 8 p.m. in the Heth Ballroom. There will be a small admissions charge for the general public. The event is free for Radford students and staff.

On Tuesday, there will be readings by Radford and Virginia Tech faculty in the Flossie Martin Art Gallery. The event, scheduled for 8 p.m., also is free.

A panel on Virginia rivers will meet Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Heth Ballroom.

On Friday at 8 p.m., Marilou Awiakta, a Cherokee poet, will give a speech and a reading on "Mother Earth and New Tribes: Partners for Survival." The event is free and will take place in the Heth Ballroom.

The week wraps up on Saturday when Stewart Udall, former U.S. secretary of the interior, speaks in Preston Hall at 8 p.m.

His chief work was "The Quiet Crisis."

There will be a small charge for that event.

by CNB