The Marketplace will be celebrating Open Day with a baseball game themed menu on Monday, April 4. Hot dogs, pretzels and chili cheese fries will be available for $7.90.
Students for Life at Eastern Michigan University will be giving a Spanish language seminar on abortion in Halle Library, room G03, March 3. Para Que Sepamos, or So We Can Know, starts at noon. This is free and LBC approved.
The Women’s Resource Center will be playing the documentary “No!” in Halle Library, room G03, at 7:00 p.m. According to the WRC’s EMU page, this 2009 documentary “takes an in depth look at the survivors of sexual violence, specifically in African American communities.” According to the home page of the documentary’s web site, its creator “has been on the international road raising awareness about rape, sexual assault and other forms of violence against women; and the critical non-negotiable need to end it.” This is free and LBC approved.
EMU’s softball team will be playing a double header against the University of Toledo, Tuesday, April 5. The first game starts at 1:00 p.m. and the following game will begin a half hour after the first. Both games are free to attend.
Claudia Rankine will be reading her works at Eastern’s Creative Writing Bathhouse event, Tuesday, at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Center Auditorium. This is free and LBC approved.
National Walking Day is Wednesday, April 6. Eastern is going to have a kickoff event at the eagle in front of the Student Center at noon. According to the EMU calendar, the first 140 students to show up will get a prize.
The city of Ypsilanti is nearly 200 years old and settlements started there long before that. Ypsi historian Matt Siegfried will be using his walking tour to educate students on “the dynamics of power, class, race and gender in Ypsilanti’s landscapes,” according to the EMU calendar. The walk is free and LBC approved, but interested students must register in advance with the Community Conversations Walking Tour on docs.google.com. For questions, contact Becca Timmermans at rtimmer1@emich.edu.
Julie Stone will be performing a flute recital in the Alexander Music Building, Wednesday, April 6, at 6:00 p.m. This is free and LBC approved.
In the 1970s, Civil Rights icon Cesar Chavez led a movement against the exploitation of farm workers in California’s central valley against corporate farms. Through a series of marches, hunger strikes and boycott initiatives, he helped create the National Farm Workers Association, which later became United Farm Workers. Eastern will be celebrating Chavez with a luncheon in the McKenny Ballroom, Thursday, April 7, at 12:00 noon. It is $10 a plate and according to the EMU calendar, proceeds go to scholarships.
Robert Peavler is going to be performing Voice Studio in the Alexander Music Building, Thursday. It starts at 7:30 p.m. This event is free and LBC approved.