Campus Forum to Discuss Effigy Incident

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 29, 2008) − The UK Interfaith Dialog Organization and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Cultural Center will jointly sponsor a campus forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Memorial Hall to address issues and concerns that have arisen because of the effigy incident this morning. Student, community and university leaders will be on hand to underscore UK’s core values of diversity and inclusion, and to reiterate the community’s commitment to civil discourse and mutual respect under all circumstances, and in the face of political disagreement in particular. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
 
Program participants will include Mehmet Saracoglu, President UK Interfaith Dialog Organization; Mayor Jim Newberry; President Lee Todd; Tyler Montell, President, UK Student Government; Reverend Thomas Howard Peoples from Historic Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church and others.
 
[Free parking will be available in the Limestone Parking Garage next to Kennedy Book Store - entrances are on Limestone and Upper streets.]