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News briefs, March 6

The Snow Health Center will be having flu vaccinations and TB screenings from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Monday, March 7. This will be free.

The EMU Philosopher Speaker’s Series will be discussing The Genuine Liberation of Non-Human Animals, Monday, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. A guest from WCC, philosophy professor Corinne M. Painter, PhD, will host this discussion. According to the event’s Facebook page, this will be a lecture about Painter’s paper on the subject, which is an interpretation of Marxism as it applies to animals. Attendance is free and the event is LBC approved.

Your Voice, Your Vote is a fact-gathering lecture on the process of registering to vote for the 2016 election. This will be in the Lake House from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Monday. The event will also be offering free information about the different candidates and their positions.

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s Bass Quintet will be playing at Pease Auditorium, Monday. This free concert starts at 8:00 p.m.

Guest speaker Manisha Desai will be visiting Halle Library’s Carillon at noon, Tuesday, March 8, to speak on a panel about feminism. The topic will be “transitional feminism and CEDAW: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.” CEDAW is a UN Convention, passed in 2008. It created a Geneva-based committee of 23 members to work for the ending of gender-based discrimination around the world. This is free and LBC approved.

The sixth event of the 2015-2016 Equality Knowledge Project Speaker’s Series will be a discussion on what it means to be an LGBT service member in the five years since the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell policy ended in 2011. This will be at the Student Center 310 A, Tuesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. It will feature Courtney Cavines, from the University of California at Davis, as a guest speaker. The discussion will be free and LBC approved.

The Chamber Winds Concert will start in Pease Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. According to the EMU calendar, this will be “featuring Woody Chenoweth on the saxophone, performing Witney Prince’s ‘Chiaroscoro.’” Faculty will also be performing the Mozart Serenade in C-Minor. This concert is free and LBC approved.

Start by Believing is a public awareness event that will be taking place in the Student Center, Room 350, Wednesday, March 9. This is for the public’s awareness on sexual assault and will feature members of the Special Victims Unit of the Department of Public Safety. This will be from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. the event is free and open to the public.

The Poetry Society, Dancers of David and Sigma Delta Tau will be hosting Open Mic Night at 6:00 p.m., Wednesday. This will be at the Student Center's Food Court Stage. Anyone can show up for music, poetry, dancing and standup comedy.

The Language That Separates Us is “an interactive discussion” about how language shapes the way people perceive each other. It is an exploration, with EMU's T. Daniel Seely, PhD, of how different languages and dialects form preconceptions about people. This will be in the Halle Library’s auditorium, Thursday, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This is free and LBC approved.

The EMU Gymnastics team will be hosting both Central Michigan and South East Missouri State at the Convocation Center, Thursday, March 10. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.