College to Host Diversity Speaker and Educator
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Westminster College will host teacher, lecturer, and diversity trainer Jane Elliott for two sessions Wednesday, March 3. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
"The Anatomy of Prejudice" will be presented at 11:40 a.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center and at 7 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. The lecture will explore the problems of racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and ethnocentrism.
Elliott, who received the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry as an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. Her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise, created in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority.
Elliott's appearance is sponsored by Westminster's Office of Diversity Services, Diversity Symposium, Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, International Cultures Club, Peace Studies Program, Sociology Interest Group, and Student Government Association.
Contact Jeannette Hubbard, Westminster director of diversity services, at (724) 946-7179 or e-mail hubbarj@westminster.edu for more information.
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