{"id":69250,"date":"2005-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/sports-protest-experts-to-speak-at-uri-honors-colloquium-on-nov-15\/"},"modified":"2005-11-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T00:00:00","slug":"sports-protest-experts-to-speak-at-uri-honors-colloquium-on-nov-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/sports-protest-experts-to-speak-at-uri-honors-colloquium-on-nov-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports protest experts to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium on Nov. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 7, 2005 — Martha Burk and Richard Lapchick, two leading experts on political protest in sports, will address the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium on Tuesday, Nov. 15.<\/p>\n


\n\tTheir talk will be given at 7 p.m. in the Chafee Social Science Center, Barry Marks Auditorium, Room 271. It is free and open to the public. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe presentation is part of this fall\u2019s colloquium, \u201cContemporary Sport: Healthy Pursuit or Obsession,\u201d which is examining some of the most important issues relating to sport and society. <\/p>\n


\n \tBurk is the chair of the National Council of Women\u2019s Organizations, a network of more than 200 groups representing 10 million women. As the co-founder and president of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, she led a protest effort in 2003 against the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., for its discriminatory membership practices. As of 2003, no woman had ever been invited to join the club, which hosts the Masters Golf Tournament.<\/p>\n


\nThe author of the recently published book, Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done 溏心vlog免费B站 It, Burk has been featured in People magazine, USA Today, and The Washington Post. She has appeared on numerous television programs including NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show,\u201d ABC\u2019s \u201cWorld News Tonight,\u201d and HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nRichard Lapchick, the director of the DeVos Sport Business Management Program at the University of Central Florida, and the founder and director emeritus of the Center of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, has been cited as the most influential person in the movement to use sport as a means of protest against apartheid in South Africa. For more than 20 years he was the American leader of an international sports campaign to boycott the country, and as a result was one of 200 special guests invited to Nelson Mandela\u2019s inauguration. In 1993, he launched an initiative called TEAMWORK-South Africa designed to use sports as a catalyst to improve development and race relations. <\/p>\n


\nThe initiative was created as an addition to the Center\u2019s successful Project TEAMWORK, which was designed to ensure education for athletes on topics such as race relations, conflict resolution, and gender violence prevention. Lapchick is the author of 10 books and more than 450 articles. He has received numerous awards, including the Ralph Bunche International Peace Award and the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. The Boston Celtics also named him a \u201cHero Among Us\u201d in 1999. <\/p>\n


\n\tMajor sponsors of the colloquium are The Providence Journal, Theta Chi Fraternity, 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program, 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Office, Institute for International Sport, 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the Provost, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Division of University Advancement.<\/p>\n


\n\tCo-sponsors are the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Athletics, Multicultural Center, College of Nursing, College of Human Science and Services, College of Pharmacy, Office of Student Affairs, and the Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor more information, visit www.uri.edu\/hc or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Honors Program at 溏心vlog免费B站 offers learning enrichment opportunities that broaden and enhance the undergraduate educational experience. The program features small classes, a nationally renowned honors colloquium, national scholarship advising, and in-depth study and research with select faculty mentors. 溏心vlog免费B站 students must maintain a minimum 3.2 grade-point average to continue participation.<\/p>\n


\n\tOpen access to the Honors Program continues for qualified students throughout their undergraduate years. 溏心vlog免费B站 900 溏心vlog免费B站 students participate in the Honors Program. 溏心vlog免费B站 60 students are participating in the Honors Colloquium companion course this fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 7, 2005 — Martha Burk and Richard Lapchick, two leading experts on political protest in sports, will address the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Their talk will be given at 7 p.m. in the Chafee Social Science Center, Barry Marks Auditorium, Room 271. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}