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Thursday, January 19, 2006 • Page 5
MLK’s mission revisited
Sarah McGlinchev
Copy Editor
Former lieutenant governor of
Colorado Joe Rogers delivered
Elon’s annual Martin Luther King
Jr. Commemorative Address on
Wednesday, Jan. 11.
Speaking before Elon students,
faculty and community members,
Rogers invited the audience to
“travel back in time.” In addition
to his reenactment of a large por
tion of King’s 1963 “I Have a
Dream” speech, Rogers also reen
acted part of King’s final speech,
held in Memphis, TN in 1968.
Rogers spoke of Rosa Parks, the
tragic fire in the 16th St. Church in
Birmingham, AL, King’s assassi
nation, and King’s impact on his
himself and his family,
“The world of segregation is a
world in which, literally, we are
separate,” said Rogers.
At the conclusion of his speech,
Rogers asked audience members,
“Is the dream alive?” A sUdeshow in
remembrance of Parks was shown
as the final piece of the program.
The Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commernoratiye Program is an
annual event at Elon, co-sponsored
by The Office of Multicultural
Affairs, Black Cultural Society and
Student Government Association,
as well as the Truitt Center for
Religious and Spiritual Life,
National Pan-Hellenic Council,
Interfratemity Council and Pan-
Hellenic Council.
The program was a “celebration
of the life and legacy of Martin
Luther King Jr.,” said L’Tanya B.
Richmond, director of the office of
multicultural affairs.
“This is a great cultural event
for the Elon community to attend
because'it brings people together
under one moral ideal: equality,”
said Nuri Abdur-Rauf, president of
BCS. “It’s a way to commemorate
the life of the great Martin Luther
King, Jr.”
“I think students, faculty and
the community can benefit from
this program because it celebrates
the history of a man that defied a
nation,” said Michael Bumbry,
SGA Executive President. “He
made great steps toward freedom,
something Afiican Americans and
other minorities are now able to
appreciate.”
Junior Damon Ogbum, who
introduced Rogers, spoke of him as
a “dynamic and energetic speaker.”
Prior to Rogers’ speech, junior
Alice Turner performed Ethel
Waters’ song, “His Eye Is on the
Sparrow.”
Rogers, who served as
Colorado’s youngest lieutenant
governor from 1999 to 2003, is a
Colorado native. He is an attorney
in Colorado with a law degree
from Arizona State University.
Prior to serving as lieutenant gov
ernor, Rogers served as staff coun
sel for U.S. Senator Hank Brown,
advising on a multitude of issues
including business, transportation
and housing.
Contact Sarah McGlinchey at pen-
dulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
Speaker defines leadership
Timothy Rink
Reporter
Rear Admiral Craig Quigley
(Ret.) spoke about leadership at
Elon University on Monday, Jan. 2
as part of the Leadership Speaker
Series. He gave a lecture in
Whitley Auditorium, which was
followed by a Q&A segment. He
also spoke with several classes and
students.
Quigley served in the Navy for
Tl years and was the top uni
formed spokesperson for the mil
itary during the Sept. 11 attacks.
His speech, ‘Communicating
wi^ the World in Real Time:
Cidsis Leaders^ on 9-U and the
Time Ahea4’ focused on the
immediate government response
to the terrorist attaclts.
The leadership qualities
^ssed wejne courage,^
transparency, honesty, integrity
and conc«p fwthe welte of the
public. He claimed that it was very
important for a leader to be visible,
bat nc^ to oyer promise,
. ib explain his application of
the$e ^gfey shared to
three rules he used for addressing
the press while he worked in the
Pentagon.
“Never let them see you
sweat,” he began. He also stressed
the importance of not losing your
temper because it “might make
you feel good to vent, but you
aren’t proud later when you look at
the tape.”
Finally, he said: “Never guess;
you might get it right, but if you
get it wrong you will never catch
up with yourself because news
travels fast”
He cited the CEO of Johnson &
Johnson dming the Tylenol crisis
of ,1982 as an example of effective
leadership. “He had imperfect
knowledge, and he stepped up to
the podium before he had that
knowledge*’^
He also credited President
Oeorge W. Bush for his response
to 9-11. “I think that was George
Bush’s finest hour ” he said. ‘The
comitry was scared. For what we
knew there were 50 airplanes run-
ning at 50 tareets.”
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