As the campus community gathered Tuesday night at Memorial Tower to illuminate the University’s Christmas tree, another wintry holiday was also being celebrated.
Students and faculty partook in a cultural experience via the Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration hosted by the University’s African-American Cultural Center.
LaKeitha Poole, graduate assistant of African-American student affairs, said the event serves to provide an opportunity for minority students to participate in a campus celebration.
The program consisted of an invocation, the history of Kwanzaa, a guest speaker, a presentation of the seven principles of Kwanzaa and a performance by the University’s gospel choir.
Cassandra Chaney, assistant professor of the School of Human Ecology and keynote speaker, said the seven principles of Kwanzaa — unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith — are “a recipe for better