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The University has set aside three hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 17, for a University-wide observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. All classes between those three hours will be canceled. A wide variety of activities and events related to Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy, presented by different schools and campus organizations, are scheduled during the University's observance. On the Evanston campus, the Jan. 17 program begins at 11 a.m. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The program features world-renowned baritone and Northwestern voice faculty member William Warfield, Pulitzer Prize winning poet laureate of Illinois Gwendolyn Brooks and civil rights attorney Eva Jefferson Paterson.