Speakers, live performances, and a film festival are planned for the month-long program that will give students an opportunity to study a single course intensively on campus, take a travel course, or have an internship.
All events are open to the public and most are free of charge.
A total of 1,476 students have enrolled in May Term '99. The program will consist of short skits and improvisational comedy that also will involve audience participation. Guest speakers will include lawyer and environmentalist Jan Schlichtmann and ecologist, environmental activist, and poet Sandra Steingraber '81. Ill. She also will share with the audience her latest research findings on ecology in relation to pregnancy and childbirth. Her first book, Post-Diagnosis , is a volume of poetry dealing with her fight against cancer.