Wednesday, January 12 Classes begin for the spring semester. Contact the Registrar's Office at 656-2171. The university's annual Martin Luther King Commemorative March will begin at 5 p.m. at Tillman Hall and proceed to the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, where poster, essay and oratorical awards will be presented to local school children and a keynote address will be delivered by actor, author and activist Ossie Davis . 3 p.m. Kreml is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. Contact the Thurmond Institute at 656-4700.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Admission is free and open to the public. Admission is free and open to the public. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform in the Brooks Theatre at 8 p.m. Ticket information is available from the Brooks Center box office at 656-7787. For background on the band, which has preserved the traditional New Orleans sound for more than 50 years, call Mickey Harder at 656-3043. Saturday, January 22 The first session of the South Carolina Botanical Garden's Winter Lecture Series gets under way at 10 a.m. in the Self Auditorium of the Strom Thurmond Institute building.