Where Will You Be on Monday?

Ah, Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Sleeping in, shopping, skiing. A "day off" to recover from the first grueling weeks of the new year, right?
 
No way.
 
Many people treat MLK Day as a welcome three-day weekend that temporarily dispels the January blahs. But Carnegie Mellon annually puts Dr. King back into Dr. Martin Luther King Day, holding firm to the "a day on, not a day off" national theme for the holiday. Classes are held in the morning, but suspended in the afternoon and evening so students, faculty and staff can attend special programming on campus designed to encourage reflection and thoughtful dialogue on the late civil rights leader's work.

You spent too much money during the holidays and it's been too warm to ski. Trade in those MasterCards and moguls for a celebration of the life and work of a great civil rights leader.

We'll be here on Monday. And we hope you will, too.

Susie Cribbs