3/26/01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Martha Reineke, chair, UNI Hearst Lecture Series Committee, (319) 273-6233

Vicki Grimes, University Marketing & Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

Extenuating circumstances force cancellation of Tuesday, March 27, Hearst Lecture at UNI

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- A Hearst Lecture by Michael Eric Dyson, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the University of Northern Iowa's Maucker Union Expansion, has been cancelled, due to extenuating circumstances. Dyson was scheduled to speak on "African-American Religion and Culture in the Twenty-First Century."

It is expected the lecture will be rescheduled for a later date.

###