[077] Students Pay Tribute to 9/9/09 With Food, Film, Festivities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 4, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

STUDENTS PAY TRIBUTE TO 9/9/09 WITH FOOD, FILM, FESTIVITIES
Intercultural and Diversity Affairs Plays the Numbers Just for the Fun of It

(MURFREESBORO) – There are nine innings in a regulation Major League Baseball game. A cat has nine lives. A human pregnancy lasts about nine months. The film version of the Broadway musical “Nine” is slated for release later this year. And MTSU’s Office of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs (IDA) will mark the ninth day of the ninth month of 2009 with a campus-wide celebration on Sept. 9, 2009. Faculty from the Department of History will mark the occasion by sharing historical events that occurred on Sept. 9 with students in their classes. In honor of all students who were born on Sept. 9, IDA will present a huge birthday cake at noon in the Keathley University Center (KUC) courtyard in honor of all students who were born on Sept. 9. The comedy movie “Waterboy,” starring Sept. 9 birthday boy Adam Sandler, will be presented at midnight in the KUC Theater. Another celebrity born on Sept. 9, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harland “Colonel” Sanders, will be seen strolling around the campus. Since the Colonel passed away in 1980, a gifted impersonator, “Colonel” Bob Thompson, former mayor of Lawrenceburg, Ky., will assume Sanders’ identity. All events are free and open. For more information, contact Vincent Windrow, director of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs, at 615-898-2831 or vwindrow@mtsu.edu.