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From left, Bill Yoast and Herman Boone
As the spring semester winds down at Mississippi State, the university's Campus Activities Board is sponsoring two public events during April.
On the 10th, the Sgt. Bully's Lonely Hearts Club Jam will include a diverse selection of music 6 p.m.-midnight just off campus on Maxwell Street in the Cotton District residential area. Performances are scheduled by the "Cedar Creek Ramblers," a bluegrass band; the rock group "Inner 61"; "Cover Girls," whose specialty is 1980s tunes; and a disc jockey provided by the MSU Black Student Alliance.
In addition to the CAB and BSA, the jam is sponsored by the Starkville Convention and Visitors Bureau/Greater Starkville Business Development Partnership.
On the 15th, two former Virginia high school coaches who inspired the 2000 movie, "Remember the Titans," will speak in the Colvard Union ballroom. Herman Boone and Bill Yoast will discuss their roles in leading a newly integrated Alexandria high school football team in the early 1970s to overcome deep-seated racial distrusts and become a model for other schools and municipalities.
The program will begin at 6 p.m. with a screening of the 113-minute film. Boone and Yoast then will speak and take questions from the audience.
Movie trivia: Actors Denzel Washington and Will Patton portrayed the two men in the Disney production that drew critical praise from both movie critics and film goers. Its $20.9 million opening kept September 2000 from being one of the worst months ever for movies in the United States. Rather than Virginia, however, producers chose to film the scenes in Georgia.
For more information, telephone Kelly Nesbit at (662) 325-2930.