Kumler Chapel was the setting this fall for a series of lectures on Freedom Summer '64/Civil Rights and Social Justice. Sponsored by the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program), it featured Chude Allen, a poet and Freedom Summer volunteer; and MU professors Rick Momeyer (philosophy), Rodney Coates (sociology), John Cinnamon (anthropology), and Tammy Kernodle (music). The weekend before classes started, all Western students read and discussed Letters from Mississippi (personal reports from civil rights volunteers, edited by Elizabeth Martinez, published in 2002), viewed a special civil rights exhibit at the Miami University Art Museum, and wrote essays on freedom. The academic year will be rounded out -- for Western alums -- with Reunion 2006 (June 16-18). Returning alums will be asked to read Letters from Mississippi in preparation for a book discussion, just one of the weekend's activities.