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‘Little Shop of Horrors’ comes to campus Nov. 12 to 15

Little Shop of Horrors, with its man-eating plant Audrey II and toe-tapping music, comes to Penn State Harrisburg’s Olmsted Auditorium for a four-day run November 12 through 15.

Presented by the college’s Capital Players with a cast and crew of 24 undergraduate and graduate students, Little Shop of Horrors takes to the stage at 8 p.m. November 12, 13, and 14 with a 2 p.m. matinee November 15.

‘Lessons learned from launch of blue M&Ms’

Do you like M&Ms? Ever wonder where the blue M&Ms came from?

A free presentation on “Lessons Learned in Launching the Blue M&M,” featuring Steve Vesce, president and chief executive officer of the Hershey Management Group, LLC, comes to the Special Events Room on campus Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 6:15 p.m.

Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia

Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.

Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.

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