A powerful position can have its pitfalls, which Colin Powell learned as the first African American to serve as Secretary of State. This was the story told in the play “The Agony of Colin Powell,” starring Lavelle Wilson, Friday and Saturday in Dailey Theatre.

Campus and community arts events for the week of April 20, 2012.

Campus and community arts events for the week of April 13, 2012.

Campus and community arts events for the week of April 6, 2012.

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 20, 2012.

Jazz musician and writer Gilad Atzmon played an energetic and exciting concert in Tuesday night’s performance in Morgan Auditorium.

Bill Cook, professor of English, discussed the research he gathered about the works of American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, and how Hawthorne contributed to the creation of the American short story, during his faculty lecture on Monday.

Bill Cook, professor of English, and Moroccan Fulbright scholar Sawsan Hussein teamed up to explain the current and historical aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by describing it from political and humanistic angles.

Campus and community events for the week of Sept. 30, 2011.

Introduced as a “local radical,” William Cook, professor of English, presented his lecture, “Light from the Darkness: ‘Top Secret’ files from the Bowels of Rhodes House,” Monday in the President’s Dining Room.