Leyden and Army Col. Wanda E. Rogers Wilson are among six new keynoters added to the schedule for the weeklong campus/community festival Sept. 22-27.

The others are African-American culture anthropologist Glenn D. Hinson, former Waldorf School teacher and author Jack Petrash, mass media/social change expert Andrew Moemeka and prizewinning Chinese architect Yung Ho Chang.

A variety of noted scholars, innovators and leaders will be featured in more than 300 lectures, seminars, performances, demonstrations and exhibits on the Ball State campus and in the city of Muncie during UniverCity 2002.

With the theme "Celebrate Community," the festival will explore cooperation, collaboration and connection in society.

Other keynoters include actor Danny Glover, former astronaut Sally Ride, TV journalist Linda Ellerbee, racial issues scholar Cornel West, tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand and science fiction author Catherine Asaro.

A full schedule of events for the week is available online at www.bsu.edu/univercity.

Background on the latest confirmed speakers:

• Tom "TJ" Leyden was a leading recruiter and activist in the neo-Nazi white supremacist movement for 15 years but has turned away from hate to teach tolerance. Today he is one of the nation's most compelling advocates for the importance of diversity and cultural appreciation. He has spoken to more than 650,000 students and has testified in hate crime trials.
• Col. Wanda E. Rogers Wilson is one of the Army's highest ranking African-American female officers and a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. She is chief of staff for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky., and previously commanded the 3rd Recruiting Brigade in the Midwest. Her numerous awards include the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medal.
• Glenn D. Hinson is a University of North Carolina anthropologist whose research focuses on musical, poetic and belief systems in African-American communities. He is the author of "Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel" and has done work for the Smithsonian Institution and National Endowment for the Arts.
• Jack Petrash is a former Waldorf School teacher and the founder and director of the Nova Institute, working with parents and teachers to promote a deeper understanding of children. He advocates Waldorf education and wrote "Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering From the Game of Baseball," which received the National Parenting Publications' Gold Award.
• Andrew Moemeka is an award-winning teacher and researcher in mass media, communication and social change and the author of "Development Communication in Action: Building Understanding and Creating Participation." He has chaired the Nigerian National Mass Communication Policy Experts Committee and is on the faculty of Central Connecticut State University.
• Yung Ho Chang is principal architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, the only studio practice in Beijing, China, and has won a number of prizes in international design competitions. A Ball State alumnus, Chang is professor and head of Peking University's Graduate Center of Architecture and has taught at various architecture schools in the United States.

(NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information on this story, contact Lorraine Sinclair at (765) 285-3546 or univercity@bsu.edu. For more on UniverCity 2002, visit www.bsu.edu/univercity.)