Student-Athlete Roundtable
Join Wiley Cash and several student-athletes for a robust discussion about the pressures and expectations of life as a student-athlete at UNC-Asheville. You might know these young people from the classroom, the court, or the community, but you might not know the full complexity of their lives and the responsibilities and challenges they face every day.
Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7:00 p.m.
OLLI Reuter Center, Manheimer Room 102
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Dr. Adam Rothman, Professor of History, Georgetown University
Dr. Rothman is the director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies and co-editor of the recent book Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which details the university’s history of enslavement and its recent efforts to confront its past. In his autobiography, Coach John Thompson writes about Georgetown’s slaveholding legacy, especially the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1883 that was made to save the financially struggling university. Aside from tracing the descendants of the 272 individuals, Dr. Rothman’s research explores how institutions and communities confront their shameful pasts.
Thursday, Oct. 26 at 7:00 p.m.
OLLI Reuter Center, Manheimer Room 102
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An Evening with NBA All-Star and Georgetown Hoya Eric “Sleepy” Floyd
Join Wiley Cash for a conversation with Eric “Sleepy” Floyd, a man who Coach John Thompson wrote about as being “such a phenomenal scorer, if he missed shots, he thought it was the rims and not him.” Cash and Floyd will discuss what it was like to play under Coach John Thompson as the Georgetown basketball was on the rise, what it was like to face hometown rival James Worthy and UNC in the National Championship in 1982, and what Coach Thompson’s mentorship meant to him both during and after his fourteen-year NBA career.
Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:00 p.m.
OLLI Reuter Center, Manheimer Room 102
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