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‘Frozen’ movie review Page 5 Men’s soccer coach leaves program Page 7 THURSDAY / 01.23.2014 EAST TENESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER Employee contracts meningitis SGA forgoes Culp Center renovation University celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. ETSU... More

‘Frozen’ movie review Page 5 Men’s soccer coach leaves program Page 7 THURSDAY / 01.23.2014 EAST TENESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER Employee contracts meningitis SGA forgoes Culp Center renovation University celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. ETSU president returns The East Tennessee State University Office of Multicultural Affairs celebrated the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Tuesday with a reading of King’s “I have a dream”speech and a talk given by one of the university’s first African-American students. Tracy Haynes, a resident of Elizabethton, recited King’s speech, and George Nichols spoke about the experience of being one of the first AfricanAmerican students at ETSU. Nichols started his speech by enlightening the audience about what Johnson City was like when it was segregated. He described the madness of segregation and the hardships that many African Americans faced in East Tennessee. Nichols spoke on the isolation and subtle, but not outright, racism tha Less