Walking contest

Staff, faculty, students and their family members can enter the Spring In To Step walking contest. Participants will clip on a pedometer to track the number of steps they take each day -- including to classes and at work -- or to record 1,500 steps for every 20 minutes of walking. Prizes will be awarded to the individual and to the four-person team with the most steps taken during April. Click to register.

Holy Week and other services

The Cornell Catholic Community, Episcopal Church at Cornell and the Protestant Cooperative Ministry (PCM) -- supported by the Presbyterian Church, USA; the United Methodist Church; the United Church of Christ/Congregational; and the American Baptist Church, USA -- will hold a joint Good Friday service April 2 at 5 p.m., Sage Chapel. The Cornell Catholic Community will hold an additional Good Friday service at 8 p.m., Sage Chapel.

On April 3, an Easter Vigil will be held by the Cornell Catholic Community at 8 p.m., Sage Chapel, and by the Episcopal Church at Cornell at 10 p.m., the Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall (ATH).

April 4 Easter Sunday services will be held at 11 a.m.: PCM (an offering will be taken for GHESKIO Clinic, Haiti), Sage Chapel; Cornell Catholic Community, Bailey Hall; Korean Church at Cornell (English), One World Room, ATH.

Additional April 4 services include Korean Church at Cornell, 1 p.m., ATH Auditorium; Episcopal Church at Cornell, 5 p.m., Sage Chapel; and Hillel Passover Services, 7 p.m., Edwards Room, ATH.

Cinema's late spring series

Cornell Cinema explores the complex realities underlying the new Europe through a series of films at Willard Straight Theatre, beginning with "Lorna's Silence," by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Shown April 2 at 9:30 p.m., the film depicts an Albanian immigrant driven to extremes by the harsh materialism of the new modern economy. Other films in the series include "Storm," "The Girl on the Train," "Import Export" and "Home."

Cornell Cinema also presents a series of restored or revived classics, with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" beginning April 5 at 7 p.m., followed by Margot Benacerraf's "Araya," Jean-Pierre Melville's "Leon Morin, Priest," Susan Sontag's "Promised Lands" and Francois Truffaut's "Mississippi Mermaid."

The Ithaca premier of "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers," will show April 1 and 3 at 7:15 p.m. and April 5 at 9 p.m. Ellsberg is a former Marine, Pentagon employee and military analyst who gave 7,000 pages of top-secret information to the media in 1971, changing the course of the Vietnam War.

Information and admission fees: http://cinema.cornell.edu.

Dino EGGstravaganza

An egg hunt will be held April 3, 11 a.m.-noon, at the Museum of the Earth, along with egg races, "eggsperiments" and other "eggcellent" events, noon-1 p.m. (Hunts for the littlest dino egg hunters will be separate from older hunters.) Admission: $0-$8. Information: http://www.museumoftheearth.org.

SALSASON Latin dance party

This Haiti Solidarity Benefit, April 3, Big Red Barn, opens with a Latin dance lesson at 8:45 p.m., followed by a Latin Dance Party 9:45 p.m.-1 a.m. (admission charged). Donations for Haiti and volunteers for a Haiti medical supply collection are sought. Information: http://palantetroupe.org/haiti.html.

Former Brazil president to lecture

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, 1995-2002, and Cornell's Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels 2010 World Affairs fellow, will present "Beyond the Global Financial Crisis: Politics, Economics and Culture," April 7 at 4:30 p.m., Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. A member of the Clinton Global Initiative and the United Nations Foundation, Cardoso has written numerous works on globalization, social transformation, development and foreign affairs. Information: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/.

Emerging Artist Series concert

The Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series presents three groups in a free concert April 5 at 7 p.m., Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room: Dendé and Hahahaes, a New York City-based band that performs a mix of Brazilian and Cuban music; the Cornell percussion group Palenté; and the Sabor Latino dance group. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Diversity trainer delivers MLK lecture

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Elliott created the innovative "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise to help people better understand the experience of prejudice -- how they might be labeled as inferior or superior based on the color of their eyes. Now a teacher, lecturer and diversity trainer, Elliott has since spent much of her life exposing the roots of bigotry. She will present the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, "The Anatomy of Prejudice," April 5 at 7 p.m., Sage Chapel.

Lecture assesses urban agenda

Amy Liu, deputy director and co-founder of the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, speaks on "The Obama Administration and the New Urban Agenda," April 8 at 4:30 p.m., 233 Plant Science. Her program produces trend analysis, research and policy ideas that advance the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitan areas. Liu also serves as a co-author of various Brookings publications. Sponsored by Cornell Institute for Public Affairs Spring 2010 Colloquium Series. Information: http://www.cipa.cornell.edu.

Speaker addresses U.S.-China relations

Thomas J. Christensen, professor of politics and international affairs and director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University, will present "Challenges and Opportunities in U.S.-China Relations," April 8 at 4:30 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building. Information: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/.

Philosopher Glissant redefines 'relation'

Two April 8 events will feature Edouard Glissant, a philosopher, poet and literary critic whose work and thinking laid the foundation for emerging studies of multiculturalism, identity politics, minority literature and Black Atlanticism.

At 4:30 p.m. at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Glissant and documentary filmmaker Manthia Diawara will respond to a panel discussion that will be moderated by Africana Center Director Salah Hassan and will feature Gerard Aching, Romance studies; Jonathan Culler, English and comparative literature; Natalie Melas and Jonathan Monroe, comparative literature; and English Ph.D. candidates Anthony Reed and Natalie Leger Palmer.

The panel will be followed by Diawara's film, "One World in Relation," at 7:15 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre, in which Glissant elaborates on his theory of relation. Information: http://asrc.cornell.edu.

Exploring careers in social justice

As part of ILR's "Union Days," the 13th Annual Social Justice Career Fair will be held April 8, 1-4 p.m., second floor lobbies, Ives Hall, bringing representatives from labor unions and other advocacy organizations to campus to speak with students. Information: http://author.ilr.cornell.edu/careerservices/.

A library birthday party

Mann and Olin libraries will host birthday celebrations on Thursday, April 8, at 3 p.m. to recognize 10 years of the library's chat reference service. (The Mann celebration will be held in the Mann lobby; the Olin party will be held in Libe Café.) All are invited to have birthday cake, learn about the service and enter a raffle to win a gift certificate to the Cornell Store.

The library started its real-time online reference service 10 years ago, long before almost any other academic library, and it's still on the cutting edge of chat service. Information: http://www.library.cornell.edu/ask/chatbirthday.

Creative Writing reading

As part of the Spring 2010 Creative Writing Reading Series, poet Paul Muldoon will give the Eamon McEneaney Memorial Poetry Reading, April 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

Muldoon is a professor at Princeton University and poetry editor of the New Yorker Magazine. He has published 11 collections of poetry and won numerous literary awards.

Art museum reception

The opening reception for spring exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, April 9, 5-7 p.m., highlights 500 years of Chinese painting, exploring depictions of the natural world in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and the work of Michael Ashkin, director of graduate studies, Department of Art, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, whose solo exhibition includes photographic work, writings, video and a major topographical installation made from recycled cardboard. Also featured: the annual exhibition curated by the History of Art Majors' Society, presenting iconic as well as strange representations of the human figure. Live music, refreshments and art activities. Student curators will give a gallery talk at 4:30 p.m. Information: http://museum.cornell.edu/.