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Betsy Hildebrand
Director of Public Relations
75 College Avenue
Greenville, PA 16125
Phone: 724-589-2855
FAX: 724-589-2856
bhildebrand@thiel.edu
1-800-24-THIEL
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Press Release
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CREATOR OF BLUE EYES/BROWN EYES EXPERIMENT
TO SPEAK AT THIEL
For immediate release September 12, 2005
 GREENVILLE, PA - Jane Elliott, the originator of the Blue Eyes/Brown
Eyes discrimination experiment of 1968, will be a guest lecturer at Thiel College at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Lutheran
Heritage Room of the Howard Miller Student Center.
Elliott's lecture, part of the Thiel's First-Year Perspectives Program, is free and open to the public.
The controversial Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise - in which participants were labeled inferior or superior based
on the color of their eyes - began in Elliott's third grade classroom in the all-white, all-Christian town of Riceville,
Iowa, immediately following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elliott and the results of her exercise have been featured in a number of documentary films, including "A Class
Divided," a staple on many PBS channels, in high schools and in college courses.
For more information, please contact Marianne Calenda at 724-589-2028. |
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