Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 31, displays will be up in buildings across campus promoting the theme of this year's celebration: activism.

Also on Wednesday, an exhibit on jazz history will open in the Oviatt Library's Presentation Room.

A reception featuring a jazz band and a speech by Tom Spencer-Walters, chair of CSUN's Pan-African Studies Department, will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the library's Presentation Room on Thursday, Nov. 1.

Friday's main event will be a surprise. Flyers will be circulated on campus that day with the details.

As part of the grand finale on Monday, Nov. 5., vendors, performers and musicians will come together from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Matador Bookstore Complex and next to the Faculty Office Building. Among the guests scheduled to appear is singer, actress and activist Cee Cee Michaela.

At dusk later that day, a candlelight vigil honoring student activists who helped to bring Pan-African Studies to CSUN will be held at the Black House, home of the Black Student Union, on campus at 18348 Halsted St. near Etiwanda Avenue.

CSUN's Pan-African Studies Department was founded in November 1969.

Next month's celebration, coordinated by Pan-African Studies professor Barbara Rhodes, is co-sponsored by CSUN's Pan-African Studies Department, faculty and staff, and other campus organizations, including the Black Student Union, the Pan-African Council, the Black Business Association, the Black Pre-Health Club and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

For more information, contact Camille Hill or LaSonya Stewart at (818) 677-3910, (818) 882-3613 or (818) 720-8989.

California State University, Northridge has more than 30,000 full- and part-time students and offers 63 bachelor's and 51 master's degrees. Founded in 1958, it is the only four-year university in the San Fernando Valley and the third largest in the 23-campus CSU system. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges recently said CSUN "stands as a model to other public urban institutions of higher education."