LECTURE SERIES OPENS TODAY WITH FILIPINO-AMERICAN AUTHOR BINO REALUYO

Filipino-American novelist Bino Realuyo will open the 2000 Manuel Viray Filipino-American Studies Lecture Series with a discussion of writing and ethnicity from 4-5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2, in the Burgess Room of the Batten Arts and Letters Building.

Realuyo was featured on a recent cover of Filipinas magazine and his first novel on the Philippines, "Umbrella Country" (1999) was named by Booklist as one of the 10 best novels of that year.

For more information, call 683-3929.