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Mongolian poet to give reading at IU\nLuvsandamba Dashnyam, a Mongolian poet and scholar, will give a poetry reading at 4 p.m., today at Woodburn Hall, Room 205. Dashnyam is the president of the Mongolian Knowledge University and of the Academy of Humanities. He was one of the ideological leaders of the pro-democracy movement which brought about a peaceful revolution in Mongolia in 1990, worked as vice speaker of parliament from 1990-1992, and in 2001 ran for the presidency as the Civil Will party candidate. He has published more than 30 books of poetry, fiction and scholarship, most recently Hero Yesugei, published in 2003, about Genghis Khan's father. He is participating courtesy of the William B. Quarton International Writing Program Scholarship. The event is sponsored by the Mongolia Society, the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center. For more information, e-mail kniggle@indiana.edu.\n'One for Diversity' to celebrate art at IU\nThe "One for Diversity" celebration kicks off from 8 to 10 p.m. today in Alumni Hall at the Indiana Memorial Union. \nThe event is being presented to raise awareness and to help the campus collect diverse works of art. Different forms of art from the campus and Bloomington community will be on display, and IU-Bloomingotn Chancellor Sharon Brehm will speak.\nThe African American Choral Ensemble, Delta Sigma Theta, Indian Student Association, Tae Kwan Do club, Ladies First choral group and Voices of Hope also will be performing throughout the night.\nFor more information, visit www.iub-chancellor.indiana.edu/onefund/ \nFaculty ready for orientation session\nNew and returning faculty are welcome to attend an orientation session from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday in the Indiana Memorial Union.\nThe orientation workshop is set up to orient faculty members to the Bloomington campus and help them find important offices, committees and topics.\nFor more information, contact the Research and University Graduate School at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis at (317) 274-8285 or visit poynter.indiana.edu/rugs/.\nSNL star to perform Friday at IMU\nNew "Saturday Night Live" cast member Seth Meyers will perform with IU graduate Jill Benjamin at 8 p.m. Friday at Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union. The Union Board is presenting the event, entitled "Pick-ups and Hiccups." Meyers is known for his role as DJ Jonathan Feinstein on the recurring SNL sketch, "Jarret's Room." Benjamin returns to perform on campus for the first time since her days as an undergraduate performing with Full Frontal Comedy. For more information, call Adam Hitchcock, Union Board director of comedy, at 855-4682 or e-mail him at ahitchco@indiana.edu.