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COMU awards today\nThe Commission on Multicultural Understanding is awarding its 2004 recipients today at the Mathers Museum. The program, which begins at 4:30 p.m., recognizes individuals who support, encourage and work toward the appreciation of diversity. \nAwards will be presented to junior Maura Halpern (undergraduate); Jonathan Rossing (graduate); Lillian Casillas (staff); Carolyn Calloway-Thomas (faculty); and Judge Viola J. Taliaferro (community). The National Day of Silence is also being recognized as an outstanding program. \nOmega Psi Phi holding event tonight\nMembers of Omega Psi Phi will speak with students tonight in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center as part of "A Conversation with the Men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc." \nThe event begins at 7 p.m. in room A201.\nThe fraternity is built on four principles: manhood, scholarship, perseverance and uplift. It is the purpose of this organization to bind those with similar ideas and dwell together in unity, according to its Web site.\nFor more information, visit www.indiana.edu/~pbsei/omege.html.\nIU's India Studies Program, in conjunction with the department of Central Eurasian studies and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, is holding a lecture with Dr. Stephen Dale. Dale, a professor of Islamic History at Ohio State, will speak at 6 p.m. today in Woodburn Hall 003. \nDale's lecture, "Chaos Theory and Late Timurid Politics: Legitimacy and Opportunity in Late Fifteenth-century Central Asia," is free and open to the public.\nFor more information, visit www.indiana.edu/~isp or call 855-5798.