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15 local homeless services to sponsor 5K walk for charity\nFifteen Monroe County services will sponsor a 5K Walk to Fight Homelessness titled "Homeward Bound" Sunday afternoon at Third Street Park and downtown Bloomington. Registration, food and entertainment will begin at noon with the walk following at 2 p.m. \nIndiana has estimated a need for 3,717 beds and housing units for individuals and 4,180 beds and housing units for persons in families with children who are homeless, according to a press release. With Indiana's shelters providing 1,934 beds and units for individuals and 2,397 for persons in families with children, this leaves a need for 1,803 beds and housing units needed for individuals and 1,883 beds and housing units for persons in families with children.\nFor more information, visit www.homelesswalks.org.\nIU alumnus to give Addison Locke Roache lecture\nScholar, artist and teacher Kofi Anyidoho will be delivering an Addison Locke Roache lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 21 in Rawles Hall Room 100. He will speak about "Writing the Future: Literary Visions of a 21st Century Africa." \nAnyidoho is a distinguished Cornell visiting professor in black studies, English and theater studies at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He is professor and chairman of the English department at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West Africa, where he was recently elected to the University Council. \nHe is also an award-winning poet, having won the Ghana Book Award in 1987 and chosen "Poet of the Year" in Ghanain in 1984. His most recent book of poetry is "Praise Song for the Land," published in 2002. An IU graduate, Anyidoho has been an active participant in several IU programs and conferences. \nThe Roache Lecture fund was established in 1957 by a gift from Addison Locke Roache Jr. in memory of his father and is used to support a series of lectures by persons who are "eminently well-qualified" in the fields of law, business, education and letters."\nFormer fraternity member to speak about 'coming out'\nBrian Moak, a former interfraternity vice president of recruitment, will speak about his experiences of "coming out" in the Greek community at 8 p.m. Thursday in Morrison Hall Room 007.\nThe speech, sponsored by the IU Panhellenic Association, is part of national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender awareness week.\nThe presentation will include a testimonial about coming out within a chapter, as a vice president to the Interfraternity Council and among friends and family. The event is free, but a donation will be made in his name to a philanthropy of his choice. \nVigil to honor late \n6-year-old Friday at Bryan Park \nA vigil will be held to celebrate the life and mourn the death of Felix Chen at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Bryan Park. \nChen, who died April 1 after he was rushed to Bloomington Hospital from his Owen County foster home, was the 6-year-old son of IU Professor Lingling Chen. The Indiana State Police is currently investigating the boy's placement into a foster home days before his death. For more coverage of this story and the vigil, read Monday's Indiana Daily Student.