Submissions: Forward your essay, in Microsoft Word format, to mlkjr@indiana.edu by 5:00 PM on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. Inquiries may be directed to that email also.
Length: 1,000-1500 words (4-5 pages)
Eligibility: All IUB students (excluding previous first-place award winners)
Prize: undergraduate first place--32GB iPad
The MLK Day Essay committee invites IUB students to submit an original essay that draws on their experience to respond to this question:
"What sacrifice(s) has someone you admire made in order to follow King and sustain his legacy, as the Rev. Jackson suggests we should?"