SLIPPERY ROCK — More than 225 Slippery Rock University students are expected to participate Monday in the fourth annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at the university.

Spring semester classes begin Tuesday.

Robert Clay, assistant director of the Office of Intercultural Programs, said students have been urged to volunteer for service projects throughout Slippery Rock and surrounding communities.

In addition, a number of other related events are planned for Monday:

n Members of the SRU community will participate in Butler's Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast at the Butler YWCA. It will feature the Rev. Phillip Conyers Jr., senior pastor at the Oak Hills Christian Church, Butler, at 8:30 a.m.

• A 6 p.m. candle-light vigil will offer a march from SRU's University Union to Miller Auditorium prior to the 7 p.m. program where Frank Hale Jr., dean of diversity at Ohio State University, and Calvin Mackie, an award-winning motivational speaker and entrepreneur, will speak.

Mackie, a professor at Tulane University, does research related to heat transfer, fluid dynamics, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Hale, the vice provost and professor emeritus at OSU, has served in the field of higher education for 54 years.