Grand finale speaker of the school year Spike Lee is famous for stoking controversial topics such as race relations, the role of media, urban crime, poverty and politics.

The legendary filmmaker will present “An Evening with Spike Lee” at 7 p.m. Thursday in Diddle Arena, free and open to the public.

Tugging their gentlemen escorts by the ties, the contestants of the “Miss Omega 2009″ pageant sauntered past the red velvet curtains of Downing University Center theater – beautiful, black and full of curves.

The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., brothers hosted the third annual event.

The assembly lines of the Corvette plant are still. Silence reigns over 175,000 square feet of machinery where every Corvette and XLR in the world made since 1981 was crafted. Bowling Green’s treasure boasts in its brochure: “No other sports car has carried the dreams of a nation like the Corvette.

Hand in hand, the sisters of Delta Sigma Theta and Phi Mu sororities formed a circle in anticipation of the seventh annual Unity Step Off held in the DUC Theater Saturday.

“We are all just sisters from another mother,” said Tiesha Crawford, a senior Delta Sigma Theta member from Columbia, Tenn.