Speaker: Steve Lopez, author of "The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music"

Critically acclaimed LA Times columnist and author of The Soloist, Steve Lopez will delivered the keynote presentation for the 2009 Freshman Convocation.

Read the MSU News article Author of "The Soloist" to speak at MSU freshman convocation set Sept. 9.

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