By snoadmin
It’s not every day that a celebrity comes barging into a classroom, but that’s exactly what happened in a women’s studies class last Thursday when singer and songwriter Annie Lennox burst into the room and taught the class.
The students were told that the camera crew was there to film a documentary about women’s studies so the class wouldn’t suspect anything. But there were some whispers going about the room after the professor showed the Eurythmics’ music video “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” which made Lennox a pop-culture icon in 1983.
There was a loud pounding on the door, and the professor dropped the bomb that Lennox would be a guest lecturer. Her appearance was part of the MTVU show “Stand-In,” which replaces the professor of a class with a celebrity guest for the day.
Lennox gained stardom from being the lead vocalist in the ’80s electronic pop music group Eurythmics. She is a four-time Grammy winner, and she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Song for “Into the West,” a song that she co-wrote for the 2003 film “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” Lennox has also performed in Live 8, a global musical festival to help fight worldwide poverty.
Lennox, who wore a bright orange shirt and a black vest with a red AIDS ribbon pin in her bleached hair, began the lecture by asking students if they have ever been to any developing countries and started talking about experiences there. She discussed poverty in the world today and the things people can do to stop it, and talked about the work she did with AIDS in Africa and spoke highly of Nelson Mandela, her close friend.
“I decided I had to make people more aware of [poverty],” Lennox said.
She is a part of “Make Poverty History,” a campaign aimed at ending poverty, and she recently promoted it on “American Idol.” She said that if people stand by and do nothing, nothing will happen and that people need to get involved.
Students then asked her questions about the organization she worked for and what they could do to help.
