Calendar of Upcoming Events - 04/15/94

NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS:  Throughout the spring the Office
of University Communications will distribute this weekly list of
upcoming events at the Columbus campus.  The person listed at the
end of each entry will have the most direct information about the
event.  However, feel free to call on any member of our news
services staff for assistance with these or other Ohio State news
stories: Steve Sterrett, director, 292-8472; Ruth Gerstner, 292-
8424; Tom Spring, 292-8309; Amy Murray, 292-8385.

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS CAMPUS
     All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise
stated.  There is a longer news release for the items marked with
an asterisk.  Call Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, 292-
8424, if you need a copy of the news release.

April 10-May 6
Watercolor Art Display by Deborah Edwards, 1974 Ohio State
graduate.  Second floor gallery, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
Mylayna Albright, 292-0074.

April 16-24
*Hispanic Awareness Week.  Concerts, dances, theater, art,
meetings, special restaurant menus, and other events fill the
calendar for this annual event.  For a complete list of
activities, call the Office of Hispanic Student Services at 292-
2917.

April 17-23
Health Sciences Library Observes National Library Week with a
display illustrating how libraries have changed the lives of
various Ohio State personalities.  On April 22, patrons may pick
up a token of appreciation for their support at the second floor
circulation desk.  Prior Health Sciences Library, 376 W. 10th
Ave.  Lori Harding, 292-4908.

April 18
*Lecture -- Thomas E. Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution, a
world renowned conservation biologist, will speak on the
importance of biodiversity at 8 p.m. in the Ohio Union Conference
Theatre, 1739 N. High St.  Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; first come,
first seated.  Sponsored by the seven class honoraries at Ohio
State.  Amy Combs, 291-6651.

April 18-19
*39th annual Ohio Pharmaceutical Seminar -- "Managed Competition
and Pharmaceutical Care: A Challenge for the Profession."  At the
Marriott North, 6500 Doubletree Ave.  Members of the news media
are welcome at all sessions; others must register and pay fees to
attend the sessions.  Alan Escovitz, director of pharmacy
extension, 292-5380.

April 20
Faculty Author Series presents William Allen of the Department of
English, 7:30 p.m. at the Little Professor bookstore in the
Worthington Mall.  Allen will discuss his book Walking Distance:
An Ohio Odyssey, an exploration of the layers of meaning of a
cosmic order.  Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882.

April 21
*Fitness Forum -- Program topic: Depression.  Stephen Pariser,
psychiatrist at University Medical Center, will speak on the
symptoms, causes and cures of depression, 8:30 a.m., Food Court
of Lane Avenue Shopping Center.  Fitness Forum offers health
related information for older adults.  Mall opens for walking at
6 a.m.; registration for the program is at 7:45 a.m.  Sandi
Latimer, University Hospitals Communications, 293-3660.

April 23
*State Science Olympiad, 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at various campus
locations.  Headquarters are in the Ohio Union, Buckeye Suites A-
G (third floor).  About 1,200 students in grades 6 to 12,
representing 40 junior high schools and 40 senior schools from
around the state will compete in fun science events.  Sondra Kay
Rhodes or Sarah Sieling, Office of Continuing Education, 292-
8571.

Sports Vision Symposium, noon to 5 p.m., Rhodes Hall Auditorium,
450 W. 10th Ave.  Sponsored by the College of Optometry. Geared
toward sports enthusiasts at all fitness levels and the
professionals who work with them.  Lectures on contact lenses,
eye injuries, protective eyewear, and visual skills in sports.
Demonstrations of state-of-the-art vision equipment.  Terri
Kyser, College of Optometry, 292-1113.

April 24
College of Optometry Career Day, 1-4 p.m., College of Optometry,
352 W. 10th Ave.  Prospective students and others are invited to
tour the college's clinics, laboratories and classrooms; talk
informally with faculty and students; and obtain information on
admission and financial aid.  Melinda McDonald or Annie Pagura,
academic counselors, 292-2647.

April 25
Lecture -- Medieval Archeology; How It Changed Our Perception of
the Middle Ages by Professor Walter Janssen of the University of
Wurzburg, 3:30 p.m. 156 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall.
Barbara Becker-Cantarino, 292-8639 or 292-6985.

April 26
*Public Forum.  The University Area Improvement Task Force will
hear concerns of residents, students, property owners and
business people about the quality of life in the neighborhoods
around Ohio State.  4-6 p.m. in the Conference Theatre of the
Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.  James L. Nichols, 292-6261.
See also April 30.

*Lecture -- "Cosmetic Surgery: Facing the Facts."  University
Medical Center presents Michael Sullivan, director of facial
plastic and reconstructive surgery, and Ron Siegle, director of
cutaneous oncology, speaking on facial cosmetic procedures and
skin care.  7 p.m., Ramada University Hotel, 3100 Olentangy River
Road.  For more information, call Ask-A-Nurse at 293-5678.

April 28
Minority Trade Fair, noon to 5 p.m. at the Ohio Union East and
West Ballrooms, 1739 N. High St.  Individuals who make purchasing
decisions can visit exhibits by state-certified minority vendors
offering a diverse array of commodities.  Minority Business
Development Office, 292-5325.

Lecture -- Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Assessment of Teaching, will speak on "Scholarship
Assessed" at 3:30 p.m. in the film-video theatre of the Wexner
Center for the Arts.  Paul Isaac, 292-6031.

April 30
*Public Forum.  The University Area Improvement Task Force will
hear concerns of residents, students, property owners and
business people about the quality of life in the neighborhoods
around Ohio State.  9 to 11 a.m. at Indianola Presbyterian
Church, 1970 Waldeck Ave.  James L. Nichols, 292-6261.
See also April 26.

April 30-May 1
Native American Pow Wow, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the west lawn of
the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.  Admission is $3 for Ohio State
Students, $5 for other adults.  Music, dancing, food.  Student
Events Committee, 292-2324.

May 4
Young Scholars Program -- Recognition ceremony for incoming 6th
grade Scholars and graduating 12th grade Scholars from Columbus.
6 p.m., King Arts Complex, 867 Mount Vernon Ave.  Ruth Gerstner,
University Communications, 292-8424.

Lecture -- "A Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women,
Citizenship and Military Obligation," by Professor Linda Kerber
of the University of Iowa, 3:30 p.m. 014 University Hall, 230 N.
Oval Mall.  Carla Pestana, 292-6216.

May 5
Lecture -- "Get Outa' My Face: Everyday Uses of Writing Among
African American Teenage Girls," by Associate Professor Amy
Shuman of the Department of English and the Center for Folklore
Studies.  Shuman will discuss the ways adolescent moral systems
determine who has the right to talk about whom and where that can
lead.  7:30 p.m., The Ohio State University Black Studies
Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave.  Gail Summerhill,
College of Humanities, 292-1882.

Lecture -- "Homeric Friendship," by Professor David Konstan of
Brown University, 8 p.m. 014 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall.
This is the first annual Carl Schlam Memorial Lecture, sponsored
by the Department of Classics.  Mary Cole, 292-2744.

May 6
Lecture -- "Text and World: Roland Barthes' Dilemma," by
Professor David Bell of Duke University, 3:30 p.m. 260 Cunz Hall,
1841 Millikin Road. Annette Lendacki, 292-4938.

May 6-8
Parents Weekend.  Friday events include Sphinx senior honor
society's Linking ceremony, campus tours and an evening out in
German Village or at the Short North Gallery Hop.  Saturday's
schedule has an academic information fair, brunch, the Medieval
and Renaissance Festiveal, tours of Greek houses, an open forum
with representatives of university departments, and a family
buffet, and concludes with evening entertainment by Bo Diddley
and his band.  Sunday morning there is a 3-mile fund-raising walk
to support the Parent Association Scholarship Fund and a
concluding brunches at 9 a.m. and noon.  Bill Wahl, Parent
Association, 292-9153.

May 7
Medieval and Renaissance Festival, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on the
South Oval and Mirror Lake Hollow.  Musicians, magicians,
jugglers, jesters, dancing troupes, craft vendors and drama.
Sponsored by the Honors Community Association and the Student
Events Committee.  Katie Vulic, Honors Center, 292-3135.

May 9
*Lecture -- Jeremy Rifkin, noted author, activist and social
critic, will speak on "The Biotech Revolution" at 8 p.m. in the
Ohio Union East Ballroom, 1739 N. High St.  Doors open at 7:30
p.m.  Amy Combs, 291-6651.

May 11
Poetry Reading by Robert Hess, professor of English at Berkeley,
winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Critics
Circle Award.  3 p.m., Wexner Center film-video theater.
Christopher Griffin, 292-2242.

May 13
Lecture -- "Flaneurs modernes et postmodernes: Baudelaire,
Breton, Reda," by Professor Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck of Vassar
College, 3:30 p.m., 260 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road.  Annette
Lendacki, 292-4938.

May 23
Lecture -- "Walter Benjamin's Essay on Goethe's 'Elective
Affinities,'" by Professor Stanley Corngold of Princeton
University. 3:30 p.m., Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club, 181 S.
Oval Drive.  This is the fourth annual Carolyn Engel Luebeck
Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures.  Barbara Becker-Cantarino, 292-8639 or 292-6985.


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