Calendar of Upcoming Events - 05/05/94

NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS:  Throughout the spring the Office
of University Communications will distribute this weekly list
highlighting some of the 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.

A full calendar of College of the Arts events is available on
OASIS (Ohio State's gopher server) under "OSU Colleges and
Departments" or by calling 292-8835.

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.

Through May 21
Theatre -- "Mad Forest" by Caryl Churchill, presented by the OSU
Theatre Company at Stadium II Theatre, 1849 Cannon Drive.
Tickets are $9.50 and $10.50 (discounts for OSU students, faculty
and staff).  Call the box office at 292-2295 for performance
dates and times.

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 Festival, 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 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 9-11
Disability Awareness Activities
Monday morning: President Gee accepts challenge to simulate
blindness with student guidance -- time and place TBA.
Tuesday, 2:30 to 4 p.m.: Volunteer appreciation awards ceremony,
Office of Disability Services, 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Ave.
Wednesday: Activities on the Oval from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
including simulations of disabilities, bicycle fair, information
table, two wheel-a-thons (one for Student Affairs teams, one for
anyone who wants to try), Hands Across the Oval to show
solidarity with students with disabilities.
Tonette Rocco, 297-0779.

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.

Lecture -- Dale Spender, feminist scholar and educator, will
speak on "Nattering on the Nets: Women, Power, and Cyberspace" at
3:30 p.m., 31 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave.  She is the author
of Man Made Language, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to
Them, and other books.  Sonja Foss, 292-6342.

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.

Outdoor Concert  -- University Band, conducted by Paul Doerksen,
and the OSU Trombone Ensemble, directed by Joe Duchi, will
perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake.
292-2300 or 292-3007.

May 12
Outdoor Concert -- Jazz Lab Ensemble, directed by Pharez Whitted,
will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror
Lake.  292-2300 or 292-3007.

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 16
*Faculty Panel: "Should Multiculturalism Be of Concern to
Everyone on Campus?" 7:30 p.m., Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club,
181 S. Oval Drive.  First of a three-part series; see also May 23
and June 2.  College of Humanities, 292-1882.

May 19
Outdoor Concert -- Jazz Combos, directed by Hank Marr,  will
perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake.
292-2300 or 292-3007.

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.

*Faculty Panel: "Should Society at Large Care about What Academe
Says or Does about Multiculturalism?"  7:30 p.m., Grand Lounge of
the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive.  Second of a three-part
series; see also May 16 and June 2.  College of Humanities, 292-
1882.

May 24
African-American Health Fair -- Sponsored by the Frank W. Hale
Jr. Black Cultural Center, with free screenings for diabetes,
high blood pressure, sight and glaucoma, sickle cell, and cancer
from 10 a.m. to noon.  To sign up for a screening, call 292-0074.
Mylayna Albright, 292-0074.

May 25
Outdoor Concert -- University, Symphonic and Concert bands will
perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake.
292-2300 or 292-3007.

May 26
Outdoor Concert -- Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ted McDaniel, will
perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake.
292-2300 or 292-3007.

May 29
Concert -- Pink Floyd, 9 p.m., Ohio Stadium.  Admission charge.
Student Events Committee, 292-2324.

June 2
Graduate Student Panel: "Multiculturalism in Academe and
Society." 7:30 p.m., Stecker Lounge of the Ohio Union, 1739 N.
High St.  This is a response to the two faculty panels which
preceded in this three-part series; see also May 16 and May 23.
College of Humanities, 292-1882.
                                
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