Calendar of Upcoming Events - 05/12/95

NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS:  Spring is the busiest time of the 
year at Ohio State.  To help you keep track of what's happening 
when, the Office of University Communications will distribute a 
weekly list of upcoming events.

     Contact information:  The person listed at the end of each 
entry will have the most direct information about the event.  
However, feel free to call on our news services staff for 
assistance with these or other Ohio State news stories:  Tom 
Spring, 292-8309; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; and Amy Murray,
292-8385.

     News releases:  There is a longer news release for the items 
marked with an asterisk.  To obtain a copy, call Von Reid Vargas 
at 292-8455, and indicate whether you would like to receive it 
via e-mail, fax or U.S. Mail.  Most releases may also be accessed 
via The Ohio State University home page on the World Wide Web at: 
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS

Through May 18

Films:  Images and Identity: American Indian Experiences, films 
directed and produced by American Indians; featuring Medicine 
River, a romantic comedy starring Graham Greene and Sheila 
Tousey, May 15; Navajo Talking Picture and As Long as the Rivers 
Flow, films about the impact on American Indians of forced 
attendance at government boarding schools, May 16; Where the 
Spirits Live, about a girl's experience at a Canadian government 
boarding school, and Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya, an 
animated recreation of the longest poem in an American Indian 
language, May 17; Powwow Highway, adventure comedy with Rodney 
Grant and Gary Farmer; all films at 7 p.m., College of Law 
Auditorium, 55 W. 12th Ave.  Free.  292-2324 or 292-8732.

Through May 20

Theater:  The Trial, a surrealistic examination of guilt and 
innocence involving a bank clerk who becomes victim of an insane 
and faceless bureaucracy; Department of Theatre, Stadium II 
Theatre, Drake Union, address.  1849 Cannon Drive.  Admission 
charge.  Theatre Box Office, 292-2295.

Through June 9

*Exhibition:  The Ohio State University, 1870-1995: 125 Years of 
History, historic photographs, books, memorabilia, Philip Sills 
Exhibit Hall, William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, 1858 Neil 
Ave., 7:45 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday,  8 a.m.-10 p.m. 
Saturday, 11 a.m.-midnight Sunday.  Free.  Raimund E. Goerler, 
292-2409.

Through July 14

Exhibition:  A Salute to Miss Lace: Milton Caniff's World War II 
Comic Strip "Male Call," Cartoon, Graphic, and Photographic Arts 
Research Library, 27 W. 17th Ave. Mall.  Free.  David Sims or 
Lucy Caswell, 292-0538.

Through August 13

Exhibition: "Rem Koolhaas and the Place of Public Architecture," 
Wexner Center for the Arts.  Free.  Walk-in tours 1 p.m. 
Thursdays and Saturdays beginning May 18.  Darnell Lautt, 292-
0330.

May 15-16

Conference:  "Legal Issues and Disability," for college and 
university administrators who have questions about compliance 
with the Americans with Disabilities Act, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 15 
and 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 16; Jeanne Kincaid, attorney 
specializing in accommodation issues will be the keynote speaker 
at 9:30 a.m. May 15; Ohio Union Conference Theater, 1739 N. High 
St.  Lydia Block, Patty Carlton or Jim Baker, 292-3307.

May 15, 17, 19

Screenings:  Speech, Language, and Hearing, available to all Ohio 
State faculty, staff, students, and their families, 8 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m., Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, 139 Pressey Hall, 1070 
Carmack Road.  Free.  Appointments, 292-6251.

May 16-20

Festival:  African American Heritage Festival; jazz and arts 
reception, 6 p.m. May 17; Afrocentric Art Exhibit, May 14-21; 
poetry slam, oral competition, 7 p.m. May 18; The Fest! (outdoor 
extravaganza), noon May 20; events at Ohio Union, 1739 N. High 
St.  African American Heritage Festival Consortium, 292-2324.

May 17

Open Forum:  Campus Master Plan, progress reports and 
presentations on the university master plan by Sasaki 
Associates/Michael Dennis & Associates and on the east of High 
master plan by EDAW; Noon to 1:30 p.m., College of Law, room 130, 
55 W. 12th Ave.  Free.  University Architect, 292-4458; Campus 
Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment Inc., 294-7300.

Theater:  Dancing at Lughnasa, The OSU Theatre Company, directed 
by Rex McGraw, 7:30 p.m., Thurber Theatre.  Also May 18-20 and 
May 23-27 at 8 p.m., May 20 at 2 p.m.  Admission charge.  
Tickets, 292-2295.

May 18

Talk:  A Conversation with Yvonne Rainer and Lynne Tillman. 
Tillman, a New York-based writer and critic, will conduct an 
illustrated conversation with choreographer and film maker Yvonne 
Rainer, recipient of the 1995 Wexner Prize, 4:30 p.m., Film/Video 
Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts. Free.  Darnell Lautt, 292-
0330.  (Rainer films will be screened as follows:  "Film About a 
Woman Who," May 12; and "Journeys from Berlin/1971" May 17, both 
at 7:30 p.m., Film/Video Theater.  Admission charge.  Darnell 
Lautt, 292-0330.

Fitness Forum:  "Changing Sleeping Habits," by Charles Pollak, 
medical director, Sleep Disorders Center, 8:30 a.m., Lane Avenue 
Shopping Center, 1581 W. Lane Ave.  Free.  University Medical 
Center Communications, 293-5123.

May 19-20

*1995 Barnett Arts and Public Policy Symposium: "Good Policy, Bad 
Policy, No Policy:  The Arts and Education," Sullivant Theatre 
and Wexner Film/Video Theater.  Features Leonard Garment, former 
counsel and special advisor on civil rights and cultural matters 
to President Nixon; Frank Hodsoll, consultant on federal 
management and arts education and past chairperson of the 
National Endowment for the Arts; Samuel Hope, executive director 
of the National Office for Arts Accreditation in Higher Education 
and executive editor of Arts Education Policy Review, Carolyn 
Adams Kahn, member of the dance faculty at City College of New 
York and curator of the American Dance Legacy Institute in 
Providence, R.I.; Scott Sanders, deputy chairperson for 
partnership programs at the National Endowment for the Arts, 
Elizabeth Vallance, director of education for the St. Louis Art 
Museum, Brent G. Wilson, professor and head of the art education 
program at The Pennsylvania State University.  Registration fee.  
Robin Atwood, 292-5649, Jean Morris, 292-8571, Lois Foreman 
Wernet, 292-8835.
May 20

*Open House: Public viewing of design alternatives, including 
maps, drawings, and concepts, to improve the University District, 
consultants on hand to talk with public, sponsored by Campus 
Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment Inc., 1-4 p.m., St. 
Stephen's Episocopal Church parish hall, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.  
Steve Sterrett, 294-7300.

Music:  Men's Glee Club, conducted by James Gallagher, special 
benefit concert, Pontifical College Josephinum.  Admission 
charge.  292-4622.

May 22

*American Indian Music:  "For All Our Relations, A Reception," 
performances by Cornel Pewewardy, a Comanche, on flute and drum, 
including selections from his recent compact disk "Dancing 
Buffalos," and the Black Swamp Dance Group, a children's dance 
group from the Celina Indian Center, with director Tim Samaniego, 
a Mescalero Apache, 3 to 6 p.m., Drake Union River Den, 1849 
Cannon Drive.  292-2324 or 292-8732.

May 23

*Panel Discussion:  "Traditional and Contemporary Aspects of 
American Indian Identity," with Charlene Teters, Spokane 
professor of art at the Institute of American Indian Arts; Cornel 
Pewewardy, Comanche visiting scholar at the graduate faculty of 
Cameron University; and John Sanchez, a Yaqui journalist, 
moderator is Dan Reff, assistant professor of comparative studies 
in the humanities at Ohio State; 5 to 7 p.m., Stecker lounge., 
Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.  Free.  292-2324 or 292-8732.

May 24

Music:  Concert, Symphonic, and University bands, 7:30 p.m., 
Browning Amphitheater, Mirror Lake.  Free.  292-3007.

Lecture:  "John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board," 
by Kermit Hall, member of the review board and dean of the 
College of Humanities, 12:30 p.m., Faculty Club Main Lounge, 292-
2262.

May 25

*Panel Discussion:  "American Indian Students and the University 
Environment," with Grace Sage, Oneida psychologist at Cornell 
University; Terry Wilson, a Potowatomi professor emeritus of 
Native American studies at the University of California at 
Berkeley; moderator is Dan Reff, assistant professor of 
comparative studies in the humanities at Ohio State, 3 to 5 p.m., 
Stecker Lounge, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.  Free.  292-2324 or 
292-8732.

May 31-June 3

NCAA Championships:  Men's golf, OSU Scarlet Course, Kenny Road, 
Upper Arlington.  Admission Charge.  Sports Information, 292-
6861.

June 1

Music:  Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marshall Haddock, 8 
p.m., Weigel Auditorium, 1866 N. College Road, 292-2300.

June 2

Groundbreaking:  Max M. Fisher College of Business, Woodruff 
Avenue and Tuttle Park Place, 1 p.m.  Free.  Melanie Tracy, 292-
8022, David Cole, 292-8441.

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[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Mon, 15 May 1995 15:53:23 -0400]
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