High on Pride Media Advisory

                          NEWS ADVISORY:
            "HIGH ON PRIDE" CAMPUS CLEANUP IS SATURDAY

Some 2,000 Ohio State University students, faculty and staff 
will join neighborhood residents in the third "High on Pride" 
University Community Cleanup on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 9 a.m. to 
12 p.m.  Volunteers will pick up litter, remove bulk trash, sweep 
streets and sidewalks, and collect recyclables in the 
neighborhood just east of campus.  The area covers 267 city 
blocks with 33 miles of sidewalk and more than 67 miles of 
roadway.  The north boundary is Blake Avenue, the south is Ninth 
Avenue and the east is the railroad tracks.  The western boundary 
is North High street and the Ohio State campus.

Columbus Mayor Greg Lashutka and councilman Matt Habash will 
greet volunteers at 9 a.m. at the registration area at the Wexner 
Center plaza at 15th Avenue and High Street. Ohio State President 
E. Gordon Gee will arrive around 10:30 a.m. to speak with 
participants and to start in the cleanup at 11 a.m.

All volunteers will receive free T-shirts and will be served 
coffee, juice, donuts, fresh fruits and soft drinks. Radio 
station CD101 will broadcast from the plaza area all morning, 
providing music and public address announcements.

For further information, call Tracy Turner in the Office of 
University Communications, 688-3682.  For assistance in covering 
the Cleanup, stop by the registration tables at the Wexner plaza 
between 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday.


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:18:33 -0400]
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