Story Tips for Local Media - 02/14/97

                        STORY TIPS

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WEXNER CENTER HOSTS FAMILY DAY--Feb. 16.  Families are invited 
to the Wexner Center for All That Jazz! Family Day, noon-4 p.m., 
1891 N. High St.  The highlight of the art-filled afternoon is a 
young people's concert by trumpet star Wynton Marsalis and his 
Septet at 2 p.m. in Mershon Auditorium.  Before and after the 
concert, there are films, gallery tours, and storytelling.  Drop-
in art activities include Serious Fun Sculpture: create a group 
sculpture and an artwork of your own with artist Queen E. Brooks; 
Don't Throw That Away-It's an Instrument! making a working 
musical instrument from ordinary household items; Clay Creations, 
and Fun with Everyday Stuff.  
CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-0330.

CAMPUS PARTNERS REQUESTS STUDENT INPUT ON AREA IMPROVEMENTS-Feb. 
19.  The Student Involvement Committee of Campus Partners will 
hold two public forums for students to discuss proposed 
priorities for implementation of the plan to improve the 
neighborhoods around Ohio State.  The forum will be held  two 
sessions, each with the same program, from 4-5:30 p.m. and 7-8:30 
p.m. in the Campus Partners office, 1824 N. High St.(next to 
Long's Bookstore).  Student suggestions are needed, in 
particular, on improving the retail and entertainment vitality of 
High Street and on enhancing student rental housing and the 
quality of life in the neighborhoods.  The sessions will be 
interactive to give everyone opportunities to voice their ideas 
or to respond to proposals.  Suggestions from the forums will 
help shape the work for Campus Partners for the next few years.
CONTACT: Steve Sterrett, community relations director of Campus 
Partners, 294-7300.

TEACHER RECRUITING FAIR--Feb. 21-23. The College of Education 
will host an International Recruiting Fair for people interested 
in K-12 teaching positions in American schools and around the 
world.  The World At Your Fingertips provides an opportunity to 
learn more about the nature and variety of overseas teaching, 
counseling and administrative openings, as well as how to obtain 
them. One of only four such events held worldwide, the fair will 
be held at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road.  
CONTACT: B.J. Bryant, College of Education Office of Career 
Services, 292-2741.

SPEAKER EXAMINES THE FUTURE OF AFRICA--Feb. 22.  As part of Black 
History Month, the Black Studies Extension Center and Frank W. 
Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center will host Africa in the Year 
2000/Community Day, from 1-5 p.m. at the Extension Center, 905 
Mt. Vernon Avenue.  The goal of Community Day is to bring 
students, faculty and staff to meet and interact with people from 
the community.  Africa in the Year 2000 will attempt to address 
important issues affecting Africa.  Among the many activities is 
a keynote address by Ahmadiel Ben-Yehuda, Minister of Information 
and a national spokesman of the African Hebrew Israelite 
Community of Jerusalem.  
CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074.

WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS MEET--Feb. 22.  Women who own businesses or 
professional practices will profit from the twelfth annual Ohio 
Women Business Owners' Conference, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Greater 
Columbus Convention Center, 500 N. High St.  The program includes 
workshops on How to Market on the Internet, Developing a Retail 
Catalog, Choosing a Business Entity and Early Retirement.  Also 
included are a networking reception, a marketplace that showcases 
products and services from women-owned businesses.
CONTACT: Gigi Grove Kent, Office of Continuing Education,
292-8571.  

PRESIDENT GEE NARRATES A LINCOLN PORTRAIT--Feb. 26.  President 
Gee, along with the Concert Band and Men's Glee Club, will 
perform at Severance Hall at 8 p.m. in a special Cleveland 
concert.  President Gee will take the stage along with the 
Concert Band as narrator in Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait.  
The work derives its text from the letters and speeches of 
Abraham Lincoln.  The music is a blend of original material by 
Copland and two songs from Lincoln's time, Camptown Races and the 
ballad Springfield Mountain.  The concert band will also perform 
Paul Hindemith's Symphony in B-flat and Samuel Barber's Commando 
March.  The Men's Glee Club will perform In taberna, Part II with 
guest soloist Ohio State alumnus Mark Baker, and other 
selections.   
CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-8835.   

RESEARCHER DISCUSSES BREAST CANCER PREVENTION--Feb. 27.  V. Craig 
Jordan, inventor of the most prescribed cancer medicine in the 
world, will deliver the fifth annual Herbert J. Block Memorial 
Lectureship at 8 a.m. in the Rhodes Hall Auditorium, 450 W. Tenth 
Ave.  Jordan, director of the breast cancer research program at 
the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University, 
developed tamoxifen, which is used to treat breast cancer and is 
being tested as a means to prevent the disease altogether.  
Jordan will discuss his work with both tamixifen and raloxifene 
in his lecture Anti-estrogens to Prevent Breast Cancer.   The 
Block Memorial Lectureship at the Comprehensive Cancer Center-
James Cancer Hospital was established by the Block family to 
recognize excellence in the field of oncology.  
CONTACT: Seanna Walter or Jan Ray, Arthur G. James Cancer 
Hospital and Research Institute, 292-3670.

The person listed as the contact for each item will have the best 
information about the story.  However, feel free to call on our 
news services staff for assistance with these or other Ohio State 
news stories.  Amy Murray, 292-8385; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; and 
Tracy Turner, 688-3682.
-Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:23:14 -0500 (EST)]
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