Story Tips for Local Media - 02/21/97

                           STORY TIPS

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available on the Internet and World Wide Web.  To access by 
Internet, you may reach us through either OASIS (Ohio State 
Information System), the Columbus Freenet or World Wide Gophers.  
Our Web address is www.acs.ohio-state.edu.

SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION--Feb. 21-22, 28-Mar. 1.  More than 1,000 
of the most academically gifted students in the country who have 
applied for freshman admission to Ohio State will be on campus to 
compete for 10 four-year 'full ride' scholarships and 30 partial 
scholarships.  The seventh annual University Scholar Maximus 
competition will take place at the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St., 
from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day.  About one-fourth of the 
contestants will take part each of the four days.  Students will 
take a two-hour essay examination and attend information sessions 
with their parents.  Reporters are invited to attend any event 
except the examination.
CONTACT: Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, 292-8424, for 
schedule and more information.

TEACHER RECRUITING FAIR--Feb. 21-23. The College of Education is 
hosting an International Recruiting Fair for people interested in 
K-12 teaching positions in American schools and around the world.  
The World At Your Fingertips 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.  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.  

FORMER U.S. SURGEON GENERAL VISITS CAMPUS--Feb. 25.  Former U.S. 
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders will speak during the closing 
ceremony of the United Black World Month celebration of black 
heritage at 7:30 p.m. in the Ohio Union East Ballroom, 1739 N. 
High St.  Elders, currently on the faculty of the University of 
Akransas School of Medicine,  became the first African American 
woman Surgeon General in  September, 1993.  She resigned in 
December 1994 amid controversy regarding issues of sex education 
for youth in schools.  The event is free and open to the public. 
CONTACT: Brenda James, African American Student Services, (614) 
292-6584.

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.  Gee will narrate 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.   

LAW STUDENTS OFFER INCOME TAX HELP--through April 9.  Taxpayers 
on low or fixed incomes, individuals with disabilities and the 
elderly can receive free assistance with basic federal and state 
tax returns from College of Law students.  Through the Volunteer 
Income Tax Assistance program, law students offer their skills 
from 5-9 p.m. each Wednesday at the College of Law, 55 W. 12th 
Ave.  Taxpayers need to bring their 1996 forms, 1996 income, 
deduction and credit information, and 1995 tax returns. 
CONTACT: Liz Cutler Gates, College of Law, 292-0283.

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.

FILMMAKER RECEIVES WEXNER PRIZE--Feb. 28.  Filmmaker Martin 
Scorsese will receive the 1996 Wexner Prize in a ceremony at 1 
p.m. in Mershon Auditorium. The Wexner Prize recognizes a major 
contemporary artist whose creative contributions transcend a 
specific discipline and impact contemporary culture as a whole.  
Presentation of the award was delayed from last spring to 
accommodate the production schedule of Scorsese's latest film.  
Media wishing to cover the award ceremony should arrive at the 
Mershon Auditorium lobby at 12:30 p.m.  Scorsese will hold a news 
conference immediately afterward (approximately 2 p.m.) in the 
Wexner Center Film/Video theatre.  He and film critic Roger Ebert 
will have an on-stage conversation  at 7:30 p.m. in Mershon 
Auditorium.  If you plan to cover any of these events, please 
contact Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center for the Arts, 292-9923.

ICY LUNCH TOPIC--Feb. 27  The Byrd Polar Research Center offers a 
series of Brown Bag lunches with researchers on Thursdays through 
March 12.  Rosemary Askin will discuss Antarctic macadamias and 
Venus-fly traps: Cretaceous-Paleogene vegetation of the Antarctic 
Peninsula and southern South America at noon, 240 Scott Hall, 
1090 Carmack Rd.
CONTACT: Lynn Everett, Byrd Polar Research Center, 292-9909.

IS YOUR CAR ENGINE KNOCKING?  AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCHERS FIND ANSWER.  
By the time you actually hear knocking or pinging in your engine, 
it may be too late to prevent serious damage.  Ohio State 
automotive researchers have developed a new method for detecting 
engine knock that holds promise for making more efficient 
automobiles.  Giorgio Rizzoni, a professor of mechanical 
engineering and researcher at Ohio State's Center for Automotive 
Research, says an on-board knock-control system would help 
engines consume gasoline more efficiently and last longer.  He 
and others have developed software that helps a computer 'hear' 
knock.
CONTACT: Giorgio Rizzoni, Center for Automotive Research, 
292-3331.

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, 21 Feb 1997 14:33:29 -0500 (EST)]
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