Story Tips for Local Media - 03/08/96

                            STORY TIPS

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stories on the Columbus campus.  We'll update this listing every 
week.

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WEXNER CENTER HOSTS FAMILY DAY--Mar. 10.  Families are invited to 
the Wexner Centers Face to Face Family Day, noon-4 p.m., 1891 N. 
High St.  The art-filled afternoon is developed around the 
exhibition of Face Value: American Portraits, currently on view.  
It will feature art activities, family tours, scavenger hunts, 
and music, dance and drama, including an African-inspired dance 
and drum performance by internationally-recognized Tony West and 
the Imani Dancers.  Activities are designed for children ages 4-
12 and their adult companions.  Activities and performances are 
free.
CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center for the Arts, 292-0330.

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE, MEETS WITH MEDIA--
Mar. 14-15.  The Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, civil rights leader 
and business man, will be presented an honorary doctorate during 
Winter Quarter Commencement ceremonies March 15 at 9:30 a.m. in 
St. John Arena.  In 1977, Sullivan initiated the Sullivan 
Principles, a code of conduct widely acknowledged to be one of 
the most effective efforts to end discrimination against Blacks 
in the workplace in apartheid South Africa.. Sullivan is also 
founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) of 
America, which has trained more than 1.5 million and placed more 
than 800,000 in the workforce.  Sullivan will meet with reporters 
on Thursday March 14, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Ohio State Golf 
Course, 3605 Tremont Rd..
CONTACT: Mac Stewart, dean of University College and Continuing 
Education, 292-6344.

WOMEN'S LECTURE SERIES --Mar. 14.  Martha Garland, professor of 
history, will present No Sex Please, We're British, during the 
Women's Luncheon Series presentation, noon-1 p.m. at the Hyatt on 
Capital Square.  Many people think Victorian-era people were 
prudish, stuffy or puritanical.  What can modern society learn by 
reexamining Victorian values?  Garland will explore the sexual 
ideals and practices of Britain's Victorian period.  The lecture 
is the second of a series sponsored by the College of Humanities 
and Department of Women's Studies.  It is designed to offer a 
look at topical social and political issues for people without 
access to university-level research. 
CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882 

WINTER COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES--Mar. 15.  Commencement exercises 
for some 1,400 winter quarter graduates of Ohio State will be 
held beginning at 9:30 a.m. at St. John Arena, 410 Woody Hayes 
Dr.  Herb Asher, professor emeritus of political science and 
former special assistant to the university president for state 
relations, will be the speaker.  
CONTACT: Tracy Turner, University Communications, 688-3682.

SPRING CLEANING COMES TO UNIVERSITY DISTRICT--Mar 18-19.  For the 
first time in at least six years, the streets in the core student 
neighborhoods east of High street will be swept in a coordinated 
effort.  Ohio State students will be off for spring break during 
the street-sweeping, but will be required to move their cars from 
the streets by 12:01 a.m. Monday, or have their cars towed to the 
City Impound Lot.  Due to traffic and parking congestion, streets 
in this neighborhood haven't been cleaned for many years. The 
City of Columbus, in cooperation with Ohio State, Campus 
Partners, and the university community, will sweep the streets in 
an area bounded by East 11th Ave. on the south, Woodruff Ave. on 
the north, High St. on the west and Summit St. on the east.  
Pearl Alley, as well as the parking bays between Pearl and High, 
are included.  Ohio State will offer free parking to students and 
residents with vehicles living in the street-sweeping area.  Cars 
may be removed beginning Wed. Mar. 13, and relocated to one of 
two university lots along Lane Avenue, east of the Olentangy 
River. 
CONTACT: Steve Sterrett, Campus Partners, 294-7300.

ALUMNI BAND MARCHES IN ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE IN DUBLIN, 
IRELAND--Mar. 17. Script Ohio and Hang on Sloopy will ring from 
the streets of Dublin, as the Alumni Band travels to Ireland to 
march in honor of the nation's famous patron.  The Alumni Band, 
which has an active membership of about 200, performs for more 
than 100 events, including the annual reunion at Ohio State's 
first home football game every fall.  After an invitation from 
the Lord Mayor of Dublin, band members from 15 states volunteered 
to go make the trip, for which they pay their own way.  Members 
leave Mar. 14 and stay eight days.  The band is the first school-
affiliated band from Ohio ever to participate in the parade.
CONTACT: Bob Grossman, band member and group tour conductor, 614-
881-5987, or Lois Foreman Wernet, director of arts 
communications, 292-8835.

LAW STUDENTS PRACTICE IN MOOT COURT COMPETITION--Mar. 11.  
Gregory Rogus, the Chicago attorney who represented the 
respondents in a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on 
Feb. 26, will serve as one of the judges at the OSU College of 
Law moot court competition.  Students will be arguing both sides 
of Rogus' case, Jaffe V. Redmond, a case brought by the family of 
a man who had been fatally shot in 1991 by an Illinois police 
officer.  At issue in the appeal was whether records of 
conversations between the officer, Mary Lu Redmond, and a social 
worker who counseled her after the shooting could be withheld 
from a federal court proceeding.  Rogus argues in favor of 
extending the patient-psychotherapist privilege to social 
workers.  Rogus will be available for comments Monday between 3-4 
p.m. at the Law School, 55 W. 12th Ave.
CONTACT: M.A. Scherer, College of Law, 292-0283.

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; Tom 
Spring, 292-8309, and Tracy Turner, 688-3682.
-Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:37:33 -0500]
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