Story Tips for Local Media - 03/14/97

                         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.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS DRAW MANY TO CAMPUS--Mar. 14-
15, 20-22.  Cars decorated with high school banners will converge 
on Ohio State for the annual statewide basketball tournaments at 
St. John Arena.  The O.H.S.A.A. Girls' State Basketball 
Tournament began March 13.  More games are scheduled for March 
14, 2-11 p.m., and March 15, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.  The O.H.S.A.A. 
Boys' State Basketball Tournament games will be held March 20 and 
21 from noon-11 p.m. and March 22, 11a.m.-11p.m.  Traffic around 
campus, especially Route 315 and Olentangy River Road, will be 
disrupted during these times.  
CONTACT: Sarah Blouch or Beth Kelley, Transportation and Parking 
Services, 292-9341.

MUCH COFFEE WILL BE CONSUMED--Mar. 17-20.  Students are expected 
to spend much of the week studying as they prepare for final 
exams for winter quarter classes.  Following their last exam, 
many students head south for traditional Spring Break 
festivities.  Spring quarter begins March 31.

WINTER COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES--Mar. 21. Commencement exercises 
for some 1,500 winter quarter graduates of Ohio State will be 
held beginning at 9 a.m. at St. John Arena, 410 Woody Hayes Dr. 
Kathryn Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of the 
Center of Science and Industry (COSI), will be the commencement 
speaker. A former astronaut and veteran of three space shuttle 
missions, Sullivan was the first woman to perform a spacewalk in 
1984.  She flew on the Discovery in 1990 for the Hubble Space 
Telescope deployment mission and on the Atlantis in 1992 for the 
ATLAS-1 Spacelab mission.
CONTACT: Tracy Turner, University Communications, 688-3682.  

ST. JOHN ARENA TRANSFORMED--Mar. 21.  One of the most amazing 
feats associated with winter commencement is the switch-over at 
St. John Arena from basketball (till 11 p.m. Thursday night) to 
commencement (9 a.m. Friday) and back to basketball (at noon on 
Friday).  Following the game on Thursday night, the floor of the 
arena is covered, a riser is installed and 1,500 chairs are 
placed on the floor for graduate seating.  It is all removed in 
time for the first game on Friday.  
CONTACT: Athletics Facilities Operations, 292-6330.

CONFERENCE EXAMINES LAND USE DEBATE--Mar. 25-26.  The competing 
demands for land  are the topic of a conference sponsored by Ohio 
State Extension, the Ohio EPA and about two dozen other 
organizations March 25-26 at the Columbus Athenaeum, 34 N. Fourth 
St.  Growth & the Future, A Land Use Conference for All of Ohio 
will feature 60 concurrent sessions on issues including housing 
and transportation, farmland preservation, greenways, urban 
sprawl, agricultural zoning, protecting rural character, 
watershed planning, and Ohio planning and zoning enabling 
legislation.  
CONTACT: Tim Lawrence, Ohio State Extension, Darby Watershed 
Project, 644-3162.

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 Mar 1997 12:50:57 -0500 (EST)]
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