Story Tips for Local News Media - 01/11/96

                       STORY TIPS

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

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Internet, you may reach us through either OASIS (Ohio State 
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University Communications.

WETLAND BOARDWALK CONSTRUCTION--Jan. 13,14,20,21,27 and 28.  
Volunteers with carpentry and construction experience are needed 
to help construct a boardwalk at the Ohio State University 
Wetland Research Park, 352 Dodridge Rd.  Volunteers will work 9 
a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays, or 1-4 p.m. Sundays.  Owens-
Corning Corp. has donated recycled plastic lumber to the School 
of Natural Resources for the project; the Seabees will help with 
construction; and several Ohio building companies will provide 
supervision.
CONTACT:  Molly Bean, Natural Resources, 292-9773.

UNIVERSITY CLOSED--Jan. 15.  Becaues of the Martin Luther King, 
Jr. holiday, Ohio State University classes and offices will be 
closed on Monday.  

SWIMMING, VOLLEYBALL AND MORE UNTIL 2 A. M.--Jan 19.  Students, 
faculty and staff are invited to celebrate the New Year in a fun 
and positive manner at the Larkins Hall Late Nighter, Jan. 19, 10 
p.m.-2 a.m. at Larkins Hall, 337 West 17th Ave.   The Late 
Nighter features open swimming, racquetball, wallyball, 
basketball,  badminton, a judo tournament, wellness advice, and 
more.  
CONTACT: Liz Davis, Recreation and Intramural Sports, 292-7671.

MILLION MAN MARCH PHOTO EXHIBIT--through Jan. 26.  To celebrate 
last October's "Million Man March" in Washington, D.C., the 
Office of Minority Affairs' Hale Black Cultural Center is hosting 
a photography exhibition titled "A View From Seven in a 
Million."  The display includes more than 35 color and black and 
white photographs of the event from six Columbus-area 
photographers.  
CONTACT: Larry Williamson, Hale Center, 292-0074.

THE FUTURE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION--Jan 23.  Beginning with the 
California Civil Rights Initiative,  affirmative action programs 
have come under attack.  A national debate questions whether 
preferential treatment based on race, gender, and ethnicity 
should be abandoned in higher education, and in state and federal 
programs.  A panel of scholars will review the legal and 
political issues and deliberate the future of affirmative action 
at 7 p.m., Jan. 23, at the Hale Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 
12th Ave.  Panelists will include Frank W. Hale, Jr., professor 
emeritus of communications; Vincene Verdun, associate professor 
of law; Ruth Gresham, director of Off-Campus Student Affairs; 
William Nelson Jr., professor of political science; Leroy 
Pernell, vice-provost for minority affairs; and Tyson Hankins, a 
senior majoring in criminology.   The event is free and open to 
the public.
CONTACT: Michelle Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074.

CARTOONIST DONATES DRAWINGS TO CARTOON RESEARCH LIBRARY--What 
comic strip hero died in April 1995, causing an outcry in the 
media about the funnies not being funny anymore?  Farley, the 
beloved dog of For Better or For Worse died after rescuing little 
April from almost drowning.   Cartoonist Lynn Johnston has 
donated the original drawings for this series, as well as the 
letters she received to Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library.  
Library curator Lucy Caswell says Johnston is one of the few 
contemporary cartoonists to continue the tradition of telling 
serious stories in comic strips.
CONTACT: Lucy Caswell, Cartoon, Graphic and Photographic Arts 
Research Library, 292-0538.

UNIVERSITY RECYCLES (LOTS OF!) NEWSPAPERS--The University added 
newsprint to the list of recyclable materials collected and 
processed.  Ohio State's Recycling Program has placed a gray 96 
gallon "Newspaper Only" container in 175 campus buildings. Last 
year, Ohio State collected 907 tons of paper, glass, cans and 
wooden pallets. With an estimated 80,000 students, faculty, staff 
and visitors on campus each day, there is a considerable amount 
of newsprint available for recycling.
CONTACT: Carl Burgos, recycling coordinator, 292-8873.

COMPUTER GRAPHICS CREATE TREES AND BRANCHING SYSTEMS--An Ohio 
State professor has developed a computer program that creates 
realistic images of 'branching' objects like trees and blood 
vessels..  Midori Kitagawa DeLeon, an assistant professor in the 
Department of Art and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts 
and Design, has developed the Branching Object Generation and 
Animation System (BOGAS) to create realistic models of trees, 
plants, blood vessels, nervous systems, underwater animals and 
even imaginary creatures.  The system helps scientists, botanists 
and artists visualize realistic branching objects, permitting 
them to generate the objects interactively and then to see how 
factors like gravity and sunlight affect growth.  
CONTACT: Midori Kitagawa DeLeon, 292-3416.

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 
Tom Spring, 292-8309.
-Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:01:21 -0500]
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