Story Tips for Local News Media - 04/12/96

                             STORY TIPS

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

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MARCHING BAND GOES HOLLYWOOD--Apr. 15-17.  Seventeen Ohio State 
University Marching Band Members, along with Director Jon Woods, will 
travel to Los Angeles on Monday to film a scene for a Warner Brothers 
film titled My Fellow Americans.  The movie stars Jack Lemmon, Dan 
Ackroyd, James Garner, and Lauren Bacall and is about a presidential 
election.  The students, all squad leaders in the 1996 Marching Band, 
will be in a scene with Lemmon, who plays the candidate from Ohio.  
Band members will shoot their scene on Tuesday, and return to 
Columbus on Wednesday. Ohio State's Los Angeles Alumni Club will host 
the group during its brief stay.  Financial support for the grip is 
being provided by four prominent band boosters: Ohio State University 
Board of Trustees Chair Ambassador Milton Wolfe, Vice Chair Leslie 
Wexner, Past Chair John Kessler, and John Schiff, Sr., a member of 
The Ohio State University Foundation Board.  The group will rehearse 
at 3 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 14, in the Stadium Band Room.  
CONTACT: Jon Woods, 292-2598 or 292-2671, or Lois Foreman Wernet, 
College of the Arts, 292-8835.

COOL STORIES! POLAR RESEARCHERS DISCUSS WORLD CLIMATE, POLAR 
EXPLORATION--Apr. 12-13.   Current and former faculty from Ohio 
State's Byrd Polar Research Center are meeting at the Center, to 
commemorate the 70th anniversary of Admiral Byrd's historic flight to 
the North Pole and Operation High Jump.  The two-day forum includes 
talks on Abrupt Climate Change: The Three Year End of the Ice Age; 
Global Impact of Polar Processes; and  Byrd's North Pole Diary: New 
Evidence.  All talks will be held in room 240, Scott Hall, 1090 
Carmack Road.  The Byrd Center is the repository for the personal 
papers of polar explorer. Members of the Byrd family are expected to 
attend the conference.
CONTACT: Lynn Everett, Byrd Polar Research Center, 292-9909.  

SCHOLARS DISCUSS SECURITY ISSUES IN EASTERN EUROPE--Apr. 12-13.  As 
part of International Week, experts in Slavic studies and national 
security meet at Ohio State to discuss After the Warsaw Pact: 
Security and Change in the New Eastern Europe.  The program looks at 
civil-military relationships, security dilemmas, the security and 
defense policies that have emerged since 1989, and the U.S. role in 
European security and the future of NATO..The program is sponsored by 
the Center for Slavic and East European studies and the Mershon 
Center, which conducts research and educational activities in 
international security and public policy.
CONTACT: Matthew Schwonek, OSU Center for Slavic and East European 
Studies, 292-8770.

GREEK COMMUNITY JOINS FOR TEAM EFFORT--Apr. 12-14.  About 105 Ohio 
State students representing 52 greek organizations at the university 
will spend a weekend working, sharing and creating as a TEAM during a 
leadership retreat at Mohican State Park.  TEAM, Together Everyone 
Accomplishes More, is a retreat for current and potential leaders of 
greek organizations designed to develop leadership skills and further 
promote unity within fraternities and sororities.  Ohio State is the 
first Big Ten university to participate in TEAM.
CONTACT: Tracy Stuck, Office of Student Services, 688-4145.

HISPANIC AWARENESS WEEK--Apr. 14-21. Beginning with a kickoff fiesta, 
Apr. 14, from 3-5 p.m. at Whetstone Park, Ohio State's office of 
Hispanic Student Services sponsors a week of exhibits, lectures and 
events.  Among the activities at the Ohio Union: National Subjects 
and Discourses in Latin America's 19th Century: A Colloquium, on Apr. 
19; Hispanic Business Opportunities in Ohio and Latin America, on 
Apr. 17; and WWW, World Wide Web in Latin America, on Apr. 16. 
CONTACT: Carmen Alvarez-Breckenridge, Hispanic Student Services, 292-
2917.

TOP STUDENTS RECOGNIZED--Apr. 17.   Some 200 Ohio State seniors with 
outstanding academic records will be honored at a reception beginning 
at 4:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.  The Colleges of 
the Arts and Sciences will present each student with Excellence in 
Scholarship award certificates.  The students were selected from a 
pool of about 2,000 seniors in the five colleges: Arts, Biological 
Sciences, Humanities, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Social 
and Behavioral Sciences.
CONTACT: Tom Spring, University Communications, 292-8424.

VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT--Apr. 18-20.  The Midwest Intercollegiate 
Volleyball Association Tournament will be held in St. John Arena with 
the champion to advance to the NCAA Championship finals at UCLA on 
May 2.  Teams include Ball State, Indiana-Purdue, Ft. Wayne, Lewis, 
Loyola-Chicago, Ohio State, Quincy, Thomas More and Wisconsin-
Milwaukee.  Last year, Ball State defeated Ohio State to win the 
tournament played at Ball State.
CONTACT: Steve Snapp, Sports Information, 292-6861.

UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION FOCUSES ON CIVIC VALUES--Apr. 18.  
Edward Schwartz, president of the Institute for the Study of Civic 
Values in Philadelphia, will discuss  From 'Me' to 'We': A Civic 
Framework for Community, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen's Episcopal 
Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.  Schwartz's lecture is part of a 
community celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of 
Ohio State and the 25th anniversary of the creation of the University 
District Organization.
CONTACT: The Rev. Richard Bausman, director of the United Christian 
Center and chair of UDO's Program Committee, 294-5195.

CAMPUS PARTNERS INVITES PUBLIC INPUT--through Apr. 26.  Campus 
Partners, the group established by Ohio State to lead a 
revitalization effort for the area around the university,  is seeking 
public comment on the final draft of its revitalization plan.  The 
230-page planning document, University Neighborhoods: Revitalization 
Concept, has been refined based on public response to the first draft 
of the plan which was issued last November.  This final draft 
contains policies, recommendations and program descriptions for the 
revitalization of the University Neighborhoods.  Campus Partners 
requests public comment on the draft concept plan in writing to its 
office at 1824 N. High St.  The document is available for review at 
the Campus Partners office, OSU Main Library, and Whetstone and 
Northside Branch Libraries.  Following a review of the comments, a 
finished concept document will be produced in May, and possibly 
presented in June to Columbus City Council and the University Board 
of Trustees.
CONTACT: Steve Sterrett, Campus Partners, 294-7300.

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, 12 Apr 1996 15:22:58 -0400]
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