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Story Tips for Local News Media - 04/19/96
STORY TIPS
University Communication offers this list of potential news stories
on the Columbus campus. We'll update this listing every week.
This and every University Communications news release is 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. Select News and Weather,
then Ohio State University News Releases, then News Releases from
University Communications. Our Web address is http://www.acs.ohio-
state.edu/ Choose News Releases from The Ohio State University,
then News Releases from University Communications.
EARTH DAY AT OHIO STATE--Apr. 20. The Browning Amphitheater (near
Mirror Lake) is the site of Earth Day Festival '96, featuring
speakers, bands and display tables from more than two dozen
environmental groups. The festival will be held from 1:30-6:30 p.m.
GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM--Apr. 20. Ohio State graduate students will
make presentations about their research and compete for prizes in the
annual event, from 8 a.m.-noon in Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall.
Prizes totaling $600 will be awarded in each of the Graduate School's
10 academic areas to the top-, second-, and third-ranked papers. The
event is sponsored by the Council of Graduate Students.
CONTACT: Jamie Marie Newmeyer, Council of Graduate Students, 292-4380.
OPTOMETRY CAREER DAY-Apr. 21. Ohio State's College of Optometry is
one of only 19 such schools in the U.S. and Canada. Anyone
interested in learning more about optometry can attend Optometry
Career Day from 1-4:00 p.m., in the College of Optometry, 338 W. 10th
Ave. Attendees can tour classrooms, labs and clinics, and obtain
admission and financial aid information.
CONTACT: Lisa Earley, College of Optometry, 292-2647.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING OPEN HOUSE--Apr. 20. High school students and
their parents are invited to learn more about the College of
Engineering at an open house, 8:30 a.m.-3:30p.m., at Hitchcock Hall,
2070 Neil Ave.
CONTACT: Kerry Lynch, College of Engineering, 292-0550.
HIGH ON PRIDE--Apr. 27. In the spirit of Earth Day and Arbor Day, an
estimated 2,000 Ohio State students, faculty, staff and community
members will clean up the campus area in the fourth High on Pride
University Community Cleanup, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Volunteers will
work one of four shifts, picking up litter, sweeping streets and
sidewalks, collecting recyclables in the streets, and removing bulk
trash in an area bounded by Parkway Drive on the north, Lane Avenue
on the south, the Olentangy River on the west, and the Conrail tracks
on the east. High on Pride's first three efforts, in Oct. 1994 and
May and Oct. 1995, removed 151 tons of trash and litter from the
areas around campus. To volunteer, call 292-DIRT.
CONTACT: Tracy Turner, University Communications, 688-3682.
DANCE AND THEATRE HIGHLIGHT ARTS CALENDAR--Apr. 23-27. After a year
and a half of overseas work, Susan Van Pelt returns to Columbus with
an evening of dance works performed by the Repertory Project, a
professional dance company from Cleveland. Van Pelt, an Ohio State
faculty member from 1985-89, left to pursue a free-lance career. She
is a visiting artist in the dance department this spring.
Performances are at 8 p.m., Apr. 26 and 27, Sullivant Theatre, 1813
N. High St.
Witty dialogue and engaging characters are offered by the
Department of Theatre's spring studio production, Wrecked Eggs, by
David Hare. The play opens on Apr. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mount Hall
Theatre, 1050 Carmack Rd., and runs Apr. 24-27 at 8 p.m. with a
Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-8835.
TAKE A DAUGHTER TO WORK DAY--Apr. 25. Ohio State University
employees are invited to "Take a Daughter to Work," on Thuraday, and
introduce children to a range of exciting careers. Participants may
try their hand at designing a toy, lifting fingerprints off objects,
learning how to tell a horses' age by the teeth, or see what it's
like to be a university president. Girls and boys, ages 9-17 may
attend any of the 55 free workshops around campus, taught by faculty
and staff volunteers. Several hundred children are expected to
participate. Workshops are offered from 9:30-11 :00 a.m., 1:00-2:30
p.m. and 3-4:00 p.m. Take a Daughter to Work Day is a national
program established by the Ms. Foundation. At Ohio State, the day is
sponsored by the University Career Services Committee and the
Association of Faculty and Professional Women.
CONTACT: Margie Bogenshutz, Take A Daughter to Work Day Committee,
292-8586.
HUMANITIES LECTURE--Apr. 24. Enough about You; Let's Talk About Me:
A Brief History of Women's Autobiography," be presented by will Leigh
Gilmore, professor of English and women's studies, at noon at the
Hyatt on Capitol Square, 75 E. State St. The lecture is part of the
1996 Women's Luncheon Series, "Women and Knowledge: Changing Minds,
Changing Lives" presented by the College of Humanities and Department
of Women's Studies. In the lecture, Gilmore will examine how women
writers have developed their own ways of telling the truth about
their lives.
CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882.
SPRING INTO THE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES PROGRAM-- The Creative Activities
Program offers 180 non-credit, adult education courses this spring,
including courses on wines, teas and coffees, Hawaiian dancing,
acting, breadmaking, African cooking, and dog obedience.
CONTACT: Samantha Cothern, Director, CAP, 292-9983.
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.
SILENT WITNESSES VISIT CAMPUS--Apr. 26. Women who were killed in an
act of domestic violence are symbolized and remembered in The Silent
Witness Exhibit, a traveling memorial featuring 27 life-size red
silhouetted figures to represent individual victims of domestic
violence. The exhibit will be on display in room S125B Rhodes Hall
(University Hospital) Apr. 26-May 3. A memorial ceremony honoring
the victims will be held Apr. 26 from 12:30-1:00 p.m. The goal of
the exhibit, which is sponsored by the Junior League of Columbus, is
to remember the victims, to raise awareness of the extent of domestic
violence, to connect people with community resources, and to
encourage community and legislative action against violence. The
exhibit is making its way across the country with stops at the Ohio
Statehouse in Oct.'96, and Washington, D.C., in Oct. '97. .
CONTACT: Anne Hildreth, Columbus Junior League, 236-0765.
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, 19 Apr 1996 14:46:52 -0400]
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