Story Tips for Local News Media - 07/24/98

 
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BASKETBALL ANYONE?--July 24. William E. Kirwan, president of The 
Ohio State University, will host  
a picnic and basketball tournament with students from the Samuel 
DuBois Cook Summer Young Scholars  
Conference today (7/24) from noon to 3 p.m. in the area between 
Park and Smith Halls, 110 W. 11th Ave.   
The event marks the closing of the week-long conference, in which 
underrepresented low-income students  
from nine Ohio cities took part in career exploration, personal 
development and college preparatory course  
work.  The Young Scholars Program gives first generation college-
bound Ohio minority students a college  
education at little or no cost to the students with a goal to 
increase the number of underrepresented minority  
students at the college level with particular emphasis on African 
American, Latino American, Native  
American, and Appalachian students. 
CONTACT: Paula Smith, acting director of YSP, 292-4980. 
 
OSU HOSTS SUMMER PHONICS INSTITUTE--July 26-29. The Ohio State 
Summer Phonics Institute  
will emphasize what constitutes a good phonics program for pre-
service teachers at its conference Sunday  
through Wednesday (7/26-7/29) at the Marriott North Hotel, 6500 
Doubletree Ave.  Richard Allington,  
professor of education and chair of the Department of Reading at 
the University of Albany, State University  
of New York, will speak on "Characteristics of Exemplary Phonics 
Instruction" at 7 p.m. Sunday (7/26).  
Under mandate from several state legislatures, including Ohio's, 
new public school teachers will need phonics  
classwork to meet licensure standards.  Education professionals 
from around the state will stress how to set up  
programs to instruct future teachers on how to teach phonics and 
how phonics can improve literacy in  
children. 
CONTACT: Gemma McLuckie, College of Education, 292-4658. 
 
BUCKEYES, START YOUR ENGINES--July 28. The Ohio State University 
will announce the "Ohio State  
Motorsports" program and unveil an Ohio State stock car and a 
NASCAR truck at a news conference on  
Tuesday, July 28, at the Center for Automotive Research, 930 
Kinnear Road, at 11 a.m. Reporters should  
enter through the garage at the rear of the building.  Appearing 
at the press conference will be two drivers and  
their vehicles with Ohio State logos.  A merchandising program -- 
including an Ohio State Motorsports logo --  
that will support initiatives at the Center for Automotive 
Research (CAR) and the student motorsports project  
teams in the College of Engineering will also be announced.  
CONTACT: Rick Van Brimmer, Trademark & Licensing Services, 292-
1562. 
 
The person listed as the contact for each item will have the best 
information about the story.  Feel free to call  
on our news services staff for assistance with these or other 
Ohio State news stories --  
Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; Tracy Turner, 688-3682; and Emily 
Caldwell, 292-8309. 
**Compiled by Tracy Turner, University Communications, 
(Turner.44@osu.edu).