Story Tips for Local News Media - 10/03/96

                                STORY TIPS

University Communication offers this list of  potential news stories on the
Columbus campus next 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=20
State University, then News Releases from University Communications.

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE WILL SPEAK FRIDAY ON THE OVAL=97Oct. 4.  Making a
campaign stop Friday (Oct. 4) to speak to students is Vice President Al
Gore.  He will speak on the Oval, near Orton Hall, at 3:30 p.m.  The area
will be fenced off, and tickets will be required to enter the fenced area.
Tickets are available at the Undergraduate Student Government offices at 201
Ohio Union.  The event is part of=20
USG=92s ongoing effort to inform and encourage the student body to=
 participate
in the election process.  Media credentialing is being handled by Jay Byrne
at 280-1996.  The media parking area is located near the Faculty Club.  To
enter from High Street, turn west on West 11th Avenue or West Woodruff
Avenue, then immediately onto College Road to Hagerty Drive (just south of
the Oval behindthe student union).  Follow the traffic officer's directions
to the parking area.=20
CONTACT: Colin O=92Brien, Undergraduate Student Government, 292-2101.

OPEN HOUSE FOR THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS=97Oct. 4.  The third annual
all-campus open house for the Wexner Center for the Arts will take place
from noon-9 p.m. Oct. 4. The Wexner Center, 1891 N. High St., offers the
latest in art, architecture, film and video, dance, music and theater.  The
open house features the current exhibit, Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since
1945, and includes different activities all day long, including prize
drawings and performances by students in the College of the Arts.
CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-9923.

HOMECOMING WEEK CELEBRATED WITH VARIETY OF EVENTS=97OCT. 6-12.  Ohio State
will celebrate Homecoming Week Oct. 6-12 with the theme Mardi Gras Buckeye
Style.
  Monday (Oct. 7)  -- Mardi Gras Carnival from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the Ohio
Union West Lawn, 1739 N. High St. There will be food, music and games
throughout the=20
day, and a concert with Robin Lacey and deZYDECO at 6 p.m.
  Tuesday (Oct.8)  -- Students, faculty and staff will stomp on the Oval
during Fat Tuesday Aerobics at 4 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. In case of rain,
the aerobics will be in the Ohio Union East Ballroom.
  Wednesday (Oct. 9) -- The Student Wellness Center will hold a mocktail
party in 100 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, with motivational speaker
Mitch Crane speaking at 6 and 7 p.m. on alcohol responsibility.
  Thursday (Oct. 10) --  The music group Blessid Union of Souls will be in
concert along with Arnette Howard=92s Creole Funk Band at 7 p.m. on the Ohio
Union West Lawn. At 8 p.m., the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will crown the
African American=20
Homecoming King and Queen during the African American Homecoming Pageant in
100 Hughes Hall, 1899 College Road.
  Friday (Oct. 11) -- The traditional homecoming parade, featuring floats,
the Anheuser Busch Clydesdale horses, the Ohio State Marching Band and the
Homecoming Court will begin at 6 p.m. at the French Field House.  Grand
Marshals are Ohio State alumni Olympic gold medalist Butch Reynolds and CBS
News correspondent Erin Moriarty, who will lead the parade down High Street
and around the south side of the Ohio Union to end on the Oval, where there
will be a pep rally with announcement of the Homecoming King and Queen.
  Saturday (Oct. 12) -- During half-time of the homecoming football game
with the University of Wisconsin, the Homecoming King and Queen will be
crowned. From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., a Masquerade Ball will be held in the Ohio
Union West Ballroom. Cost is $5. All other events are free.
CONTACT: Brenda Fields, program coordinator of campus events, 292-2324.

TWO ART EXHIBITS FOCUS ON CHILDREN=97Oct. 7-11. Two exhibitions in Hopkins
Hall Gallery and Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall, will focus on children. In the
main gallery, the exhibition scars of childhood is a  black-and-white
photographic testimony created by John Teplica, professor of surgery at the
University of Chicago and an MFA graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Teplica will give a gallery talk at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 7. For more information
about programs surrounding this exhibition and National Children=92s Burn
Awareness Week, call 297-5331. =20
Concurrently, in the Hopkins Hall Corridor is an exhibition celebrating the
visual arts and creative writing components of the Americorps program
Children of the Future, an arts initiative offered to children at inner-city
recreation centers in Columbus. The exhibition will feature drawings,
paintings, sculptures, mixed media constructions and personal writings. At
12:30 p.m. Oct. 9, an informal gallery talk will be given by Nicholas Hill,
the program=92s director. Opening reception for=20
both exhibits is 5-7 p.m. Oct. 7.
CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-5171.

MEETINGS WILL EXAMINE METAL TECHNOLOGY=97Oct. 7-11.  Nearly 500 experts will
meet at three international conferences on metal forming technology,
especially as applied to the automobile industry. Researchers from Europe,
Japan and North America are expected, as are representatives from Mercedes
Benz, Fiat, BMW, Ford, Toyota and Honda. The Engineering Research Center for
Net Shape Manufacturing is host and co-sponsor of the International
Conference on Technology of Plasticity,=20
Oct. 7-11; Cold and Warm Forging Technology 1996, Oct. 7-9; and Sheet
Forming Technology 1996, Oct. 9-11. All meetings will take place at the
Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.
CONTACT: Sabine Tonnesmann, Engineering Research Center, 292-9267.

STUDENTS OFFERED STUDY SKILLS WORKSHOPS--Oct.  8, 15.  Success in college
requires motivation and good study habits.  Knowing how and when to study is
the topic of a series of workshops offered by the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black
Cultural Center. A Study Skills Workshop will take place from 6-7 p.m. Oct.
8 Exam Taking Techniques will be offered from 6-7 p.m. Oct. 15. All
workshops will take place at the Hale Center, 153 W. 12th Ave.
CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074.

WORK OF FRANK ZAPPA IS THE TOPIC OF FIRST IN LECTURE SERIES=97Oct. 9.  Arved
Ashby of the OSU music history faculty will speak about Frank Zappa=92s
Orchestral Transcriptions and Ideas of the Artwork as part of the College of
the Arts Lectures in Musicology Series. The free talk will be at 4:30 p.m.
Oct. 9 in the seminar room of the Music and Dance Library in Sullivant Hall,
1813 N. High St.=20
CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-5171.

COMIC PERFORMER DANNY HOKE APPEARS AT WEXNER CENTER=97Oct. 10-13.  Young
theater sensation Danny Hoke appears at the Wexner Center for the Arts in an
acclaimed one-man performance that has won audiences from coast to coast.
This 25-year-old portrays a myriad of humorous yet moving characters in his
Obie-winning show Some People at 8 p.m. Oct. 10-13 and 3 p.m. Oct. 13 in the
Center=92s Performance Space, 1891 N. High St. The performance is the second
in a series of six events in Theatrical Impulses: New Theater Directions,
the Wexner Center=92s first consolidated lineup of new theater performances
bringing the vitality of today=92s=20
Off-Broadway scene to Columbus.
CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-0330.

CONFERENCE EXAMINES CLINICAL INTERVENTION FOR DEAF, HARD OF HEARING AND
MENTALLY ILL=97Oct. 10.  The College of Social Work and Ohio Department of
Mental Health will sponsor a conference, Effective Clinical Intervention for
Persons who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Mentally Ill at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 10
at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road. The conference will
provide clinical practitioners with basic knowledge to facilitate effective
clinical intervention with people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The
morning session consists of a keynote address followed by responses from a
panel. Three concurrent workshops in the afternoon=20
will examine older deaf and hard of hearing people, deaf and hard of hearing
children, and mental health assessments of the deaf and hard of hearing.
CONTACT: Dianna Barrett, Social Work, 292-0399.

MAX KADE GERMAN HOUSE WILL BE DEDICATED=97Oct. 11.  The Department of=
 Germanic
Languages and Literatures will dedicate the Max Kade German House at an
event at 5 p.m. Oct. 11 at the house, 141 W. 11th Ave. Kade was a
German-American businessman and philanthropist whose career was in the
pharmaceutical industry. The Max Kade Foundation donated $240,000 to
renovate the facility. The residential and educational house will be home to
nine students and a graduate resident adviser.
CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882.

ARTS MANAGEMENT COLLECTION DONATED TO OHIO STATE, WRITER VISITS
COLUMBUS--Oct. 11.  Alvin Reiss, author of many publications on the business
of the arts, has donated his collection of materials on the arts and arts
management to The Ohio State University Fine Arts Library.  The collection
includes thousands of books, periodicals, reports, studies, clippings,
tapes, and papers that provide a chronological view of the development of
the arts industry from the 1960s to the present.  Reiss is editor and
publisher of Arts Management, a journal co-founded=20
with Alvin Toffler in 1962.  He is author of six books, more than 500
magazine articles, and numerous studies and reports.  Reiss says he chose
Ohio State to house his collection because of the vibrancy and growing
reputation of its Arts Policy and Administration Program and its excellent
library system. Reiss will be in Columbus on Oct. 11, to speak at Borders
Books & Music, 4545 Kenny Road, about his newest book, Don=92t Just Applaud,
Send Money! The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the=
 Arts.=20
CONTACT: Constance Bumgarner Gee, Arts Policy and Administration, 292-5356.=
=20

BLACK CULTURAL CENTER MARKS ANNIVERSARY WITH OPEN HOUSE=97Oct. 11.  The=
 Frank
W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Ave., will mark its seventh
anniversary with an open house from noon-8 p.m. The event will feature
music, arts and crafts, food and a social. Music will be provided by local
reggae musicians, and vendors will display clothing, jewelry, books and
fragrances. An art exhibit, Sisters in the Struggle, also will be on=
 display.
CONTACT: Lee Smith, Minority Affairs, 292-0074.

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 David Bhaerman, University Communications,=
 (bhaerman.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:27:43 -0400]
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