Story Tips for Local News Media - 11/08/96

                         STORY TIPS

University Communication offers this list of  potential news 
stories on the Columbus campus next week.  We'll update this 
listing every Friday.

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.  
Our Web address is www.acs.ohio-state.edu.

SINGERS PRESENT OPERA FAVORITES--Nov. 9.  The Opera/Music Theatre 
program will perform some of the world's best-loved arias and 
ensembles at 8 p.m. in Weigel Hall Auditorium, 1866 College Rd.  
Operatic favorites by Mozart, Beethoven and others will be 
performed under the direction of Noel Koran, newly appointed 
director of opera/music theatre.
CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-8835.

SPIRIT OF WOMEN ADDRESSES WOMEN'S HEALTH--Nov. 9.  Family, work 
and health are the focus of Spirit of Women, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.at 
the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.  The Ohio State 
University Medical Center was recently named one of only six 
National Center of Excellence in Women's Health by the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services to act as a national 
model for improving the health of American Women.  The day 
includes a play about the many facets of  women's friendships, 
discussions on family, work or health; and an opportunity to sign 
up for classes and health screenings.
CONTACT: Betsy Samuels, Medical Center Communications, 293-3737.

MARCHING BAND PRESENTS CONCERT--Nov. 10.  Hold on to your hats!  
The Ohio State University Marching Band presents its annual 
indoor concert at 3 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Auditorium.  
Directed by Jon Woods, the band will play fight songs and music 
from half-time shows of Buckeye football games.
CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, 292-8835.

CLASSES AND OFFICES CLOSED FOR VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY--Nov. 11.  
There are no classes and most university offices will be closed 
to mark Veterans Day.  Units that are normally open on weekends, 
including libraries, hospitals and recreation centers, will be 
open.

COSTUME COLLECTION CURATOR DISCUSSES HISTORY IN DRESS--Nov. 12.  
Our Future from Our Past: Historicism in Dress, will be presented 
by Gail Strege, curator of the Historic Costume and Textiles 
Collection in the College of Human Ecology, at 4:30 p.m. in the 
Geraldine Schottenstien wing of Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave.  
Strege will provide an overview of Fashioning the Future, the 
exhibit of historic costumes that opened last week.  
CONTACT: Gail Strege, Consumer and Textile Sciences, 292-3090.

UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES BEGINS--Nov. 14.  
Charles Atkinson, a professor of music history, will deliver the 
inaugural lecture in Ohio State's University Distinguished 
Lecturer Series.  The lectureship, new in 1996, is one of the 
highest honors awarded to senior members of the faculty.  
Atkinson will lecture at 5 p.m. in the Ohio Union Conference 
Theatre, 1739 N. High St. The other two honorees are Sheldon 
Shore, professor of chemistry; and Karl Rubin, professor of 
mathematics, who will speak later in the year.
CONTACT:  Charles Atkinson, 292-9440.

AMERICAN INDIAN LEADERS DISCUSS TEACHING THEIR HISTORY --Nov. 14.   
American Indian studies and the use of  telecommunications in 
American Indian schools will be discussed by two American Indian 
leaders in the Drake Union River Den, 1849 Cannon Dr.  Duane 
Champagne, director of the American Indian Studies Center and 
associate professor of sociology at the University California at 
Los Angeles, and Karen Radney Buller, president and chief 
executive officer of National Indian Telecommunications Institute 
(NITI) of Santa Fe, N.M., will speak about their work in American 
Histories: Native Nations.   Champagne will speak at 1 p.m.on the 
interdisciplinary nature of American Indian studies, how the 
studies contribute to learning about the place of Indians in U.S. 
law and history, and government policy toward Indians.  At 3 p.m. 
Buller will discuss the impact of telecommunications applications 
in American Indian schools, colleges and businesses.  Their 
appearances are co-hosted by the Office of Student Life, and the 
Office of Minority Affairs.
CONTACT: Marti Chaatsmith, Native American Student Programs, 
292-7521. 

IS THERE A PLACE FOR RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES IN THE UNIVERSITY?--
Nov. 14-15.
George Marsden, a professor of history at the University of Notre 
Dame will present a series of lectures based on his latest book, 
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant 
Establishment to Established Nonbelief.  Marsden will discuss 
Religious Perspectives in the University: To Be or Not To Be at 
8:15 p.m. at Independence Hall, 1923 Neil Ave; and What role 
should professors' personal faith have at a state university? at 
11:30 a.m. at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge, 181 South Oval 
Drive.  
CONTACT: Howard Van Cleave, Campus Ministry Association, 
267-8323.

COMEDIAN DAVE EDWARDS ENTERTAINS ON CAMPUS--Nov. 14.  Comedian 
Dave Edwards from MTV's Real World II will appear at 7:30 p.m. in 
the Ohio Union East Ballroom, 1739 N. High St.  Edwards' rapid 
fire delivery has won him appearances on HBO's Def Comedy Jam, 
Showtime at the Apollo, Comedy Central, Apollo Comedy Hour and 
the movie House Party III.
CONTACT: Conni Catlett, Student Events Committee, 292-2324.

RENOVATED HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY HOLDS OPEN HOUSE--Nov. 14.  The 
John A. Prior Health Sciences Library reopened recently in its 
completely renovated location at 376 West 10th Ave.  The $8 
million project will be shown off at an open house from 3-7 p.m.  
The new library now offers a consumer health collection in 
response to requests for health information from students, 
consumers, and patients and their families.  This collection 
offers access to reference books designed for the lay person, a 
pamphlet file, and the health reference center CD-ROM database.  
The library also offers traditional books and journals and public 
workstations that access over 30 databases and the World Wide 
Web.  
CONTACT: Barbara Anderson, OSU Prior Health Sciences Library, 
292-4908.

FISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ACCEPTS $1 MILLION CHALLENGE GRANT--A 
challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation will help complete 
funding of the five-building Max M. Fisher College of Business 
complex.  The college must raise more than $7 million in new 
gifts by March of 1998 to receive the grant.  The college has a 
campaign goal of $65 million and approximately $58 million has 
been raised through corporate, foundation and individual sources.
CONTACT: Melanie Tracy, Director of Marketing Communications, 
Fisher College of Business-292-8022.

WRITERS READ TO FIGHT HUNGER--Nov. 13.  Writers from Ohio State's 
Creating Writing program will join a national effort to fight 
hunger by reading from their works along with 2,000 authors at 
other locations across the country in Share Our Strength's Fifth 
Annual Writers Harvest: The National Reading.  Readings will be 
held beginning at 8 p.m. in Sullivant Hall Theatre, 1813 North 
High St.
CONTACT: Tom Moss, Writers Guild, 291-7358; or Shari Lorbach, 
College of Humanities, 292-1882.

 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 Tracy Turner, 688-3682.
-Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:16:25 -0500 (EST)]
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