Story Tips for Local News Media - 11/20/95

                        STORY TIPS

University Communication offers a listing 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.

UNIVERSITY CLOSED--Nov. 23-24.  Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, 
Ohio State University classes will be cancelled and offices will 
be closed on Thursday and Friday.  

OSU TIME CAPSULE ON DISPLAY--Through Nov. 30.  A bow tie from 
President Gee, university ID cards, a musical CD, and a telephone 
receiver revealing celebrate Ohio State's 125th anniversary.  The 
capsule will be sealed in December and opened in 2070, the 200th 
anniversary of Ohio State.  The time capsule is on display in the 
lobby of the William Oxley Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave. 
CONTACT: Raimund Goerler, university archivist, 292-2409.

THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR CAMPUS COMMUNITY--Nov. 23.  Ohio State's 
Office of Minority Affairs and the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black 
Cultural Center will host Thanksgiving Dinner from 1-6 p.m. at 
the Hale Center, 153 W. 12th Ave.  The dinner is open to all 
students, faculty and staff and is free;  however, reservations 
are recommended.  (Call 292-0074 Nov. 16-22.)  This is the fourth 
year for the dinner at the Hale Center.  Last year, 125 students 
attended.   Many members of the campus community are unable to go 
home for Thanksgiving, and this offers a chance to share the 
holiday with an extended "family."
CONTACT:  Michelle Cushnie, Hale Cultural Center, 292-0074.

THE FIRST 20 YEARS OF FUNNIES--Nov. 30.  Lucy Caswell, curator 
for the Cartoon, Graphic and Photographic Arts Research Library, 
will present "Mickey, Alphonse and Toodles: The First 20 years 
of the Funnies" at 4 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Faculty Club Grand 
Lounge, 181 S. Oval Drive.  This humorous and informative lecture 
will focus on the early evolution of cartoons.  
CONTACT: Cartoon, Graphic and Photographic Arts Research Library, 
292-2262.

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 
Tom Spring, 292-8309.
-Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:32:25 -0500]
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