Purdue Best Bets
April 4, 1997
JOURNALISTS: Here are some newsworthy Purdue events during the next two weeks.
Literacy pioneer to visit Purdue
World-renowned educator Dame Marie Clay of New Zealand, founder of the early intervention
literacy program Reading Recovery, will be on campus April 11-15 for a series of
workshops and implementation institutes. Purdue University's School of Education
is the headquarters for Reading Recovery in Indiana, and one of 19 teacher leader training
sites in the United States. Clay will be available for interviews with journalists
from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. April 11 in Room 3202 of the Liberal Arts and Education
Building. (PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME.) She will be able to speak about the success of Reading
Recovery on an international level and Purdue's efforts to make the program available
to every Indiana first-grader in need of intervention. Videographers and still photographers will have an opportunity to record Clay working with Reading Recovery teacher
leaders from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Virginia and Wisconsin at a professional development
workshop at 1 p.m. CONTACT: Maribeth Schmitt, director of Indiana Reading Recovery, (765) 494-9750; e-mail, mschmitt@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Events
Monday, April 14.
Women in Engineering Career Day for high-school juniors. Parents and students will
learn about the various areas of engineering and talk with practicing women engineers
and Purdue women engineering students and faculty, including a question-and-answer
session with Jane Daniels, Women in Engineering Programs' senior program manager. Sponsored
by Purdue's Schools of Engineering and the Society of Women Engineers. CONTACT: Daniels,
(765) 494-3889
Friday-Sunday April 18-20.
Purdue Bug Bowl featuring roach races, an insect petting zoo, insect crafts, honey
tasting, butterfly exhibits, a cooking-with-insects contest, a cake-decorating contest,
and a contest where folks decorate a Volkswagen beetle as an insect. Bug Bowl is
held in and around the Entomology Building from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. April 18; 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. April 19; and noon to 4 p.m. April 20. CONTACTS: Tom Turpin, professor
of entomology, (765) 494-4568; Kathy Heinsohn, entomology graduate student, (765)
494-8646; the Entomology Department, (765) 494-4554; or e-mail bug_bowl@entm.purdue.edu
Saturday-Sunday, April 19-20.
Purdue 84th Annual Horticulture Show. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the Horticulture
Building. Display gardens, landscaping ideas, a question-and-answer booth, horticulture
therapy, and plants for sale will be featured. Children's activities include face
painting, planting flowers and vegetables, and making bird feeders. CONTACT: Bruce
Bordelon, assistant professor of horticulture, (765) 494-8212
Saturday-Sunday, April 19-20.
Animal Sciences Open House and Boiler Barnyard. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days on the
lawn of Smith Hall. Activities include sheep-shearing demonstrations, milking demonstrations,
drawings, interactive displays, and children's games organized by the Animal Science Ambassadors. CONTACT: Bud Harmon, head of the Department of Animal Sciences,
(765) 494-4809
Saturday, April 19.
Brick Bowl. 10 a.m. In front of the Horticulture Building. Teams of landscape architecture
students will try to convert 250 bricks and some mortar into mailboxes, based on
designs they prepared earlier. CONTACT: Purdue landscape architect Rob Sovinski,
(765) 494-1341; e-mail, sovinski@agad.purdue.edu
Saturday, April 19.
Agronomy Open House. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lily Hall of Life Sciences. Activities include
painting with soil-based paints, a hands-on soil-texture guessing game, and a rainfall
simulation that demonstrates the different effects of rainfall on bare soil vs. planted soil. CONTACT: Darrell Schulze, professor of agronomy, (765) 494-8062
Saturday, April 19.
Forestry Open House. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Forestry and Forestry Products buildings. Activities
and displays about Indiana's natural resources and timber industry, including a portable
sawmill. Lafayette's Colombian Park Zoo also will bring live animals to the event. CONTACT: Bill Hoover, professor of forestry and natural resources, (765) 494-3580
Saturday, April 19.
School of Veterinary Medicine Open House. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lynn Hall. Activities include
exotic animal exhibits, oxen team demos, S.M.A.R.T. (a canine search and rescue team),
and a milking contest. CONTACT: Beth Morrison, graduate student in veterinary medicine, (765) 447-0593; or the School of Veterinary Medicine, (765) 494-7893.
Saturday, April 19.
The 1997 University Sing competition, sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board,
will start at 1:30 p.m. in the ballrooms of Purdue Memorial Union. About 20 student
organizations will compete. Rule changes this year allow costumes and choreography
for singing groups and presentation of a spirit award based on visual impact, costuming
and crowd reaction. CONTACT: J.J. Foster, University Sing director, Purdue Student
Union Board, (765) 494-8976
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
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