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September 4, 1998

EDITORS: This Purdue calendar lists selected events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free and open to the public, except where noted, and all are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings have two asterisks (**).

All events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's on-line calendar.

EVENTS

  • Tuesday, Sept. 15. Computer Roundtable. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Ballrooms, Purdue Memorial Union. Association of Information Technology Professionals sponsors this job fair.

  • Tuesday, Sept. 15. Consumer and Family Sciences Central Indiana Boiler Mixer. 5-7 p.m. Statehouse Rotunda, Indianapolis. Session will show how CFS and the state work together to improve families and communities. Tickets are $15. Call the CFS Alumni Office, (765) 494-7890 or 800-535-7303, for reservations and to confirm time and location.

  • Wednesday, Sept. 16. Industrial Roundtable. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Memorial Mall (rain location: Purdue Armory). Purdue Engineering Student Council sponsors this annual job fair.

  • ** Saturday, Sept. 19. Parents Day. Sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board. President's Convocation at 9 a.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. School tours and receptions 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

  • Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 21-22. RHIT Career Day. Company representatives will meet faculty and more than 1,000 students from the Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional, and Tourism Management. A reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, in the John Purdue Room, Stone Hall, for RHIT faculty, industry representatives, and December and May graduating seniors. A keynote address will be delivered at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22. The Career Day job fair will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. that day in the South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union.

  • Thursday, Sept. 24. Dedication of Food Science Building. Purdue officials and Lt. Gov. Joseph Kernan will speak from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m.; building tours will be offered from 2:15 to 4 p.m.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • Saturday, Sept. 12. Pregame concert by the "All-American" Marching Band. 9:40 a.m. (1-1/2 hours before 11:10 a.m. kickoff for game against Rice). Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Postgame concert will be at the Engineering Mall Fountain.

  • Sunday, Sept. 13. The Inside -- Afrikan Centered Theatre. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This free play is presented as part of the Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Series.

  • Tuesday, Sept. 15. What Is Klezmer? 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. A free multimedia and musical exploration of the variety of musical styles that make up klezmer music, which was performed by bands of itinerant Jewish musicians in Europe from the Middle Ages, melding the melodies of the peoples and lands they visited with their own Jewish music. Performed by the Lafayette Klezmorim and co-sponsored by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, with support from Purdue Convocations.

  • Thursday, Sept. 17. Burning River Brass. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $12 for the public, $9 for Purdue students at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Loeb Music Collection series.

  • Friday, Sept. 18. Cinema Now: "Mrs. Brown." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • Saturday, Sept. 19. Pregame concert by the "All-American" Marching Band. 9:40 a.m. (1-1/2 hours before 11:10 a.m. kickoff for game against Central Florida). Slayter Center of Performing Arts. High-school bands from throughout the Midwest will join Purdue's band for a massed performance on the Ross-Ade Stadium field at halftime. Postgame concert will be at the Engineering Mall Fountain.

  • ** Sunday, Sept. 20. 11th annual free Slayter Hill Concert by the Varsity Glee Club. 3 p.m. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Sponsored by Purdue Employee Federal Credit Union.

  • Sept. 24-Oct. 3. Purdue Theatre open its mainstage season with "Private Lives" by Noel Coward. 8 p.m., plus a 2:30 matinee on Sept. 27 and a 6 p.m. performance on Oct. 4. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Tickets are $11 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens. Season tickets for all four mainstage plays are $34 for adults and $22 for students and senior citizens. Available at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933.

  • Friday, Sept. 25. Bassist Edgar Meyer, banjo player Bela Fleck and mandolinist Mike Marshall. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $18 for the public ($20 after Sept. 21), $12 for Purdue students ($13 after Sept. 21) at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Patron's Choice series.

  • Sunday, Sept. 27. Cinema Now: "When the Cat's Away." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Saturday, Oct. 3. Pregame concert by the "All-American" Marching Band. Time to be announced, but it will be 1-1/2 hours before kickoff for game against Minnesota. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Postgame concert will be at the Engineering Mall Fountain.

  • ** Sunday, Oct. 4. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Horacio Gutierrez. 3 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $21, $18, $11 for the public, $12 and $10 for Purdue students at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. (Ticket prices increase by $2 after Sept. 21.) Part of Purdue Convocations' Lively Arts Package.

LECTURES

  • ** Tuesday, Sept. 8. Materials Consortium Seminar. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Materials and Electrical Engineering Building. Speaker: Akira Tonomura, senior chief research scientist, Hitachi, Ltd. Topic: "Observation of Quantized Vortices in Superconductors Using Electron Waves." Sponsored by the Purdue Materials Consortium.

  • Tuesday, Sept. 8. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: Clyde N. Baker Jr., STS Consultants Inc., Vernon Hills, Ill. Topic: "Foundation Engineering in 20th Century Chicago." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • ** Tuesday, Sept. 8. Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program lecture. 7 p.m. Room 218C, Stewart Center. Speaker: Mimi Koehl, professor of integrated biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Topic: "Feeding, Smelling, and Swimming With Little Hairy Legs." Koehl will use examples of zooplankton feeding and lobsters smelling to illustrate the rules that govern how hairy appendages interact with their environment.

  • Wednesday, Sept. 9. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Topic: "A Protestant Pastor Sits at the Feet of Rab Saadia Gaon." Speaker: Stuart Robertson, pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church, lecturer in the Purdue Department of History, and adjunct professor in Jewish Studies.

  • Thursday, Sept. 10. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:15 p.m. Room 001, University Hall. Topic: "Relativism: Who Has the Last Word?" Speaker: Simon Blackburn, the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina.

  • Friday, Sept. 11. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Randall W. Patterson, president, Turnaround & Crisis Management Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. Topic: "Secrets to Fixing Troubled Businesses."

  • Tuesday, Sept. 15. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: Eli W. Cohen and Robert P. DeScenza, TT-CBM Engineers, Chicago. Topic: "The Art of Designing Economical High-Rise Structures in Chicago." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • Friday, Sept. 18. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Stephen A. Roell, vice president and chief financial officer, Johnson Controls Inc., Milwaukee, Wis. Topic: "How M&A Transactions Support Business Growth."

  • Tuesday, Sept. 22. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: John J. Zils, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago. Topic: "Structural Engineering -- Chicago Style." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • Wednesday, Sept. 23. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 204, Stewart Center. Topic: "News About Jewish Genetic Diseases." Speaker: Anna Berkovitz, Purdue Department of Biological Sciences.

  • Thursday, Sept. 24. Purdue Galleries Brown Bag Lecture. Noon. Beelke Gallery, Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2. Topic: "Quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico." Speaker: Dorothy Zopf, whose quilts are on display through Oct. 4 in the Beelke Gallery.

  • Friday, Sept. 25. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Mamon M. Powers, Jr., president, Powers & Sons Construction Co. Inc., Gary, Ind. Topic: "The Simple Keys to Achieving Success."

  • Monday, Sept. 28. Purdue Galleries Brown Bag Lecture. Noon. Beelke Gallery, Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2. Lisa Keller, a Virginia artist, will discuss her recent paintings.

  • ** Tuesday, Sept. 29. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: W. Gene Corley, Construction Technology Laboratories Inc., Skokie, Ill. Topic: "Getting Concrete Up to Strength for Chicago's Mega High-Rise Buildings." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • ** Friday, Oct. 2. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speakers: Melissa and Jim Emery, partners, Viewfinder, Savannah, Ga. Topic: "Divorcing the Corporation."

MEETINGS

  • Monday, Sept. 14. University Senate meeting. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

CONFERENCES

  • ** Wednesday, Sept. 23. Pollution Prevention Technologies at Work. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Valle Vista Country Club, 755 E. Main St., Greenwood, Ind. The first Indiana Pollution Prevention Conference and Trade Show is co-sponsored by the Indiana Clean Manufacturing Technology and Safe Materials Institute, based at Purdue. Companies will find assistance, ideas, networking opportunities and resources in pollution prevention. Participants can preregister by Sept. 15; walk-in registration will be accepted if space is available. The cost is $50 per person. To register, call the Purdue Continuing Education Business Office, (765) 494-7231.

  • Thursday, Sept. 24. Environmental Sciences and Engineering Institute Environmental Symposium. 1-5 p.m. Stewart Center. Tentative schedule: 1-2 p.m. open posters, Room 306; 2-3 p.m. invited lecture, Room 206; 3-5 p.m. poster presentations, Room 306; reception following poster presentations. Symposium is designed to foster communication and interaction among the members of the Purdue community, other academic institutions, industry, and government agencies concerned with environmental issues.

EXHIBITS

  • Through Oct. 4. Dorothy Zopf: A Quilt Retrospective. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Beelke Gallery, Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2. (Closed Sept. 7.) Zopf will present a lecture, "Quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico," at noon Thursday, Sept. 24, in the gallery.

  • Through Sept. 30. Pottery by Betty Morgavan. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Watson's Crick Gallery, Room 1-125 Lilly Hall of Life Sciences.

OTHER

  • Monday, Sept. 7. Labor Day. Official university holiday. No classes.

  • ** Through Oct. 1. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations or information. Coming up: Sept. 8-10, Italian. Sept. 15, Irish; Sept. 16, Mexican; Sept. 17, German. Sept. 22, Sicilian; Sept. 23, Cajun; Sept. 24, Caribbean. Sept. 29, Greek; Sept. 30, Southeast Asian; Oct. 1, Southwestern.

Compiled by Frank Koontz, (765) 494-2080; home, (765) 742-8371; e-mail, frank_koontz@purdue.edu

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