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September 11, 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.

  • ** Thursday, Sept. 17. Medieval Studies Program's Third Annual Symposium. 4-6 p.m. Room 124, Krannert Center for Executive Education. This year's topic is "Cultural Cartography: Mapping the Other in the Middle Ages." The two speakers are John Block Friedman, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and David Read, associate professor of English, University of Missouri. Light refreshments will be served. Event is free and open to the public.

  • 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.

  • ** Saturday, Sept. 26. Boilermaker Tractor Pull. 6-11 p.m. Tractor Pull Track. Organized by the Boilermaker Tractor Pull Foundation. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • 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 opens 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.

  • ** Wednesday, Sept. 30. "The Inside -- Afrikan Centered Theatre." 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This free play is the inaugural event in the Black Cultural Center's fall Cultural Arts Festival.

  • 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. 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. Women's Studies Program Brown Bag Series. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Room B-2, Stone Hall. Elena Benedicto, Purdue Department of English, will speak on "Linguistics and Indigenous Women in Nicaragua."

  • 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. Medieval Mondays Brown Bag Series. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Room 306, Heavilon Hall. Sessions will consist of informal presentations of faculty and graduate student research projects followed by discussion.

  • 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."

  • ** Monday, Oct. 5. Medieval Mondays Brown Bag Series. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Rm. 306, Heavilon Hall. Sessions will consist of informal presentations of faculty and graduate student research projects followed by discussion.

  • ** Tuesday, Oct. 6. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Gerald Krockover, professor of earth and atmospheric science education. Sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs as part of the Focus on Teaching Lecture Series, where award-winning Purdue faculty members share their experiences, insights and creative approaches to teaching.

  • ** Tuesday, Oct. 6. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: Barbara Schmidt Hornkohl, Chicago. Topic: "THE Structural Engineer -- A Retrospective of the Engineering of William Schmidt." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • ** Wednesday, Oct. 7. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Topic: "Jewish Mysticism: Kabbalah and Fundamental Particles." Speaker: Professor David Sanders, Purdue Department of Biological Sciences.

  • ** Thursday, Oct. 8. Jewish Studies Colloquia Series. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Leonard Dinnerstein, professor of history and director of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Topic: "The Jews: A Minority or Not a Minority?"

  • ** Friday, Oct. 9. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Patrick J. Early, president, Somerset Financial Services, Indianapolis. Topic: "The Economic Impact of Professional Sports."

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.

WORKSHOPS

  • ** Thursday, Oct. 1. Researching the Black Experience in Cyberspace. 9 a.m., noon, 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Black Cultural Center library. Workshops by Dorothy Washington, BCC librarian, are free but registration is required. Part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

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

  • ** 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. 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.
    Oct. 6, New England; Oct. 7, Indian; Oct. 8, Chinese.

  • ** Saturday, Oct. 10. October break begins. Classes resume Wednesday, Oct. 14.

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

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