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September 18, 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

  • 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. Chemistry Glass Laboratory open house. Noon. Room 200, Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Glassblowers gathered for a meeting of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society will show how they produce equipment used in laboratories. Tours of the lab, which is in room 427 of Wetherill, also will be available.

  • 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.

  • ** Thursday, Oct. 1. Purdue Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner. 6:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Tickets are $60, available at the Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • ** 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. (No performance Monday, Sept. 28.) 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 $20 for the public, $13 for Purdue students 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.

  • ** Wednesday, Sept. 30. PMO Bell Choir free concert. 7 p.m. Friendship House, 1010 Cumberland Ave., West Lafayette. The Bell Choir's first event of the school year.

  • Wednesday, Sept. 30. "The Inside -- Afrikan Centered Theatre." 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This free play is the first event in the Black Cultural Center's 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 $23, $20 and $13 for the public, $14 and $12 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Lively Arts Package.

  • ** Wednesday, Oct. 7. Jewish Studies Program Film Festival. 7 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. "The Quarrel," followed by an audience participation discussion led by Professor Sandor Goodhart, director of the Jewish Studies Program.

  • ** Thursday, Oct. 15. Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra with Stephen Prutsman. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $23 for the public, $13 for Purdue students
  • ** Sunday, Oct. 18. Free concert by the Fall Concert Band and Symphonic Band. 2:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center.

  • ** Sunday, Oct. 18. Cinema Now: "Taste of Cherry." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students.

LECTURES

  • 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 Civil Engineering.

  • Wednesday, Sept. 23. Women's Studies Program Brown Bag Series. 12:30 p.m. Room B-2, Stone Hall. Topic: "Linguistics and Indigenous Women in Nicaragua." Speaker: Elena Benedicto, Purdue Department of English.

  • 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.

  • Monday, Sept. 28. Medieval Mondays Brown Bag Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 306, Heavilon Hall. Informal presentations of faculty and graduate student research projects followed by discussion.

  • 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 p.m. Room 306, Heavilon Hall. 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: Purdue biology Professor David Sanders.

  • 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."

  • ** Tuesday, Oct. 13. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: Anthony E. Fiorato, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill. Topic: "The Influence of Chicago Engineering on the Evolution of Concrete Technology." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • ** Wednesday, Oct. 14. "Embracing the Good and Pursuing the Possible." 7 p.m. Room 206, Stewart Center. Speaker: Maulana Karenga, the creator of the African-American cultural holiday Kawanzaa and the Nguzo Saba. Part of the Black Cultural Center Cultural Arts Series.

  • ** Thursday, Oct. 15. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 117, University Hall. Topic: "Externalism and Skepticism." Speaker: Michael Bergmann, Purdue University.

  • ** Friday, Oct. 16. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Luis Alberto Montoya, franchise vice president, GEMEX Pepsico de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., Mexico. Topic: "Generation Next Leadership."

  • ** Saturday, Oct. 17. Free slide show and lecture by illustrator Javako Steptoe. 1:30 p.m. Black Cultural Center multipurpose room. Steptoe's use of a multimedia technique to illustrate the works of dozens of poets has earned multiple awards. Part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

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. Walk-in registration will be accepted if space is available. The cost is $50 per person. To preregister, 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. Schedule: 1-2 p.m. viewing of posters, Room 306; 2-3 p.m. invited lecture by Jeffery Wolt, DowAgro Systems, Room 206; 3-5 p.m. poster presentations, Room 306, followed by reception. 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. 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.

MEETINGS

  • ** Monday, Oct. 19. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

OTHER

  • ** Through Oct. 15. 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. 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. Oct. 13, Closed for Octoberbreak; Oct. 14, Polynesian; Oct. 15, French.

  • Saturday, Oct. 10. Octoberbreak 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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