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November 13, 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

  • Sunday, Nov. 22. Free Thanksgiving dinner. 6-9 p.m. Covenant Presbyterian Church, 211 Knox Drive, West Lafayette. Sponsored by Grace Campus Fellowship.

  • Tuesday, Nov. 24. Learning Center open house. 8:30-11:30 a.m. Room 3299, Liberal Arts and Education Building.

  • Thursday, Nov. 26. International Students Thanksgiving Dinner. 4 p.m. International Center, 523 Russell St. Tickets are $3 and must be purchased by Nov. 24 at the center.

  • ** Thursday, Dec. 3. Raising of the Great Hall tree. 11:30 a.m. Great Hall, Memorial Union. Physical facilities staff will erect a donated tree, which is traditionally the largest indoor, natural tree in Indiana. Purdue staff members will use a lift to decorate the top half of the tree. Members of the Purdue Student Union Board will decorate the bottom half Friday, Dec. 4. The tree-raising is the first of a series of holiday-related events sponsored by the Purdue Memorial Union and the Student Union Board.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • Through Nov. 21. Purdue Theatre presents "How I Learned to Drive," the second offering in its mainstage season. The play by Paula Vogel was the 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama. 8 p.m., plus a 6 p.m. performance on Nov. 22. (No performance Monday, Nov. 16.) Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Tickets are $11 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens, at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933.

  • Monday, Nov. 16. Free concert by the Lab and Concert Jazz Bands. 8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom. With guest artist The Ron Jones Quartet.

  • Wednesday, Nov. 18. Jewish Studies Program Film Festival. 7 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. "The Chosen," followed by an audience participation discussion led by Professor Sandor Goodhart, director of the Jewish Studies Program.

  • Wednesday, Nov. 18. Purdue Musical Organizations' University Choir free concert. 8 p.m. Hillenbrand Hall.

  • Friday, Nov. 20. "The Color of Fear." 7 p.m. Black Cultural Center multipurpose room. Lee Mun Wah's film portrays the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent. Part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

  • Friday, Nov. 20. Sphere, featuring the work of composer Thelonius Monk. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $21 for the public, $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Jazz Set Series.

  • Saturday, Nov. 21. Old Oaken Bucket pregame concert by the "All-American" Marching Band. 11:30 a.m. (1-1/2 hours before the 1 p.m. kickoff for game against Indiana). Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Postgame concert will be at the Engineering Mall Fountain.

  • Sunday, Nov. 22. Free concert by the Fall Concert Band and Symphonic Band. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.

  • Friday, Dec. 4. Free recital by students in the Applied Music program. 7 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Memorial Union.

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

  • Friday, Dec. 4. Black Cultural Center Cultural Arts Festival. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. The four BCC performing arts ensembles -- the Jahari Dance Troupe, the Black Voices of Inspiration Choir, the New Directional Players and the Haraka Writers -- will perform. Admission is $3 for students, $5 for the public.

  • Saturday, Dec. 5. Free concert by the Purdue Jazz Band and the American Music Review. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center.

  • Sunday, Dec. 6. Free concert by the Purdue Symphony Orchestra. 7 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.

  • ** Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 10-12. Winter Dance Works, a concert by the Purdue Repertory Dance Company. 8 p.m. each evening, with a 3 p.m. matinee on Saturday. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Tickets, available at the Loeb Box office, are $6 for students; $8 for the public; and $3 for children 12 and under.

  • ** Friday-Sunday, Dec. 11-13. PMO Christmas Show. Elliott Hall of Music. Show times are 8 p.m. Friday; noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10, $16, and $21 at campus box offices or by phone from the box office at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW or from Purdue Musical Organizations at (765) 494-3941 or 1-800-893-3041.

LECTURES

  • Monday, Nov. 16. Medieval Mondays Brown Bag Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 306, Heavilon Hall. Informal presentation of faculty and graduate student research, followed by discussion.

  • Monday, Nov. 16. African-American Studies W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Series. 7 p.m. Room 202, Stewart Center. Speaker: Titus Singo, doctoral student in college and university administration at Michigan State University. Topic: "Transforming South African Higher Educational Institutions: Challenges & Opportunities."

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17. "Working Ourselves to Death." 3-4:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center. Diane Fassel, a nationally renowned author and organizational consultant, will address work issues facing women today and discuss the effect of being both overworked and overspent emotionally, energetically and economically. Sponsored by the Women's Resource Office.

  • Tuesday, Nov. 17. John E. Goldberg Distinguished Lecture Series celebrating Chicago architecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Speaker: R. Shankar Nair, Teng & Associates Inc., Chicago. Topic: "Innovative Structural Solutions to the Problems of Building in a Large City." Sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering.

  • Wednesday, Nov. 18. (Date changed from Nov. 11.) Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 320, Stewart Center. Topic: "New Developments in the History and Archaeology of Earliest Israel." Speaker: Gordon D. Young, Purdue history professor.

  • Friday, Nov. 20. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Stephen R. Wood, president, Louisville Gas and Electric Co., Louisville, Ky. Topic: "Mapping Your Personal Values to Corporate Values."

  • ** Friday, Nov. 20. Jewish Studies and American Studies Lecture. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Professor Lawrence E. Mintz, American Studies Department, University of Maryland. Topic: "American Humor: Dividing and/or Uniting." Co-sponsored by the Purdue Jewish Studies and American Studies programs.

  • Tuesday, Nov. 24. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Fred Lytle, professor of chemistry and the 1996 Indiana Professor of the Year. This presentation is sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs as part of the Focus on Teaching Lecture Series so that award-winning Purdue faculty can share their creative approaches to teaching.

  • ** Tuesday, Dec. 1. Women's Studies Brown Bag Series. Noon. Room 1284, Liberal Arts and Education Building (Dean's Conference Room). Christine Braunberger, a graduate student in the American Studies Program, will present "Monster Beauty: The Aesthetic Choices of Tattooed Women."

  • Wednesday, Dec. 2. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Topic: "To See Feelingly: Moral (In)sight in Arthur Miller's 'Homely Girl, a Life' and 'Broken Glass.'" Speaker: Professor Thomas P. Adler, head of the Purdue Department of English.

  • Thursday, Dec. 3. African-American Studies and Research Center Brown Bag Lecture Series. Noon. Stone Cellar, Room B-2, Stone Hall.

  • Thursday, Dec. 3. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 117, University Hall. Topic: "Systematicity and Self-Knowledge of Reason in Kant." Speaker: Manfred Baum, University of Wuppertal.

  • Friday, Dec. 4. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Arvind M. Korde, vice president and general manager, Commercial Steering Systems, TRW Steering, Suspension and Engine Group, Lafayette, Ind. Topic: "Learning Lean Production -- The Real Truth."

EXHIBITS

  • Through Nov. 25. Women and Flight. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. Part of the Purdue Aviation Celebration. This exhibit features photographs of 37 contemporary American women involved in aviation and space exploration. The portraits are by National Air and Space Museum staff photographer Carolyn Russo. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

  • Through Nov. 30. Artwork by Delphi Art Club. Watson's Crick Gallery (Room 1-125, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences). 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

  • Through Jan. 22. Modern Masters: 20th Century Prints From the Permanent Collection. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Krannert Building Drawing Room. Modern art movements such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Op and Photo Realism are surveyed, with works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, Salvador Dali and Philip Pearlstein. (Gallery is closed Nov. 25-27 for Thanksgiving, Dec. 14-Jan. 10 for semester break, and Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King holiday.)

  • Nov. 16-20. Exhibit of work by Lisa Tayerle, candidate for Master of Fine Arts degree in the Division of Art and Design. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Beelke Gallery, (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2).

  • ** Nov. 17-21. 10 Artists Installations, displays of graduate students' work from the course Art and Design 614, Graduate Critique. Third floor of Reifers Center, 839 Main St., Lafayette. 3-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Closing Reception 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday.

  • Nov. 20-Dec. 11. NAEA Student Show. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). Members of the National Art Education Association student chapter display their recent work. (Gallery is closed Nov. 25-29 for Thanksgiving.)

  • ** Dec. 7-Jan. 31. David Yust: Inclusion Series. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. Yust's work is informed by the mysterious Nazca lines on the Western Peruvian Pampas, tectonic plates and continental shifts, profiles of the front range foothills, and nuances of color. Gallery reception, 5-6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Yust will present a lecture, "Wrapping With Christo and Jeanne-Claude," at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, in Room 202, Stewart Center, as well as a Galleries Brown Bag Lecture at noon Thursday, Jan. 14, in the Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). (Gallery is closed Dec. 14-Jan. 10 for semester break and Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King holiday.)

MEETINGS

  • Friday, Nov. 20. Board of Trustees. 1:30 p.m. Room 304 (Anniversary Drawing Room), Purdue Memorial Union.

  • Monday, Nov. 23. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

OTHER

  • ** Through Dec. 10. 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:

    Nov. 17, Greek; Nov. 18, Indian; Nov. 19, Chinese.
    Nov. 24, New England; Nov. 25, Closed; Nov. 26, Closed.
    Dec. 1, Middle Eastern; Dec. 2 Polynesian ; Dec. 3, French.
    Dec. 8-10, Gourmet.

  • Wednesday, Nov. 25. Thanksgiving vacation begins. Classes resume Nov. 30.

  • Thursday, Nov. 26. Thanksgiving: Official university holiday. Purdue offices also will be closed Friday, Nov. 27.

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

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