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December 11, 1998

EDITORS: Because of the holidays, Purdue News Service won't mail another calendar until Jan. 8. This calendar lists selected Purdue events during the next two months. 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, Dec. 20. Fall Commencement. Ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets necessary for admission. Six tickets are issued free to each candidate for a degree. 9:30 a.m. ceremony is for Schools of Consumer and Family Sciences, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Veterinary Medicine. 2:30 p.m. ceremony is for Schools of Agriculture, Education, Management, Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences, Science, and Technology.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • ** Friday, Jan. 22. Mingus Big Band, honoring the late Charles Mingus. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $26 for the public, $16 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Sunday, Jan. 24. "Swan Lake" by the Russian National Ballet. 3 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $26, $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. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Friday, Jan. 29. Cinema Now: "Smoke Signals." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This 1998 Sundance Film Festival winner tells the story of two young men who, having grown up on the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, set off on a road trip together. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

LECTURES

  • ** Thursday, Jan. 14. Purdue Galleries Brown Bag Lecture. Noon. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). Colorado artist David Yust will discuss his work, which is on display through Jan. 31 in the Stewart Center Gallery.

  • ** Friday, Jan. 15. Wrapping With Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 202. David Yust, a Colorado artist who has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude on many of their wraps, presents an illustrated lecture about the projects. Yust's work is on display through Jan. 31 in the Stewart Center Gallery.

  • ** Wednesday, Jan. 20. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Nick Rauh, associate professor of history who in 1997 was named one of Purdue's five outstanding undergraduate teachers. 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.

EXHIBITS

  • Through Dec. 30. Woodworking, photography and pottery by Audrey and Martin Rossmann. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Watson's Crick Gallery (Room 1-125 Lilly Hall).

  • 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, and Salvador Dali. (Gallery is closed Dec. 14-Jan. 10 for semester break, and Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King holiday.)

  • Through 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, and a Brown Bag Lecture at noon Thursday, Jan. 14, in Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2. (Gallery is closed Dec. 14-Jan. 10 for semester break and Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King holiday.)

  • ** Jan. 15-Feb. 12. Images From Down Under: Prints from Australia and New Zealand. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). This traveling exhibit features prints and artist's books by 89 artists from 12 colleges and universities in Australia and New Zealand. Traditional approaches to printmaking from woodcuts to stone lithographs. (Gallery is closed Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King holiday.)

MEETINGS

  • Saturday, Dec. 19. Board of Trustees. 9 a.m. Room 304 (Anniversary Drawing Room), Purdue Memorial Union.

  • ** Monday, Feb 1. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

OTHER

  • Saturday, Dec. 19. Fall semester ends. Classes resume Jan. 11.

  • Thursday, Dec. 24. Official university Christmas holiday. Purdue also will be closed Friday, Dec. 25.

  • Thursday, Dec. 31. Official university New Year's holiday. Purdue also will be closed Friday, Jan. 1.

  • ** Monday, Jan. 11. Spring semester begins.

  • ** Monday, Jan. 18. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Official university holiday.

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

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