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January 15, 1999

This calendar lists selected Purdue events 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, Jan. 18. Affirming the Dream IV: A Day Service. Purdue students, faculty and staff will assist numerous Greater Lafayette volunteer agencies on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Service projects will take place between 9 a.m. and noon, followed by a luncheon and Volunteer Information Fair starting at noon in the Hillenbrand Hall formal lounge. The day is an official university holiday for students, faculty and staff. To volunteer, contact the Diversity Resource Office, (765) 494-7307.

  • Thursday, Jan. 21. Activities carnival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Ballrooms, Purdue Memorial Union. Purdue Student Union Board is sponsoring this event to introduce students to various clubs and activities available on campus.

  • Friday, Jan. 22. Ag Alumni Fish Fry. 11:30 a.m. Purdue Armory. Tickets cost $12 and must be purchased in advance at any county office of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, through any Purdue agricultural department, or by calling the Purdue Ag Alumni Association at (765) 494-8593. The event will be preceded by the Purdue Ag Forecast, a panel discussion on international trade's impact on agriculture's bottom line moderated by WGN's Orion Samuelson at 9:15 a.m. at Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center. The forecast is free.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 12. High-Tech Job Fair, targeted at Indiana companies that may not typically recruit on campuses. 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. A brunch and information workshop will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. The fair is open to undergraduate and graduate students from the Schools of Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Science and Technology.

  • ** Saturday, Feb. 13. The 17th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. 11 a.m. Elliott Hall of Music. The competition honors the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks. This year, teams of Purdue students are being asked to build machines that will use at least 20 steps to tee up a golf ball. The free contest, sponsored by the Purdue chapter of Theta Tau and General Electric, is open to the public.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • ** Friday, Jan. 22. Mingus Big Band, honoring the late Charles Mingus. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are sold out. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • Saturday, Jan. 23. Purdue Jazz Festival. 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Jazz bands from 89 middle schools and high schools throughout the Midwest join guest artists, clinicians and the Purdue Jazz Band for a day of jazz competition and performance. A grand finale concert at 6:30 p.m. in Elliott Hall of Music will feature a set by the Hal Galper Trio, performances by the day's outstanding bands, and the Purdue Jazz Band joined by three soloists. Tickets are $10 for admission to all events, or $4 for each individual event, available at Purdue box offices, (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW.

  • 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.

  • Wednesday, Feb. 3. "The King and I," the revival of the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $32, $24 and $14 for the public, $18 and $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Discounted Family Circle tickets (second balcony) are available for $6 and $8. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 5. American Music Review and Jazz Bands Dance. 8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom. Tickets, $5. CONTACT: Marion "Mo" Trout, director of jazz activities at Purdue Bands, (765) 494-3957; e-mail: AmyBrandfo@aol.com

  • ** Friday, Feb. 12. Cinema Now: "The Apostle." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This 1998 film features director Robert Duvall as a Southern Pentecostal preacher who embarks on a search for redemption after committing a crime of passion. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Friday-Saturday, Feb. 12-13. Purdue Theatre Second Season presents the "Avant Garde Theatre Festival." 8 p.m. each day. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Admission is free.

LECTURES

  • Tuesday, Jan. 19. "Addressing the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr." 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Free speech by Tony Brown, host and executive producer of "Tony Brown's Journal," the nation's longest-running national black affairs television series. Sponsored by the Office of Human Relations as part of the university celebration of King's birthday.

  • 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.

  • ** Friday, Jan. 22. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: John Hatcher, Purdue assistant professor of management. Topic: "Annual Reports -- Fact or Fiction."

  • ** Friday, Jan. 29. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Steven A. Albrecht, chief executive officer, World Asset Management, Birmingham, Mich. Topic: "Entrepreneur: Valid Concept or Overused Buzzword?"

  • Thursday, Feb. 4. Purdue Galleries Brown Bag Lecture. Noon. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). Sydney Zentall, Purdue professor of educational studies and artist, talks about her work, which is on display through March 12 in the Krannert Drawing Room.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 5. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Robert J. Warren, vice president and treasurer, Diebold Inc., North Canton, Ohio. Topic: "Welcome to the Running Game."

  • ** Thursday, Feb. 11. Purdue Galleries Brown Bag lecture. Noon. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). Rick Paul, Purdue professor of art and design, discusses his work, which is on display through March 12 in Stewart Center Gallery.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 12. Avanelle Kirksey Lecture. 10:30 a.m. Room 218, Stewart Center. Speaker: Robert Reynolds, University of Illinois at Chicago. Reynolds also will give a talk about his research expedition to Mount Everest at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in Room 2280, Liberal Arts and Education Building. Contact: Dawn Haan, Department of Foods and Nutrition, (765) 494-8231.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 12. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Walter T. Conway Jr., vice president, Emerging Markets, Visa USA Inc., San Francisco. Topic: "If It Were Easy, Anybody Could Do It -- Marketing Dispatches From the Front Line."

WORKSHOPS

  • Thursday, Jan. 21. "Picture This: Really Listening," an interactive theater and training project that models problem solving and empathy for others. 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union. Sponsored by the Women's Resource Office. Seating is limited. To register, call the resource office at (765) 494-9879.

EXHIBITS

  • 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 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 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. (Gallery is closed Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King holiday.)

  • Through 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.)

  • Feb. 1-March 12. Sydney Zentall: Light Waves. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Krannert Drawing Room, Main Floor, Krannert Building. The Purdue professor of educational studies captures in oils the many moods of the sea. There will be a gallery reception 5-6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, in the Krannert Drawing Room. Zentall also will present a lecture about her paintings at noon Thursday, Feb. 4, in the Beelke Gallery, Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2.

  • ** Feb. 8-March 12. Rick Paul: Algorithmic Constructions. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. The professor of art and design displays work resulting from a recent Fellowship in the Center for Artistic Endeavors, a program sponsored by the School of Liberal Arts. 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. There will be a gallery reception 5-6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8. Paul will discuss his works during a Galleries Brown Bag Lecture at noon Thursday, Feb. 11, in Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2).

MEETINGS

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

  • ** Friday, Feb. 12. Board of Trustees. Time to be announced. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

OTHER

  • **Through Feb. 11. 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:

    Jan. 26-28, Italian.
    Feb. 2, New England; Feb. 3, Greek; Feb. 4, Korean.
    Feb. 9, Middle Eastern; Feb. 10, French; Feb. 11, German.

  • 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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