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January 22, 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

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

  • ** Friday-Saturday, Feb. 12-13. Purdue Theatre presents the "Avant Garde Theatre Festival." 8 p.m. each day. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Admission is free. This undergraduate-driven evening of theater will feature these works: "Lights" by Francesco Cangiullo, "The Gas Heart" by Tristan Tzara, "Variations on the Death of Trotsky" by David Ives, "Medea" by Christopher Durang, "Largo Desolato" by Vaclav Havel, "He Couldn't Wait It Out" from the Little Theatre of The Green Goose, and "Negative Act" by Bruno Corra and Emilio Settimelli.

  • ** Tuesday, Feb. 16. "Blues Women Don't Wear No Shoes," a free, one-woman play performed by Reane McNeil, from Imani Revelation production company in Erie, Ill. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. The play is about six black women who address social issues including racism, sexism, homelessness, AIDS and domestic violence. Part of the Cultural Arts Series presented by the Black Cultural Center.

  • ** Tuesday, Feb. 16. "The Bobs," new wave a cappella. West Lafayette High School Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. Media Cast says of their show: "The Bobs create bizarre, hilarious and impeccable music using only the tools they had in their pockets at birth -- their voice, their hands, their chests, legs and feet." General admission tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for all students. Discounts are available for groups. Charge by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. A presentation of Purdue Musical Organizations and Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 19. Purdue Jazz Band free concert. 8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom.

  • ** Feb. 19-21 and Feb. 25-27. Purdue Theatre and Purdue Musical Organizations present "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim, the third offering in Purdue Theatre's mainstage season. 8 p.m., except for 2:30 matinee on Feb. 21. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for students and senior citizens, at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933. Special matinees for schoolchildren will be offered Feb. 23-25; for ticket prices and matinee times, call (765) 494-3084.

  • ** Saturday, Feb. 20. The Boys Choir of Harlem. 8 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. Part of Purdue Convocations' Lively Arts Package.

  • ** Sunday, Feb. 21. The IU Soul Revue. 2 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This student group from Indiana University is devoted to preserving and promoting the traditions of urban black popular music. The group has developed a repertoire of rhythm and blues, soul, funk, top 40 and contemporary jazz-fusion works. This free concert is part of the Cultural Arts Series presented by the Black Cultural Center.

  • ** Sunday, Feb. 21. Windworks I free concert. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. The Varsity, Collegiate and University Concert bands present a concert of band music.

  • ** Sunday, Feb. 21. Cinema Now: "A Merry War." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

LECTURES

  • ** Wednesday, Jan. 27. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Maurice M. Eisenstein, assistant professor of political science, Purdue Calumet. Topic: "Husserl and the Heideggerian Explanation of the Holocaust."

  • ** Thursday, Jan. 28. Jewish Studies Lecture. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Elliot R. Wolfson, director of the Program in Religious Studies and the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Topic: "God, Torah, and Israel in the Kabbalistic Tradition."

  • 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?"

  • ** Wednesday, Feb. 3. Black History Month keynote lecture by Runoko Rashidi. 7 p.m. Room 218, Stewart Center. Rashidi, a historian, research specialist, writer, lecturer and world traveler from San Antonio, Texas, will discuss "Looking at Australia Through African Eyes." Part of the Cultural Arts Series presented by the Black Cultural Center.

  • 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."

  • ** Wednesday, Feb. 10. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 311, Stewart Center. Speaker: Harry R. Targ, Purdue professor of political science. Topic: "The Jewish Radical Tradition in America."

  • 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."

  • ** Wednesday, Feb. 17. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: David Moore, the Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics who has received both Purdue and national awards for teaching excellence. 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 faculty can share their creative approaches to teaching.

  • ** Friday, Feb. 19. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Steven M. Schmidt, president, A.C. Nielsen-U.S., Schaumburg, Ill. Topic: "Financially and Culturally Turning Around and Changing a Corporation."

EXHIBITS

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 1:30 p.m. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Conference Center, Room 132.

  • ** Monday, Feb. 22. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

OTHER

  • ** Through Feb. 18. 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.
    Feb. 16, Southeast Asian; Feb. 17, Southwestern; Feb. 18, Mexican.

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

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