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October 22, 1999 JOURNALISTS: Here are some story ideas and a list of selected Purdue events during the next two weeks. Kids and tall tales Children from all over Greater Lafayette will converge on Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center on Wednesday, Oct. 27, for two sold-out student matinees of "Tremendously Tall Tales" by The Children’s Theatre Company. Performances will be at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., but photographers and journalists can catch buses arriving as early as an hour beforehand. Journalists are welcome to stay to videotape a portion of the show, and/or interview students and teachers after the show. Each performance lasts 70 minutes. Journalists and photographers should check in with Sue Stevens, Convocations publicist, or Laura Clavio, education coordinator, upon arrival. Schools scheduled to send students to the 10 a.m. performance include New Community School, Lafayette; Battle Ground Elementary; Montessori School; Klondike Elementary; Cumberland Elementary; St. Joseph School, Kentland; and Rossville Elementary. For the 1 p.m. show, almost 800 students from the Lafayette School Corp. are schedule to attend, as well as students from Dayton Elementary and the Lafayette Reading Academy. CONTACT: Sue Stevens at 494-9712, snsteven@purdue.edu The science of Halloween A series of free science shows at Purdue on Saturday, Oct. 30, will examine "The Science of Halloween." The physics department will simultaneously present three 20-minute shows from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Physics Building: "Black Magic Mechanics" in Room 223; "Igor's Lightning Lair" in Room 114; and "Fire and Ice" in Room 112. At 11 a.m., ghastly ghosts, instant plastic and slime will be demystified during an hour-long chemistry show in Room 200, Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. CONTACTS: Roger Boyce, Department of Physics, (765) 496-2213, Outreach@physics.purdue.edu; Paul Smith, Department of Chemistry, (765) 494-5307, psmith4@purdue.edu. Events • Monday, Oct. 25. The University Senate will meet at 2:30 p.m. in Room 302, Stewart Center, to hear Arthur Hansen talk about the challenges he faced as Purdue president from 1971 to 1982 and some of the qualities a Purdue president should have. A search is under way to find a successor to President Steven C. Beering, who is scheduled to retire June 30, 2000. CONTACT: Solomon Gartenhaus, secretary of faculties, (765) 494-2585, garten@physics.purdue.edu • Friday, Oct. 29. Lee Runk, president of Forming Technologies MascoTech Inc., Taylor, Mich., will talk about "What They Don't Teach You at Krannert" at the Krannert Executive Forum at 11:30 a.m. in the Krannert Building Auditorium. Reporters are asked to refrain from asking questions, videotaping or taking photographs during the lecture, but all are allowed during the student question-and-answer sessions. CONTACT: Tamyra Gibson, director of public relations, School of Management, (765) 494-4392, gibson@mgmt.purdue.edu • Monday, Nov. 1. An Asian-American man and an Asian-American woman will engage in a "Diversity Dialogue" at noon in Room B2, Stone Hall. The series, co-sponsored by the Purdue Bahai Club and the Purdue Diversity Resource Office, features guided discussions between two people with a specific thing in common and a specific difference. CONTACT: Alan Manifold, series coordinator, (765) 494-2857 • Monday, Nov. 1. Former Indiana congressman Lee Hamilton will speak about the role of higher education in fostering effective government during a talk to begin at 7 p.m. in the North Ballroom of the Purdue Memorial Union. Preceding his discussion will be an informal reception with students. Journalists may conduct brief interviews with Hamilton toward the end of the reception, from about 6:30 p.m. to just prior to his talk. The event is sponsored by the School of Agriculture. CONTACT: Christina Denault, communication specialist in the office of the dean of agriculture, (765) 494-9505, csd@agad.purdue.edu • Tuesday, Nov. 2. Jens Michelsen, journalist and oral history researcher from Hamburg, Germany, will talk about "Renewal Under Hitler's Shadow? Jewish Life in Today's Germany." The lecture, from 8-10 p.m. in Room 2280, Liberal Arts and Education Building, is a Jewish Studies Program Public Lecture. It is co-sponsored by the Departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Political Science. CONTACTS: Sandor Goodhart, director of Jewish Studies, (765) 494-3720, goodhart@purdue.edu, or Alice Wenger, (765) 494-965, awenger@sla.purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page