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February 11, 2000 JOURNALISTS: Here's a story ideas and a list of selected Purdue events during the next two weeks. Basketball-playing robot makes debut It will be a new kind of basketball when a handmade robot takes the floor and throws 13-inch basketballs in a basket. The robot, created by Purdue engineering students and Greater Lafayette high school students, is being completed and tested at 6 p.m. weeknights until Feb. 17 at West Lafayette High School. Next month, the robot will compete against other basketball-playing robots in the Regional Robotics Competition at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. CONTACTS: Stephen Florence at (765) 775-1300, florencs@gw.wl.k12.in.us, or Adam Miller at (765) 496-7733, engrout@ecn.purdue.edu (B-roll of the students building the robot is available from Jesica Webb, Purdue News Service, (765) 494-2079, jwebb@purdue.edu) Events • Wednesday, Feb. 16.   Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Series: "The Gathering: A Hip Hop Journey to the Meeting Places of Black Men." 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Written and performed by playwright/rapper/actor Will Power, "The Gathering" blends hip hop lyricism, African-American folklore, and innovative musical and rhythmic sound distortion techniques. CONTACT: Renee Thomas, BCC director, (765) 494-3091, rathomas@hfs.purdue.edu • Monday, Feb. 21.   School of Management Internship-Career Fair. 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Ballrooms of the Purdue Memorial Union. Fifty companies, ranging from Arthur Andersen to IBM to Walt Disney, will be on campus to recruit interns and permanent employees from among the 1,000 job-seekers estimated to be on hand. CONTACTS: Mike Lillich, business writer, University News Service, (765) 494-2077, mlillich@purdue.edu; Kay Henry, School of Management Career Services Center coordinator, (765) 494-1668, henry@mgmt.purdue.edu • Tuesday, Feb. 22.   Linda Weiss, professor of government at the University of Sydney, will discuss "Managed Openness: Beyond Neoliberal Globalism" at 8 p.m. in the Krannert Auditorium. Her talk is part of the Sears Lecture Series. CONTACT: Mark Tilton, associate professor of political science, (765) 494-4176; tilton@polysci.purdue.edu   To the Purdue News and Photos Page