Purdue Events Calendar

March 3, 2000 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 online calendar. Updated travel directions around road construction zones near campus are available on the Web. EVENTS • Tuesday-Wednesday, March 21-22. 86th Annual Purdue Road School. 8:30 a.m. Stewart Center. More than 1,200 people, from street commissioners to mayors to highway engineers, will explore ways to make Indiana's roads and highways more reliable, enjoyable and efficient at this free conference. • Thursday-Saturday, March 23-25. 16th Annual Symposium on Afro-American Studies. Contact: John Wellman, Purdue Division of Conferences, jmwellman@cea.purdue.edu; (800) 359-2968 ext. 92W or (765) 494-0243; fax: (765) 494-0567. ENTERTAINMENT • Wednesday, March 8. Jewish Studies Film Series: "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989). 7:30 p.m. Room 1245, Liberal Arts and Education Building. • Wednesday, March 8. Peabody Trio with Charles Neidich, clarinet. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $18 for the public, $13 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of the Department of Convocations' Loeb Music Collection. • Wednesday, March 22. PMO Varsity Glee Club All-Campus Serenade. 7:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Free. • Friday, March. 24. Bayou to Bourbon Street. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. This musical caravan includes Cajun, zydeco and New Orleans blues. Tickets are $20 for the public, $15 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. A Department of Convocations' Patron's Choice Event. • Saturday, March 25. Third Eye Blind in concert. 7:30 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Presented by the Purdue Student Concert Committee. Tickets are $25 at campus box offices, (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW, and at all Ticketmaster outlets. • Saturday, March 25. Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Series: "Haraka Fest 2000." 7 p.m. LaPosada Room, Purdue Memorial Union. The Haraka Writers, a group of student poets, will read original poetry. • Saturday, March 25. Jazz Band free concert. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. ** • Monday, March 27. Purdue Symphonic Band Concert with Concord High School Band. 7:30 p.m. Beikman Performing Arts Center, Concord High School, Elkhart. Free. ** • Thursday, March 30. Moscow Virtuosi with Vladimir Spivakov, violin/conductor. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $23 for the public, $15 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of the Department of Convocations' Loeb Music Collection. ** • Thursday-Sunday, March 30-April 2. Purdue Studio Theatre presents "The Dining Room." 8 p.m. Black Box Theatre, Creative Arts Building 3. (Sunday performance is at 2 p.m.) This play by A.R. Gurney will be directed by Richard Stockton Rand, associate professor of theater. Tickets are $5 at Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. ** • Sunday, April 2. Black Voices of Inspiration spring concert. 3 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. The Black Cultural Center choir specializes in gospel music, spirituals and contemporary songs by African-American composers. Tickets: $5 for students, $7 for the public, available the afternoon of the show at Loeb Box Office. Part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series. ** • Sunday, April 2. Winter Drum Line/Percussion Concert, featuring "broomshilda," a Stomp-inspired number. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Sponsored by Purdue Bands. LECTURES • Monday, March 6. Diversity Dialogues. Noon, 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. Today: an African-American man and a Hispanic man. • Tuesday, March 7. Sears Lecture Series. 8 p.m. West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union (new location). Speaker: Glen S. Fukushima, president of Arthur D. Little, Japan, former president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Japan. Topic: "Japan's Response to Globalization: Avoiding the Wimbledon Effect." • Wednesday, March 8. Black Cultural Center Library-sponsored symposium. 6 p.m. BCC Multipurpose Room. Topic: "Path to Leadership: A Discussion With African-American Women." Speakers: Carolyn Johnson, senior research associate for Purdue's African-American Studies and Research Center, and Marion Samuel, house director for the Purdue chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and an American Express board member. ** • Thursday, March 9. Lecture by Columbia University physicist Horst L. Stormer, who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics. 4 p.m. Room 223, Physics Building. Stormer will discuss a subject in quantum mechanics known as the fractional quantum Hall effect. There will be a 3 p.m. meeting in the same room for students to meet Stormer, and then a 3:30 p.m. reception in Room 242. • Friday, March 10. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium. Topic: "Engineering Change in a 'Splintered Industry.'" Speaker: Frederick L. Schuermann, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Ladd Furniture, Greensboro, N.C. • Wednesday, March 22. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 320, Stewart Center. Topic: "Transplantation and Autopsy: Jewish Bio-Ethics." Speaker: Marilyn Zimmerman, ambassador, Indiana Organ Procurement Organization. • Thursday, March 23. Purdue Galleries Art Advocates Lecture. 4:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center. Speakers: David Parrish, Purdue associate professor of art and design, and Gordon Young, Purdue associate professor of history. Topic: "Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern History." • Friday, March 24. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium. Topic: "Indiana's Economy: The Big Picture." Speaker: Indiana Lt. Gov. Joseph E. Kernan. ** • Monday, March 27. Sears Lecture Series. 8 p.m. North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: William Greider, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and former national editor of Rolling Stone Magazine. Topic: "Moral Dilemmas in the Global Economy." ** • Friday, March 31. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium. Topic: "Leadership in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Speaker: Michael L. Eagle, vice president manufacturing, Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis. EXHIBITS • Through May 5. Treasures From the Tombs: Egyptian Antiquities From the Charles Pankow Collection. Union Gallery of the Memorial Union (just inside Grant Street entrance). Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. • Through March 31. A series of one-week exhibits by candidates for master of fine arts degrees. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. (Gallery closed March 11-19 for spring break.) • Through April 30. Sixty Square Inches national small-print competition. Stewart Center Gallery. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Gallery reception 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 5. (Gallery closed March 11-19 for spring break and April 23 for Easter.) • March 20-May 14. Barbara Moll: Quilt Artist. Krannert Drawing Room. Gallery hours: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Gallery reception for this Muncie, Ind., artist will be 4:30-6 p.m. Friday, March 24. MEETINGS • Monday, March 20. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center. CONFERENCES ** • Thursday-Friday, March 9-10. Mobile Information Systems: Networking and Computing. 7:30 a.m. Room 313, Stewart Center. Top university researchers and engineers from major corporations will meet to discuss efforts to increase the performance of portable devices like cell phones, laptop computers and hearing aids. OTHER ** • Through March 23. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations or information. Coming up: March 7-9: Tuesday, Gourmet; Wednesday, Gourmet; Thursday, Gourmet. March 14-16: Spring Break. March 21-23: Tuesday, New England; Wednesday, Greek; Thursday, Cajun. March 28-30: Tuesday, Middle Eastern; Wednesday, British; Thursday, German. • March 13-17. Spring break. Classes resume March 20. Compiled by J. 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