Purdue Events Calendar
Purdue Events Calendar
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September 15, 2000 EDITORS: 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 • Friday through Sunday. Sept. 22-24. Homecoming Weekend. Events for alumni include breakfasts and brunches, receptions and open houses, lunches, and tailgate parties, all revolving around the football game against Big Ten rival Minnesota. ** • Saturday, Sept. 23. 9 a.m. Lynn Hall. Unveiling and dedication of "Continuum", a bronze sculpture featuring a variety of life-sized animal and human figures that depict the history of the human-animal bond. • Tuesday, Sept. 26. 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Hospitality and Tourism Management Career Day 2000. South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. More than 50 companies in the hospitality industry will attend. ** Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 4 and 5. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sports Illustrated Campus Fest. Memorial Mall. Purdue Student Government is sponsoring this event. Rain date is Oct. 6. ENTERTAINMENT • Tuesday, Sept. 19. 7 p.m. Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Series. Play titled "Chocolate on the Outside." Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Four African-American co-workers who set out for a team-building workshop retreat in the snow blown Appalachian Mountains. The roads soon become impassable leaving them stranded in a dusty, ill-equipped cabin. Despite personality conflicts, the four eventually agree to pass the time by engaging in a series of games. Through these games they inadvertently confront one another and explore intraracial issues that afflict many African-Americans. • Thursday and Friday, Sept. 21 and 22. "Jekyll & Hyde," the national tour of the Broadway musical. Elliott Hall of Music. 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday. Part of the Lively Arts Package presented by Purdue Convocations. • Wednesday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 1. Purdue Theatre presents "Bus Stop" by William Inge. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Shows at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 2 p.m. Sunday. • Friday, Sept. 29. 8 p.m. Randy Travis in concert at the Elliott Hall of Music. A presentation of Purdue Convocations. • Sunday, Oct. 1. 3 p.m. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. A part of the Loeb Music Collection presented by Purdue Convocations. ** • Sunday, Oct. 1. 2:30 p.m. Purdue Symphonic and Fall Concert Bands conducting a free performance at the Long Center, 111 N. 6th, Lafayette. ** • Wednesday, Oct. 11. 7:30 p.m. Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet with Jon Nakamatsu on piano. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. A woodwind quintet of impeccable musicianship with a Van Cliburn gold medal-winning pianist. A part of the Loeb Music Collection presented by Purdue Convocations. ** • Wednesday Oct. 11. 7:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Film Series. Room B222, Liberal Arts and Education Building. "Liberty Heights," directed by Barry Levinson. This drama is Levinson's third film in a trilogy which began with "Diner" and "Avalon." The film is about growing up in Baltimore while dealing with racism and anti-Semitism. LECTURES • Tuesday, Sept. 19. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Dale Helmers of NiSource will speak on remediation of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites, in Room 3153, Civil Engineering Building, as part of the Monsanto Lecture Series in Environmental Sciences and Engineering. • Friday, Sept. 22. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Executive Forum. Krannert Auditorium. Denis C. Picard, "Innovate, Don't Emulate." Picard is managing partner, Merger & Acquisition Risk Services for PricewatershouseCoopers, the international accounting, consulting, management and financial services firm. ** • Monday, Sept. 25. Hospitality and Tourism Management department Career Day 2000 Distinguished Speakers. 10:30 a.m. Stephen G. Michaelides, president, Words Ink.; 1:30 p.m. Robert Slater, chairman of the board, American Hotel & Motel Association. Room 218, Stewart Center. The lectures are free and open to public. • Tuesday, Sept. 26 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Eric Weber, Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, Ga., will speak in Room 3153, Civil Engineering Building, as part of the Monsanto Lecture Series in Environmental Sciences and Engineering. • Thursday, Sept. 28. 4:30 p.m. Philosophy Colloquium Series. Room 219, University Hall. "Moral Necessity in Leibnitz." Speaker: Robert Adams, Yale University. • Thursday, Sept. 28. 7 p.m. Lecture by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Morrison will be a guest of Purdue Dean of Libraries Emily Mobley to celebrate Purdue Libraries' 125th anniversary. The author will lecture and answer questions from the audience. Free general admission seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. • Friday, Sept. 29. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Executive Forum. Krannert Auditorium. William E. Leftwich III: "Diversity, Equal Opportunity, Race Relations: Department of Defense Connecting with the President's Initiative on Race." Leftwich is deputy assistant secretary of defense for equal opportunity, U.S. Department of Defense. • Tuesday, Oct. 3. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Patricia Cline, Golder Associates, will speak on endocrine disrupter chemicals in Room 3153, Civil Engineering Building, as part of the Monsanto Lecture Series in Environmental Sciences and Engineering. • Friday, Oct. 6. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Executive Forum. Krannert Auditorium. Steven A. Webster: "The Past and Present ... A Career in the Energy Business." Webster is vice chairman of the board of R & B Falcon Corp. in Houston. EXHIBITS • Through Oct. 1. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Don Dailey Industrial Design." Ralph G. Beelke Memorial Gallery, Creative Arts Building 2. Industrial design and products by this influential consumer designer. • Through Oct. 7. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Normal Editions Workshop." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union. Contemporary print-making selections from publishing facility at Illinois State University. • Through Oct. 7. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Beneath the Surface." Stewart Center Gallery, Stewart Center. Large-scale paintings by West Lafayette artist and educator Fusun Gulen. SEMINARS • Wednesday, Sept. 20. 12:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Noon Series. Room 218A, Stewart Center. "What the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Teaches Us About Protest." Speaker: Rachel Einwohner, assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. ** • Wednesday, Sept. 20. 12:30 p.m. Women's Studies Program Brown Bag Series. Stone Cellar, Room B2. Karen Hall, director of the Purdue Women's Resource Office, will speak on "Our Roles on Campus: The Women's Resource Office Looks Forward to Further Addressing the Needs of Purdue Women." • Friday, Sept. 21. 8:30 a.m. All About e-Business, Stewart Center. A day-long seminar sponsored by the Center for Lifelong Learning. Keynote address by Julie Wainwright, CEO of Pets.com, begins at 9:30 a.m. ** • Wednesday, Oct. 4. 12:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Noon Series. Room 320, Stewart Center. Professor Victor Raskin, Department of English, will speak on "The Origins of Yiddish." • Friday, Oct. 6. 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. "Entrepreneurs' Forum." hosted by the Office of Technology Commercialization. Room 214-B, Stewart Center. "The PerSeptive Biosystems Story" by Fred Regnier, Purdue professor of chemistry and founder of PerSeptive Biosystems, Inc. R.S.V.P. one week prior to Maureen Schmidt Ward at msward@purdue.edu or (765) 494-2610. OTHER • Through Oct. 5. International Dinner Series sponsored by the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. John Purdue Room in Stone Hall. Purdue seniors plan, organize and serve a four-course meal with appetizer, salad, choice of three entrees and two desserts. Reservations required. Call (765) 494-6845. Cost: $10 - $15. Coming up:Sept. 19-21: Tuesday, Middle Eastern; Wednesday, British; Thursday, German. Sept. 26-28: Tuesday, Scandinavian; Wednesday, Southwestern; Thursday, French. Oct. 3-5: Tuesday, Sicilian; Wednesday, French; Thursday, Caribbean. • Saturday, Oct. 7. October Break begins. Classes resume Wednesday, Oct. 11. Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; jwillis1@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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