Events Calendar

March 26, 2004

EDITORS: This calendar lists events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free, except where noted, and are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings are designated by two asterisks (**).

Events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar.

• Saturday, March 27. 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Find Your Future. Rawls Hall. The Krannert School of Management will offer a program, including presentations, panels and tours, for graduating women engineers considering pursuing an MBA. Registration is available online.

• Saturday, March 27. 1 p.m. 23rd Holocaust Remembrance Conference: Anti-Semitism and Terrorism. Matthews Hall, Room 210.

• Tuesday, March 30. 7:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Special Event: A Symposium. "Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and its Implications." Class of '50 Lecture Hall, Room 224. The panelists include Zev Garber, professor of Jewish studies and philosophy at Los Angeles Valley College; Gordon Mork, professor of history at Purdue; John Pawlikowski, professor of ethics and director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union at Chicago; and Stuart Robertson, lecturer in Biblical Hebrew in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Purdue and pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church, West Lafayette.

• Saturday, April 3. 11 a.m. National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Lambert Fieldhouse. Collegiate teams will use complex machines to vote and cast a ballot in at least 20 steps. Doors open at 10:30 a.m.

• Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18. Spring Fest. Family activities including the 14th annual Bug Bowl and the Horticulture Show will be featured during the two-event sponsored by several academic schools. More information is available online.

• Saturday, March 27. 6:30-8:30 p.m. IndoFest. First United Methodist Church, 102 N. Chauncey Ave., West Lafayette. Purdue's Indonesian Student Association presents an evening of traditional Indonesian food and entertainment. Performers will include dancers from the Indonesian Consulate in Chicago. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door or from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 22, 23, 25 and 26 in the Purdue Memorial Union and on March 24 in Stewart Center.

• Friday, April 2. 8 p.m. Cirque Éloize in Nomade. Elliott Hall of Music. An evening filled with song, dance, music, juggling and acrobatic feats. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $30 to $42 for the public, $18 to $28 for students.

• Saturday, April 3. 7p.m. Black Voices of Inspiration Spring Concert. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Sponsored by the Black Cultural Center. Ticket are $7 for the public, $5 for students.

• Sunday, April 4. 3 p.m. The Purdue University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Band featuring Daniel Rodriguez of the New York City Police Department. Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument Circle, Indianapolis. Tickets are $10.

• Saturday, April 10. 8 p.m. Herbie Hancock Quartet. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Hancock has enjoyed both popular and critical success, moving fluidly between jazz, R&B, pop, hip-hop and world music. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $30 for the public, $20 for students.

• Friday, April 16. 7 p.m. Tom Chapin & Friends. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Chapin is a Grammy Award winning folk singer. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $14 for the public, $10 for students.

• Wednesday, March 31. 4:30 p.m. E-Business Live! Lecture Series. Rawls Hall, Room 3082. Tom O'Brien, Wayspring CEO, will speak on "Measuring the Productivity of Implemented E-business Solutions."

• Friday, April 2. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Executive Forum Series. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Purdue alumna Paula Dwyer, deputy bureau chief and senior writer at Business Week, will speak on "What I leaned in 25 years of Reporting on Washington, Wall Street and Corporate America."

• Tuesday, April 6. 7 p.m. Department of Health and Kinesiology Colloquium Series. Stewart Center, Room 218. Richard Lapchick, director of sports business management at University of Central Florida, will present "Sport as a Bridge Across the Racial Divide."

• Thursday, April 8. 4:30 p.m. Department of Philosophy Spring 2004 Colloquium Series. University Hall, Room 201. Stephen Neale, professor of philosophy from Rutgers University, will present "Linguistic Pragmatism."

• Friday, April 9. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Executive Forum Series. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Mark Bleyer, Cook Biotech CEO, will speak on "The Promises and Pitfalls of Biotech."

• Wednesday, April 14. 12:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Noon Series. Stewart Center, Room 313. Marion "Mo" Trout, associate professor of jazz bands, will speak on "Jews and Jazz."

• Thursday, April 15. 4:30 p.m. Department of Philosophy Spring 2004 Colloquium Series. University Hall, Room 201. Gisela Striker, professor of philosophy and classics at Harvard University, will present "Plato and the Ontology of Aristotle's Categories."

• Friday, April 16. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Executive Forum Series. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Paul Fregia, Grandma Maud's Inc. founder and president, will speak on "When a Good Product Does Bad and a Bad Product Does Good."

• Thursday, April 8. 10 a.m. Equal Access/Equal Opportunity Spring Workshop Series. Stewart Center, Room 311. Workshop is titled Discrimination/Harassment: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You. The program is sponsored by the Affirmative Action Office.

• Friday, April. 9. Board of Trustees meeting. Stewart Center, Room 326.

Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371, jwillis1@purdue.edu

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