Purdue Events Calendar

November 21, 1997

EDITORS: No calendar will be distributed next week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. This calendar lists selected events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next five 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 on-line calendar at https://www.purdue.edu/calendar/

EVENTS

• Monday, Nov. 24. 77th Annual Football Postseason Banquet. 6:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Player awards, season video highlights, coaches' commentaries, the Purdue Pep Band and the American Music Review. Sponsored by Lafayette Kiwanis Club and WGLM Radio. Tickets are $20 at the Athletic Ticket Office or by phone at 1-800-49-SPORT or (765) 494-3194.

  ** Thursday, Dec. 4. Raising of Purdue's 30-foot Christmas tree. Noon. Great Hall, Purdue Memorial Union.

• Thursday, Dec. 4. Summer Study Abroad Information Session. 7 p.m. Room 218, Stewart Center.

  ** Sunday, Dec. 21. Fall commencement ceremonies. 1:30 and 5 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music.

• Thursday, Dec. 4. Purdue Bands Recital Hour. Noon. Room 30, Elliott Hall of Music. Free lunchtime concert features performances by Purdue instrumentalists. Bring your lunch or share in refreshments provided by Tau Beta Sigma.

• Friday, Dec. 5. Cinema Now: Kolya. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. 1996 Czech film. Tickets: $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students.

• Friday, Dec. 5. American Music Review and Purdue Jazz Band Concert. 8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballroom.

• Friday, Dec. 5. BCC Cultural Arts Festival. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Performances by the Black Cultural Center's four student performing arts ensembles: the Black Voices of Inspiration, the Haraka Writers, the Jahari Dance Troupe, and the New Directional Players. Part of the Black Cultural Center Cultural Arts Series.

• Sunday, Dec. 7. Purdue Symphony Orchestra Concert. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center.

  ** Monday-Friday, Dec. 8-12. Christmas at the Union. Great Hall, Purdue Memorial Union. Purdue Student Union Board presents music for the holiday. The schedule:

  -- Monday, Dec. 8. University Bands harpist Joan Poulsen. 1-2 p.m.

  Pianist Jeris Eikenberry. 2-3 p.m.

  -- Tuesday, Dec. 9. University Bands Tuba Quartet. Noon-1 p.m.

  Purdue Musical Organizations Bell Choir. 3:30-4:30 p.m.

  -- Wednesday, Dec. 10. Purdue Jazz Band. Noon-1 p.m.

  University Bands Horn Quartet. 2:30-3:30 p.m.

  -- Thursday, Dec. 11. Brass Guild. Noon-1 p.m.

  University Bands Latin Percussion. 2:30-3:30 p.m.

  -- Friday, Dec. 12, Rossville High School Jazz Choir and Sophisticated Ladies, 1-2 p.m.

• Thursday, Dec. 11. Violinist Elmar Oliveira, a winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medal and the Avery Fisher Prize. 8 p.m. Loeb Theater, Stewart Center. Tickets: $18 for the public, $11 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Loeb Music Collection Series.

• Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 11-13. Winter Works Concert by the Purdue Repertory Dance Company. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. Experimental Theater, Stewart Center. Tickets: $8 for adults; $6 for Purdue students; $3 for ages 13 and under, at Purdue box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW.

  Friday, Dec. 12. Concert by composer and pianist Jim Brickman with vocalist Susan Ashton. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets: $25 at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

• Friday-Sunday, Dec. 12-14. PMO Christmas Show. Performances at 8 p.m. Friday; noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets: $16 for adults; $14 for Purdue students; and $12 for high school or younger students, at Purdue box offices, (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW, or Purdue Musical Organizations, (765) 494-3941 or 1-800-893-3041.

• Monday, Nov. 24. Spoils of War: The Human Cost of American's Arms Trade. Speaker: John Tirman, executive director of the Winston Foundation for World Peace. Noon. Room G10, Krannert Building. The lecture is based on Tirman's book "Spoils of War," which is critical of the United States' policies in the Middle East. Sponsored by the Global Governance and Human Rights Global Studies Program, the Department of Political Science, and the International Agriculture Seminar of International Programs in Agriculture.

• Wednesday, Dec. 3. Using Art to Study Torah. Speaker: Alan Potash, director of Purdue Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. 12:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 204. Jewish Studies Discussion Series.

• Friday, Dec. 5. Krannert Executive Forum. Speaker: Marjorie Magner, president and chief operating officer, Commercial Credit Corp., New York. Topic: "Commercial Credit: From Main Street to Wall Street." 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building.

• Tuesday, Dec. 9. Attitudes Toward Offspring of Lesbians. Speaker: Kathryn Black, Purdue associate professor of psychological sciences. Noon-1 p.m. Stone Cellar (Room B2), Stone Hall. Women's Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series.

• Thursday, Dec. 11. Work, Life and Successful Careers in Academe. Speaker: Judith Gappa, Purdue vice president of human relations. 10-11:30 a.m. Room 314, Stewart Center. Women's Resource Office Leadership Series.

• Through Jan. 25. Display of paintings and other art forms from India. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Krannert Drawing Room, Krannert Building. Part of a gallerywide exhibit called "Three Aspects of Indian Art."

• Through Jan. 25. "Indian Folk Paintings," an exhibit of works by Indian artist Mad Hubani. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Beelke Memorial Gallery (Room 206), Creative Arts Building 2. Part of a gallerywide exhibit called "Three Aspects of Indian Art."

• Through Jan. 25. "Viscosity Prints," an exhibit of works by Indian artist Arun Base. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. Part of a gallerywide exhibit called "Three Aspects of Indian Art."

• Through Jan. 25. "Temple and Village Patterns and Prints of India," an exhibit of textile work from India. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Union Gallery, Main Floor, Purdue Memorial Union. Part of a gallerywide exhibit called "Three Aspects of Indian Art."

• Through Dec. 11. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in the Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations. Coming up:

  Nov. 25, Oriental; Nov. 26, Closed; Nov. 27, Closed.
  Dec. 2, German; Dec. 3, Scandinavian; Dec. 4, Irish.
  Dec. 9-11, Gourmet Nights -- Call for menu information.

• Tuesday, Nov. 25. Thanksgiving vacation begins. 10 p.m. Classes resume Dec. 1. All libraries will close at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, and will be closed Thursday, Friday and Saturday, except the Life Sciences Library, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

• Thursday and Friday, Nov. 27 and 28. Official university holidays for Thanksgiving.

  ** Saturday, Dec. 20. Fall semester ends. Spring semester begins Jan. 12.

  ** Thursday, Dec. 25. Christmas Day: Official university holiday. Purdue offices also will be closed Friday, Dec. 26.

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