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March 19, 1999

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 on-line calendar

EVENTS

  • Tuesday-Wednesday, March 23-24. 85th Annual Purdue Road School. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.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. Free and open to the public. Attendees may register in Stewart Center beginning at 7:30 a.m. the first day.

  • Tuesday, March 30. Lecture and dinner with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, presented by Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Lecture at 7 p.m., dinner at 8 p.m. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. Speech topic is "Leadership: From the War Room to the Board Room." Tickets are $25 per person for the speech only, $75 for the speech and dinner; call (219) 481-4101.

  • Wednesday, April 7. Annual women's basketball awards banquet, sponsored by the Lafayette Lions Club. 6:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Tickets are $20 at the Purdue Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 497-7678. Event will be broadcast live on BTVLive!, channel 18 of University Residences Television Antenna System.

  • Saturday, April 10. The 11th annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. 11 a.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Teams of students from colleges and universities across the nation build machines that use at least 20 steps to tee up a golf ball. Sponsored by the Purdue chapter of Theta Tau.

    ** Tuesday, April 13. Annual men's basketball awards banquet, sponsored by the Lafayette Lions Club. 6:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Tickets are $20 at the Purdue Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 497-7678. Event will be broadcast live on BTVLive!, channel 18 of University Residences Television Antenna System.

    ** Thursday, April 15. Literary Awards Banquet. 7-9 p.m. North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker is Irish poet Eavan Boland, a professor at Stanford University. Prizes will be awarded to students in more than 50 categories. Tickets go on sale March 29, at $12 for students, $17 for all others, at the English department, Room 324, Heavilon Hall.

  • Saturday, April 17. Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics, a career conference for girls in grades 6-9. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Registration limited to 350 participants; deadline is March 31. Cost of $15 includes conference materials, lunch and a T-shirt. There will be workshops about 14 career fields, from animal health science to sports and fitness, from business and finance to physical sciences. Information and registration materials available from Kathy Hyman, (765) 494-2758 or (800) 359-2968, Ext. 92H; kfhyman@cea.purdue.edu

    ** Saturday, April 17. Mothers Weekend Arts and Crafts Show with more than 60 booths. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union. Sponsored by Purdue Student Union Board.

    ** Saturday, April 17. Grand Prix pole qualification day. 11 a.m. Go-kart track north of Ross-Ade Stadium. Fastest qualifier will sit on the pole at the April 24 running of the 42nd annual Purdue Grand Prix kart race, known as the "Greatest Spectacle in College Racing."

    ** Saturday-Sunday, April 17-18. SpringFest. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. South campus. SpringFest is held on Mothers Weekend and offers nearly 100 free events, activities and demonstrations sponsored by the Schools of Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Consumer and Family Sciences, and Science. Attractions include Bug Bowl, the 86th Annual Horticulture Show, Boiler Barnyard, the Boiler Brick Bowl, a raffle of two children's playhouses that will be built during the weekend, and advice on managing your business and keeping your food safe. Saturday-only events include the 36th Veterinary Medicine Open House and an open house at the Purdue Cancer Center. For details, call (765) 494-9113 or (888) EXT-INFO, send e-mail to dn@aes.purdue.edu, or go to the SpringFest Web site. For more information about Bug Bowl, call (765) 494-4554, send e-mail to bug_bowl@entm.purdue.edu, or go to the Bug Bowl Web site.

    ** Saturday-Sunday, April 17-18. Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference. The theme is "Reawakening Trust -- Rebirth of Hope." Conference opens at 1 p.m. Saturday at Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, and events continue all day at on- and off-campus locations. Conference resumes at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, and events continue throughout the day. For details, contact Rabbi Gedalyah Engel, conference coordinator, (765) 743-1716.

    ENTERTAINMENT

  • Wednesday, March 24. Free PMO Bell Choir Spring Concert. 7 p.m. University Church, 320 North St., West Lafayette.

  • Wednesday, March 24. "The Odyssey," Aquila Theater Company of London. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $19 for the public, $13 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Artistic director and classics scholar Peter Meineck will present an "Informance" at 7 p.m. in Room 212, Stewart Center. (It originally was scheduled to be a post-performance discussion.) Part of Purdue Convocations' Patron's Choice series.

  • Thursday, March 25. Poetry reading by Sporty King. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 206. This Chicago poet will take a look at self-esteem with a free poetry reading of his original works entitled "Spoetry: Life ... love ... and laughter." Part of the Black Cultural Center Cultural Arts Series.

  • Friday, March 26. Haraka Fest: "Image-nation." 7 p.m. Room 210, Matthews Hall. The Black Cultural Center's Haraka Writers will read original poetry and discuss the image of African-Americans in the new millennium. Free event is part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

  • Friday, March 26. Jazz Bands free concert. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center.

  • Saturday, March 27. Glee Club/Black Voices of Inspiration Concert. 7:30 p.m. Northrop High School, Fort Wayne. The Black Cultural Center ensemble joins the Purdue Musical Organizations' choir in this preview of the "Voices of America" show the two groups will take on an 18-day tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in May and June. Tickets are $8 at the door.

  • Saturday, March 27. Ray Drummond's All-Star Excursion Band. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $22 for the public, $15 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Jazz Set Series.

  • Sunday, March 28. University Choir. 8:30 a.m. Evangelical Covenant Church , 3600 S. Ninth St., Lafayette.

  • Sunday, March 28. Cinema Now: "The Truce." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • Wednesday, March 31. 8 p.m. Glee Club All Campus Serenade. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. The Black Voices of Inspiration from the Black Cultural Center join Purdue Musical Organizations' Glee Club in this free preview concert of the "Voices of America" show the two groups will take on an 18-day tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in May and June.

  • Thursday, April 1. Panel discussion about the novels of Toni Morrison. 6 p.m. Black Cultural Center. A group of graduate students will discuss the "Creative Production of Toni Morrison: Preservation of African-American Culture and History." BCC Librarian Dorothy Ann Washington also will discuss the Afro-centric approach to literary criticism. Part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

  • Saturday, April 3. The Black Voices of Inspiration spring concert, "A Tribute to Motown." 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $5 for students, $7 for the public, available at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933. This presentation by the Black Cultural Center performing arts ensemble is part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

  • Wednesday, April 7. Purdue Musical Organizations' University Choir free concert. 8 p.m. University Church, 320 North St., West Lafayette.

  • Wednesday, April 7. Violinist Joshua Bell. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $23 for the public, $13 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Loeb Music Collection Series.

  • Thursday, April 8. Arlo Guthrie concert. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $20 for the public, $15 for Purdue students, at campus box offices, (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • Sunday, April 11. PMO Bell Choir. 10:45 a.m. Bethany Presbyterian Church, 3305 Longlois Drive, Lafayette.

  • Sunday, April 11. Windworks II free concert. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. The Varsity, Collegiate and University Concert Bands join for a special performance of concert band music.

  • Sunday, April 11. Voices of Native America, celebrating the music, dance and culture of Native America. 3 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $16 for the public, $11 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Patron's Choice Series.

  • Sunday, April 11. New Directional Players spring production. 3 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This play by the Black Cultural Center performing arts ensemble will showcase the contributions of young African-American men and women. Tickets are $5 for students, $7 for the public, and may be purchased the afternoon of the show at the Loeb Box Office. Part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

    ** Thursday, April 15. Free concert by PMO Express. 8 p.m. Hillenbrand Residence Hall.

    ** Thursday, April 15. Flutist Pamina Blum of Lafayette and harpist Nathalie Chatelain. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. All tickets are $9 at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Discovery Concerts Series.

    ** April 15-24. Purdue Theatre presents Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House." 8 p.m., plus a 2:30 matinee on April 18 and a 6 p.m. performance on April 25. (No performance Monday, April 19.) Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Tickets are $11 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens, at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933.

    ** Friday, April 16. Irish poet Eavan Boland reads from her works. 4 p.m. Room 218, Stewart Center. Boland is on campus as the speaker at the April 15 Literary Awards Banquet.

    ** Friday, April 16. American Music Review, Variety Band and Spring Auxiliaries present a free concert of pop and jazz favorites. 8 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.

    ** Saturday, April 17. Purdue Concert Band Festival. 7-10 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Purdue Bands presents its first Concert Band Festival, with a special free performance by the United States Air Force Band.

    ** Saturday, April 17. Jahari Dance Troupe's Spring Revue, "Summer Dance Happenings." 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $5 for students, $7 for the public. This presentation by the Black Cultural Center performing arts ensemble is part of the BCC Cultural Arts Series.

    ** Sunday, April 18. PMO Bell Choir. 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services. First United Methodist Church, 102 N. Chauncey Ave., West Lafayette.

    ** Sunday, April 18. Purdue Symphony Orchestra free concert. 2:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. The orchestra is joined by the winner of the 1999 Concerto Competition.

    LECTURES

  • Monday, March 22. A discussion on gender and the movement for self-determination for indigenous peoples in Bolivia. 4:30-7 p.m. Room 114, Stanley Coulter Hall. Discussion leader will be Maria Eugenia Choque Quispe, an Aymara Indian from La Paz, Bolivia, who is a fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California-Davis. The discussion, conducted in conjunction with a seminar on Latin American Feminisms, will be in Spanish only. Part of the Purdue celebration of Women's History Month.

  • Tuesday, March 23. A Women's History Month discussion on feminist pedagogy by students, staff and faculty. Noon. Room 112, Purdue Memorial Union. Bring your own lunch.

  • Wednesday, March 24. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Topic: "Norwegian Egalitarianism and the Rights of Jewish Citizens." Speaker: William R. Shaffer, Purdue professor of political science and associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts.

  • Wednesday, March 24. Women's History Month brown-bag discussion. 12:30 p.m. Stone Cellar (Room B2) Stone Hall. Topic: "Women Artists of the American West: An Internet Course and Online Visual Art Archive." Speaker: Susan Ressler, Purdue professor of visual and performing arts. Bring your own lunch.

  • Wednesday, March 24. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Jay Akridge, professor of agricultural economics who has led workshops in Central and Eastern Europe and South America on agribusiness management education and who is in charge of Purdue's new executive MBA in agribusiness program. Sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs so that award-winning Purdue faculty can share their creative approaches to teaching.

  • Wednesday, March 24. Women's History Month presentation. 4 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Playwright and director Joanne Pottlitzer. Topic: "Turning -'s into +'s: Women and Change, Metaphor and Democracy in Chile: 1973-1990." Presentation will include slides, videos and music.

  • Thursday, March 25. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 117, University Hall. Speaker: Robert Gooding-Williams from Northwestern University. Topic: "Between the Masses and the Folk: Du Bois, Culture, and Political Leadership."

  • Friday, March 26. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Roger C. Stewart, vice president, Global Treasury, Procter and Gamble Co., Cincinnati. Topic: "Global Treasury Managing Risk in a Volatile Environment."

  • Saturday, March 27. 16th annual Herbert C. Brown Lecture Series in Organic Chemistry. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Class of 1950 Lecture Hall. Four lectures on new developments in organic chemistry by internationally recognized researchers. Free and open to the public. The lecture series was established in 1984 to honor Purdue Nobel Laureate Herbert C. Brown, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 for his work in hydroboration and organoboranes.

  • Tuesday, March 30. Women's History Month illustrated lecture. 12:30 p.m. Room 112, Purdue Memorial Union. Topic: "Confidence Means Kotex: Learning to Be a Woman Through Menstrual Hygiene Advertisements." Speaker: Sharra Vostral, Department of History, Washington University.

  • Thursday, April 1. Women's Resource Office Leadership Lecture Series. 9:30-11 a.m. Room 210, Stewart Center. Topic: "Leadership Issues for Women of Color." Speaker: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, chair of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. Her lecture will address issues in the Asian-American and Latina communities.

  • Friday, April 2. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: John E. Barnes, chairman and chief executive officer, Materials Processing Inc., Logansport, Ind. Topic: "Entrepreneurism, a Way of Life."

  • Tuesday, April 6. "He Said -- She Said," a program about date rape presented by national speaker Katie Koestner, an outspoken date-rape survivor. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Co-sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association. Event will be broadcast live on BTVLive!, channel 18 of University Residences Television Antenna System.

  • Thursday, April 8. Jewish Studies Lecture Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 161, Mechanical Engineering Building. Speaker: Professor Sarah Blacher Cohen, Department of English, State University of New York at Albany. Topic: "The Jewish Mirth-Right: An Overview of Yiddish, Jewish-American, and Israeli Humor."

  • Thursday, April 8. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 117, University Hall. Speaker: Michael Rea from University of Delaware. Topic: "How To Be an Eleatic Monist."

  • Friday, April 9. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Rear Adm. David S. Belz, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (G-SEA), Washington, D.C. Topic: "Drug Trafficking: A Transnational Threat for the New Millennium."

    ** Wednesday, April 14. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 204, Stewart Center. Speaker: Louis Rene Beres, Purdue professor of political science. Topic: "Switzerland and the Holocaust."

    ** Thursday, April 15. Women's Resource Office Leadership Lecture Series. 1-3 p.m. Room 214, Stewart Center. Topic: "Campus Mediation Programs and Identity-Based Conflict." Speakers: Jennifer Maxwell, director of the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University, and Dean Patterson, assistant vice president for student affairs at Case Western Reserve University.

    ** Friday, April 16. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Joseph E. Turk, executive vice president, Inland Container Corp., Indianapolis. Topic: "Credentials to Action Making the Shift."

    ** Friday, April 16. Myra Samuels Biostatistics Lecture. 4:30 p.m. Mathematical Sciences Building Auditorium, Room 175. Speaker: Raymond Carroll, a Purdue alumnus and distinguished professor of statistics at Texas A&M University. Topic: "The Statistical Problem of Relating Nutrient Intake and Disease." He specifically will discuss the controversy about whether there is a relationship between total fat intake and breast cancer. The lecture will be followed by a reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Room 304, the Math library lounge.

    EXHIBITS

  • March 22-26. Exhibit of works by Shu-Chaun "Emily" Chen and Meng-Chau "Robin" Huang, candidates for Master of Fine Arts degrees in art and design. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2).

  • March 29-April 2. Exhibit of works by Ali Broach, candidate for a Master of Fine Arts degree in art and design. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2).

  • March 26-April 30. Chieko Misumi: Ito-e (Thread Pictures). Krannert Drawing Room, Main Floor, Krannert Building. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Gallery reception 5-6 p.m. Friday, March 26. This exhibit of embroidery honors Nobel Laureate Herbert C. Brown, professor of chemistry.

  • March 29-May 2. Doris Steider: Painter of the Passing Moment. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. A nationally recognized egg-tempera artist, Purdue alumna Steider draws inspiration from the deserts, mountains and ghost towns of the Southwest and from her travels to far-flung corners of the globe. Gallery receptions 5-6 p.m. Monday, March 29, and 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday. (Gallery is closed April 4 for Easter Sunday.)

    ** April 12-30. Undergraduate Exhibition. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). An annual competition open to any student who has taken an art or design course during the 1998 summer session or the 1998/99 academic year. Gallery reception 5-6 p.m. Monday, April 12, with awards presentation at 5:30 p.m.

    MEETINGS

  • Monday, March 22. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

  • Friday, April 2. Board of Trustees. 1:30 p.m. Room 304 (Anniversary Drawing Room), Purdue Memorial Union. (Date changed from March 26.)

    OTHER

    ** Through April 15. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's 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 or information.

    Coming up:
    March 23, New England; March 24, Greek; March 25, Korean.
    March 30, Middle Eastern; March 31, French; April 1, German.
    April 6, Southeast Asian; April 7, Southwestern; April 8, Mexican.
    April 13, Sicilian; April 14, Australian; April 15, Caribbean.

  • Monday, March 22. Classes resume after spring break.

    Compiled by Frank Koontz, (765) 494-2080; e-mail, frank_koontz@purdue.edu

    Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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