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April 9, 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, 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!

  • 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 are $12 for students, $17 for all others, at the English department, Room 324, Heavilon Hall.

  • Thursday, April 15. University Day. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Memorial Mall. Purdue Student Government sponsors this day of cleanup at various university sites by volunteer staff and students.

  • 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.-6 p.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 such as cow-milking, cricket-spitting and turkey-calling. Attractions include Bug Bowl, the 86th Annual Horticulture Show, Boiler Barnyard, and advice on managing your business and keeping your food safe. Saturday-only events include the 36th Veterinary Medicine Open House. For details, call (765) 494-9113 or (888) EXT-INFO or go to the SpringFest Web site.

  • Saturday-Sunday, April 17-18. Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference: Reawakening Trust -- Rebirth of Hope. Conference convenes at 1:30 p.m. both days at Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, and events continue all day. For details, contact Rabbi Gedalyah Engel, conference coordinator, (765) 743-1716.

  • Monday-Tuesday, April 19-20, Purdue Grand Prix qualifications. 5:30 p.m. Kart track north of Ross-Ade Stadium. Qualifiers will race in the April 24 running of the 42nd annual Purdue Grand Prix kart race, known as the "Greatest Spectacle in College Racing."

  • Thursday, April 22. "Funding Technology-Based Businesses in Indiana." 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. The free conference will guide entrepreneurs, researchers and small business owners through the grant process that can lead to billions of dollars worth of funding through the federal SBIR/STTR business development programs. Pre-registration is recommended by calling the Purdue Business and Industrial Development Center at (765) 494-5858 or (800) 787-2432.

  • Thursday-Sunday, April 22-25. Gala Week. The Purdue Alumni Association has planned reunions, entertainment and activities for alumni who return for the university's Gala Week. Events are listed at Alumni Gala Week Web site, or contact Nikki Horner, associate director, Purdue Alumni Association, (765) 494-5175.

    ** Saturday, April 24. Old Gold and Black football scrimmage. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Ross-Ade Stadium. Admission is free.

  • Saturday, April 24. 42nd annual Purdue Grand Prix go-kart race. Track opens at 10 a.m. First qualifying sprint starts at 11:30 a.m. Fifty-mile feature race starts about 2:30 p.m. Kart track north of Ross-Ade Stadium. Tickets to the "Greatest Spectacle in College Racing" are $5 in advance at the Grand Prix Foundation Offices, Room 260, Purdue Memorial Union. Tickets at the gate are $6.

    ** Saturday, April 24. Black Caucus of Faculty and Staff 24th annual Academic and Service Awards Program. 1 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. The caucus will recognize more than 100 African-American undergraduate students for their academic, service and leadership achievements.

    ** Saturday, May 8. 4 p.m. Technology Statewide Commencement for Anderson and Muncie sites. Warner Auditorium, Anderson University.

    ** Sunday, May 9. 3 p.m. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis commencement. RCA Dome.

    ** Sunday, May 9. 7 p.m. Technology Statewide Commencement for Columbus site. Holiday Inn.

    ENTERTAINMENT

  • 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' first Concert Band Festival, with a special free performance by the U.S. 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.

  • Tuesday-Friday, April 20-23. Purdue University Bands' free Twilight Concert Series. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. 7 p.m. Tuesday: Varsity Band. 7 p.m. Wednesday: Collegiate Band. 7 p.m. Thursday: "1812 Concert" with the Concert Band and fireworks. 5 p.m. Friday: Jazz on the Hill with the Purdue Jazz Bands.

  • Thursday-Sunday, April 22-25. Purdue Theatre Second Season presents "Words, Words, Words." 8 p.m. each evening, except the Sunday, April 25, show will be at 2:30 p.m. Black Box Theatre, Creative Arts Building 3. Featuring Tom Stoppard's "The 15-Minute Hamlet" and selections from David Ives' collection of one-act plays, "All in the Timing." All tickets are $5 at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933.

  • Friday, April 23. Cinema Now: "Marius and Jeannette." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets are $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • Sunday, April 25 . Two free concerts by Purdue Musical Organizations' Bell Choir. 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. Trinity United Methodist Church, 404 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.

    ** Sunday, April 25. Grand Prix concert featuring Mike and Joe, Rich Hardesty Band, 7th Man Down, Gizzae and Skavossas. 1-6 p.m. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Purdue Student Government sponsors this free concert.

  • Sunday, April 25. Free concert by Symphonic and Alumni Concert Bands. 2:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center.

  • Tuesday, April 27. All PMO Spring Show. 8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Free concert presented by Purdue Musical Organizations.

  • Friday, April 30. Free Applied Music Recital. 7 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Memorial Union.

    LECTURES

  • 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.

  • Thursday, April 22. The annual Ben and Louise Klatch Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Professor Emeritus Rene Girard, Departments of Comparative Literature and French, Stanford University. Topic: "Mimetic Violence and Expulsion in the Hebrew Bible."

  • Thursday, April 22. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 117, University Hall. Speaker: Paul Moser from Loyola University. Topic: "Skepticism Undone."

  • Friday, April 23. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Jerome Adams, general manager, Learning and Transformation Services, Shell Oil Co., Houston. Topic: "Leveraging Learning as a Vehicle to Manage Change and Improve Business Performance."

  • Wednesday, April 28. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Daniel C. Morris, Purdue associate professor of English. Topic: "Allen Grossman: Jewish Poet."

    EXHIBITS

  • 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.

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

  • Through 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 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.

    MEETINGS

  • Monday, April 26. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

    OTHER

  • Through April 29. 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:

    April 13, Sicilian; April 14, Australian;April 15, Caribbean.
    April 20, Chinese; April 21, British; April 22, French.
    April 27-29, Gourmet -- call for menu information.

    ** Saturday, May 8. Spring semester ends.

    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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