Purdue Events Calendar
Purdue Events Calendar
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September 24, 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 online calendar. Updated travel directions around road construction zones near campus are available on the Web.
EVENTS • Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 7-9. Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Contact: John Wellman, Purdue Division of Conferences, jmwellman@cea.purdue.edu; (800) 359-2968 ext. 92W or (765) 494-0243; Fax: (765) 494-0567. • Friday, Oct. 15. "Sweetest Day" rose sales by the Purdue Horticultural Society. 7 a.m.- 5 p.m. Stewart Center, under the mural. • Friday-Sunday, Oct. 15-17. 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 Michigan State. Kickoff will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. For a full list of events on Homecoming Weekend visit the World Wide Web. ** • Friday, Oct. 15. Welcome reception at the new Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. ** • Saturday, Oct. 16. Dedication of the new Black Cultural Center building at 1100 Third St. 10 a.m. Purdue President Steven Beering will be joined by Mamon Powers Jr., university trustee, Renee Thomas, BCC director, and Vivica Fairbanks-Henderson, president of the Purdue Black Alumni Organization. ** • Saturday, Oct. 16. Civil engineering sculpture dedication. 10:15 a.m. A steel sculpture that doubles as a teaching tool will be unveiled on the south side of the Civil Engineering Building. The sculpture displays various types of steel connections needed in structures such as buildings and bridges. ** • Saturday, Oct. 16. Guided tours of the new Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tours follow official building dedication ceremony. Student guides will conduct tours highlighting the African-inspired architectural elements. ** • Sunday, Oct. 17. "Now and Then: Facilitated Story Telling." 11 a.m. This Cultural Arts Series event at the Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St., allows students and the public to join in guided discussion groups exploring the evolution of the center since its inception in 1970. ** • Monday, Oct. 18. Women in Engineering Career Day for High School Seniors. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. East Foyer, Stewart Center. A day of informative programs for senior girls considering a career in engineering. Registration fee is $10 for students and $10 for parents or accompanying adults. Lunch is included. Registration deadline is Oct. 8. Participation is limited to the first 250 registrants. ** • Monday, Oct. 18. "Family Name" a film by Macky Alston. 7 p.m. Room 210, Matthews Hall. Alston will speak after the viewing about this award-winning film about his search for links between black and white families named Alston in North Carolina. ** • Friday-Saturday, Oct. 22-23. President's Council Annual Weekend, featuring a reunion of most of the 21 NASA astronauts who are Purdue alumni. Many of the 19 living astronaut alumni will speak Friday at various "Back to Class" sessions offered to President's Council members, and all will be honored Saturday at halftime during the Purdue vs. Penn State football game.
ENTERTAINMENT • Through Sunday, Oct. 3. Purdue Theatre presents "The Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan. 8 p.m. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. (No performance Monday, Sept. 27; 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, Sept. 26, in addition to 8 p.m. show that day.) Directed by Dale Miller, professor of visual and performing arts. Tickets: $11 for the public, $7 for students and senior citizens, at Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. • Wednesday, Sept. 29. Jewish Studies Fall Film Series: "Enemies: A Love Story." 7:30 p.m. Room B222, Liberal Arts and Education Building. ** • Thursday, Sept. 30. The Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Series presents the free play "Beneath the Dark Sky – Afrikan Centered Theatre." 8 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. A tale about a young African-American girl coming to terms with issues and identity in a rural southern town. • Friday, Oct. 1. MOMIX. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. This contemporary dance/ illusion/ acrobatic company will present the Midwestern premiere of "In Orbit," a piece about space exploration. Tickets are $20 for the public, $15 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Contemporary dance icon Moses Pendleton, director of MOMIX, will give a free pre-performance talk at 7 p.m. in Room 202 in Stewart Center. A Department of Convocations' Patron's Choice Event. • Monday, Oct. 4. PMO Express Concert. 7 p.m. Friendship House, 1010 Cumberland Ave., West Lafayette. Free. • Wednesday, Oct. 6. PMO Varsity Glee Club Concert. 7 p.m. Hamilton Heights High School, Fishers, Ind. Free. • Wednesday, Oct. 13. International Sejong Soloists with Eugenia Zukerman, flute. 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 the Department of Convocations' Loeb Music Collection. ** • Friday, Oct. 15. Black Cultural Center Coffee House. 8 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. The Jahari Dance Troupe and the New Directional Players will perform "New Beginnings – An Evening of Celebration," in conjunction with the dedication of the new BCC building. Admission is $3 for students and $5 for the public. Tickets are available at the door. • Friday, Oct. 15. "Camelot," the Broadway musical. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $16, $25 and $33 for the public; $15 and $18 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Part of the Department of Convocations' Lively Arts Package. • Saturday, Oct. 16. Pregame concert by "All-American" Marching Band. 1 p.m. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. After the homecoming football game against Michigan State (kickoff at 2:30 p.m.), the band will present a concert at the Purdue Mall Fountain. • Saturday, Oct. 16. All-PMO Oktoberfest. 7 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Tickets are $25 per person. Reservations can be made at Purdue Musical Organizations, (765) 494-3941 or (800) 893-3041. A Homecoming Weekend event. • Saturday, Oct. 16. John Mellencamp concert. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Blues artist Susan Tedeschi will open for Mellencamp. All tickets are $40 and are on sale at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Tickets also available at Ticketmaster outlets. A Homecoming Weekend event presented by the Purdue Student Concert Committee. • Saturday, Oct. 16. Jazz Band and American Music Review free concert. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. • Sunday, Oct. 17. Fall Concert Band and Symphonic Band free concert. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. • Sunday, Oct. 17. PMO Bell Choir free concert. 6:30 p.m. First Reformed Church, 1718 N. 15th St., Lafayette. • Sunday, Oct. 17. Cinema Now: "Elizabeth." 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Tickets: $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students.
LECTURES • Monday, Sept. 27. Focus on Teaching Lecture Series keynote address. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Thomas A. Angelo, associate professor and founding director of the School for New Learning's Assessment Center at DePaul University. Topic: "Teaching as if Learning Matters Most: Guidelines From Research and Best Practice." Program will also include induction of new Purdue Teaching Academy members. • Wednesday, Sept. 29. Monsanto Colloquium: Remediation Engineering and Science. 4:30 p.m. Room 1252, Civil Engineering Building. Speaker: Tom Johnson, vice president, director of technical services and chief hydrogeologist for Levine-Fricke-Recon, Emeryville, Calif. Topic: "Environmental Remediation: New Technologies and Old Limitations." • Thursday, Sept. 30. William Boeing Memorial Lecture. 4 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Speaker: Michael M. Sears, senior vice president of the Boeing Co. and president of its military aircraft and missile systems group. This is the first speaker in what will be an annual lecture series administered by the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ** • Thursday, Sept. 30. Medieval Studies Symposium. 4 p.m. Lafayette Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Topic: "On the Cultural Uses of the Past: Blood, Chivalry and Romance." Guest speakers include Allen J. Frantzen, professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, and Peggy McCracken, associate professor of French at the University of Michigan. • Friday, Oct. 1. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: George T. Muller, president and chief operating officer, Subaru of America Inc., Cherry Hill, N.J. Topic: "Subaru: Lessons Learned in a Turnaround." • Wednesday, Oct. 6. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 218B, Stewart Center. Speaker: Miriam Joyce, Purdue associate professor of history. Topic: "Jews, Israel and the Arab Gulf States in the 1960s." • Wednesday, Oct. 6. Monsanto Colloquium: Remediation Engineering and Science. 4:30 p.m. Room 1252, Civil Engineering Building. Speaker: Bill Davis, environmental engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station at Vicksburg, Miss. Topic: "Innovative Techniques for Site Characterization." • Friday, Oct. 8. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: John D. Buck, executive vice president for operations, information services and human resources, Fingerhut Cos. Inc., and president of Fingerhut Business Services, Minnetonka, Minn. Topic: "The e-Tooling of Fingerhut." • Tuesday, Oct. 12. Purdue Alumni Association Autumn Tuesdays Lecture. 7:30 a.m. MCL Cafeteria. Breakfast buffet costs $4.50; speaker begins at 8 a.m. Kristy Curry, new coach of the Purdue women's basketball team, will discuss the team and its prospects for the season. • Wednesday, Oct. 13. Monsanto Colloquium: Remediation Engineering and Science. 4:30 p.m. Room 1252, Civil Engineering Building. Speaker: Ish Murarka, president of Ish Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., and former program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute. Topic: "Remediation of Utility Industry Sites." • Friday, Oct. 15. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Julie Wainwright , chief executive officer, Pets.com, San Francisco. Topic: "Frenetic, Manic, Chaotic (All Is Under Control, Really, It Is)." ** • Wednesday, Oct. 20. Jewish Studies Noon Lecture and Discussion Series. 12:30 p.m. Room 320, Heavilon Hall. Speaker: Purdue history Professor Gordon Mork. Topic: "Reforming the Oberammergau Passion Play." ** • Wednesday, Oct. 20. Monsanto Colloquium: Remediation Engineering and Science. 4:30 p.m. Room 1252, Civil Engineering Building. Speaker: Chia Chen, professor of geology at National Central University, Taiwan. Topic: "Soil and Groundwater Contamination in Taiwan: An Overview." ** • Wednesday, Oct. 20. Black Cultural Center's Cultural Arts Series. 7 p.m. Room 214, Stewart Center. Speaker: Theophile Obenga, the chair of the Department of Black Studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of the Association for Nubian Kemetic Heritage. Topic: "African Masks: Their Aesthetics and Philosophy." ** • Thursday, Oct. 21. Philosophy Colloquium Series. 4:30 p.m. Room 117, University Hall. Speaker: Larry Hickman of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Topic: "Under the Hood With Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action: (What's Broken and How to Fix It)." ** • Thursday, Oct. 21. Eva Goble Lecture Series. 8 p.m. East and West faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Walter Conti, retired chairman of Conti Cross Keys Inn Inc. in Pennsylvania, and a former chairman of the National Restaurant Association and the Culinary Institute of America. ** • Friday, Oct. 22. Krannert Executive Forum. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Scott A. Jones, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Escient Inc., Carmel, Ind. Topic: "Convergence of the Internet With Home Entertainment."
MEETINGS ** • Monday, Oct. 25. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center. Arthur Hansen will talk about the challenges he faced as Purdue president from 1971 to 1982 and some of the qualities a Purdue president should have. President Steven C. Beering is scheduled to retire June 30, 2000.
SEMINARS ** • Thursday, Sept. 30. "The Employee-Friendly Workplace." Noon, Room 318, Stewart Center. Part of the Learning Lunch Hour Series sponsored by the WorkLife Program in the Department of Personnel Services. ** • Wednesday, Oct. 6. "Lighten Up!" Noon, Room 202, Stewart Center. Part of the Learning Lunch Hour Series sponsored by the WorkLife Program in the Department of Personnel Services. ** • Wednesday, Oct. 13. "Spend Yourself Rich." Noon, Room 307, Stewart Center. Part of the Learning Lunch Hour Series sponsored by the WorkLife Program in the Department of Personnel Services.
EXHIBITS • Through Oct. 1. Scottish Prints. Recent works by 19 contemporary Scottish artists. Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Gallery reception Wednesday, Sept. 8, 5:30-7 p.m. • Through Oct. 17. Misch Kohn: Beyond the Tradition. Examining six decades of Kohn's pioneering work in the field of printmaking. Stewart Center Gallery (West Lobby, Stewart Center). 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday. A Purdue Galleries Brown Bag video presentation about Kohn's work will be shown at noon Thursday, Sept. 2, in the Beelke Gallery (Room 206, Creative Arts Building 2). • Through Oct. 17. Klaus Kux: Drawings and Paintings. A solo exhibition by the German artist. Krannert Gallery (Main Floor, Krannert Building). 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
OTHER ** • Through Oct. 21. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations or information. Coming up: • Saturday, Oct. 9. October break begins. Classes resume Wednesday, Oct. 13.
Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; jwillis1@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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