Purdue Events Calendar
Purdue Events Calendar
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August 3, 2001 EDITORS: 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 • Sunday, Aug. 5. 2:30 p.m. Summer Commencement. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets for graduation are issued free to all candidates for degrees. Tickets are necessary for admission. • Sunday through Thursday, Aug. 12-16. Boiler Gold Rush 2001, an optional orientation program open to all first-year students. For more information go to the web or call Patty Dulik, coordinator, (765) 496-6460; or Shawna Lusk, assistant coordinator, (765) 494-2329. • Sunday, Aug. 19. noon. Welcome Back Boiler Bash. Vawter Field. Return to school activities sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association. • Thursday, Aug. 23. 4 p.m. Boilerfest. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St., West Lafayette. New student orientation festival featuring food; live entertainment by BCC ensembles; prizes; and an informal gathering of campus leaders, student organizations and university officials. • Friday, Aug. 24. 10 a.m. Activities Bonanza. Purdue Memorial Union and Stewart Center. Purdue Student Union Board is hosting this event to promote student organizations. LECTURES ** • Thursday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. Kweisi Mfume, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. A 30-minute question-and-answer session will follow. Admission is free. Contact: Renee Thomas, Black Cultural Center director, (765) 494-3091. EXHIBITS • Aug. 20 through Sept. 14. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Jill Downen: Anxious Architecture." Ralph G. Beelke Memorial Gallery, Creative Arts Building #2. Sculptural installations by this St. Louis artist reconstruct architectural spaces based upon memory, reverie and imagination. • Aug. 20 through Sept. 23. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Ota City Artists." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union. Paintings, drawings and prints by artists from Greater Lafayette's sister city of Ota City, Japan. Opening reception will be 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23. Workshops ** • Wednesday through Friday, Aug. 15-17. Student Leaders Retreat. Camp Tecumseh. This retreat is sponsored by Student Activities and Organizations, Office of the Dean of Students. The focus is to educate and assist student leaders in making their organizations more effective. Pre-registration is required. Contact: Bridget Williams, (765) 494-9028, bkwilliams@purdue.edu. • Wednesday, Aug. 22. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Facilitating Diversity Workshops." Room 256, Purdue Memorial Union. Part of the "Voices of Diversity" summer workshop series, sponsored by the Purdue University Diversity Resource Office. Purdue faculty, staff, students and administrators, as well as community members, are invited to attend the free programs. Seating for the sessions is limited. Call (765) 494-7307 to register. For more information, contact Dorothy M. Simpson-Taylor, (765) 494-7307; dmsimpson-taylor@purdue.edu. CONFERENCES ** • Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 5 and 6. Computer Roundtable. North and South Ballrooms, Purdue Memorial Union. This job fair is sponsored by the Association of Information Technology Professionals. OTHER • Monday, Aug. 20. Fall semester begins. • Friday, Aug. 24. Late registration for fall semester ends. ** • Monday, Sept. 3. Labor Day. Offices closed for university holiday. Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; jwillis1@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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