Purdue Events Calendar
Purdue Events Calendar
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August 17, 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. 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. ** • Friday, Aug. 24. 2-4 p.m. Taste of PMU. Front lawn of the Purdue Memorial Union. The event will feature food and beverage samples from union restaurants, including Freshëns and Villa Pizza, which both opened this summer. ENTERTAINMENT ** • Saturday, Sept. 8. 1-6 p.m. Slayter Slammer, Slayter Center for the Performing Arts. Triangle, Acacia, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega and Alpha Omicron Pi are sponsoring this free concert. Proceeds from T-shirt and food sales go to Make-A-Wish Arthritis Foundation. • Friday, Sept. 14. 8 p.m. Blue Collar Comedy Tour starring Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $37.50. • Saturday, Sept. 15. Purdue Bands Game Day Concerts. Festivities begin with a jazz tailgate party at Slayter Center two and a half hours before kickoff. The "All-American" Marching Band performs 90 minutes prior to kickoff. There also will be a postgame concert at the Purdue Mall Water Sculpture near Hovde Hall. LECTURES • Thursday, Aug. 30, 4 p.m. Physics Colloquium. Room 223, Physics Building. Theodore Postol, professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Science, Technology and Tactics Relevant to National Missile Defense Systems." • 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, 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. Seating 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. • Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 11 and 12. Industrial Roundtable. Memorial Mall. Purdue Engineering Student Council is sponsoring this annual job fair. 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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