Events today, this weekend

October 9, 2009

Events today, this weekend

Here is a list of events happening Oct. 9-11 at the West Lafayette campus.

Friday, Oct. 9

-- Book reading. Helena Maria Viramontes, Cornell Univ. Latino Cultural Center, Latin American and Latino Studies, others. Noon. Anniversary Drawing Room, PMU. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090030.

-- LA Influentials weekly speaker. College of Liberal Arts. Earl Major, director of human resource practices at Humana. 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Room 2290, Beering Hall. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More information available at: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/alumni/gs300/. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. Information about the month is available at http://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/.

-- W. Edwards Deming Institute Fall Conference. Registration and reception Friday evening. Program Saturday and until noon Sunday. STEW and PMU. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090909OLSConference.html.

-- Department of Biochemistry 75th anniversary celebration. Welcome reception 5 p.m. Program events on Saturday. More at www.ag.purdue.edu/biochem/department/Pages/75thWelcome.aspx.

-- Purdue on BTN. Big Ten Network. "The Danny Hope Show." 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10

-- Unofficial start of October break. No classes Monday or Tuesday (Oct. 12-13).

-- Men's tennis. Purdue Fall Invitational. All day. Schwartz Tennis Center.

-- Softball. Purdue Fall Tournament. Three-game round robin: 10 a.m.: Purdue vs. IUPUI; 12:30 p.m.: Heartland vs. IUPUI; 3 p.m.: Purdue vs. Heartland. Varsity Softball Complex. Tickets: public, $5; student, $2; group of 15 or more, $1 per ticket. (on game day, tickets sold at xite starting one hour before play).

-- Swimming and diving (M&W). Indiana Intercollegiates. Noon. Boilermaker Aquatic Center.

Sunday, Oct. 11

-- Men's tennis. Purdue Fall Invitational. All day. Schwartz Tennis Center.

-- Softball. Purdue Fall Tournament. Three-game round robin: 10 a.m.: Purdue vs. Saint Joseph's (Ind.); 12:30 p.m.: IU Southeast vs. St. Joseph's (Ind.); 3 p.m.: Purdue vs. IU Southeast. Varsity Softball Complex. Tickets: public, $5; student, $2; group of 15 or more, $1 per ticket. (on game day, tickets sold at site starting one hour before play).

-- Soccer (women's) vs. Minnesota. 1 p.m. Varsity Soccer Complex. Tickets: adult, $5; student, $2; groups of 15 or more, $1 each (on day of match, tickets are sold only at site starting one hour before play).

-- Just Walk for the Health of It!/Walk Across Indiana. Department of Health and Kinesiology, Extension, and local sponsors 1-3:30 p.m. Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, 1010 Teal Road, Lafayette. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. Information about the month at http://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- Exhibition: "Living Stone: The Casts Project." Purdue University Galleries. Setting in keeping with studio practice, using prints by Jim Dine, plaster casts, and artworks from classes and visitors. Through Sunday (Oct. 11) in Stewart Center Gallery. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus until 8 p.m. Thursday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

-- Exhibition: Rotating Selections from the Permanent Collection. Purdue University Galleries. Current: "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

Monday-Friday

-- Exhibition: "Purdue's Place in Space: From the Midwest to the Moon." Libraries Archives and Special Collections. Includes items from Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and other Purdue astronaut alumni in celebration of 40 years since the first moon landing. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, fourth floor, STEW. Through Oct. 30. More at www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol. For a group tour, call 49-42839.

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are cream of mushroom (soup) and salmon cakes (entrée). 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Stone Hall. Reservations encouraged; call 49-46845. To access the full menu and learn about other dining options from the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.

TICKETS

Events are free unless noted (except that conference registrations may be omitted here). Ticket prices are for single events, not any series or discount offers. An exception to the following will be noted in the listing.

For varsity athletics tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 49-SPORT [497-7678]; or visit the office in the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. The office is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events at IAF, Mackey Arena and Ross-Ade Stadium. For ticketed sports events at other Purdue venues, tickets will be on sale before the event at the venue. More at www.purduesports.com.

For Purdue Convocations and Purdue Theatre events and some others as announced, go to ticket offices in Elliott Hall (lower level, northeast end by Hovde Hall) or Stewart Center (west lobby), or call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW [914-7469]. The Elliott Hall box office is open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours before ticketed events there.

Purdue Theatre tickets are sold also at the Pao Hall box office. It is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours before ticketed events there.

More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic.