05-05-94 Calendar of Upcoming Events NOTE TO REPORTERS AND EDITORS: Throughout the spring the Office of University Communications will distribute this weekly list highlighting some of the upcoming events at the Columbus campus. The person listed at the end of each entry will have the most direct information about the event. However, feel free to call on any member of our news services staff for assistance with these or other Ohio State news stories: Steve Sterrett, director, 292-8472; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; Tom Spring, 292-8309; Amy Murray, 292-8385. A full calendar of College of the Arts events is available on OASIS (Ohio State's gopher server) under "OSU Colleges and Departments" or by calling 292-8835. UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS CAMPUS All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise stated. There is a longer news release for the items marked with an asterisk. Call Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, 292- 8424, if you need a copy of the news release. Through May 21 Theatre -- "Mad Forest" by Caryl Churchill, presented by the OSU Theatre Company at Stadium II Theatre, 1849 Cannon Drive. Tickets are $9.50 and $10.50 (discounts for OSU students, faculty and staff). Call the box office at 292-2295 for performance dates and times. May 6-8 Parents Weekend. Friday events include Sphinx senior honor society's Linking ceremony, campus tours and an evening out in German Village or at the Short North Gallery Hop. Saturday's schedule has an academic information fair, brunch, the Medieval and Renaissance Festival, tours of Greek houses, an open forum with representatives of university departments, and a family buffet, and concludes with evening entertainment by Bo Diddley and his band. Sunday morning there is a 3-mile fund-raising walk to support the Parent Association Scholarship Fund and brunches at 9 a.m. and noon. Bill Wahl, Parent Association, 292-9153. May 7 Medieval and Renaissance Festival, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on the South Oval and Mirror Lake Hollow. Musicians, magicians, jugglers, jesters, dancing troupes, craft vendors and drama. Sponsored by the Honors Community Association and the Student Events Committee. Katie Vulic, Honors Center, 292-3135. May 9-11 Disability Awareness Activities Monday morning: President Gee accepts challenge to simulate blindness with student guidance -- time and place TBA. Tuesday, 2:30 to 4 p.m.: Volunteer appreciation awards ceremony, Office of Disability Services, 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Ave. Wednesday: Activities on the Oval from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., including simulations of disabilities, bicycle fair, information table, two wheel-a-thons (one for Student Affairs teams, one for anyone who wants to try), Hands Across the Oval to show solidarity with students with disabilities. Tonette Rocco, 297-0779. May 9 *Lecture -- Jeremy Rifkin, noted author, activist and social critic, will speak on "The Biotech Revolution" at 8 p.m. in the Ohio Union East Ballroom, 1739 N. High St. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Amy Combs, 291-6651. Lecture -- Dale Spender, feminist scholar and educator, will speak on "Nattering on the Nets: Women, Power, and Cyberspace" at 3:30 p.m., 31 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave. She is the author of Man Made Language, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, and other books. Sonja Foss, 292-6342. May 11 Poetry Reading by Robert Hess, professor of English at Berkeley, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 3 p.m., Wexner Center film-video theater. Christopher Griffin, 292-2242. Outdoor Concert -- University Band, conducted by Paul Doerksen, and the OSU Trombone Ensemble, directed by Joe Duchi, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake. 292-2300 or 292-3007. May 12 Outdoor Concert -- Jazz Lab Ensemble, directed by Pharez Whitted, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake. 292-2300 or 292-3007. May 13 Lecture -- "Flaneurs modernes et postmodernes: Baudelaire, Breton, Reda," by Professor Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck of Vassar College, 3:30 p.m., 260 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road. Annette Lendacki, 292-4938. May 16 *Faculty Panel: "Should Multiculturalism Be of Concern to Everyone on Campus?" 7:30 p.m., Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive. First of a three-part series; see also May 23 and June 2. College of Humanities, 292-1882. May 19 Outdoor Concert -- Jazz Combos, directed by Hank Marr, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake. 292-2300 or 292-3007. May 23 Lecture -- "Walter Benjamin's Essay on Goethe's 'Elective Affinities,'" by Professor Stanley Corngold of Princeton University. 3:30 p.m., Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive. This is the fourth annual Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Barbara Becker-Cantarino, 292-8639 or 292-6985. *Faculty Panel: "Should Society at Large Care about What Academe Says or Does about Multiculturalism?" 7:30 p.m., Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive. Second of a three-part series; see also May 16 and June 2. College of Humanities, 292- 1882. May 24 African-American Health Fair -- Sponsored by the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, with free screenings for diabetes, high blood pressure, sight and glaucoma, sickle cell, and cancer from 10 a.m. to noon. To sign up for a screening, call 292-0074. Mylayna Albright, 292-0074. May 25 Outdoor Concert -- University, Symphonic and Concert bands will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake. 292-2300 or 292-3007. May 26 Outdoor Concert -- Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ted McDaniel, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Browning Amphitheater at Mirror Lake. 292-2300 or 292-3007. May 29 Concert -- Pink Floyd, 9 p.m., Ohio Stadium. Admission charge. Student Events Committee, 292-2324. June 2 Graduate Student Panel: "Multiculturalism in Academe and Society." 7:30 p.m., Stecker Lounge of the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St. This is a response to the two faculty panels which preceded in this three-part series; see also May 16 and May 23. College of Humanities, 292-1882. # [Submitted by: GERSTNER (gerstner@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu) Thu, 05 May 1994 11:32:13 -0500 (EST)] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.