96-03-08 Story Tips for Local Media STORY TIPS University Communication offers a listing of potential news stories on the Columbus campus. We'll update this listing every week. This and every University Communications news release is available on the Internet and World Wide Web. To access by Internet, you may reach us through either OASIS (Ohio State Information System), the Columbus Freenet or World Wide Gophers. Select News and Weather, then Ohio State University News Releases, then News Releases from University Communications. Our Web address is http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/ Choose News Releases from The Ohio State University, then News Releases from University Communications. WEXNER CENTER HOSTS FAMILY DAY--Mar. 10. Families are invited to the Wexner Centers Face to Face Family Day, noon-4 p.m., 1891 N. High St. The art-filled afternoon is developed around the exhibition of Face Value: American Portraits, currently on view. It will feature art activities, family tours, scavenger hunts, and music, dance and drama, including an African-inspired dance and drum performance by internationally-recognized Tony West and the Imani Dancers. Activities are designed for children ages 4- 12 and their adult companions. Activities and performances are free. CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center for the Arts, 292-0330. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE, MEETS WITH MEDIA-- Mar. 14-15. The Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, civil rights leader and business man, will be presented an honorary doctorate during Winter Quarter Commencement ceremonies March 15 at 9:30 a.m. in St. John Arena. In 1977, Sullivan initiated the Sullivan Principles, a code of conduct widely acknowledged to be one of the most effective efforts to end discrimination against Blacks in the workplace in apartheid South Africa.. Sullivan is also founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) of America, which has trained more than 1.5 million and placed more than 800,000 in the workforce. Sullivan will meet with reporters on Thursday March 14, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Ohio State Golf Course, 3605 Tremont Rd.. CONTACT: Mac Stewart, dean of University College and Continuing Education, 292-6344. WOMEN'S LECTURE SERIES --Mar. 14. Martha Garland, professor of history, will present No Sex Please, We're British, during the Women's Luncheon Series presentation, noon-1 p.m. at the Hyatt on Capital Square. Many people think Victorian-era people were prudish, stuffy or puritanical. What can modern society learn by reexamining Victorian values? Garland will explore the sexual ideals and practices of Britain's Victorian period. The lecture is the second of a series sponsored by the College of Humanities and Department of Women's Studies. It is designed to offer a look at topical social and political issues for people without access to university-level research. CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882 WINTER COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES--Mar. 15. Commencement exercises for some 1,400 winter quarter graduates of Ohio State will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m. at St. John Arena, 410 Woody Hayes Dr. Herb Asher, professor emeritus of political science and former special assistant to the university president for state relations, will be the speaker. CONTACT: Tracy Turner, University Communications, 688-3682. SPRING CLEANING COMES TO UNIVERSITY DISTRICT--Mar 18-19. For the first time in at least six years, the streets in the core student neighborhoods east of High street will be swept in a coordinated effort. Ohio State students will be off for spring break during the street-sweeping, but will be required to move their cars from the streets by 12:01 a.m. Monday, or have their cars towed to the City Impound Lot. Due to traffic and parking congestion, streets in this neighborhood haven't been cleaned for many years. The City of Columbus, in cooperation with Ohio State, Campus Partners, and the university community, will sweep the streets in an area bounded by East 11th Ave. on the south, Woodruff Ave. on the north, High St. on the west and Summit St. on the east. Pearl Alley, as well as the parking bays between Pearl and High, are included. Ohio State will offer free parking to students and residents with vehicles living in the street-sweeping area. Cars may be removed beginning Wed. Mar. 13, and relocated to one of two university lots along Lane Avenue, east of the Olentangy River. CONTACT: Steve Sterrett, Campus Partners, 294-7300. ALUMNI BAND MARCHES IN ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE IN DUBLIN, IRELAND--Mar. 17. Script Ohio and Hang on Sloopy will ring from the streets of Dublin, as the Alumni Band travels to Ireland to march in honor of the nation's famous patron. The Alumni Band, which has an active membership of about 200, performs for more than 100 events, including the annual reunion at Ohio State's first home football game every fall. After an invitation from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, band members from 15 states volunteered to go make the trip, for which they pay their own way. Members leave Mar. 14 and stay eight days. The band is the first school- affiliated band from Ohio ever to participate in the parade. CONTACT: Bob Grossman, band member and group tour conductor, 614- 881-5987, or Lois Foreman Wernet, director of arts communications, 292-8835. LAW STUDENTS PRACTICE IN MOOT COURT COMPETITION--Mar. 11. Gregory Rogus, the Chicago attorney who represented the respondents in a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26, will serve as one of the judges at the OSU College of Law moot court competition. Students will be arguing both sides of Rogus' case, Jaffe V. Redmond, a case brought by the family of a man who had been fatally shot in 1991 by an Illinois police officer. At issue in the appeal was whether records of conversations between the officer, Mary Lu Redmond, and a social worker who counseled her after the shooting could be withheld from a federal court proceeding. Rogus argues in favor of extending the patient-psychotherapist privilege to social workers. Rogus will be available for comments Monday between 3-4 p.m. at the Law School, 55 W. 12th Ave. CONTACT: M.A. Scherer, College of Law, 292-0283. The person listed as the contact for each item will have the best information about the story. However, feel free to call on our news services staff for assistance with these or other Ohio State news stories. Amy Murray, 292-8385; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; Tom Spring, 292-8309, and Tracy Turner, 688-3682. -Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray- Goedde.1@osu.edu). 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