96-04-12 Story Tips for Local News Media STORY TIPS University Communication offers this list 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. MARCHING BAND GOES HOLLYWOOD--Apr. 15-17. Seventeen Ohio State University Marching Band Members, along with Director Jon Woods, will travel to Los Angeles on Monday to film a scene for a Warner Brothers film titled My Fellow Americans. The movie stars Jack Lemmon, Dan Ackroyd, James Garner, and Lauren Bacall and is about a presidential election. The students, all squad leaders in the 1996 Marching Band, will be in a scene with Lemmon, who plays the candidate from Ohio. Band members will shoot their scene on Tuesday, and return to Columbus on Wednesday. Ohio State's Los Angeles Alumni Club will host the group during its brief stay. Financial support for the grip is being provided by four prominent band boosters: Ohio State University Board of Trustees Chair Ambassador Milton Wolfe, Vice Chair Leslie Wexner, Past Chair John Kessler, and John Schiff, Sr., a member of The Ohio State University Foundation Board. The group will rehearse at 3 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 14, in the Stadium Band Room. CONTACT: Jon Woods, 292-2598 or 292-2671, or Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-8835. COOL STORIES! POLAR RESEARCHERS DISCUSS WORLD CLIMATE, POLAR EXPLORATION--Apr. 12-13. Current and former faculty from Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center are meeting at the Center, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Admiral Byrd's historic flight to the North Pole and Operation High Jump. The two-day forum includes talks on Abrupt Climate Change: The Three Year End of the Ice Age; Global Impact of Polar Processes; and Byrd's North Pole Diary: New Evidence. All talks will be held in room 240, Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Road. The Byrd Center is the repository for the personal papers of polar explorer. Members of the Byrd family are expected to attend the conference. CONTACT: Lynn Everett, Byrd Polar Research Center, 292-9909. SCHOLARS DISCUSS SECURITY ISSUES IN EASTERN EUROPE--Apr. 12-13. As part of International Week, experts in Slavic studies and national security meet at Ohio State to discuss After the Warsaw Pact: Security and Change in the New Eastern Europe. The program looks at civil-military relationships, security dilemmas, the security and defense policies that have emerged since 1989, and the U.S. role in European security and the future of NATO..The program is sponsored by the Center for Slavic and East European studies and the Mershon Center, which conducts research and educational activities in international security and public policy. CONTACT: Matthew Schwonek, OSU Center for Slavic and East European Studies, 292-8770. GREEK COMMUNITY JOINS FOR TEAM EFFORT--Apr. 12-14. About 105 Ohio State students representing 52 greek organizations at the university will spend a weekend working, sharing and creating as a TEAM during a leadership retreat at Mohican State Park. TEAM, Together Everyone Accomplishes More, is a retreat for current and potential leaders of greek organizations designed to develop leadership skills and further promote unity within fraternities and sororities. Ohio State is the first Big Ten university to participate in TEAM. CONTACT: Tracy Stuck, Office of Student Services, 688-4145. HISPANIC AWARENESS WEEK--Apr. 14-21. Beginning with a kickoff fiesta, Apr. 14, from 3-5 p.m. at Whetstone Park, Ohio State's office of Hispanic Student Services sponsors a week of exhibits, lectures and events. Among the activities at the Ohio Union: National Subjects and Discourses in Latin America's 19th Century: A Colloquium, on Apr. 19; Hispanic Business Opportunities in Ohio and Latin America, on Apr. 17; and WWW, World Wide Web in Latin America, on Apr. 16. CONTACT: Carmen Alvarez-Breckenridge, Hispanic Student Services, 292- 2917. TOP STUDENTS RECOGNIZED--Apr. 17. Some 200 Ohio State seniors with outstanding academic records will be honored at a reception beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. The Colleges of the Arts and Sciences will present each student with Excellence in Scholarship award certificates. The students were selected from a pool of about 2,000 seniors in the five colleges: Arts, Biological Sciences, Humanities, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. CONTACT: Tom Spring, University Communications, 292-8424. VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT--Apr. 18-20. The Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament will be held in St. John Arena with the champion to advance to the NCAA Championship finals at UCLA on May 2. Teams include Ball State, Indiana-Purdue, Ft. Wayne, Lewis, Loyola-Chicago, Ohio State, Quincy, Thomas More and Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Last year, Ball State defeated Ohio State to win the tournament played at Ball State. CONTACT: Steve Snapp, Sports Information, 292-6861. UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION FOCUSES ON CIVIC VALUES--Apr. 18. Edward Schwartz, president of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values in Philadelphia, will discuss From 'Me' to 'We': A Civic Framework for Community, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave. Schwartz's lecture is part of a community celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Ohio State and the 25th anniversary of the creation of the University District Organization. CONTACT: The Rev. Richard Bausman, director of the United Christian Center and chair of UDO's Program Committee, 294-5195. CAMPUS PARTNERS INVITES PUBLIC INPUT--through Apr. 26. Campus Partners, the group established by Ohio State to lead a revitalization effort for the area around the university, is seeking public comment on the final draft of its revitalization plan. The 230-page planning document, University Neighborhoods: Revitalization Concept, has been refined based on public response to the first draft of the plan which was issued last November. This final draft contains policies, recommendations and program descriptions for the revitalization of the University Neighborhoods. Campus Partners requests public comment on the draft concept plan in writing to its office at 1824 N. High St. The document is available for review at the Campus Partners office, OSU Main Library, and Whetstone and Northside Branch Libraries. Following a review of the comments, a finished concept document will be produced in May, and possibly presented in June to Columbus City Council and the University Board of Trustees. CONTACT: Steve Sterrett, Campus Partners, 294-7300. 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). [Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:22:58 -0400] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.