96-04-19 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. EARTH DAY AT OHIO STATE--Apr. 20. The Browning Amphitheater (near Mirror Lake) is the site of Earth Day Festival '96, featuring speakers, bands and display tables from more than two dozen environmental groups. The festival will be held from 1:30-6:30 p.m. GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM--Apr. 20. Ohio State graduate students will make presentations about their research and compete for prizes in the annual event, from 8 a.m.-noon in Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall. Prizes totaling $600 will be awarded in each of the Graduate School's 10 academic areas to the top-, second-, and third-ranked papers. The event is sponsored by the Council of Graduate Students. CONTACT: Jamie Marie Newmeyer, Council of Graduate Students, 292-4380. OPTOMETRY CAREER DAY-Apr. 21. Ohio State's College of Optometry is one of only 19 such schools in the U.S. and Canada. Anyone interested in learning more about optometry can attend Optometry Career Day from 1-4:00 p.m., in the College of Optometry, 338 W. 10th Ave. Attendees can tour classrooms, labs and clinics, and obtain admission and financial aid information. CONTACT: Lisa Earley, College of Optometry, 292-2647. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING OPEN HOUSE--Apr. 20. High school students and their parents are invited to learn more about the College of Engineering at an open house, 8:30 a.m.-3:30p.m., at Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave. CONTACT: Kerry Lynch, College of Engineering, 292-0550. HIGH ON PRIDE--Apr. 27. In the spirit of Earth Day and Arbor Day, an estimated 2,000 Ohio State students, faculty, staff and community members will clean up the campus area in the fourth High on Pride University Community Cleanup, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Volunteers will work one of four shifts, picking up litter, sweeping streets and sidewalks, collecting recyclables in the streets, and removing bulk trash in an area bounded by Parkway Drive on the north, Lane Avenue on the south, the Olentangy River on the west, and the Conrail tracks on the east. High on Pride's first three efforts, in Oct. 1994 and May and Oct. 1995, removed 151 tons of trash and litter from the areas around campus. To volunteer, call 292-DIRT. CONTACT: Tracy Turner, University Communications, 688-3682. DANCE AND THEATRE HIGHLIGHT ARTS CALENDAR--Apr. 23-27. After a year and a half of overseas work, Susan Van Pelt returns to Columbus with an evening of dance works performed by the Repertory Project, a professional dance company from Cleveland. Van Pelt, an Ohio State faculty member from 1985-89, left to pursue a free-lance career. She is a visiting artist in the dance department this spring. Performances are at 8 p.m., Apr. 26 and 27, Sullivant Theatre, 1813 N. High St. Witty dialogue and engaging characters are offered by the Department of Theatre's spring studio production, Wrecked Eggs, by David Hare. The play opens on Apr. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mount Hall Theatre, 1050 Carmack Rd., and runs Apr. 24-27 at 8 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-8835. TAKE A DAUGHTER TO WORK DAY--Apr. 25. Ohio State University employees are invited to "Take a Daughter to Work," on Thuraday, and introduce children to a range of exciting careers. Participants may try their hand at designing a toy, lifting fingerprints off objects, learning how to tell a horses' age by the teeth, or see what it's like to be a university president. Girls and boys, ages 9-17 may attend any of the 55 free workshops around campus, taught by faculty and staff volunteers. Several hundred children are expected to participate. Workshops are offered from 9:30-11 :00 a.m., 1:00-2:30 p.m. and 3-4:00 p.m. Take a Daughter to Work Day is a national program established by the Ms. Foundation. At Ohio State, the day is sponsored by the University Career Services Committee and the Association of Faculty and Professional Women. CONTACT: Margie Bogenshutz, Take A Daughter to Work Day Committee, 292-8586. HUMANITIES LECTURE--Apr. 24. Enough about You; Let's Talk About Me: A Brief History of Women's Autobiography," be presented by will Leigh Gilmore, professor of English and women's studies, at noon at the Hyatt on Capitol Square, 75 E. State St. The lecture is part of the 1996 Women's Luncheon Series, "Women and Knowledge: Changing Minds, Changing Lives" presented by the College of Humanities and Department of Women's Studies. In the lecture, Gilmore will examine how women writers have developed their own ways of telling the truth about their lives. CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882. SPRING INTO THE CREATIVE ACTIVITIES PROGRAM-- The Creative Activities Program offers 180 non-credit, adult education courses this spring, including courses on wines, teas and coffees, Hawaiian dancing, acting, breadmaking, African cooking, and dog obedience. CONTACT: Samantha Cothern, Director, CAP, 292-9983. 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. SILENT WITNESSES VISIT CAMPUS--Apr. 26. Women who were killed in an act of domestic violence are symbolized and remembered in The Silent Witness Exhibit, a traveling memorial featuring 27 life-size red silhouetted figures to represent individual victims of domestic violence. The exhibit will be on display in room S125B Rhodes Hall (University Hospital) Apr. 26-May 3. A memorial ceremony honoring the victims will be held Apr. 26 from 12:30-1:00 p.m. The goal of the exhibit, which is sponsored by the Junior League of Columbus, is to remember the victims, to raise awareness of the extent of domestic violence, to connect people with community resources, and to encourage community and legislative action against violence. The exhibit is making its way across the country with stops at the Ohio Statehouse in Oct.'96, and Washington, D.C., in Oct. '97. . CONTACT: Anne Hildreth, Columbus Junior League, 236-0765. 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, 19 Apr 1996 14:46:52 -0400] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.