96-06-07 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.

OLYMPIC TORCH PASSES THROUGH CAMPUS--June 8.  The Olympic flame will 
be carried through the campus en-route to the Olympics in Atlanta, 
beginning at 6:31 a.m. on Saturday morning.  The route takes the 
torch through the Short North from City Hall.  The torch enters the 
campus at the intersection of King Avenue and Cannon Drive.  The 
flame is carried on north on Cannon; right on 12th Avenue and left 
on College Road.  The torch goes past the Oval on College, then 
right on Woodruff; left on High Street and to Worthington.  The 
route of the torch, which was planned by a committee in Atlanta, 
does not take the torch past Ohio Stadium or the Jesse Owens Plaza 
in front of the stadium.  Several former Ohio State athletes and 
Olympians will carry the torch through Franklin County.
CONTACT:  For torch route information: Sharon Keaney,  United Way of 
Franklin County, 227-2726; for Ohio State athlete involvement: Jeff 
Wuerth, OSU Sports Information, 292-6861. 

POLAR RESEARCHERS REVIEW ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION--June 10.  How the 
South was Won: A Review of the First 150 Years of Geological 
Exploration of Antarctica is the topic of a special lecture 
sponsored by the Byrd Polar Research Center.  Dr. Robert Tingey of 
the Australian Geological Survey Organization in Canberra, 
Australia, will present the lecture at 12:00 noon in Room 240, Scott 
Hall, 1090 Carmack Rd.
CONTACT: Lynn Everett, Byrd Polar Research Center, 292-9909,

UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY GETS FIRST LOOK AT LENNOX TOWN CENTER--June 14.  
The new shopping center that will be built at Kinnear and Olentangy 
River Roads (where the Lennox plant was formerly  located), will be 
unveiled for university staff members at a presentation from 
11:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. in the Drake Union River Den, 1849 Cannon 
Drive.  Jon Meyer of Continental Real Estate will have sketches of 
the complex and will answer questions.  The presentation is 
sponsored by the University Staff Advisory Committee (USAC).
CONTACT: USAC Action Line, 688-8722.

MEN AND WOMEN WITH LUNG DISEASE NEEDED FOR STUDY ON EXERCISE--Ohio 
State researchers are studying the impact of exercise on people with 
chronic lung disease.  Volunteers are needed to participate in a 
study of how short bouts of exercise affect lung patients in the 
short-term -- physically, psychologically and cognitively.   The researchers
are looking for men and women over age 55 who've been diagnosed with COPD
(chronic bronchitis or emphysema) for at least six months.  Anyone
interested in enrolling should contact Vanessa Honn at  292-6527.
CONTACT:  Charles F. Emery, 688-3061 or Vanessa Honn,  292-6527.

UNIVERSITY AREA SCHEDULED FOR BI-WEEKLY CLEANINGS--The Public 
Service Department of the city of Columbus will begin sweeping  
streets throughout the University District on the second Thursday 
and second Friday of each month from April through November.  The 
sweeping will begin in June with the even-numbered (north and east) 
side of the streets being swept on Thursday, June 13, and the odd-
numbered (south and west) side of the streets being swept on Friday, 
June 14.  Sweeping will be conducted between  8 a.m. and 2 p.m. each 
day.  Signs are being installed to remind residents to move their 
parked vehicles during the hours of the sweeping.
     This sweeping is in addition to a quarterly sweeping of all 
streets in the high-density, predominantly student neighborhood east 
of Ohio  State.  The second quarterly street sweeping will take 
place June 11 and 12 in an area bounded by North High Street on the 
west, North Fourth Street on the east, East Norwich Avenue on the 
north and East 11th Avenue on the south.
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, 7 Jun 1996 16:31:16 -0400]
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