96-10-03 Story Tips for Local News Media STORY TIPS University Communication offers this list of potential news stories on the Columbus campus next 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=20 State University, then News Releases from University Communications. VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE WILL SPEAK FRIDAY ON THE OVAL=97Oct. 4. Making a campaign stop Friday (Oct. 4) to speak to students is Vice President Al Gore. He will speak on the Oval, near Orton Hall, at 3:30 p.m. The area will be fenced off, and tickets will be required to enter the fenced area. Tickets are available at the Undergraduate Student Government offices at 201 Ohio Union. The event is part of=20 USG=92s ongoing effort to inform and encourage the student body to= participate in the election process. Media credentialing is being handled by Jay Byrne at 280-1996. The media parking area is located near the Faculty Club. To enter from High Street, turn west on West 11th Avenue or West Woodruff Avenue, then immediately onto College Road to Hagerty Drive (just south of the Oval behindthe student union). Follow the traffic officer's directions to the parking area.=20 CONTACT: Colin O=92Brien, Undergraduate Student Government, 292-2101. OPEN HOUSE FOR THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS=97Oct. 4. The third annual all-campus open house for the Wexner Center for the Arts will take place from noon-9 p.m. Oct. 4. The Wexner Center, 1891 N. High St., offers the latest in art, architecture, film and video, dance, music and theater. The open house features the current exhibit, Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945, and includes different activities all day long, including prize drawings and performances by students in the College of the Arts. CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-9923. HOMECOMING WEEK CELEBRATED WITH VARIETY OF EVENTS=97OCT. 6-12. Ohio State will celebrate Homecoming Week Oct. 6-12 with the theme Mardi Gras Buckeye Style. Monday (Oct. 7) -- Mardi Gras Carnival from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the Ohio Union West Lawn, 1739 N. High St. There will be food, music and games throughout the=20 day, and a concert with Robin Lacey and deZYDECO at 6 p.m. Tuesday (Oct.8) -- Students, faculty and staff will stomp on the Oval during Fat Tuesday Aerobics at 4 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. In case of rain, the aerobics will be in the Ohio Union East Ballroom. Wednesday (Oct. 9) -- The Student Wellness Center will hold a mocktail party in 100 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, with motivational speaker Mitch Crane speaking at 6 and 7 p.m. on alcohol responsibility. Thursday (Oct. 10) -- The music group Blessid Union of Souls will be in concert along with Arnette Howard=92s Creole Funk Band at 7 p.m. on the Ohio Union West Lawn. At 8 p.m., the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will crown the African American=20 Homecoming King and Queen during the African American Homecoming Pageant in 100 Hughes Hall, 1899 College Road. Friday (Oct. 11) -- The traditional homecoming parade, featuring floats, the Anheuser Busch Clydesdale horses, the Ohio State Marching Band and the Homecoming Court will begin at 6 p.m. at the French Field House. Grand Marshals are Ohio State alumni Olympic gold medalist Butch Reynolds and CBS News correspondent Erin Moriarty, who will lead the parade down High Street and around the south side of the Ohio Union to end on the Oval, where there will be a pep rally with announcement of the Homecoming King and Queen. Saturday (Oct. 12) -- During half-time of the homecoming football game with the University of Wisconsin, the Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned. From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., a Masquerade Ball will be held in the Ohio Union West Ballroom. Cost is $5. All other events are free. CONTACT: Brenda Fields, program coordinator of campus events, 292-2324. TWO ART EXHIBITS FOCUS ON CHILDREN=97Oct. 7-11. Two exhibitions in Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor, 128 N. Oval Mall, will focus on children. In the main gallery, the exhibition scars of childhood is a black-and-white photographic testimony created by John Teplica, professor of surgery at the University of Chicago and an MFA graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago. Teplica will give a gallery talk at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 7. For more information about programs surrounding this exhibition and National Children=92s Burn Awareness Week, call 297-5331. =20 Concurrently, in the Hopkins Hall Corridor is an exhibition celebrating the visual arts and creative writing components of the Americorps program Children of the Future, an arts initiative offered to children at inner-city recreation centers in Columbus. The exhibition will feature drawings, paintings, sculptures, mixed media constructions and personal writings. At 12:30 p.m. Oct. 9, an informal gallery talk will be given by Nicholas Hill, the program=92s director. Opening reception for=20 both exhibits is 5-7 p.m. Oct. 7. CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-5171. MEETINGS WILL EXAMINE METAL TECHNOLOGY=97Oct. 7-11. Nearly 500 experts will meet at three international conferences on metal forming technology, especially as applied to the automobile industry. Researchers from Europe, Japan and North America are expected, as are representatives from Mercedes Benz, Fiat, BMW, Ford, Toyota and Honda. The Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing is host and co-sponsor of the International Conference on Technology of Plasticity,=20 Oct. 7-11; Cold and Warm Forging Technology 1996, Oct. 7-9; and Sheet Forming Technology 1996, Oct. 9-11. All meetings will take place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St. CONTACT: Sabine Tonnesmann, Engineering Research Center, 292-9267. STUDENTS OFFERED STUDY SKILLS WORKSHOPS--Oct. 8, 15. Success in college requires motivation and good study habits. Knowing how and when to study is the topic of a series of workshops offered by the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center. A Study Skills Workshop will take place from 6-7 p.m. Oct. 8 Exam Taking Techniques will be offered from 6-7 p.m. Oct. 15. All workshops will take place at the Hale Center, 153 W. 12th Ave. CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074. WORK OF FRANK ZAPPA IS THE TOPIC OF FIRST IN LECTURE SERIES=97Oct. 9. Arved Ashby of the OSU music history faculty will speak about Frank Zappa=92s Orchestral Transcriptions and Ideas of the Artwork as part of the College of the Arts Lectures in Musicology Series. The free talk will be at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the seminar room of the Music and Dance Library in Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.=20 CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-5171. COMIC PERFORMER DANNY HOKE APPEARS AT WEXNER CENTER=97Oct. 10-13. Young theater sensation Danny Hoke appears at the Wexner Center for the Arts in an acclaimed one-man performance that has won audiences from coast to coast. This 25-year-old portrays a myriad of humorous yet moving characters in his Obie-winning show Some People at 8 p.m. Oct. 10-13 and 3 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Center=92s Performance Space, 1891 N. High St. The performance is the second in a series of six events in Theatrical Impulses: New Theater Directions, the Wexner Center=92s first consolidated lineup of new theater performances bringing the vitality of today=92s=20 Off-Broadway scene to Columbus. CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-0330. CONFERENCE EXAMINES CLINICAL INTERVENTION FOR DEAF, HARD OF HEARING AND MENTALLY ILL=97Oct. 10. The College of Social Work and Ohio Department of Mental Health will sponsor a conference, Effective Clinical Intervention for Persons who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Mentally Ill at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 10 at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road. The conference will provide clinical practitioners with basic knowledge to facilitate effective clinical intervention with people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The morning session consists of a keynote address followed by responses from a panel. Three concurrent workshops in the afternoon=20 will examine older deaf and hard of hearing people, deaf and hard of hearing children, and mental health assessments of the deaf and hard of hearing. CONTACT: Dianna Barrett, Social Work, 292-0399. MAX KADE GERMAN HOUSE WILL BE DEDICATED=97Oct. 11. The Department of= Germanic Languages and Literatures will dedicate the Max Kade German House at an event at 5 p.m. Oct. 11 at the house, 141 W. 11th Ave. Kade was a German-American businessman and philanthropist whose career was in the pharmaceutical industry. The Max Kade Foundation donated $240,000 to renovate the facility. The residential and educational house will be home to nine students and a graduate resident adviser. CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882. ARTS MANAGEMENT COLLECTION DONATED TO OHIO STATE, WRITER VISITS COLUMBUS--Oct. 11. Alvin Reiss, author of many publications on the business of the arts, has donated his collection of materials on the arts and arts management to The Ohio State University Fine Arts Library. The collection includes thousands of books, periodicals, reports, studies, clippings, tapes, and papers that provide a chronological view of the development of the arts industry from the 1960s to the present. Reiss is editor and publisher of Arts Management, a journal co-founded=20 with Alvin Toffler in 1962. He is author of six books, more than 500 magazine articles, and numerous studies and reports. Reiss says he chose Ohio State to house his collection because of the vibrancy and growing reputation of its Arts Policy and Administration Program and its excellent library system. Reiss will be in Columbus on Oct. 11, to speak at Borders Books & Music, 4545 Kenny Road, about his newest book, Don=92t Just Applaud, Send Money! The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the= Arts.=20 CONTACT: Constance Bumgarner Gee, Arts Policy and Administration, 292-5356.= =20 BLACK CULTURAL CENTER MARKS ANNIVERSARY WITH OPEN HOUSE=97Oct. 11. The= Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Ave., will mark its seventh anniversary with an open house from noon-8 p.m. The event will feature music, arts and crafts, food and a social. Music will be provided by local reggae musicians, and vendors will display clothing, jewelry, books and fragrances. An art exhibit, Sisters in the Struggle, also will be on= display. CONTACT: Lee Smith, Minority Affairs, 292-0074. 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 David Bhaerman, University Communications,= (bhaerman.1@osu.edu). [Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:27:43 -0400] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.