97-01-10 Story Tips for Local Media STORY TIPS 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. Our Web address is www.acs.ohio-state.edu. LEARN HOW THE EXPERTS DESIGN GARDENS--Jan. 10-11. A group of nationally acclaimed landscape architects and artists will join faculty and local landscape architects to offer design ideas for areas of the OSU Chadwick Arboretum Gardens. Students and faculty will also attend An Invitational Design Charette, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10 at the Agricultural Administration Building Auditorium, 2120 Fyffe Road. On Saturday, Jan. 11, a number of the participants including William Johnson, Rosalind Creasy, Robert Dash, and Stephen Drown, a former Ohio State faculty member who helped design the Chadwick Gardens will present their existing work at a The Art of Gardening Symposium at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. CONTACT: Janet Oberliesen, Chadwick Arboretum, 292-4678. DRESS OF 1980s EXAMINED AT WORKSHOP-- Jan. 14. Regress and Excess: Historicism in the 1980s will be presented by Richard Martin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 4:30 p.m. in the Geraldine Schottenstein Wing of Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Avenue. Martin, director of the museum's Costume Institute, curated The Historical Mode: Fashion and Art in the 1980s while dean of the Graduate School of the Fashion Institute of Technology. The lecture is the third in the Fashioning the Future lecture series, which looks at how we fashion our future based on revivals of styles from our past. CONTACT: Historic Costume Collection, 292-3090. CAMPUS OFFERS TRIBUTE TO MARTIN LUTHER KING--Jan. 16. Ohio State will celebrate the dream of Martin Luther King with a program at 7 p.m. at the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Avenue. The keynote address for the 25th annual tribute to Dr. King will be given by Reverend Timothy Clarke, leader of the First Church of God in Columbus. The tribute is sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs and the Hale Center. CONTACT: Michelle Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074. JAZZ FEST ON TAP AT WEXNER CENTER--Jan. 21. The Verve Jazz Fest makes a one-night stop at Mershon Auditorium on Tuesday, January 21, at 7:30. The festival features jazz giants from the Charlie Haden Quartet West, the Joe Henderson Trio, and the Kansas City All-Stars Band featuring James Carter, Christian McBride, and Nicholas Payton. CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center for the Arts, 292-0330. GOOD HEALTH IS GOAL AT NEW WELLNESS CENTER--The Ohio State University Medical Center has opened a health and exercise center that sets itself apart from other fitness centers by taking a proactive approach to helping people with chronic health ailments--and addressing health problems that can eventually cause chronic health problems. The OSU Center for Wellness and Prevention, located at 2050 Kenny Road, features a big indoor exercise and fitness area that is designed and supervised by health and fitness professionals. The center also offers programs in weight management, nutrition, smoking cessation, heart screenings and basic exercise. The center is open to the public, physician referrals, and businesses and companies interested in employee health. CONTACT: Dr. David Frid, director, Center for Wellness and Prevention, 293-2800. NEW YEAR-NEW YOU IS TOPIC OF WEIGHT LOSS TALK--Jan. 18. Deborah Waterhouse, author and dietitian, will present the keynote address at the program New Year-New You, 8: 30 a.m.-1 p.m., Jan. 18 at the Center for Wellness and Prevention, 2050 Kenny Rd. Waterhouse, author of Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell and Why Women Need Chocolate, will discuss how men and women differ in their ability to lose weight and she will suggest a healthier weight loss approach. She will present at 9 a.m. and again at 11:30 a.m. The program, which is free and open to the public, features sessions on fitness, cancer-prevention nutrition, psychology of eating, and a discussion with OSU and CompuServe employees who have followed Waterhouse's six-step plan for the last 12 weeks. CONTACT: Jennifer Reimer, University Medical Center Communications, 293-3737. NORTHWEST OHIO REPORTERS TAKE NOTE: LIMA-AREA CHILDREN OFFERED THEATRE, PUPPET WORKSHOPS--Jan. 11-Mar. 15. The Ohio State University at Lima Theatre Department offers two Children's Theatre Workshops each Saturday through March 15 in Reed Hall Auditorium. Theatre Professor Maria Ignatieva will direct a workshop on marionette puppets for 7-9 year olds from 9 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. From 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., she will and direct Lima Town, an original production to be written and produced by high school age students and performed March 15 in Reed Hall auditorium. CONTACT: Maria Ignatieva, (419) 995-8382. POETRY IN THE WINTER--Jan. 25. The Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center will host Poetry in the Winter, the third performance in the series Seasons of Poetry, from 2-5 p.m., at the center, 153 W. 12th Ave. Seasons of Poetry was started by the renowned poet IS Said in the spring of 1994 to give established and upcoming poets the opportunity to perform their works. CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 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; and Tracy Turner, 688-3682. -Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray- Goedde.1@osu.edu). [Submitted by: Ruth Gerstner (gerstner.2@osu.edu) Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:29:38 -0500] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.