97-02-14 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. WEXNER CENTER HOSTS FAMILY DAY--Feb. 16. Families are invited to the Wexner Center for All That Jazz! Family Day, noon-4 p.m., 1891 N. High St. The highlight of the art-filled afternoon is a young people's concert by trumpet star Wynton Marsalis and his Septet at 2 p.m. in Mershon Auditorium. Before and after the concert, there are films, gallery tours, and storytelling. Drop- in art activities include Serious Fun Sculpture: create a group sculpture and an artwork of your own with artist Queen E. Brooks; Don't Throw That Away-It's an Instrument! making a working musical instrument from ordinary household items; Clay Creations, and Fun with Everyday Stuff. CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center, 292-0330. CAMPUS PARTNERS REQUESTS STUDENT INPUT ON AREA IMPROVEMENTS-Feb. 19. The Student Involvement Committee of Campus Partners will hold two public forums for students to discuss proposed priorities for implementation of the plan to improve the neighborhoods around Ohio State. The forum will be held two sessions, each with the same program, from 4-5:30 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. in the Campus Partners office, 1824 N. High St.(next to Long's Bookstore). Student suggestions are needed, in particular, on improving the retail and entertainment vitality of High Street and on enhancing student rental housing and the quality of life in the neighborhoods. The sessions will be interactive to give everyone opportunities to voice their ideas or to respond to proposals. Suggestions from the forums will help shape the work for Campus Partners for the next few years. CONTACT: Steve Sterrett, community relations director of Campus Partners, 294-7300. TEACHER RECRUITING FAIR--Feb. 21-23. The College of Education will host an International Recruiting Fair for people interested in K-12 teaching positions in American schools and around the world. The World At Your Fingertips provides an opportunity to learn more about the nature and variety of overseas teaching, counseling and administrative openings, as well as how to obtain them. One of only four such events held worldwide, the fair will be held at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road. CONTACT: B.J. Bryant, College of Education Office of Career Services, 292-2741. SPEAKER EXAMINES THE FUTURE OF AFRICA--Feb. 22. As part of Black History Month, the Black Studies Extension Center and Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center will host Africa in the Year 2000/Community Day, from 1-5 p.m. at the Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Avenue. The goal of Community Day is to bring students, faculty and staff to meet and interact with people from the community. Africa in the Year 2000 will attempt to address important issues affecting Africa. Among the many activities is a keynote address by Ahmadiel Ben-Yehuda, Minister of Information and a national spokesman of the African Hebrew Israelite Community of Jerusalem. CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074. WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS MEET--Feb. 22. Women who own businesses or professional practices will profit from the twelfth annual Ohio Women Business Owners' Conference, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, 500 N. High St. The program includes workshops on How to Market on the Internet, Developing a Retail Catalog, Choosing a Business Entity and Early Retirement. Also included are a networking reception, a marketplace that showcases products and services from women-owned businesses. CONTACT: Gigi Grove Kent, Office of Continuing Education, 292-8571. PRESIDENT GEE NARRATES A LINCOLN PORTRAIT--Feb. 26. President Gee, along with the Concert Band and Men's Glee Club, will perform at Severance Hall at 8 p.m. in a special Cleveland concert. President Gee will take the stage along with the Concert Band as narrator in Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait. The work derives its text from the letters and speeches of Abraham Lincoln. The music is a blend of original material by Copland and two songs from Lincoln's time, Camptown Races and the ballad Springfield Mountain. The concert band will also perform Paul Hindemith's Symphony in B-flat and Samuel Barber's Commando March. The Men's Glee Club will perform In taberna, Part II with guest soloist Ohio State alumnus Mark Baker, and other selections. CONTACT: Lois Foreman Wernet, College of the Arts, 292-8835. RESEARCHER DISCUSSES BREAST CANCER PREVENTION--Feb. 27. V. Craig Jordan, inventor of the most prescribed cancer medicine in the world, will deliver the fifth annual Herbert J. Block Memorial Lectureship at 8 a.m. in the Rhodes Hall Auditorium, 450 W. Tenth Ave. Jordan, director of the breast cancer research program at the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University, developed tamoxifen, which is used to treat breast cancer and is being tested as a means to prevent the disease altogether. Jordan will discuss his work with both tamixifen and raloxifene in his lecture Anti-estrogens to Prevent Breast Cancer. The Block Memorial Lectureship at the Comprehensive Cancer Center- James Cancer Hospital was established by the Block family to recognize excellence in the field of oncology. CONTACT: Seanna Walter or Jan Ray, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, 292-3670. 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: Von Vargas (vargas.12@osu.edu) Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:23:14 -0500 (EST)] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.