97-05-01 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. BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETS--May 2. The Ohio State University Board of Trustees will hold its regular monthly meeting at 10:30 a.m. in the performance space of the Wexner Center, 1891 N. High Street. Committee meetings precede the full board meeting, beginning at 9:15 a.m. CONTACT: Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, 292-8424. GROUNDBREAKING FOR WEST CAMPUS SPORTS FIELDS--May 2. President Gee, David Williams, vice president for student affairs, and several university trustees help with the official groundbreaking of the new 40 acre recreational and intramural sports complex on the southwest corner of Lane Avenue and Kenny Road. The ceremony, 12:30 p.m. at the northwest corner of Pressy Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd. will feature an overview of the $3.2 million project. When completed in December, the former cornfield will be a three- tiered park with three lakes and home to 20 recreational activities. The park will open in spring 1999 to allow a summer growing period for the grass. CONTACT: Bruce Maurer, associate director of recreational sports, 292-7671. COLUMNIST ELLEN GOODMAN SPEAKS AT WOMEN’S STUDIES ANNIVERSARY-- May 2. Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe will offer lecture on Women, Men and the Movement: Is This Where We Meant to End Up? at 7:30 p.m. in Mershon Auditorium. Prior to the lecture, Goodman will conduct a question and answer session at 4 p.m. in the Wexner Center. Her appearance is part of the Department of Women’s Studies 25th anniversary celebration May 2 and 3. CONTACT: Women’s Studies, 292-1021. HIGH ON PRIDE CAMPUS CLEANUP IS SATURDAY--May 3. About 2,000 Ohio State University students, faculty and staff will join neighborhood residents in the sixth High on Pride University Community Cleanup from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Volunteers will work in two-hour shifts to pick up litter, remove bulk trash, sweep streets and sidewalks and collect recyclables in the neighborhood south of campus. The area, which covers about 250 blocks, 30 miles of sidewalk, and 65 miles of roadway, is bound by 12th Avenue on the north, Fifth Avenue on the south, North Fourth Street on the east and Perry Street on the west. President Gee will arrive around 11:45 a.m. to speak with participants at the registration area at the lawn area at Neil and 11th Avenue next to the James Cancer Hospital and Starling-Loving Hall. CONTACT: Tracy Turner, University Communications, 688-3682. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL--May 3. The Medieval and Renaissance periods of history have long since passed, but Ohio State students and faculty will keep the traditions alive at the 22nd annual ‘Ren Fest’ on the South Oval (12th Avenue and College Road). The theme of this year’s festival is Arthurian Legends. The festival begins at 11 a.m. with a Grand Processional through Mirror Lake Hollow. Throughout the day, costumed performer will entertain visitors with medieval swordfights, plays, a human chessboard, dances, juggling, magic and music. It’s an afternoon of family entertainment. CONTACT: Andrew Brown, festival steering committee, 292-2324 or David Strauss, University Honors Center, 292-3135. SPORTS AND CELEBRATIONS ON TAP THIS WEEKEND--Baseball, volleyball and track dominate the weekend sports calendar. The new 3,000 seat Bill Davis Baseball Stadium will be dedicated Friday (5/2) prior to the 2 p.m. game against Penn State. The team plays Penn State again on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. for a double-header, and for a single game on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. The NCAA volleyball championship game starts at 4 p.m. Saturday at St. John Arena. The winners of the semi-final games Thursday will play for the 1997 title. The annual Jesse Owens Track Classic will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday in Ohio Stadium. CONTACT: Sports Information, 292-6861. WHAT ARE THEY BUILDING OVER THERE? Bulldozers and cement trucks are a common site at several campus locations as construction projects begin or continue: New recreation fields being built at the corner of Lane Avenue and Kenny Road will be completed in December. (The official groundbreaking is Friday at 12:30 p.m.) The Chadwick Arboretum is continuing the Lane Avenue beautification project with the planting of trees, shrubs and wildflowers along northbound Route 315 between Lane and Ackerman. The landscaping is a cooperative project between the arboretum, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and a federal roadside enhancement grant. The new plantings will be in by mid-June. CONTACT: John Lawter, Landscape Architect on both projects, Physical Facilities, 292-3673. The Schottenstein Center at the corner of Lane and Olentangy River Road is progressing toward completion--the foundation is visible above the mounds of dirt around the site. The Fisher College of Business on College Road is a complex of six building being constructed in two phases. Phase one buildings should be finished in 1998. OHIO STATE CELEBRATES ASIAN CULTURAL DIVERSITY--May 1-31. The complexities of the various Asian culture, language and peoples will be explored during Asian Awareness Month. There are more than 3,000 Asian and Asian-American students at Ohio State, and organizers hope to combat stereotypes that can create barriers between students with a variety of lectures, plays, exhibits and other events. CONTACT: Lakshmi Raman, Asian American Student Services, 292-0625. SYMPOSIUM TARGETS SOLUTIONS TO RISKY BEHAVIORS OF ADOLESCENTS-- May 7-10. Teenagers do a lot of things to endanger their lives and health. What can parents, practitioners and policy makers do? Experts from around the countryand Ohio State will share research and ideas in a three-day symposium at the Holiday Inn on the Lane, 328 W. Lane Ave. Risky Behaviors of Adolescents: A Symposium Integrating Research, Practice, and Policy, sponsored by the College of Human Ecology, will include presentations on how “dangerous dress” can put teens at risk; new findings about how alcohol and drug use by adolescents in single-mother households differs according to race; and research showing that trauma in early childhood affects brain development and subsequent risky behaviors in adolescence. CONTACT: Janet Ciccone, College of Human Ecology, 292-5338. WHERE IS GONDWANALAND? May 8. The Byrd Polar Research Center presents a series of seminars each Thursday. Southern Andes to the Southern Alps-Evolution of the Pacific Margin of Gondwanaland will be discussed by Ian Dalziel of the University of Texas at 4 p.m., Room 240, Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Rd. CONTACT: Lynn Everett, Byrd Center, 292-9909. GROUNDBREAKING FOR NEW ALUMNI HOUSE--May 8. Ceremonies will mark the official groundbreaking for the new $8.2 million Alumni House at 4 p.m. near the northeast corner of Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Road. The new university building will be home to The Ohio State University Alumni Association, the third largest alumni association in north America. The project is one objective of the university’s $850 million Affirm Thy Friendship Campaign. CONTACT: Linda Crossley, Alumni Association, 2992-3811. HALE CENTER OFFERS AIDS AWARENESS WORKSHOP--May 8. AIDS continues to spread among nearly all groups in American society. The Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center and the Student Wellness Center are sponsoring an AIDS Awareness workshop from 6- 8 p.m. at the Hale Center, 153 W. 12th Avenue. Sherri Smith, HIV Prevention & Education Specialist of CompDrug will focus on HIV/STDs, HIV transmission, safer sex and how to stay HIV-free. CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074. CHADWICK ARBORETUM PLANT SALE--May 9-10. Hundreds of varieties of perennial and other rare plants are offered for sale at the annual Chadwick Arboretum Spring Garden Fair and Plant sale, on the lawn of Dakan Hall, 674 W. Lane Avenue (northwest corner of Fyffe Rd. and Lane Ave.) This year, rare, unusual and specimen plants will be auctioned on both days at noon. The sale takes place Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Chadwick Arboretum. CONTACT: Janet Oberliesen, Chadwick Arboretum, 292-3136. HOW TO PROTECT ‘INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY’--May 9. Who owns the information on the information superhighway? Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright in the Electronic World: Issues in Electronic Storage and Dissemination of Information will explore related questions in two sessions at the Wexner Center, 1891 N. High Street. From 9:30 a.m. to noon, a panel from the art, computer and legal professions will discuss responsibilities of people on both sides of the creator/user fence. The afternoon session, from 1:30-4:00 p.m., will examine the proposal for a National Information Infrastructure and its implications on use of intellectual property related to the internet. The event is sponsored by the OSU Graduate School, Office of Research, and Advance Computing Center for the Arts and Design. CONTACT: Elaine Hamilton, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), 292-1053. HUNDREDS BECOME OHIO STATE YOUNG SCHOLARS IN CEREMONY--May 9 120 sixth-graders from nine Ohio cities including Columbus will join The Ohio State University Young Scholars Program in a ceremony at 1 p.m. in the Ohio Union west ballroom, 1739 N. High St. The Young Scholars Program gives first generation college-bound Ohio minority students a college education at little or no cost to the students. The goal of the program is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students at the college level with particular emphasis on African American, Latino American, Native American, and Appalachian students. The inductees will participate in academic and cultural enrichment programs both at home and on campus until they enter Ohio State as freshmen. CONTACT: Charles Hancock, Young Scholars Program, 292-4884. JOHN MCKAY WILL ADDRESS LAW GRADUATES--May 11. John McKay, the new head of the Legal Services Corporation, will be the speaker as the 210 graduates of the College of Law receive their academic hoods. The ceremony, which symbolizes the passage from student to practitioner, will take place at 2 p.m. at Mershon Auditorium. McKay, who will be en route from his home in Seattle to his new job when he speaks here, will become head of a private, nonprofit agency which funds neighborhood programs nationwide, providing legal services for the poor in areas of domestic violence, housing, employment, consumer protection, divorce, child custody and child support. CONTACT: Liz Cutler Gates, College of Law, 292-0283. 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, 2 May 1997 07:51:40 -0400 (EDT)] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.