STOP, SLOW, GO PROGRAM WILL EDUCATE STUDENTS--Ohio State's Student Wellness Center is using an HIV intervention grant from the Columbus Health Department to begin the Stop, Slow, Go program. Goals are to educate students about HIV transmission and safe-sex practices, and increase HIV testing. The program uses an 'opinion leadership model' to teach students. Volunteers from student organizations are educated on HIV transmission and given supplies so they may serve as a resource for other students.
CONTACT: Renee Smith, coordinator of Stop, Slow, Go program, 292- 4527.

GLENN INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOL INTERNSHIP HOPEFULS CONVENE AT STATEHOUSE--Nov. 29. Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson will address a group of high school seniors from throughout Franklin County Monday (11/29) as the students continue the competitive process of seeking public service internships offered by The John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at Ohio State. Up to 30 internship applicants are expected to report to the Ohio Statehouse Monday to participate in a tour and interviews with educational, judicial and legislative representatives. The John Glenn Precollegiate Internship program will allow 18 to 20 students to gain firsthand work experience in the political and policymaking process by spending their final semester working in selected state agencies and nonprofit organizations. Before interviews begin Monday, Davidson will address students in House Chambers from 1:45-2 p.m. Herb Asher, interim director of the Glenn Institute, will describe the program mission to students from 2-2:15 p.m. The interns will be selected by Dec. 15.
CONTACT: Katharine Webner, 855-8375.

LECTURE LOOKS AT WRITINGS OF ITALIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS--Nov. 30. The College of Humanities presents the second Inaugural Lecture of 1999-2000 on Tuesday (11/30) at 7:30 p.m. at the OSU Faculty Club. Professor Charles Klopp, Department of French and Italian, will present Getting Out of Jail Free (or Not): Prison Discourse in Italy 1566-1978. Throughout Italian history, many Italians have gone to prison for political reasons. Klopp has studied the prisoners' accounts of their ordeals with particular attention to texts produced during the struggle for national unification during the first half of the 19th century; letters by social activists imprisoned during the latter part of that same century; and the writings of anti-fascists during this century's 20 years of totalitarian government under Mussolini.
CONTACT: Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882.

CAMPUS COMMUNITY INVITED TO PRE-KWANZAA CELEBRATION--Dec. 3. The Frank Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, the Office of Ethnic Student Services and African American Student Services invite the campus community to its annual Pre-Kwanzaa celebration. The event begins Friday (12/3) at 6 p.m. in the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 12th Ave. Kwanzaa, a nonreligious holiday, celebrates African-American heritage, pride, community, family and culture. The seven-day festival commences the day after Christmas and culminates on New Year's Day. More than 2 million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the United States, Canada, England, the Caribbean and Africa.
CONTACT: Janice Hoffman, Ethnic Student Services, 688-4988.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETS--Dec. 3. The Ohio State University Board of Trustees and its committees will meet at the Longaberger Alumni House, 2200 Olentangy River Road, on Friday (12/3). Committee meetings, where most of the discussion takes place, begin at 9 a.m. The full board meets at 10:30 a.m. in the Grand Lounge, Room 130.
CONTACT: Emily Caldwell, University Relations, 292-8309.

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*Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray- Goedde.1@osu.edu).