Purdue Events Calendar
Purdue Events Calendar
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September 14, 2001 EDITORS: This calendar lists selected Purdue events during the next four weeks. Events are free and open to the public, except where noted, and all are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings have two asterisks (**). All events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar. Updated travel directions around road construction zones near campus are available on the Web. EVENTS ** • Wednesday, Sept. 19, 6 p.m. Hunger Banquet, sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board. Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom. Proceeds go to the Lafayette Food Finders Food Bank. Tickets are $3 for students, $6 for others. Tickets can be purchased at the Purdue Student Union Board Office, Purdue Memorial Union Room 268, or at the Boiler Volunteer Network in Stewart Center Room G4. • Saturday, Sept. 22. Saturday with the Boilermakers. On-campus program for high school seniors consists of an information fair, admissions sessions and tours of the campus and residence halls. Participating high school seniors receive a complimentary ticket to the football game on the same day. • Tuesday through Thursday, Sept. 25-27. Farm Progress Show. U.S. Highway 52, south of Lafayette. One of the largest farm shows in the country with 600 vendors, the Farm Progress Show is an 80-acre tent city that attracts crowds from around the world. An estimated 100,000 visitors tour the show each of its three days. Contact: Dana Neary, dn@aes.purdue.edu; (765) 494-9113. • Friday, Sept. 28. 6 p.m. President's Dinner. North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. Purdue President Martin C. Jischke will meet with presidents of various student organizations at Purdue. Sponsored by Student Organization and Activities, Office of the Dean of Students. • Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29. High Flying Fun. Aviation Technology Building, Purdue Airport. Campus Girl Scouts sponsoring event for local Girl Scouts. ENTERTAINMENT • Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 20-23 and 27-30. "Cat on at Hot Tin Roof." Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. The Mainstage season opener is Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning drama. A southern family celebrates the 65th birthday of patriarch Big Daddy and finds themselves immersed in a sea of mendacity as lies about the truth of their lives and about Big Daddy's imminent death fill the air. Directed by Dale Miller. Tickets: $11 and $13 for general public, $7 and $9 for students and senior citizens. • Thursday, Sept. 20. 7:30 p.m. Avalon String Quartet. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets: $9. • Saturday, Sept. 22. Purdue Bands Game Day Concerts. Festivities begin with a jazz tailgate party at Slayter Center two and a half hours before kickoff. The "All-American" Marching Band performs 90 minutes prior to kickoff. There also will be a postgame concert at the Purdue Mall Water Sculpture near Hovde Hall. • Saturday, Sept. 22. 3-5 p.m. Friends and Family Day. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St., West Lafayette. Activities include live entertainment, a family feud game and Afrocentric children's activities. • Sunday, Sept. 23. 3 p.m. "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse." Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets: $7 to $10. • Sunday, Sept. 30. 2:30 p.m. Purdue Fall Band Concert. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Performances by the Concert Band and Symphonic Band. • Tuesday, Oct. 2. 7:30 p.m. "Frank Lloyd Wright" starring John Crowther. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Presented in conjunction with the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette's exhibit, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Samara: Winged Seeds of Indiana." Tickets: $15 to $22. ** • Thursday, Oct. 4. 7 p.m. Scott Ainslie Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Performance of African-influenced blues. Tickets: $7 to $10. ** • Saturday, Oct. 6. Purdue Bands Game Day Concerts. Festivities begin with a performance at Slayter Center by the "All-American" Marching Band 90 minutes prior to kickoff. There also will be a postgame concert at the Purdue Mall Water Sculpture near Hovde Hall. ** • Thursday, Oct. 11. 7:30 p.m. Sanford Sylvan, baritone. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. First "Composer-in-the-Spotlight" program sponsored by Purdue Convocations. Tickets: $15 to $22. ** • Friday. Oct. 12. 8 p.m. American Music Review and Lab Jazz Band. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. ** • Sunday, Oct. 14. 2:30 p.m. Purdue Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. LECTURES ** • Tuesday, Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Fall 2001 Sears Lecture Series. "U.S.-Iran Relations: At the Dawn of a New Century." Speaker: Thomas Ricks, professor of history at Villanova University's Center for Arab and Islamic Studies. Topic: "Iran's 20th Century Political Culture: The Constitutional Years and After." ** • Thursday, Sept. 20, 4-6 p.m. Medieval Studies Fall Symposium. Purdue Memorial Union, Lafayette Room. "Law and Literature: The Case of Hamlet." Featured speaker: Luke Wilson, associate professor of English at Ohio State University. Opening remarks by Charles Ross, head of Purdue's comparative literature program. Event begins at 4 p.m. with a reception The presentations start at 4:30 p.m. • Wednesday, Sept. 26, 12:30 p.m. Jewish Studies Program Noon Series. Stewart Center, Room 320. Edward Simon, professor of biology, will speak on "Cloning and Stem Cell Research: The Hype, the Hope, and the Horror." ** • Thursday, Sept. 27, 5.p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Fall 2001 Sears Lecture Series. "U.S.-Iran Relations: At the Dawn of a New Century." Speaker: Nikki Keddie, professor emerita of history, UCLA. Topic: "Reconsidering the Period of Mosaddiq & Muhammad Reza Shah, 1941-1978." ** • Wednesday, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Fall 2001 Sears Lecture Series. "U.S.-Iran Relations: At the Dawn of a New Century." Speaker: Gary Sick, director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. Topic: "Iran and the United States: The Politics of Hostility." ** • Thursday, Oct. 11. 4:30 p.m. Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series. Liberal Arts and Education Building, Room 1268. Jacqueline Scott, professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago, will present "The Price of the Ticket: A Genealogy and Re-evaluation of Race." ** • Saturday, Oct. 13. 1 p.m. Culture and Technology. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. in West Lafayette. Abdul Alkalimat, professor of Africana studies and sociology and director of the African studies program at the University of Toledo, will speak on "Moving African Communities Toward a Position of Strength." EXHIBITS • Through Sept. 23. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Ota City Artists." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union. Paintings, drawings and prints by artists from Greater Lafayette's sister city of Ota City, Japan. • Monday Oct. 1 through Nov. 11. Purdue Galleries exhibit: "Li'l Heads." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union. Prints and photos of heads and portraiture from the permanent collection will be part of an interactive display. Drawing materials and a photo booth will be provided so patrons can create their own portraits to be added to the display. Opening reception 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4. MEETINGS • Friday, Sept. 21. Board of Trustees meeting. WORKSHOPS ** • Wednesday, Sept. 26. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Liberal Arts Career and Internship Fair. Purdue Memorial Union. • Saturday, Sept. 29. 8:30 a.m. Purdue Theatre High School Workshop Day. Experimental Theatre, Stewart Center. Free workshop program for high school students with sessions taught by members of the Purdue Theatre faculty. Reservations required. Contact: Lori Sparger, (765) 494-3084, theatre@purdue.edu. OTHER ** • Saturday, Oct. 6. October Break begins. Classes resume Oct. 10. Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; jwillis1@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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