Inside Iowa State
October 20, 2000
Announcements
Dracula flies into Stephens
The ISU community is invited to don gothic costumes for
Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet's performance of
Dracula at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, in Stephens
Auditorium. A pre-show costume party, with prizes for the
best Halloween attire, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Celebrity
Cafe, ground floor. Tickets are $20 to $32 and available at
the ISU Center box office or through TicketMaster. This
ballet is recommended for mature audiences.
Regents faculty award winners named
Recipients of the Regents Faculty Excellence Award were
honored Oct. 18 during a dinner on campus with members of the
Board of Regents, State of Iowa. Receiving the award were
Palmer Holden, animal science; Wolfgang Kliemann,
mathematics; John Littrell, educational leadership and policy
studies; S. Elwynn Taylor, agronomy; and Pamela White, food
science and human nutrition. The sixth recipient, Sharon
Mathes, health and human performance, died since the
selection process was completed. She was honored
posthumously.
ISU more than half-way to United Way goal
As of Oct. 13, Iowa State had passed the half-way point
on meeting the campus United Way goal of $215,000. Iowa State
employees had pledged $123,438 to the campaign, putting the
university at 57.4 percent of its goal. The fund-raising
drive for Iowa State wraps up today, Oct. 20.
New starting time for Cyclone Shoot-out on Oct. 28
Iowa State basketball fans will get their first glimpse
of this season's teams during the annual Cyclone Shoot-out
Saturday, Oct. 28, in Hilton Coliseum. Doors open at 1 p.m.,
when men's and women's basketball team members will be
available for autographs in the Hilton concourse. The program
begins at 2 p.m.
Highlights of this year's Shoot-out program will include team introductions, a three-point contest, men's and women's team scrimmages, and an auction for prizes such as dinners with head coaches Larry Eustachy and Bill Fennelly, and trips to the men's and women's Big 12 tournaments in Kansas City. "Crunch," the official mascot of the Minnesota Timberwolves, also is in the program.
Tickets are $5. Children under age 5 and all members of the Lil' Clone Club will be admitted free.
New county extension director
Al Grigg of Everly, currently farm director at KICD Radio
in Spencer, has been named Osceola County extension education
director, effective Nov. 1. Prior to joining KICD, Grigg was
vice president/sales manager for Harms Implement Co., Everly,
and in sales management with International Harvester Co., Des
Moines. He has a B.S. degree in agricultural business from
Iowa State.
Palmer open house Oct. 21
The College of Family and Consumer Sciences will hold an
open house at the Palmer Building from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday,
Oct. 21. Tours of the building will be available and
refreshments served. The Palmer Building features the
university's newest public art acquisition, "One, Now, All,"
a word wall and waterfall by artist Norie Sato. For more
information, contact Paula Gmelch, 4-7160.
Solar car paint competition announced
Iowa State's solar car team, Team PrISUm, is sponsoring a
competition for the paint design that will adorn the next ISU
solar car. The competition is open to all. PrISUm Odyssey
will race in the American Solar Challenge, a Chicago to Los
Angeles solar car race in July 2001. The top of the car will
be covered with more than 3,000 dark blue solar cells,
leaving only its nose, sides, undercarriage, wheel covers and
small areas along the top of the car exposed for the paint
design.
The entry deadline is Nov. 1. The winner of the competition will be notified by Nov. 10 and will receive a PrISUm team race shirt. For more information and entry forms, call Ben Nimmergut, 4-0899, or visit the team's Web site, http://www.prisum. iastate.edu.
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