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Calendar of Events

Send your calendar items to Calendar, 102 George Hall; FAX 325-7455; e-mail geuderm@ur.msstate.edu. Please notify Calendar of events at least three weeks in advance.

Exhibitions

Through March 20

Oil landscapes by Scott Betz, artist and lecturer in MSU Art Department. Pegasus Gallery, Wise Center.

March 26-April 16

24th Annual Mississippi State Student Fine Art and Graphic Design Exhibition. McComas Gallery. Opening reception and awards ceremony, March 26, 7-9 p.m.

Support Groups

The Counseling Center offers three support groups for co-dependency-troubled relationships. Call Deborah Palmer or Wendie Woods, 325-2091. Sessions are Tuesdays, through April 23, 11 a.m.-noon, 204 YMCA Building; Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30, 209 YMCA Building; Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon, 206 YMCA Building.

Therapy/support group for incest/adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Mondays, through April 23, 4-5 p.m., 204 YMCA Building. Deborah Palmer, The Counseling Center, 325-2091.

Continuing Education Workshops

Call 325-8876
March 21. WordPefect 6.1 for Windows
Introduction, 105 Dorman, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Advanced Excel 5.0, 255 IED, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
March 22. Quattro Pro 6.0 for Windows Introduction. 105 Dorman, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Surfing the Information Highway, 253 IED Building, 1-5 p.m.
March 28. Advanced Excel 5.0. 105 Dorman, 1-5 p.m.
March 29. Introduction to Freehand. 255 IED Building, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
April 5. PageMaker 5.0 Basics. 255 IED Building, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
April 11. PowerPoint 4.0 Introduction. 105 Dorman, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
April 19. Intermediate PageMaker 5.0. 255 IED, 12:30-4:30 p.m.

March

18-19

Turf's Up. Mississippi Turfgrass Conference, sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Home Economics and the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service.

19

Faculty Artist Concert. Gail Levinsky, saxophone, Jacqueline Edwards, piano. McComas Theater, 7:30 p.m.

19 and 20

Let's Talk About Teaching Brown Bag Lunch. Sue Minchew and Peter Shillingsburg discuss "Collaborative Learning." Noon, Union Faculty Lounge.

20

Contemporary Issues and Debates. Honors Forum features Dr. Steve Shaffer in discussion with honors students. Allen 13, 12:30 p.m.

Expo '96. Housing and Residence Life sponsors this student event that provides gifts, door prizes, and food while students sign up for summer and fall housing. Herbert Hall Lobby, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Poetry reading. Charles Wright, National Book Award winner in poetry, reads from his works. English Department Lecture Series, Faculty Lounge, Colvard Union, 8 p.m.

21 and 22

All about tomatoes. Mississippi Greenhouse Tomato Short Course, Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, Jackson. Thursday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dr. Richard Snyder, (662) 892-3731.

21-23

Black Outreach in Leadership Development Conference. Colvard Union. Sponsored by Holmes Cultural Diversity Center.

22

Chemistry Department Lecture Series features Scott Bohle of the University of Wyoming. Topic is "Metalloporphyrin NO Complexes." 100 Hand Lab, 3 p.m. Reception at 2:30 p.m. precedes lecture.

25

School of Architecture Lecture Series features William Morrish and Catherine Brown of the Design Center for American Urban Landscape, Minneapolis. Giles Hall, 4 p.m.

25-26

Invitational Senior Examination Program. Office of College and School Relations, 325-3076.

26

Patents. Honors Forum features university contract and license administrator Robert L. Palmer. Allen 13, 12:30 p.m.

History of the Republican Party in Mississippi. Lecture by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Gil Carmichael. Part of the Political Science Lecture Series. 4 p.m., Place TBA.

MSU Band Concert. Lee Hall, 7:30 p.m.

27 and 29

Region V Science Fair. More than 1,000 elementary and high school students compete at Humphrey Coliseum. Grades 1-6 on the 27th; grades 7-12 on the 29th. 325-3823.

28

New Madrid: The Story of the World's Greatest Stable Continental Earthquake. Lecture by Dr. Arch C. Johnston, director of research for the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis. Colvard Union Small Auditorium, 3:30 p.m. Sponsored by Sigma Xi, Arts and Sciences Colloquium Committee, University Honors Program and Dept. of Geosciences. 325-1419.

It Could Happen To You. Program on campus safety and self-defense, from Assistance in Motion Peer Counselors. Call the Counseling Center, 325-2091.

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