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Spring Fest to feature bugs,
plants, livestock events
By Kurt Esposito
Assistant
Campus Editor
Over the weekend, academic departments will showcase
themselves and offer educational information to the community during
Spring Fest.
"It emphasizes how much fun learning can be," said
Dana Neary, special events coordinator for the School of Agriculture.
"It's an opportunity for us to reach out into the community to demonstrate
some of the things we are doing at Purdue."
The schools of Agriculture, Science, Veterinary
Medicine and Family and Consumer Sciences are putting on the event,
which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Sunday. The events will take place at different locations
all around campus. Maps of the locations of the nearly 100 different
events will be available in the information tent located next to the
Agricultural Administration Building
Among the different events will be the hands-on
tidal pool located in the lobby of the Lilly Hall of Sciences. The pool
will contain sea stars, sea urchins and sting rays, which people will
be able to touch.
Clark Gedney, director of instructional computing
in the department of biological sciences, said, "We do this to show
people a fun way of having an appreciation of all varieties of life."
He said there will also be aquariums with jellyfish
and one with a mantis shrimp that can smash a scallop with the force
of a 22 caliber bullet.
The School of Veterinary Medicine open house will
feature horse training demonstrations and a petting zoo with rabbits,
donkeys and horses. There will also be lectures on the recent outbreak
of foot and mouth disease and a lecture on wolf behavior. The open house
will take place only on Saturday.
Alison McCloskey, a junior in the School of Veterinary
Medicine, said the event will show people what the students in the school
have learned and to teach people in the community about animals.
Other events planned for Spring Fest include dinosaur
and fossil display in the Memorial Mall, a Horticultural Show with plant
sales and a Boiler Barnyard, which will have cow-milking and sheep-shearing.
In other events during the weekend, the Schools
of Engineering will sponsor ENVision, an open house with tours of the
labs and the nuclear reactor and demonstrations.
"Other schools have open houses: we thought it
would be a great opportunity for the Engineering Schools to grab hold
of this great idea and play off of what Spring Fest has - bringing people
to campus to show off our technology, resources and facility to the
community."
For more information about Spring Fest call 1-888-EXT-INFO
or visit the Spring Fest Web site at www.anr.ces.purdue.edu/sfest.html.
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Campus editor:
Laura Pelner
Assistant campus
editors: Kurt Esposito,
Dave Stephens
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