November 3, 2000
Spirit and Place
The fifth annual Spirit and Place, a community wide conversation about our local culture and identity, will take place Nov. 3 - 12 at various sites around Indianapolis. The event is managed by The Polis Center at IUPUI.
The Polis Center will present a public conversation with three vibrant thinkers as the signature event for this year's Spirit and Place. The presentation, centered around the theme of “Growing Up,” will be held from 4:30 - 6 p.m., Nov. 5, at the Murat Centre Theatre, 502 N. New Jersey St. Featured speakers are activist/child advocator and educator Jonathan Kozol, author of “Savage Inequalities,” naturalist Terry Tempest Wilson, author of “Refuge,” and theologian/scholar Martin E. Marty, author of “Education, Religion, and the Common Good.” Admission is free.
In another Spirit and Place event, the School of Education and the Office of Neighborhood Resources at IUPUI will present “Helping Kids Succeed: A Public Dialogue” from 1:30-3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 5 at Washington Middle School Auditorium, 2215 W. Washington. Jonathan Kozol and IU Dean of Education Gerardo Gonzales will join local educators for a frank discussion of how to help young people make the most of their gifts.
For more information, call (317) 278-3624.
Human Rights Panel
International human rights worker Merisol Lopez-Menendez will participate in a human rights panel discussion from 1-3 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 4) in Room 114 at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, 735 W. New York Street. The panel, which also includes IU law students Greg Loyd and Jose Rivero, and local attorney Dan Foote, will address human rights issues across Latin America, including the Mexican state of Chiapis, Argentina, Honduras,
and Costa Rica.
IU law Professor George Edwards, director of the school's Program in International Human Rights Law, will moderate the panel.
Lopez-Menendez's stop in Indianapolis is part of a 35-city US tour hosted by the
Mexico Solidarity Network. Her achievements include serving on two occasions as delegate regarding matters of human rights to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The International Human Rights Law Society, the Hispanic Law Society, and the Program in International Human Rights Law are co-sponsoring the panel discussion.
For more information, call (317) 278-2359.
Evacuation of People with Disabilities
Campus Facility Services has developed tips on how to deal with different kinds of emergencies. November's tips deal with evacuation of people with disabilities.
This information and more is available to you on the IUPUI Public Safety web site at www.police.iupui.edu. Go to the IUPUI Emergency Procedures Handbook section to read more about it.
Evacuation of people with disabilities who are otherwise ambulatory, such as the blind or hearing impaired, should take place normally with other building occupants. They can benefit from an escort and should be provided one from within the class or work area. It should be noted that a blind person familiar with a building might have superior ability to escape through smoke-filled conditions than a sighted person.
Evacuation of people who are dependent upon equipment for their mobility:
• Do not use elevators unless directed to do so by the fire department.
• Proceed to the nearest safe stairway in the building with a prearranged escort.
• Once the stairs have begun to clear of other evacuating people, enter the stairway and remain on the landing near the door with your escort.
• Make sure that your instructor, supervisor, or other reliable person has been advised prior to leaving the area that you are still in the building and where you are. They then should notify arriving firefighters or police officers.
• Fire and or police personnel will come to your location, and, either assist you in evacuation, or, provide you information regarding the necessity of any further action for your personal safety.
• If the stairway becomes smoke filled or unsafe before the arrival of emergency personnel, move back into the building and proceed to another usable stairway. If no other stairway is available, find a room that is safe, close the door and telephone University Police for help (274-7911). If no phone is available, try to wave a coat or similar large object out a window to gain attention.
Lecture at the Herron Auditorium
On Thursday, November 9 at 8 p.m. Herron associate instructor Jean Easter will give a slide lecture at the Herron Auditorium on “My Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Experience.” Easter received a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis last year which allowed her to spend two months at the National Portrait Gallery in London studying with the frame conservator and curator of frames. Besides teaching at Herron, Easter is also a frame maker, gilder and serves on the conservation lab staff at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Easter will discuss framing and her time spent abroad.
For more information, please call (317) 920-2413.
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