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Action-packed Open Day for ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥

Wednesday, 16 August 2006

Climate change, French versus ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n wine, an ageing society and the fight against terrorism are among the topics for discussion at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide's this Sunday 20 August, from 10am-4pm.

Open Day visitors will have an opportunity to hear - and question - some of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s leading experts on these issues in four separate public forums at the North Terrace campus.

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Vice-Chancellor Professor James McWha will officially open the day at 10am on Goodman Crescent.

The action-packed day will also include faculty displays and activities, information talks, entertainment, public tours and an art and heritage program.

For the first time, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide has commissioned three Adelaide-based artists to produce paintings that reflect the impact the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ has on the city. This week, the public can view the artists' work at Adelaide Railway Station during morning and afternoon peak hour and in Rundle Mall between 12pm-1pm every day.

An interactive approach underlines this year's Open Day theme, illustrated by the following activities on offer this Sunday:

• audience participation in the Forum debates
  
• a Battle of the Bands competition
  
• interactive computer displays with robots, space simulators and 3D demonstrations
  
• creating your own model of a garden, streetscape or building
  
• a giant abacus counting competition
  
• advertising brand recognition quizzes
  
• taste testing exercises
  
• mock criminal trials
  
• interactive biomedical displays and DNA workshop

Information talks will cover all questions for new students, including degree choices and extra-curricular activities, the option of overseas study with the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s exchange programs, scholarship opportunities, accommodation and study costs.

MEDIA NOTE: The Forum debates are: "Climate Change - It's too late, learn to adapt!"; "The French call ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n wine industrial, does that make French wine primitive or unsophisticated?"; The Ageing West - a crisis for tomorrow"; and "Loss of Freedom in the West: Have the terrorists won?" For a full list of Forum panellists, contact Candy Gibson on (08) 8303 3173.

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