Through Dec. 7
The Mandeville
Gallery in Nott Memorial
“Girl Printers:
Talented Women Strut Their Stuff!”: A showcase featuring printing, books, and
ephemera by 37 girl printers.
Through December
Arts Atrium,
Arts Bldg. (gallery)
Sculpture
Exhibition
Thursday, Oct. 30
West & Upperclass – Halloween comes
early!
6 to 8 p.m.–
Webster House. Haunted house and Halloween party for youngsters. For
information, contact hacheym@union.edu or call ext. 6824.
7 p.m. – Olin Auditorium — “12 Windows” international
film series presents Stolen Children.
Louisa Matthew, professor of art history, will moderate the discussion. The
film series is sponsored by the Partnership for Global Education with Union
and Hobart and William
Smith Colleges.
This “hauntingly spare” film from Italy
with performances that are “flawlessly subtle” discovers the “eloquence hidden
within the commonplace,” according to one reviewer.
Friday, Oct. 31 to Monday, Nov. 3
8 and 10 p.m. – Movie:
Bad Boys 2
Saturday, Nov. 1
10 a.m. to 8 p.m. – Shopping trip to Woodbury Outlet Malls
1 p.m. – Frank Bailey Field – Football vs.
Hartwick.
1 p.m. – Alumni Gymnasium pool – men's and
women's swimming hosts Union Relays.
6:30 to 9 p.m. – South College “Yellow Lab” hosts wine and cheese reception for faculty and staff.
7:30 p.m. – Messa Rink at Achilles Center – women's ice hockey vs. Holy Cross
Sunday, Nov. 2
3 p.m. – Messa Rink at Achilles Center – men's ice hockey vs. Bentley
Monday, Nov. 3
7 p.m. – Nott Memorial – Prof. Brenda
Wineapple, author of Hawthorne:
A Life, will speak on “Hawthorne
and the Politics of Writing.”
Tuesday Nov. 4 to Saturday, Nov. 8
8 p.m. – Yulman Theater – Play: We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, directed by Prof. William Finlay. (Last performance is Sunday,
Nov. 9, 2
p.m.) Tickets
are $7 general admission, $5 for students, faculty and staff. For information,
call the box office at 388-6545.
Wednesday, Nov. 5
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Schaffer Library – Book sale on 3rd
floor. $2 for hardcover, $1 for paperbacks
Thursday, Nov. 6
12:25 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center, room 115 – Joint Merck
and Biology Seminar, with guest speaker Dr. Marlene Belfort of the New York
State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center.
6:30 p.m.– Everest Lounge –
Philosophy Talks with guest speaker Sydney Shoemaker of Cornell University. His topic, “On the Way Things Appear.”
7 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center Auditorium – 12 Windows film series
continues with Close to Home (German).
Prof. Wilfried Wilms will be the commentator. Plot: A Jewish woman and a German
man put their relationship to the test when they leave LA to explore their
families' involvement in the Holocaust.
The “12 Windows” international
film series presents Stolen Children
on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. in F. W. Olin Center
Auditorium.
This “hauntingly spare” film from Italy
with performances that are “flawlessly subtle” discovers the “eloquence hidden
within the commonplace,” according to one reviewer.
Louisa Matthew, professor of art
history, will moderate the discussion.
The film series is sponsored by
the Partnership for Global Education with Union and Hobart
and William
Smith Colleges.
Hal Hinson of The
Washington Post writes: “Working according to the mostly neglected
principles of 'neo-realist' filmmakers such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto
Rossellini, the director Gianni Amelio uses nonprofessional actors and natural
settings — train stations, public beaches and fast-food joints — to tell this
story of an 11-year-old girl named Rosetta (Valentina Scalici) and her
9-year-old brother, Luciano (Giuseppe Ieracitano). After their mother is jailed
for forcing Rosetta to become a prostitute, the children are ordered to accompany
their escort, a sad-eyed policeman named Antonio (Enrico Lo Verso), to their
new foster home.”
Heard of casual-dress Fridays?
This is different.
This Friday, Halloween, employees who dress in the spirit
of the holiday are encouraged to stop by Human Resources between 9 and 11 a.m. or 2 to
4 p.m.
A panel of distinguished judges (the folks who work in
H.R.) will give a “valuable” prize for best costume.
The winner will be announced on Monday, Nov. 3, at 9 a.m.
Read MoreWhat with Halloween upon us, you
may be interested to know that Ray Brownell and Mike Hilton didn't wait for
this holiday to consider the ghostly possibilities of Alice Van der Veer.
You know the story: in 1672, young
Alice and her father were supposedly burned at the stake by an angry mob,
somewhere near what is now Jackson's
Garden, after dad killed one of his daughter's suitors.
Those in the know say that Alice's
ghost strolls – perhaps floats – up to the garden from the Stockade area on the
first full moon of summer.
And so it was on July 15, that
Brownell, the director of the annual fund, and Hilton, campus fire safety
officer, became … well, believers.
Brownell and his colleagues were
hosting a national gathering of some 150 annual fund officers, most of whom
were staying in Davidson. On the night of July 14, the first full moon of
summer, the campus power went out. And stayed out.
So, very early Tuesday morning,
after the disruption had caused problems with the building's fire alarms,
Brownell and Hilton had the unenviable task of waking the visitors and moving
them to the Ramada Inn.
The early hour notwithstanding,
the guests were quite agreeable, Brownell reports. Some even seemed to enjoy
the adventure, he said.
Later, it was Hilton who called
Brownell's attention to the legend. The ghost of Alice,
it seems, had haunted the conference. Though there was no sighting, the two are convinced that she had a role in causing the power outage and resulting migration.
Undeterred, though, the meeting of
STAFF (Sharing the Annual Fund Fundamentals) will again be hosted at the
College this July, with or without Alice.
And sometime around the first full moon of summer.