Posted on Apr 12, 1996

The Idiot Variations, an exploration by performance artist Rinde Eckert of the fine line between genius and lunacy is April 12 and 13 at 8:02 p.m. in the Yulman
Theater. The one-man show is part of the Proctor's Too series. Tickets are $15, $12 for students. Box office: ext. 6545.

Richard Howard, critic, translator and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will read from his work on April 15, at 8 p.m. in the Nott Memorial. He also will be giving a talk,
“Post-Feminist American Poetry” at 4 p.m. Monday in Humanities 019. Howard,
professor of English at the University of Houston, has published several books of poetry
including Untitled Subjects, for which he won the Pulitzer. The event is sponsored
by the Hale Writer's Forum of the Department of English and the College's Internal
Education Fund.

Schaffer Library will have a book sale on April 15 and 16 from noon to 4 p.m. on
the lower level. Hardcovers are $1, paperbacks 50 cents. For more information, call ext.
6632.

Louise Werner, CEO and owner of HCR (a national health services firm) and chair
of the New York State Public Health Council, will speak on “Entrepreneurial Ventures
in Health Care” on Wednesday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center
auditorium. Her talk is a Kenneth B. Sharpe Seminar sponsored by the Graduate Management
Institute.

Roger Boisjoly, an engineer who opposed the decision to launch the space shuttle
Challenger and served on the post-disaster investigation team, will speak on “Using
Challenger as a Model to Change Organizational Behavior” on May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Nott Memorial. He is an ethics lecturer and forensic engineer who has been involved in
a number of investigations.

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Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, will be one of four American scholars convening with British and German experts on medical ethics in Feiberg, Germany, this
month as part of the Freiberg Project On Ethical Codes in Medicine 1947-1997. The Project has been organized by the Academie Fur Ethick In Der Medzin of
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiberg under the patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, to celebrate the semicentennial of the Nuremberg Code of ethics of experimenting on humans (the Code formulated the basis on which sixteen Nazi Doctors were convicted of committing crimes against humanity; it became the basis on which the European Community, the U.S., the U.N. and the W.H.O. regulates experiments involving
humans). The project scholars will produce a tri-lingual volume on the Nuremberg Code and its significance and will organize an international conference commemorating the Nuremberg
Code to be held in Freiberg, October 1997. Baker will be exploring questions about the
validity of moral standards across time and cultures.

Karen Williams, counselor for the Health Professions Programs and adjunct
associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, recently presented a paper,
“An Antepartum Screening Questionnaire for Postpartum Depressive Symptoms
(PPDS)” at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Psychosocial
Obstetrics and Gynecology. This research study also was cited in a recent edition of Medical
Tribune.

Janet Anderson, Leslie Hull, Charles Scaife and Thomas Werner of
Chemistry participated in a Project Kaleidoscope Workshop titled “Revitalizing
Introductory Chemistry” recently at Columbia University. PKAL designated the
department's innovative non-major chemistry courses as a “Program That Works.”
The faculty members gave two workshops on the four courses that constitute the non-majors
component. They also served as consultants to other institutions planning changes in their
majors and non-majors chemistry courses.

Sigrid Kellenter, Thomas Lamont Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature
(German), has four new publications. She wrote the lead article in The German Studies
Review on the fairytale poems of the German poet Geertje Suhr titled “Geertje
Suhrs Maerchengedichte: Grimms Heldin meundig?” The article is a substantial
revision and expansion of a paper delivered on this topic in Leipzig, Germany. Also, she
has written complete biographies on the German exile writers Hans Sahl, Walter Sorell and
Otto Zoff published in the edited volume Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933:
Bibliographien USA.”

Todd Burgman, assistant professor of finance, is to give a talk titled
“Comparing the German and U.S. Corporate Governance Systems: Big Banks and Employee
Co-Determination vs. Stockholders and Takeover Threats” at a conference hosted by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany held
this month in Washington. Also, he is to present a paper titled “The German Universal
Banking System and Corporate Finance” at the Multinational Finance Society annual
meeting in June.

George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, and Sharon Gmelch, director of Women's
Studies, published an article titled “Barbados' Amerindian Past” in the winter
issue of Anthropology Today. The article reviews what scholars have learned from
archaeological excavations of Amerindian settlement sites. Barbados' Amerindian population
disappeared shortly after the first European contact in the 1550s.

Thomas Werner, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Chemistry, gave a presentation
titled “The Binding of Pyrene and Other Probes to CD Polymers” at the 8th
International Cyclodextrin Symposium in Budapest, Hungary. The paper was the result of
research with two senior research students – Jodie Iannacone and Mary Amoo – who were
co-authors. Both students worked on this project last summer and during the academic year.

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The Admissions Office is continuing its “On-Campus Days” the next two Mondays – April 15 and April 22. Hundreds of accepted candidates and their families are
expected. Members of the Union community are being asked to park off-campus or on peripheral lots to help make inside parking available for visitors. During last year's
“On-Campus Days” the College hosted 365 students, nearly 60 percent of whom enrolled.

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As if tulips and daffodils weren't enough, a flurry of reappointment reviews heralds the arrival of spring.

Members of the campus community are invited to submit comments on teaching, scholarship and service to committee chairs. Listed with committee chairs, candidates are:

• Stephen Leavitt, anthropology, George Gmelch, committee chair.
• Karen Brison, anthropology, Sharon Gmelch, chair.
• Steven Horton, biology, Barbara Boyer, chair.
• Catherine Womack, philosophy, Robert Baker, chair.
• Ronald Bucinell, mechanical engineering, Frank Milillo, chair.
• Susan Lehrman, Graduate Management Institute, Martin Strosberg, chair.
• A.T. Miller, history, Robert Wells, chair.
• Nancy Shour, English, Jordan Smith, chair.

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“Auto Safety Regulation and Offsetting Behavior: Is Government Intervention Justifiable?” is what Deborah Binder, a senior economics and modern languages major, plans to present at the 10th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)on April 18-20 at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Sarna Lee, a senior sociology major, will be presenting her paper titled, “A
Comparison of Family and Community Life in Three Different Fishing Communities.”

Binder and Lee will be joined by 40 other Union College students and faculty members.
About 1,900 undergraduates and 400 faculty members from across the country will be
participating in the conference, which will feature over 1,800 student presentations in
every possible academic discipline.

The 10th annual NCUR returns to UNC Asheville, where the conference originated and was
held for the first two years. Union hosted NCUR in 1990 and again last year.

The following juniors and seniors also will be making presentations: Mirriam Amoo,
Laura Armstrong, Amelia Audette, Ryan Bloom, Kerry Cassidy, Alison Dlott, Jamie Dobelle,
Ancella Evans, Stacey Fellows, Jeremy Goverman, David Grandwetter Susan Greenberg, Laura
Grund, Jennifer Hacker, Brian Haffner, Jodie Iannacone, Amber James, Jason Jennings,
Reinis Kanders, Amy Beth Kessinger, Martha Kirouac, Andrew Leach, Martin Logan, William
McKenna, Elizabeth McGaughan, Kristen Pappas, Bertha Peralta, Robert Peskin, Kevin
Pessolano, Daniel Petruzella, Dennis Popeo, Christopher Riley, Rovin Rozario, Eric
Salazar, Rachel Schaffer, Adam Schwartz, Daimee Stadler, Manisha Tinani, Linda Seymour and
Saira Naim.