Posted on Mar 6, 1998

Feng Degang, a visiting professor of music from Nanjing Normal University, will be a featured soloist on Mendelsohn's Capriccio Brilliant in a concert by the Union College Orchestra on Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m., in Memorial Chapel.

Feng Degang, who performed the musical interlude during the recent
Founders Day convocation, has composed a number of works for television and film. Among
his awards, he won first prize in Jiangsu province for his work as accompanist and chamber
music performer. A member of the Chinese Musician's Association, which has honored
him a number of times, he has been on the faculty at Nanjing for 16 years.

Cellist Euna Chung '99 will be featured soloist in Dvorak's Cello
Concerto. She has studied cello since she was 10, and has participated in the Area
All-State Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Youth Symphony, and the Saratoga and Tanglewood
music camps. A member of the seven-year medical program at Union, she will attend Albany
Medical College next year.

The orchestra, directed by Prof. Hilary Tann, also will perform
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, one of the more popular
pieces in modern orchestra repertoire, and Sibelius' Finlandia.

Posted on Mar 6, 1998

Visitors to the College's Web site this week can take 360-degree panoramic “virtual tours” of five building interiors – the Nott Memorial, Memorial Chapel, Achilles Rink, Alumni Gym and the pool.

Viewers can point to the photos and get 360-degree and zoom views of the
building interiors, said Saul Morse, Web coordinator, who has developed the new sites. The
“virtual tour” is viewable on Netscape 3.0 and later versions and Internet
Explorer 4.0 and later, Morse noted.

Exterior panoramas will be added in the spring, he said. More interior
views will be added as well.

Among other recent additions, a scrolling billboard of upcoming events
and items of interest was added to the main page about two weeks ago. Items, which scroll
up from the bottom left of the page are refreshed twice weekly. “We hope this sends
people to places on our Web site that they would not normally find,” Morse said.

The College's Web Policy Board, a nine-member body of students,
faculty and staff, are in the midst of redesigning the hierarchy of the site. “We are
trying to make it so that it can grow as use of the Internet grows on campus,” Morse
said.

The site is at www.union.edu.

Posted on Mar 6, 1998

In preparation for a month-long spring term program called
“Dialogues on Race,” the Multicultual Advisory Group (MAG), with Student Forum and Peer Facilitators, are soliciting personal accounts of racial experiences on campus from all members of the campus community.

Written narratives, which may be submitted anonymously, will be read aloud during Student Forum's town meeting in April. Dialogues during and after the
town meeting will aim to address issues of difference and to work toward building a more
diverse community at Union.

Submissions are due by March 11 and may be sent to MAG in care of
Associate Dean of Students Trish Williams, 306 Reamer. Prof. Linda Patrik, chair of MAG,
is co-director of the program.

For two weeks after the initial town meeting, Peer Facilitators will
assist in establishing smaller discussion groups for students. Faculty and staff also will
meet for discussions. The culmination of the project will be a campus-wide meeting to
discuss the question, “What can we do on campus to make this a more diverse
place?” Williams said.

“That Student Forum, MAG and Peer Facilitators are so involved is
wonderful,” said Williams. “They have taken the ball and run with it. This is a
student-driven project, and that will make it successful.”

Posted on Mar 6, 1998

Plans call for an electrical shutdown to Schaffer Library, Humanities and Social Sciences on Saturday, March 28, as the F.W. Olin Center joins the College's electrical grid, said William Shafer, capital projects manager.

Meanwhile, work continues on the Olin building's façade and the interior rotunda, he said. Most of the north exterior wall has been finished and washed.
Work on Olin is still about four weeks behind schedule due to weather delays, but the
contractor feels they can make up that time as weather improves, he noted.

On the Schaffer Library project, the city has issued temporary
certificates of occupancy for both the basement and third floors of the new addition,
Shafer said. Special Collections is settling in to its new quarters on the third floor of
the new addition after its move the second week of February. Periodicals and government
documents were moved from the basement of the 1961 building to the basement of the new
building last week. Plans are to move the remainder of the staff and collection to the new
building over spring break.

Students and staff will have full use of the entire new addition during
spring term, Shafer said.

Posted on Mar 6, 1998

Dah-dit-dah-dit, dah-dah-dit-dah. The Morse Code stands for
“CQ,” amateur radio parlance for “is anybody out there?”

The late Prof. Ted Goble used that bit of code to begin his Friday evening “chats” with fellow “hams,” and by all accounts the
physicist's code was as precise and well-formed as his speech.

“His code was perfect,” recalls Bill Fairchild of mathematics,
himself a regular in the Friday evening sessions. “Some people never quite learn
their code. They mess up and they are hard to copy. There is an expression among hams that
someone is 'sending code with their left foot,'” said Fairchild, an
accomplished practitioner of the dots and dashes. “But we never said that of
Ted.”

The College's amateur radio station — W2UC — in Science
and Engineering N106, will be rededicated in Goble's memory on Friday, March 6, at
5:30 p.m. Prof. Goble's wife, Ethel, is to attend. The station will be in operation
during the rededication, with demonstrations of various forms of amateur communication.

When members of W2UC met on Tuesday to plan for the rededication of the
station, the talk drifted to Ted's willingness to help fellow operators, particularly
those new to the field. “Ted was a high-level physicist who would take the time to
help fellow operators,” Fairchild said. “He was a gifted mind who was oriented
toward service.” Goble encouraged a number of budding hams, and Fairchild himself
re-entered the field after a long hiatus thanks in part to Goble, he said.

Alfred T. “Ted” Goble, professor emeritus of physics, was
active in amateur radio most of his life and a longtime faculty advisor of W2UC. He died
March 12, 1997, after teaching at Union for more than 50 years.

For more information about W2UC, visit the Web site at http:w2uc.union.edu.