Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Steve Leavitt, assistant professor of anthropology,
has co-edited a book with Gilbert Herdt titled Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies (University
of Pittsburgh Press, 1998). It includes a series of case studies from throughout the
Pacific, and it focuses on themes of adolescent experience and cultural change.

Rudy Nydegger, associate professor of psychology,
had an article titled “Continuing Education for Psychologists in New York”
published in the New York State Psychological Association “Notebook”
(Vol.X, No. 5, Fall 1998). This work involved a survey he designed to determine some of
the issues surrounding the requirement of continuing education for psychologists licensed
in New York. Every member of the state association was polled. This article discussed the
findings and implications of the results.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

William M. Murphy, the Thomas Lamont Professor Emeritus of
Ancient and Modern Literature at Union College and an internationally renowned Yeats
scholar, will present Union's first Lamont Research Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 22, at
4:30 p.m. in Union College's F.W. Olin Center Auditorium.

The lecture is titled “The Fourfold Ambition of
William Butler Yeats.”

Murphy has authored five books about the Yeatses, and
written numerous scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as Irish literature,
Shakespeare, and Chaucer. As Anthony Bradley wrote in the Spring, 1996 Irish Literary
Supplement, “Murphy writes with elan and wit.”

His 1978 biography, Prodigal Father: The Life of John
Butler Yeats, was acclaimed by reviewers. In Quest, Hugh Kenner called it
“an achievement nearly as rare as its subject, the right book written by exactly the
right man.” In a front page review in The New York Times Book Review, Richard
Ellman praised Murphy's “absorbing and authoritative narrative;” and
Terrance Winch in the Washington Post Book World called it simply “a brilliant
work.”

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

A 1-0 victory over national power William Smith on
Saturday, and a 1-1 tie against Williams on Tuesday leaves women's soccer ranked
second in the state, and 16th in the nation, the first time the team has reached a
national ranking.

The team will vie for its first-ever UCAA title when it
plays St. Lawrence on Friday at 4 p.m., and Clarkson on Saturday at 1 p.m. Both games are
on Garis Field.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Spencer Crew, director of the National Museum of American
History at the Smithsonian Institution, will talk on “The New Challenges of
Presenting History in Museums” on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott
Memorial.

His talk, part of Union's Perspectives at the Nott
speaker series, is free and open to the public.

As director of the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of American History, Spencer Crew has helped change the portrayal of America's
past, shifting the emphasis from objects to people, highlighting America's diversity
and richness. The talk will address the challenges and rewards of participating in this
process of re-imagining America.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Photographer Martin Benjamin will share his 28 years of
taking pictures – from trips abroad to a project with mentally retarded adults —
in an exhibit opening Oct. 22 in the Mandeville Gallery at the Nott Memorial.

“Martin Benjamin: Photographs 1970 to 1998” will
have an opening reception with the artist on Oct. 22 at 4:30 p.m. The show runs through
Dec. 20.

Benjamin, professor of visual arts at Union, has received
many distinguished awards including first prize in the Time-Life Bicentennial Photography
Competition.

Benjamin's life and work over the past 28 years have
been punctuated by events, picture-taking technologies, trips and classes which have
shaped and directed the body of work in this exhibition. The exhibition, in turn, is
organized in terms of these landmarks: trips to Italy, China and England; images of his
wife, Donna; editorial work; infrared and tri-X film; and Good Shots – the ongoing
series of pictures borne of Benjamin's photography class for clients of
Schenectady's Association for Retarded Persons.