Posted on Jan 29, 1999

Men's basketball fell to Princeton 81 to 48 in non-league play on Monday.

In the renewal of a “rivalry” last played in 1920, head coach Bill Carmody
'75 and his Tigers used a 32-0 run to break a 9-9 tie enroute to a 44-13 halftime
lead. Princeton, which returned from a 16-day exam break, has ended its layoff by playing
a Division III school every year since 1985. The Tigers' average margin of victory is
41 points.

Carmody, who played three years at Union and graduated with all of the Dutchmen's
assist records (single game-13, single season-146 and career-326), is in his third year as
head coach at Princeton. His teams own a 30-0 Ivy League record and a 62-10 overall mark.

Freshman Dave Musella led the Dutchmen with 18 points and eight rebounds. Union may
have lost the services of junior point guard Zena Woldeyesus, who left the game early in
the first half with a possible broken foot.

Posted on Jan 29, 1999

Civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson is to speak
on Monday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

Members of the Union community may pick up a ticket with a College ID for this
campus-only event.

Faculty and staff may get tickets from Central Scheduling. Students may pick them up at
Reamer Campus Center Atrium.

Posted on Jan 29, 1999

The department charged with the huge task of maintaining the College facilities has
undergone a reorganization to become more efficient and taken a new name to better reflect
its mission.

Facilities Services is the name of the department, which has been reorganized into
three sections to better serve the College, said Dave Grzybowski, director. “This
will better align the responsibilities in the three areas and allow us to more efficiently
focus on building services,” he said.

Loren Rucinski has been named assistant director of campus planning, with
responsibilities for landscaping and construction. Fred Puliafico is assistant director
for utilities management, with responsibilities for heating, ventilation and air
conditioning. Paul Matarazzo, assistant director for building services, will oversee
operations including structural, building maintenance and cleaning.

Posted on Jan 29, 1999

Arnaldo Cohen, the distinguished Brazilian-born pianist whose command of piano
sonority, technical wizardry and original interpretations have won him international
renown, will perform Sunday, Jan. 31, at 3 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

This performance is the first appearance by Cohen in the Schenectady Museum-Union
College chamber series. The concert will include works by Debussy, Chopin, Schumann and
Liszt.

Cohen is winner of the 1972 Busoni International Festival in Italy. “If
you're looking for a mystery in the classical music world, you might find one in the
career of pianist Arnaldo Cohen,” said Shirley Fleming of the New York Post.

The Boston Globe noted, “…Pianist Arnaldo Cohen sets a standard that will be
hard to equal.”

Posted on Jan 29, 1999

A specialist on Latin America and frequent traveler to that part of the world,
Teresa Meade thought that she was well prepared for the crowds, the poverty and the high
level of religious devotion she would encounter on a recent trip to India. She was wrong.

“India was much more crowded, had much more religious devotion, and the poverty
was more extreme than I had seen in Latin America,” said the associate professor of
history, who traveled to India last month with Sharon Gmelch, professor of anthropology.

Meade and Gmelch visited the University of Mumbai in Bombay. They each gave several
lectures at the University and met with faculty and students formally and informally. At
Mumbai, they were joined by Jagdish Gajjar, profesor of electrical engineering/computer
science.

Even with their backgrounds in women's studies, both Gmelch and Meade said they
were surprised to find so many women in academia, especially the humanities and social
sciences. They discussed women's issues in India with many of the women they met, and
were interested to see the impact of the caste system.

“I teach a segment on India in my 'Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective'
class, but to be in India and have the opportunity to talk to people about these issues
was a great experience,” Gmelch said.

Similarly, Meade has already used slides she took in India in one of her classes to
illustrate the influences of Arab architecture in the East.

Gmelch and Meade said what struck them most about India was the distribution of wealth.
“You see desperate people juxtaposed with a posh hotel; a flourishing high-tech
industry juxtaposed with a camel cart. It is mind-boggling,” said Gmelch.

During their trip, Meade and Gmelch also visited with Union students on a term abroad
at the University of Mumbai.