Posted on Apr 2, 1999

Nine faculty members are being considered for reappointment this
spring.

Members of the campus community may offer written or oral testimony to committee
members. Candidates and their committees are:

Paul Gremillion, assistant professor of civil engineering: Thomas Jewell, committee
chair; Phillip Snow and John Garver.

Hyungji Park, assistant professor of English: Bonney MacDonald, chair; Jordan Smith,
Peter Heinegg, Brenda Wineapple, Harry Marten and Ruth Stevenson.

Presha Neidermeyer, assistant professor, Graduate Management Institute: Don Arnold,
committee chair; Alan Bowman, Josef Schmee and Rudy Nydegger.

Sarah Henry, assistant professor of history: Robert Wells, chair; Mark Walker and
Teresa Meade.

Davide Cervone, assistant professor of mathematics: Kimmo Rosenthal, chair; Michael
Frame and Karl Zimmermann.

William Keat, assistant professor of mechanical engineering: Richard Wilk, chair;
Ronald Bucinell, J. Richard Shanebrook and Frank Wicks.

Dianne McMullen, assistant professor of performing arts: Hilary Tann, chair; Barry
Smith and Anton Warde.

Richard Fox, assistant professor of political science: Terry Weiner, chair; Clifford
Brown and James Underwood.

Charlotte Eyerman, assistant professor of visual arts: Chris Duncan, chair; Walter
Hatke, Louisa Matthew and Ruth Stevenson.

Posted on Apr 2, 1999

Martin Strosberg, professor of management in the Graduate Management Institute,
presented the keynote international address, “Innovative Strategies for Managing
Intensive Care Services,” at the National Health Summit conference Feb. 26 in Sydney,
Australia.

Joanne Tobiessen, director of the Career Development Center, recently presented
a lecture, “Using the Myers-Briggs in Organizations,” to SUNY Master's in
Public Administration students in their professional applications course.

Stephen Pearse, director of dining services, gave a presentation titled
“Revenue Generators” at the Northeast regional annual meeting of the National
Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) in Worcester, Mass.

Posted on Apr 2, 1999

You may have seen the article recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education about
the surge in popularity of body art and the challenges it presents to campus health
centers.

So, we asked the folks in Health Services: are Union students keeping up with trends in
piercings and tattoos?

Well, yes, according to Sandy Mosher, director of health services.

Over the past several years, it seems, more women than men are getting tattoos –
usually small and tasteful things like butterflies and roses – and mostly on their
backs, Mosher says. Meanwhile, men seem to be getting most of the piercings. Tongues have
become especially popular.

“We try to be non-judgmental and we see enough of it that we don't say
much,” Mosher says. “But some of the doctors who are not around the students as
much are amazed by it.”

Mosher acknowledges that the tattoos and piercings can be “great conversation
starters.” And that's important since it allows clinicians to address related
issues such as healing times and infection.

No records are kept, but Mosher, at Union for 19 years, and nurse Pat Little, here for
30, say the popularity of body art is a relatively recent phenomenon. “Thirty years
ago,” says Mosher, “the students' parents would have killed them.”

Posted on Apr 2, 1999

Works by painter Stephen Pace will be featured in the next exhibit in the Nott
Memorial's Mandeville Gallery.

“Stephen Pace Paintings” runs through May 30.

Born in 1918 near Charleston, Mo., Pace studied at the Arts League from 1948-49, in
Paris and Florence from 1950-51, and with Hans Hofman from 1951-52. He has had numerous
solo exhibitions, most recently at the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City in
1997, 1994, 1991, 1989 and 1987; the Courtyard Gallery in Washington in 1986; Bates
College Museum of Art in 1994; and Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine, in 1994. Among
the long list of public collections of his work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Walker Art
Center.

“Pace practices a kind of Zen acceptance of what happens when his brush hits the
canvas or paper,” wrote Martica Sawin, in Arts. “The ability to take
risks and to allow the paint to surprise him are fundamental to Pace's artistic
gambit.”

Posted on Apr 2, 1999

Former Minnesota Vikings star lineman Carl Eller will give a talk titled “Moving
On: Leaving Alcohol Behind” on Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Eller, a 15-year veteran of the NFL, is founder and executive director of the Triumph
Life Center, a counseling and substance abuse treatment center in Minneapolis. He also has
been a consultant for the National Football League's Chemical Dependency Awareness
and Training Program.

Other professional sports teams such as hockey, basketball and baseball have consulted
Eller. He also created the United States Athletes Association (USAA), a national network
of junior and senior high school students organized to promote positive, chemical-free
lifestyles.