Posted on Sep 24, 1999

Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the

exhibition An Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture

by Henry Turner.

The opening reception is Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m.

with curator David Greenberger, a writer, publisher and collector from

Greenwich, N.Y.

Included are about 120 drawings by Rogers and 49

small-scale wood sculptures by Turner. Both are “self-taught” or

“outsider” artists with no formal artistic training; their

motivation and frame of reference differ considerably from that of

mainstream, schooled artists. Both men are in their 70s; Rogers lives in a

nursing home near Boston, and Turner was last known to be living in

Schenectady.

Greenberger, called a “stand-up sociologist”

by Rolling Stone magazine, has spent two decades recording

observations and comments by nursing home residents and publishing them in

his magazine The Duplex Planet. He also has been a commentator on

National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Posted on Sep 24, 1999

A cameraman captures the “sun's” reflection of

Ralph Alpher, distinguished research professor of physics, as he watches the

Orrery (a working model of the solar system) in the Nott Memorial on Friday.

Alpher, who developed the first mathematical model of the Big Bang theory,

was filmed last week by a crew from VPRO, a public television station in the

Netherlands that is preparing a show about him to be broadcast next month.

The cosmologist also was featured in the July issue of Discover

magazine.

Posted on Sep 24, 1999

A cameraman captures the “sun's” reflection of

Ralph Alpher, distinguished research professor of physics, as he watches the

Orrery (a working model of the solar system) in the Nott Memorial on Friday.

Alpher, who developed the first mathematical model of the Big Bang theory,

was filmed last week by a crew from VPRO, a public television station in the

Netherlands that is preparing a show about him to be broadcast next month.

The cosmologist also was featured in the July issue of Discover

magazine.

Posted on Sep 17, 1999

President Roger H. Hull and Schenectady Mayor Albert Jurczynski will

examine “The Union-Schenectady Relationship: Tomorrow” on Monday, May 3, at 7

p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

The leaders will discuss current and future initiatives aimed at improving the college

and the city.

Their talk will cap a three-part series that began April 21 on the Union-Schenectady

relationship.

Ed Lallier was coordinator of the series, sponsored by Wells House.

Posted on Sep 17, 1999

Copies of the draft of the Middle States Report are

available in the Student Activities office and at the Circulation Desk in

Schaffer Library.

The Middle States Steering Committee invites input.

Comments should be directed to the co-chairs of the

Steering Committee: Dean Christie Sorum in Feigenbaum Hall

(sorumc@union.edu) or to Prof. Alan Taylor in the Mathematics Department

in Bailey Hall (taylora@union.edu).

The College has joined with Proctor's Theater to offer

a limited number of discount tickets for several shows at the theater.

Tickets at 10 to 20 percent discount are available for Smokey

Joe's Café on Feb. 11 ($35.55), Les Miserables on March 30

($44.55) and Ragtime on June 8 ($44.55)

Employees and students may reserve tickets through Human

Resources (ext. 6108) before Sept. 23.