Posted on Feb 11, 2000

Students and faculty just returned from the Term Abroad
in China are sharing their photographs.

“The People's Republic of China at 50 Years:
Photographs from the Nanjing Term Abroad” is on exhibition through
Feb. 22 in Strauss Lounge (third floor) of the Reamer Campus Center.

Color works are by Prof. Martin Benjamin, Julia Chan,
Donna Fitzgerald, Jason Lederer, Adam Paul Smolak and Keiko Ota.

The show was produced by the East Asian Studies Program,
International Studies and the Department of Visual Arts.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

The College's celebration of Black History Month
continues with a range of events from films to lectures.

John Carlos, whose clenched-fist Black Power salute in
the medal ceremony of the 1968 Olympics became a symbol of the Civil
Rights movement, speaks Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. in Reamer
Auditorium.

Other events include:

— Sunday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m.,
Reamer Multicultural Room, film Glory;

— Friday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m.,
Old Chapel, performance by East Harlem Repertory Co.;

— Sunday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m.,
Reamer Multicultural Room, film Malcolm X;

— Wednesday, Feb. 23, 7:30
p.m., Bronner House, Sitcom Night, viewing/talk on shows featuring African
Americans;

— Saturday, Feb. 26, 7
p.m., Minerva House Lounge, Taste of the Tropics food festival; and

— Sunday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m.,
Reamer Multicultural Room, film Boys in the Hood.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

“Vision & Discovery,” an exhibition of
works by photographers Michael Hochanadel, Gail Nadeau, Lou Snitkoff '73,
Marie Triller and Mark Van Wormer, opens Friday, Feb. 11, at Union College's
Arts Atrium.

The show, free and open to the public, will have an
opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 17, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

The exhibition contains 50 photographs. It was curated
by Martin Benjamin, professor of photography at Union College.

Gallery hours are daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more
information, call ext. 6714.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

Those of us in the Office of Communications seem to have
a knack for picking the coldest, windiest times to walk down to campus
from our building at 69 Union Ave.

So it was especially welcome news to us when a “Webcam”
was announced. It would be great, we thought, to click on the Webcam and
check the flag by the Nott to see how strong the west wind is blowing.
Sort of like our own version of the Weather Channel.

Problem is, we can't get the image in our building.

Thanks to Gregg Roth of OCS who (with Saul Morse, our
former Webmaster) got the Webcam going last weekend, we received some JPEG
images to see how the weather on campus looks.

We're working on the problem, but until we get it
fixed, feel free to send an occasional image to those of us on the east
side. And tell us about the weather.

Posted on Feb 11, 2000

Dan Plumley, cultural ecologist and director of Totem
Peoples Preservation Project, is the next speaker in “The
Adirondacks,” the Winter 2000 seminar series sponsored by the College's
Environmental Studies program and the Association for the Protection of
the Adirondacks.

He speaks Thursday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. in the Nott
Memorial.

The series, free and open to the public, spans a range
of topics from wilderness policy issues to nature photography to folk
music of the Adirondacks. A reception will follow each of the
presentations.

Other talks in the five-part weekly series (all on
Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Nott) are:

— Feb. 24, “People,
Partnerships & Politics: A View from the Chair” by Dick Lefebvre,
chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency;

— March 2, “Wild
Visions” by Carl Heilman, nature photographer;

— March 9,
“Adirondack Folk, Bluegrass and Clog Dancing” with musicians
Dave Kiphuth, John Kirk and Trish Miller.

Call ext. 6770 (Union) or 377-1452 (AFPA) in case of
cancellation or postponement due to weather.