— Joe Kelmanovich '03 and other members of the “indoor” track
team do a workout Tuesday on a path they cleared of snow on the oval at
Frank Bailey Field. “We got sick of doing laps indoors,” said one
of the runners. “And it was fun to do all that shoveling.”
— The new “Webcam” is up, looking west from the top of
the F.W. Olin Center toward Social Sciences, Reamer Campus Center, the Nott
Memorial and the hills beyond. See the site at www.union.edu/Alumni/SightsAndSounds/WebCam.html.
Friday, Feb. 11, 12:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
“Bridges,” the Performing Arts winter concert series, presents
Max Lifchitz, piano, performing music of Latin America.
Friday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber series presents the Borromeo
String Quartet in the fifth of a six-part all-Beethoven program.
Friday, Feb. 11 through Monday, Feb. 14, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
Film committee presents The Best Man.
Saturday, Feb. 12, 7 to 9 p.m.
Union College Observatory, F.W. Olin Center.
Observatory open house.
Monday, Feb. 14, 7 p.m.
Old Chapel.
The V-Day 2000 College Initiative featuring a performance of Eve Ensler's
“The Vagina Monologues.” Sponsored by Women's Union and Seneca
House to raise awareness of violence against women. Tickets $2. For
information, call ext. 4651.
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
International film series presents White Cat, Black Cat, a 1999
film by Yugoslavian director Emir Kusturica.
Thursday, Feb. 17, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Arts Atrium.
Opening for “Vision & Discovery,” an exhibition of works by
photographers Michael Hochanadel, Gail Nadeau, Lou Snitkoff, Marie Triller
and Mark Van Wormer.
Thursday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
Dan Plumley, cultural ecologist and director of Totem Peoples Preservation
Project, on “From Siberia to the Adirondacks: Sharing the Wisdom of
Mountain Protected Areas.” Part of the five-part series, “The
Adirondacks.”
Thursday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m.
Olin 115.
Sociology of Human Rights film series presents The
Killing Fields about war and genocide in Cambodia.
Through Feb. 22.
Strauss Lounge, Reamer.
“The People's Republic of China at 50 Years: Photographs from the
Nanjing Term Abroad.”
Through March 14.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Walter Hatke: Paintings, Drawings & Prints.” Exhibit
includes about 40 works by the artist over the last 30 years.
Prof. Charles Scaife, whose hands-on science road shows
have become a hit with elementary students, parents and teachers, receives
what may be the ultimate comparison in a story in the Feb. 7 edition of USA
Today.
“Like popular children's television host Mister
Rogers, Charles Scaife knows how to grab the attention of youngsters and
hold them spellbound,” the story begins.
Reporter Tamara Henry caught up with Scaife and his
wife, Priscilla, at Showell Elementary School in Berlin, Md., where they
were doing programs that included an experiment that meant a great deal to
the audience: how to get the maximum number of swings during a short
recess period.
Dressed in his trademark white lab coat covered with
balloons, patches and scientific formulas, Scaife watched as students
experimented with putting varying weights on the end of a string. Finally,
after Scaife suggested changing the length of the string, the students
discovered that they could get more swings on a shorter length.
“I think we're on to something,” one
youngster commented.
The Scaifes are on their latest of many trips. They
began the science road shows during his sabbatical in 1994 and have been
at it ever since during college breaks, evenings and weekends. Since then,
the Scaifes have trained a number of people – many of whom are retired
teachers and scientists – to carry on the effort. The Scaifes' current
sabbatical tour has included stops in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New York, Wisconsin, Michigan. They also plan to visit a number of cities
in the South and Southwest before heading north.
Support also comes from the National Science Foundation
and the Dreyfuss Foundation. Most of the materials they use – empty soda
bottles, baking soda, glue – are things most of us have around the
kitchen. And they always emphasize that the best way to learn science is
to experience it.
“I don't think most people have that appreciation
about science,” Scaife says. “They read it in a book and that's
the gospel and that's they way it is and it's never going to
change.”
“I had a chance to observe a little bit and see
what little most (teachers) did was right out of the book … I placed
that in the back of my mind and said, 'If I ever get a chance to do
anything about this, I'll take advantage of this.”
To read the story, visit the USA Today Website at
www.usatoday.com/life/lds046.htm.
Union College presents “The Adirondacks,” the winter 2000 seminar series sponsored by the College's Environmental Studies program and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks.
Free and open to the public, the five-part weekly series 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.
Talks will be Feb. 10 through March 9, all Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Union College's Nott Memorial, the centerpiece building of the Union campus. Parking is available on campus and on nearby side streets.
For more information, or in case of weather, call 388-6770 (Union) or 377-1452 (AFPA – Ken Rimany).
Feb. 10 — Dave Gibson, executive director of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, on “Where Wilderness Preservation Began.” Gibson will present a slide program introducing key historical figures in the New York State and National wilderness movement, and relate them to historical origins and events in the Adirondack Park from 1872 to the present. Howard Zahniser, father of the 1964 National Wilderness Preservation Act, is highlighted.
Feb. 17 — Dan Plumley, cultural ecologist and director of Totem Peoples Preservation Project, on “From Siberia to the Adirondacks: Sharing the Wisdom of Mountain Protected Areas, ” a slide and video program comparing the Adirondack Park and Russia's Lake Baikal regions. Both regions have earned global recognition and share lessons learned in sustainable development, ecological preservation and the protection of forest wild land values.
Feb. 24 — Dick Lefebvre, chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency, on “People, Partnerships and Politics: A View from the Chair.” A retired educator, Dick Lefebvre lives in Caroga Lake and has chaired Governor George Pataki's Adirondack Park Agency since February 1998. He has been a conciliatory force within the Adirondack Park and is an effective voice for the agency as it carries out its many legislative mandates.
March 2 — Carl Heilman, nature photographer, will give a presentation titled “Wild Visions,” a three-projector audio visual program about our relationship with the wilderness and our spiritual connection with the earth. Take a tour through some of the most special places in the Adirondack Park. Spectacular images are synchronized to poetic narrative and exceptional Adirondack folk music by Dan Berggren, Peggy Eyres and Dan Duggan.
March 9 — Musicians Dave Kiphuth, John Kirk and Trish Miller present “Adirondack Folk, Bluegrass and Clog Dancing.” Kiphuth, musician and featured illustrator of the Gazette Newspapers, collaborates with touring performer friends John Kirk and Trish Miller, husband and wife, whose “arts in education” programs have taken them to Russia, Ireland, and throughout the U.S.
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