Posted on Apr 7, 2000

Alpha Delta Phi is sponsoring a literary competition open to all undergraduate students at the College.

Students may submit one entry in each category: fiction
and nonfiction.

Entries are due April 10 in the English department,
where cover sheets are available.

Best overall submission will receive the Samuel Eells
Literary Award, named for the founder of the fraternity, and a $500
honorarium. An honorarium of $200 will be awarded to the best entry in
each category. The awards will be presented in late April.

Judges are Edward Pavlic, English; Steven Sargent,
history; and an alumnus of AD Phi.

Posted on Apr 7, 2000

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Posted on Apr 7, 2000

Thomas Smith joins the College this week as
Webmaster in the Office of Communications.

Smith will manage the College's official Web site,
develop and implement the campus-wide Web strategy, and support offices
and departments in various Web projects.

He was previously Webmaster at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, and a software developer for Delmar Publishers.

Smith, of Delanson, succeeds Saul Morse.

He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from
Hamilton College, and a master's in English from Washington University
in St. Louis.

Posted on Apr 7, 2000

Twenty countries in Europe, Asia and South America
will be represented by international, immigrant, term abroad and language
students at the International Festival on Saturday, April 8, from 4 to 8
p.m. in Old Chapel.

The festival is intended to promote internationalism on
campus, according to Rebecca Fisher, international student assistant, and
advisor to the student organizers of the event.

The festival is to include 13 performances of music,
dance and demonstrations; a free buffet to include rare offerings such as
Nepalese dumplings, Bulgarian Banitza, and Belizian meat pies; and 16
informational booths.

Many of the 70 participants – and attendees – will
be wearing traditional clothing, Fisher said.

Among the offerings at the festival will be an M & M
chopstick contest, a karate demonstration, Spanish flamenco dancing, a
Hawaiian poi ball demonstration, Bulgarian folk dance and candy from
Russia, Finland and Japan.

Funding is from the Internal Education Fund, Office of
Dean of Students, Ted Schwarz Memorial Fund, and Office of International
Programs.

Posted on Apr 7, 2000

Civil engineering students from Union and 18 other
institutions meet Saturday at Collins Pond in Scotia to see if concrete
floats.

The College is hosting the New York/New England Regional
Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers on Saturday, an
event that is to feature the concrete canoe races and a timed
bridge-building competition.

The canoe races are slated for Saturday from 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. at Collins Pond. The bridge competition will be from 9 to 5 p.m. in
Memorial Field House. Awards will be presented at a banquet at 7 p.m. at
the Ramada Inn on Nott Street.

Stories abound of canoes and canoeists dumped into
chilly spring waters. Take last year, when Cornell's boat broke in half,
or 1998 when Clarkson's failed the swamp test and sank to the bottom.

The challenge for the engineers is to make the canoe as
light and strong as possible, explained Christine Laplante, assistant
professor of civil engineering, and an ASCE chapter advisor. By using
additives and a mesh form, the students can create a lightweight concrete
and fashion a smooth, fast hull.

Students in the steel bridge competition, sponsored by
the American Institute of Steel Construction, will reassemble the spans
they have taken a term to create. They will be judged on time, deflection
under load, weight and aesthetics.