Posted on Sep 14, 2000

Sophomore tailback George Beebe (Salem, NY/Salem High) helped lead the Dutchmen in there 37 – 17 victory
over Worcester Polytechnic Institute last Saturday. Beebe ran for a career-high 186 yards on 23 carries, averaging
over eight yards per carry. His
final carry of the afternoon resulted in an 85-yard dash around right
end with 1:55 remaining in the game went for 85 yards, securing the
Union victory. Beebe's efforts earned him the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association's “Offensive Player of the Week.” It was the second consecutive week that a Union player has been
named by the UCAA. Last week junior quarterback Ben Gilbert (Brattleboro, VT) earned the
honor after passing for 226 yards and a school record-tying four
touchdowns (of 63, 13, 15, and 32 yards). Beebe has also contributed on special teams
this year. He averaged over 28 yards on kickoff returns Saturday,
returning two kicks for a total of 57 yards. In two weeks of play Beebe
has a long return of 30 yards and is averaging 22.8 yards per return. Due in part to Beebe's early success in running
the ball, the Dutchmen lead all other UCAA opponents in total offense.
Joined in the backfield by junior Jasper Mills (Hamden, CT) and
the strong-armed Gilbert, Union leads the UCAA with its 411 yards
per game average. Hobart, the league's second leading offense, comes
to Schenectady next week to take on Beebe and the Dutchmen. On the young season, Beebe ranks third among the
13 Division III football-playing college's in Upstate New York. Beebe
has rushed for 216 yards on 28 attempts, an average of well over seven
yards a carry with a per game average of 108. Last season the 6'0, 195-pounder carried
the ball 91 times for 488 yards and four touchdowns. He led the team with his per carry average of 5.4. His 85-yard run against WPI surpassed his previous high of 71 set
last year against the University of Rochester.

Posted on Sep 14, 2000

Freshman
Lauren Stellato (Old Westbury, NY/Friends Academy) is currently
3-0, leading the Union College Dutchwomen through the beginning of a
successful season. Last week
Stellato began her crusade by defeating Eileen Widman of Hamilton College,
6-1, 6-1, and went on to dominate St. Lawrence University's Johnna Nigh,
6-1, 7-5, and Clarkson University's Tara Fornaro, 6-2, 6-2. Her performances out of the No. 1 singles position combined with
her 3-0 doubles record, also out of the No. 1 spot, proved to be enough as
she was named the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association's “Tennis
Player of the Week.” Stellato and partner, junior Susan Yoo
(Muskogee, OK), prevailed over last week's challenges, winning, 9-8 (2), 8-2 and 8-0, respectively, while helping the Dutchwomen open the
season with an impressive 3-0 record.

Posted on Sep 14, 2000

The College this fall welcomes 25 new members to the faculty. Some of them
are introduced below. The remainder will be introduced in future editions.

Kevin Crocker, visiting instructor of economics, earned his Ph.D. from
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His teaching interests include macro
and microeconomics, international trade finance and development, money and
banking, political economy and Marxian economics.

Andy Daitsman, visiting assistant professor of history, holds a masters
in Latin American history from Columbia University and master's and Ph.D.
degrees in the same field from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His
interests include modern and colonial Latin America, specifically political
participation of popular classes in 19th-century Chile.

David Evans, visiting assistant professor of psychology, holds master's
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa. He has been a research analyst
for Lansing (Mich.) Community College, involved with studies of minority student
success, faculty satisfaction and marketing analysis for a new campus and other
projects.

Ellen Foster, visiting assistant professor of economics, holds a Ph.D.
from the University at Albany, where she has held several teaching posts. She
returns to Union after having taught from 1989 through 1993. She specializes in
international economics, monetary and macroeconomics and economic history.

Thomas Kaeding, visiting assistant professor of physics, earned his
master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He
has done research with the high energy physics group at Oklahoma State
University, where he also held a teaching appointment.

Reina Hayaki, instructor of philosophy, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton
University, and has earned advanced degrees in philosophy and economics from
Oxford University. Areas of interest include philosophical logic, metaphysics,
ethics and epistemology.

Nicholas Krouglicof, assistant professor of mechanical engineeering,
earned his Ph.D. from Concordia University, and has held teaching positions at
the University of Quebec, Montral. his Ph.D. thesis was on “Non-Contact
Position and Orientation Measurement Techniques for Real-Time Systems.”

Posted on Sep 14, 2000

September 4, 2000

1. Minutes of the last meeting (May 29) were approved.
2. The AAC meeting time will be moved to Mondays at 12:10 p.m.
3. Nomination for Chair – Barbara Danowski elected.
4. Agenda items for this year:

— Department Reviews – Mathematics & Political Science
— New format for Freshman Preceptorial
— Revision of Trimester Calendar
— Pass/Fail Policy
— Lunch Hour
— Distance Learning
— Revision in 8-year Med Program
— Requirements for honors
— Advising System

5. The Committee discussed transfer credit for high school courses. Dean
Rosenthal will look into what various schools are doing.

6. The Committee began a discussion on the thesis requirements for ID majors
for honors.

Posted on Sep 14, 2000

Hilary Putnam, Cogan Research Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University,
will speak on “The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy” on Thursday,
Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Putnam, the Spencer-Leavitt Visiting Professor at Union will be in residency
from Sept. 17 through Sept. 23, conducting a series of classes and seminars with
the faculty and students in the philosophy department.

His talk is part of the “Perspectives at the Nott” lecture series.

Putnam continues to revolutionize contemporary philosophical thought with his
work on the nature of consciousness; artificial intelligence; the mind/body
problem; the relation of truth, language and reality; the foundations of
mathematics and logic; and the methods and history of philosophical pragmatism.

He has written extensively on the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of
natural science, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of the mind. Many of
his papers have been collected in three volumes of Philosophical Papers,
in Realism with a Human Face, and in Words and Life. He is also
the author of a number of books, including most recently Renewing Philosophy
and Pragmatism.

Putnam was born in Chicago in 1926, grew up in France and Philadelphia, and
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in 1951
from UCLA. He has taught at Northwestern and Princeton, and was professor of the
philosophy of science at MIT before joining the faculty at Harvard.

He is past president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern
Division), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a
corresponding fellow of the British Academy.