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Union is Enjoying a Basketball Revival

Posted on Jan 18, 2001

There is a basketball revival going on at Union College, for both the Dutchwomen and the Dutchmen.

Opposing coaches who scout the Dutchmen all ask the same questions: Who is point guard Jason Manning (Derby)? When sophomores Phil Henry (Flushing Which of these seven players is responsible for the next steal our bench players are very young so consequently we don't have a great deal of experience when it comes to depth,” said fifth-year head coach Bob Montana. “It is up to our starting five and our two main guys off the bench to contribute everything they have to offer every time we take the court.

“We play the best basketball players regardless of their positions,” said Montana. “The unselfish attitude of our team is evidenced by the players' willingness to play wherever they are asked regardless of what their natural position would be.
As for the Dutchwomen& “Katie has worked hard to improve all facets of her game in last Friday Smith finished with a game-high 24 points.Trailing 6-3 at 15:28 of the first half down 34-28 with 15:36 left to play “Katie brings a higher level of intensity and aggressiveness than we While it is Smith that provides the spark to this season's Dutchwomen squad.We have four seniors who have built the foundation for this year Forward Beth Perry (Bliss None of them quit on the program McNamara Perry is 10th on the all-time scoring list with 815 points and should finish ahead of two more former Dutchwomen Dundon (818) and Sheila O'Donnell (817). D'Arcangelo is expected to finish her four-year career among the Dutchwomen's top three-point shooters.

Westwood High School in Westwood the last two seasons. This year she is averaging 12.9 points and 10.6 rebounds and has twice been named the UCAA points and 531 rebounds.
Chacevaluable minutes as the first forward off of the bench and has contributed 30 points and 28 rebounds along with some solid defensive play.

Freshman Taryn Scinto (Westwood classmate Vicki Kuzman (Guilderland who was named the league's “Rookie of the Week ” earlier this year Kuzman and Ring are both averaging around a dozen
minutes and provide solid defense when they are in the game. Kuzman steals despite being on the court 12 minutes less than Scinto and Perry.

In the previous 25 years of women “We're going in the right direction, ” said Burt. “We got off to a fast start now we have to finish strong in order to put another solid brick in the foundation. ”

The Dutchmen

From the outset it was clear that Hamilton's primary goal was to shut down Galletta average and was the nation's seventh-leading three-point shooter at 52.9%.
The strategy almost worked as the 6'7 half and to just seven points through the first 39:35 of the game.

With 25 seconds left to play and the score tied at 66 On the other end of the court “Aaron's performance typifies what our team is all about And contribute his teammates did. Murray came up with his first 20-point performance of the year as he hit seven of 13 field goals The seven Dutchmen held their own on the backboards against the 14 Continentals who saw court time (Hamilton held a slim 44-40 margin but just a 16-15 edge on the offensive side) and turned the ball over just seven times while forcing the hosts into 17 miscues.

All five of Union's starters played at least 30 minutes while Hamilton had just two players top that plateau.
“This was a good win for us,understated Montana,who got his college coaching start under Hamilton's veteran head coach Tom Murphy. “We hung tough,we left it all on the court and we came away with a win. You can't ask for anything more than that.

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Physics Offers Disk Recycling Program

Posted on Jan 12, 2001

The Physics Department is recycling used overhead transparencies, old floppy disks (3.5-inch only),
unwanted CDs and jewel cases.

If you have any of these items and would like them recycled, please send them via campus mail to the
Physics Department, attn: Recycling.

Thomas Kaeding, visiting assistant professor, is organizing the project.

Disks and CDs will be sent to GreenDisk (www.greendisk.com). Overhead transparencies will be sent to 3M's
recycling program (www.3m.com/meetings/trans/515_film.html).

End users throw away well over one billion diskettes each year, according to GreenDisk's Web site.
Meanwhile, the 3M Transparency Recycling Program reports that about 15 million pounds of transparency
film are dumped into landfills annually.

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Retz Offers Woodcut Demonstration

Posted on Jan 12, 2001

Printmaker Rosanne Retz will give a woodcut demonstration on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 9:30 a.m. in the print
shop in the Arts Building.

For information ext. 6714.

The demonstration is in conjunction with “Digging Deeper: Woodcut and Linocut Prints by Rosanne Retz and
Carol Sanchez” through Feb. 2 in the Arts Atrium.

Retz, a printmaker from Massachusetts, received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University at Albany,
and her M.F.A. degree from Southern Illinois University. Her work has been exhibited internationally.

Sanchez, a printmaker from New Mexico, received her B.F.A. in printmaking and Russian Studies from the
University of New Mexico in 1990 and her M.F.A. in printmaking from the University at Albany in 1996.
She is a master printer at the New Grounds Print Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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For the Record

Posted on Jan 12, 2001

Terry Weiner, professor of political science, gave a paper, “The Demise of Physician Power,” at the
Northeast Political Science Association meetings in November. He also chaired a panel on “Innovative
Approaches to Engaging Students Into College Life and Learning” at the same meetings.

Donald T. Rodbell, associate professor of geology, has published two papers in the last months on the
Younger Dryas Event, a climatic event that was an 1,000-year-long return to near full-glacial conditions
midway through the transition from the last glacial period to the present interglacial. It has fascinated
Earth scientists, in part, because it demonstrates an instability in regional and, perhaps, global climate.
The first paper, “The Younger Dryas: Cold, Cold Everywhere?” was in the October issue of Science magazine.
The second, written with colleague Geoff Seltzer of Syracuse University, was “Rapid ice margin fluctuations
during the Younger Dryas in the tropical Andes” published in the November issue of Quaternary Research.
It documents evidence in the Andes Mountains of Peru for a glacial advance early in the Younger Dryas
interval. The cover photograph on the Quaternary Research issue, taken by Rodbell, is of a glacial deposit
in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru that dates to the beginning of the Younger Dryas. Rodbell took the
photograph while hiking with Prof. John Garver and Nick Balscio '01 last summer as part of a scouting
trip for “Living on the Edge” (a new course on geologic hazards in the mountains of central Peru).
Rodbell and Balscio also spent a week in northern Bolivia mapping glacial deposits and coring lakes;
samples from this trip are the basis for Balscio's senior thesis.

Peter Tobiessen, professor of biology, was co-author with Elizabeth Wheat '99 of a paper published this
year in the journal Lake and Reservoir Management titled “Long and short term effects of waterfowl on
Collins Lake, an urban lake in upstate New York.” In this paper they studied the effects of the rapidly
increasing populations of Canada geese found in many urban parks containing water bodies. On Collins Lake,
across the Mohawk River in Scotia, they found that the increased numbers of geese was related to decreased
water quality during the ice-free season (spring to fall), but that there was no annual (year-to-year)
decrease in water quality over the 10-year duration of their study.

Barbara Boyer, professor of biology, gave a plenary address titled “The development of Neochildia supports
the position of acoels as basal bilaterians” at the ninth International Symposium on the Biology of the
Turbellaria in Barcelona, Spain last June. In addition, she published a paper in Developmental Biology on
work done at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole with colleagues Jonathan Henry of the University
of Illinois and Mark Martindale of the University of Hawaii titled “The unique developmental program of the
acoel flatworm Neochildia fusca.”


(Faculty and staff may submit For the Record items to caseyc@union.edu.)

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Bonnie Steinbock Opens Philosophical Phridays

Posted on Jan 12, 2001

Bonnie Steinbock, professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, opens Philosophical Phridays @
Schaffer Library on Friday at 4:30. p.m. in the Phi Beta Kappa Room of the Library.

She will speak on “When is Birth Unfair to a Child?”

The Department of Philosophy's five-part series is taking philosophy out of the classroom and bringing
it to the public. Each event will feature a noted philosopher on issues ranging from abortion to the
ethical complexities of international research.

The series is in honor of the 100th anniversary of the American Philosophical Association.

Other events are:

  • Feb. 2 – “Moral Ignorance”
    — Gideon Rosen, Princeton University;

  • Feb. 16 – “Market Perfection as a Standard for Business Ethics”
    – Stephen Latham, Yale University School of Management and Quinnipiac University School of Law;

  • Feb. 23 – “Abortion, Mercy Killing and Infanticide: the Singer Revolution”
    — Richard Taylor, professor emeritus, the University of Rochester and Union College;

  • March 2 – “Confronting Ethical Complexities in International Research”
    — Angela Wasunna, the University of Mombassa, Kenya, and visiting fellow at the Hastings Center;

For more information, call the Union College Department of Philosophy at ext. 6376.

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