Posted on Jan 12, 2001

Complete Campus Events Calendar

Events

Friday, Jan. 12, 4:30 p.m.
Phi Beta Kappa Room, Schaffer Library.
Philosophical Phridays @ Schaffer Library presents Bonnie Steinbock, professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, on “When is Birth Unfair to a Child?” For information on series, call ext. 6376.

Friday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m.
Memorial Field House
Women's Basketball vs. Clarkson

Friday, Jan. 12, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's hockey vs. St. Lawrence

Friday, Jan. 12, 8 p.m.
Memorial Field House
Men's Basketball vs. Clarkson

Friday, Jan. 12, through Monday, Jan. 15, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Campus Movie – Bring It On

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m.
Alumni Gym Pool
Swimming vs. Hartwick and Springfield

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Women's Hockey vs. Rensselaer

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m.
Memorial Field House
Women's Basketball vs. St. Lawrence

Saturday, Jan. 13, 4 p.m.
Memorial Field House
Men's Basketball vs. St. Lawrence

Saturday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's hockey vs. Clarkson

Sunday, Jan. 14, 1 p.m.
Memorial Field House
Track and Field vs. Hamilton

Sunday, Jan. 14, 2 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Women's Hockey vs. Vermont

Monday, Jan. 15, 4 p.m.
Old Chapel
Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored by ALAS. Reception to follow.

Tuesday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m.
Memorial Field House
Men's Basketball vs. Middlebury

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 4 p.m.
Alumni Gym
Swimming vs. Rensselaer

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial
Vera Schwarcz on “The Garden of History: Art and Atrocity in One Corner of China.” Schwarcz is the Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. The author of seven books and over 50 articles, she is best known for her recent studies on the parallels between Chinese and Jewish cultural memories. Part of the Perspectives at the Nott series.

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Motivational speaker Mike Green speaking on alcohol awareness.

Thursday, Jan. 18, at 9:30 a.m.
Print Shop, Arts Building
Printmaker Rosanne Retz presents a woodcut demonstration. Part of the joint show, “Digging Deeper,” through Feb. 2 in the Arts Atrium. For information call ext. 6714.

Friday, Jan. 19, through Monday, Jan. 22, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Campus Movie – Meet the Parents

Posted on Jan 12, 2001

Senior Tania Magoon, a Union Scholar who is a double major in chemistry and classics,
reads the Iliad — in Greek — to relax.

But she put down Homer's epic long enough this summer to develop an improved testing procedure
that could be a boon to lab techs and prosecutors alike.

Magoon, a native of Pittsfield, Mass., began her research last summer under the guidance of Prof.
Tom Werner. Their goal was to develop a method to separate the narcotic and inactive forms of the
compound propoxyphene, the ingredient in many painkillers.

In only three weeks, she hit pay dirt.

“I went into Professor Werner's office and said, 'I guess I can go home now. I'm done,'” she recalls.
Actually, Magoon admits, there was much to be done to refine the method, which was based on earlier
research by Michelle Nerozzi '00 and Jen Jakubowski '00. The project, funded by a grant from Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals, was part of Werner's collaboration with scientists at the New York State Forensics
Center in Albany.

The active ingredient in widely prescribed painkillers such as Darvon, propoxyphene is among the top
ten most abused substances, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. The drug's popularity has
spawned an illicit trade that authorities are trying to curb. But success in prosecuting cases has been
limited by a tedious and subjective laboratory procedure that may not hold up in court.

Magoon may have made it easier for laboratory technicians to detect propoxyphene, a so-called “chiral drug”
that consists of mirror-image molecules, only one of which is the active agent. The problem – for scientists
and for prosecutors seeking convictions for drug charges – has been that the test involves only an observation
of crystal patterns in the sample. There is no “hard copy” of the test results, only an interpretation.

Magoon found that a cyclodextrin compound introduced in capillary zone electrophoresis would yield two “spikes,”
one for the L (inactive) form of propoxyphene, another for the D (controlled) form.

The research by Magoon and Werner was supported by a Pfizer's program known as SURF (Summer Undergraduate
Research Fellowships). Last fall, they presented the project to chemists at Pfizer headquarters in Groton,
Conn. The work has also been submitted for presentation at the National American Chemical Society meeting
in San Diego next spring.

“This has really helped us because we haven't had the analytical time to do this on our own,” said Warren
Hull, a forensic scientist for the state lab. “For us, this is a new technique and we hope we can adapt
this directly to other techniques.”

Posted on Jan 11, 2001

Junior forward C.J. Rodgers (Chicago, IL/St. Rita) enjoyed a career night on Tuesday, January 16, as he scored 22 points, pulled down 20 rebounds, handed out seven assists and came up with three steals to lead Union to a 70-67 victory over Division III rival Middlebury in a non-league basketball game at Memorial Fieldhouse.
The victory improved the Dutchmen's overall record to 7-4.

Rodgers, who surpassed his single-game high of 15 rebounds, led all players in the three above mentioned categories. He connected on nine of 16 field goals and pulled down 15 defensive rebounds. Rodgers had 10 points and 10 rebounds to help the Dutchmen to a 32-31 halftime lead.

Now in his second full season as a starter, Rodgers came into the year averaging 10.4 points and 5.9 rebounds in 54 career games. So far this season the 6'5, 180-pounder has scored 170 points (an average of 15.5) with 88 rebounds (8.0). His 733 career points puts him in position to join Union's 1,000-point club before the end of his career. There are currently 13 members.

Last season Rodgers was named to the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association's All-Conference second-team and was voted the Dutchmen's “Most Valuable Player.” He is majoring in English.

Posted on Jan 5, 2001

Prints by Rosanne Retz and Carol Sanchez are to be featured in a show opening Monday, Jan. 8, in the Arts Atrium.

“Digging Deeper, Woodcut and Linocut Prints by Rosanne Retz and Carol Sanchez” runs through Feb. 2.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.

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 and includes the following recent
selected shows: VI International Art Triennale Majdanek 2000, Droga Meczennikow Majdanka
Museum, Lublin, Poland; The Boston Printmakers Black and White Members Show; the 23rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art in Sarajevo,
and Gellery Collegium Artisticum, Bosnia/Herzegovina.

She is a professor of printmaking at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Retz will present a woodcut demonstration, Thursday, Jan. 18, at 9:30 a.m. in the print shop at Union College. For information and
reservations, call 388-6714.

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
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich.; the Communication Arts Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside; the Schick
Art Gallery, Skidmore College; and the Susannah Keith Gallery, Dexter, Mich. Sanchez' work comes from ideas or thoughts taken from
nature which become manifested in her own visual language. An accomplished printmaker in many printmaking media, Sanchez enjoys the
process of linocut for its physical process of cutting and carving as well as for the raw and primitive quality that it can render.

Posted on Jan 5, 2001

David V. Cossey, executive director of Computer Services, gave a talk, “Glimpsing the Future,” at the 2000 New York Library
Association conference in November in Saratoga Springs. His talk focused on current trends in technology and their implications
for libraries. He included estimates of the amount of information produced, discussion and demonstration of new devices which
will impact both libraries and users, and comments about significant issues related to digitized documents.
He emphasized the importance of converging technologies where, for example, content, communications, and computing converge
into what we now call interactive multimedia.

Hilary Tann, professor of music, recently premiered four works: The Walls of Morlais Castle (rev. for oboe, viola, cello) by
the Ovid Ensemble in the Presteigne Festival, Wales, on Aug. 29. A heavily revised version of Arachne, a dramatic song cycle
for soprano solo, was premiered by Anne Turner at Skidmore College in November. Ovidiu Marinescu was the soloist with the Newark
(Del.) Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Roman Pawlowski) in a newly commissioned work, Anecdote (A Soliloquy for Cello and Orchestra),
in December. On Jan. 18, Tann's Fanfare for a River will be performed by the Knoxville (Tenn.) Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirk
Trevor. The work was a millennial commission supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Grant E. Brown, assistant professor of biology, was co-author with Valerie LeBlanc '00 and Lindsay E. Porter '98 (MAT '99) of
“Ontogenetic changes in largemouth bass response to heterospecific alarm pheromones” in a recent issue of Ethology. He also
co-authored “Responses to nitrogen-oxides by Characiforme fishes suggest evolutionary conservation in Ostariophysan alarm
pheromones” in an upcoming issue of Chemical Signals IX with James C. Adrian Jr. of chemistry, Jody Erickson (MAT '00),
Ilyssa H. Kaufman '00 and Devon Gershaneck '01. Finally, Brown is co-author with Adrian and Matthew Shih '00 of “Behavioural
responses of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) to hypoxanthine-3-N-oxide at varying concentrations” in Journal of Fish Biology.