Union College was ranked 11th of U.S. colleges in the number of students who studied abroad during 1999-2000, according to a survey by the Institute for International Education (IIE).
Union has been ranked in the top 20 among colleges granting bachelor's degrees for four of the last five years in the IIE study.
Union had 336 students – nearly 17 percent of its total enrollment of 2000 – study abroad during the 1999-2000 academic year. About 70 percent of Union students study abroad during their time at the College.
“We're pleased to be represented in this study,” said Bill Thomas, director of Union's international programs, which was established in 1970. “This is a reflection of Union's commitment to international study.”
The College of St. Benedict/St. John topped the list with 617 students. St. Olaf was second with 558, Colgate third with 503.
IIE reported that nearly 144,000 U.S. students who studied abroad in 1999-2000 represented nearly an 11 percent increase over the previous year. The statistics are from the organization's annual report on international education exchange, available on the IIE Web site: www.opendoorsweb.org.
We all seemed to have a good time at the
College's recent Holiday Party, made possible by our good friends
in Dining Services. Staffers put in an estimated 640 hours
of labor on the event.
And if you're looking to quantify how much fun we
had, here is a list of what Union College employees,
families and friends can consume when we're in a holiday mood:
110 pounds shrimp
25 pounds smoked bluefish
25 pounds smoked salmon
140 pounds beef brisket
1,000 pastries
300 cupcakes
300 gingerbread people
500 spring rolls
500 wontons
115 pounds chicken and assorted vegetables for
Asian station
125 pounds potatoes and onions for potato pancakes
60 pounds assorted cheeses
60 pounds cheese tortellini
30 pounds assorted wursts
120 pounds chicken wings
14 cases assorted fruit
500 pounds ice for ice sculptures
60 bottles wine
2 kegs beer
10 gallons egg nog
20 gallons punch
So long, Steve
Steve Pearse, who for years directed the College's
Dining Services with aplomb, departs for a new job as a
district manager with Sodexho.
He is succeeded by Jim Holdren, who has been
with the College since the fall.
Schenectady, N.Y. (Jan. 10, 2002)
– Theodore Sider, associate professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, will speak on “Vagueness and Hell” to open the Philosophy Department's Winter Colloquia on Friday, Jan. 18, at 4:15 p.m. in Humanities 213 at Union College.
This and other lectures in the Winter 2002 Philosophy Colloquia are free and open to the public.
Sider describes his talk as “a kind of goofy but fun paper arguing against the
traditional Christian doctrine of hell based on considerations of vagueness.”
His research and teaching interests include metaphysics and philosophy of language. Sider is the author of Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), which defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts.
The series continues with Ann Bumpus of Dartmouth College on “Actors Without
Intentions” on Friday, Jan. 25, at 4:15 p.m. in Humanities 213. Bumpus, a 1983
Union graduate, earned her Ph.D. from MIT. She will explore the nature of
intentions, how they are related to beliefs and desires, and whether every case of human action involves an intention.
Rachel Brown of McGill University will speak on “What's the Good of Consistency? A Look at Ethical Theory and Applications” on Friday, March 2, at 4:15 p.m. in Humanities 213.
The alumnus who was nearly president of Zambia is remembered by his advisor as “personable, friendly and very persistent.”
In just 10 weeks, Anderson Mazoka '69 designed and built a wind tunnel for his senior thesis, recalls Dick Shanebrook, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering.
The wind tunnel was used by students and faculty for 32 years after Mazoka graduated, Shanebrook added. Mazoka's accomplishment drew considerable media attention at the time not just because he was from Africa, but because of the scope of the project, which filled a large basement room in Science and Engineering, Shanebrook recalls.
Mazoka, a former railway and mining executive in his native country, on Dec. 30 declared himself the winner of a contentious 11-way election in which demonstrators stormed the High Court. Within three days, however, eventual winner Levy Mwanawasa was sworn in and called for an end to the demonstrations.
“He'll be back,” Shanebrook says of his former student. “He's that kind of guy. He doesn't give up.”
Among other names in the news, Allison Cohen '02 was aboard American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22 when Richard Reid allegedly tried to ignite plastic explosives in his shoes.
About two hours into the flight, Cohen recalls, she heard screaming and a scuffle as Reid struggled with flight attendants eight rows behind her. He was eventually subdued with the help of some of the larger passengers, Cohen says.
But she wasn't to learn the details until the plane landed several hours later in Boston, where it had been diverted. She and her fellow passengers spent a full day being interviewed and searched by FBI agents.
Cohen was returning from a mini-term in Paris.
And Judith Dein '76, a winner of the Bailey Prize her senior year, is the U.S. District Judge in Boston
who arraigned Reid, remanding him to jail without bail. Dein, who was a partner in the Boston firm of Warner & Stackpole, earned her law degree from Boston College.
Followers of biathlon may have noticed a familiar name in the results for the Olympic trials. Lowell Bailey of Lake Placid, who finished well in the field but did not make the U.S. Olympic roster, was enrolled as a full-time student during the last two spring terms. He was in or near the top 10 in four qualifying events, finishing as high as second in the 10 kilometer sprint event. Biathlon combines cross country skiing with rifle shooting.
Helmut Jahn, named one of the ten most influential living American architects by the American Institute of Architects, will deliver a lecture titled “Archi-neering” on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
The talk is part of the opening reception for a Mandeville Gallery exhibition of drawings, photos, models and video of Jahn's works. The exhibition, also titled “Archi-neering,” runs through March 10.
Jahn, president and CEO of the firm Murphy/Jahn, will speak on his innovative approach to materials, light, engineering and technology in a concept he calls “archi-neering,” in which the architect and engineer work in close partnership. Jahn's book of the same title highlights the theory, development and design of projects made possible through such a collaboration.
Jahn's major works include the Kemper Arena in Kansas City; Xerox Center, Ha-Lo Center, and United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare Airport in Chicago; Park Avenue Tower in New York City; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; Munich Airport Center; and Sony Center in Berlin.
Born in Nuremburg in 1940, Jahn was trained at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1965, he spent a year at the Illinois Institute of Technology studying under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He joined C.F. Murphy Associates in 1967, which would become Murphy/Jahn in 1981. He has taught architectural design at Harvard and Yale.
“Creativity has to do more with the elimination of the inessential, than inventing something new,” Jahn once wrote. “Perfection is achieved not when nothing is to be added, but when nothing can be taken away.”
