Posted on Mar 1, 2002

Events

Friday, March 1, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's ice hockey vs. Colgate

Friday, March 1, through Monday, March 4, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: The Last Castle

Friday, March 1, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Yulman Theater presents Shakespeare's classic
Romeo and Juliet, with Frederick Kountz and Christa Marie Tiangha Flores
in the lead roles. Directed by Prof. William A. Finlay.
Other shows are Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 3 at
2 p.m.; and March 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. For more information,
call the box office at ext. 6545.

Saturday, March 2, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's ice hockey vs. Cornell

Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Romeo and Juliet

Sunday, March 3, 2 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Romeo and Juliet

Sunday, March 3, 3 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
The Union College chamber series presents the Artemis
String Quartet with

Natalia Prischepenko and Heime Muller, violins; Volker
Jacobsen, viola; and Eckart Runge, cello. Program includes Mozart's
No. 14 in G, K. 387; Gyorgy Ligeti's No.
1 (1954); and Mendelssohn's No. 2 in A, Op.
13. Tickets are $20, half-price for students, Union
students free. For more information, call ext. 6131 or 372-3651.

Thursday, March 7, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Romeo and Juliet

Friday, March 8, 10 a.m.
Nott Memorial
IBM Day at Union with panel discussion on
Converging Technologies featuring three alumni – John Kelly III '76,
Steven Mills '73 and Robert Moffat Jr. '78.

Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Romeo and Juliet

Friday, March 8, through Monday, March 11, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: Spy Game

Exhibits

Through March 10
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Archi-neering,” an exhibition of drawings, photographs,
models and video of work by the architect Helmut Jahn, named one of
the Ten Most Influential Living American Architects by
the Institute of American Architects.

Through March 15
Social Science Faculty Lounge Art Gallery
“Intricate Perceptions,” a collaborative exhibit by Davide
Cervone, mathematics; Patrick O'Rourke, formerly of Mandeville
Gallery; and artist Jonathan Leavitt. Hours are Monday
through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Through March 21
Arts Atrium Gallery
Photography exhibits: “Pilgrimage” by Kevin Bubriski of
visitors at the World Trade Center site; and “Clips,” curated by
Prof. Martin Benjamin, a collection of news clips about
photography coverage of recent world events. Slide talk and reception is set
for Feb. 28 at 3:30 p.m. in Arts 215 (talk) and in the gallery
(reception at 4:30 p.m.).

Posted on Mar 1, 2002

With press time too early to announce the results, it is
worth noting that the men's basketball game on Thursday against
Lasell College of Newton, Mass., represents the first time in 20
years that the team has appeared in the NCAA Division III
National Championship.

It was also the first time ever that Union has hosted the
tournament.

The winner of this first-round game will play Babson College
in Boston on Saturday.

The only other time the Dutchmen were invited to
“The Dance” was in 1983 after posting a 20-4 regular-season record.
Union traveled to Potsdam to play in the Eastern Regionals, losing its
opener to Hartwick, 61-49, before beating Ithaca, 89-69.

This year, Union (20-7
overall) won the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association's regular-season with
its 11-3 league record to earn the right to host the UCAA
championship tournament. The Dutchmen then beat Hamilton, 80-66, and
St. Lawrence, 70-63, to capture an automatic bid to the
NCAA Tournament.

“This is the team's reward for all the hard work they've put
in since the end of last season,” said sixth-year head coach
Bob Montana.

Posted on Mar 1, 2002

The Artemis Quartet, which swept the top awards at
the German Music Competition in 1995, the Munich Competition
in 1996, and the Borciani Competition in 1997, will perform
on Sunday March 3, at 3 p.m. in Memorial Chapel, as part of
the Union College chamber concert series.

The program will feature Mozart's Quartet in G, K.
387; Ligeti's Quartet No. 1 (Metamorphoses
nocturnes); and Mendelssohn's Quartet in A minor, Op.
13, “Ist es Wahr?” (“Is it True?”).

On its North American debut tour as winner of the
Borciani International String Quartet Competition in 1998, the
Artemis Quartet performed nine concerts in twelve days. Its
subsequent tours in 2000 and 2001 included performances at Carnegie
Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Library of Congress, and the University
of California at Los Angeles.

In 1999, the young musicians accepted an invitation from
the Berlin Science Academy to live and work intensively for
three months with  luminaries from other fields such as
physics, literature, art, history and mathematics. During this
time, the Artemis scheduled no concerts in order to concentrate on
this experience. The quartet resides in Berlin.   

Tickets at $20, $8 for students, free to Union
students, are available in advance and at the door at 2 p.m. For more
information, call ext. 6131 or 372-3651.

Posted on Mar 1, 2002

The Union College Choir, directed by Prof. Dianne
M. McMullen, will perform a concert on Wednesday, March 6, at 7
p.m. in Memorial Chapel. 

The program will feature Franz Joseph Haydn's
Nelson Mass, one of the composer's masterpieces. The program
will also include works by Mozart and Clereau, English and
French-Canadian folksongs, and a work by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Posted on Mar 1, 2002

Like most theses, it started with a lot of reading. But
unlike most, it ended with a concert.

Economics majors Natalie Gulden and Katie Butterfield
were the promoters behind a concert Wednesday night by
Apartment Three, a Boston-based group whose sound has been described
as a blend of pop, rock, blues and funk.

The unusual dual thesis relied heavily on research the pair did
on surveys, focus groups, marketing and publicity.

They surveyed nearly 450 students and another 100
faculty and staff to determine the kind of music a Union audience would
like. They used focus groups to narrow the selection of bands.
They determined the best means to promote the event. And they
used friends – lots of them – to help get the word out.

At the suggestion of students, they avoided using
student mailboxes or voice mail. It's too easy to throw away a letter or
“33-7'' a voice mail, Gulden explained. (Interestingly, faculty
suggested voice mail as a preferred method, she noted.) Instead, they
centered their publicity effort on signs posted around campus.
“(The focus groups) said that even though there are so many signs
on campus, people still read them,” said Gulden of Ashland,
Mass., considering a career as marketing analyst or events planner.

They also used fortune cookie messages, pens, coasters,
promotional CDs, stickers and invitations to about 250 faculty and staff.

“We underestimate how opinionated the Union
community is,” said Gulden. “Everyone
was very vocal.” Gulden said she and Butterfield, of Saint Louis, were
also surprised by the willingness of students to join the effort.

Prof. Hal Fried is advising the pair on what they expect to be
a 130-page thesis. “I joked with them that this will be easy to grade,”
he said. “We'll just see how many people show up.”