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Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Friday, Sept. 27, 4 p.m.
Garis Field
Men's soccer vs. RPI

Friday, Sept. 27, through Monday, Sept. 30, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: Undercover Brother

Saturday, Sept. 28,1 p.m.
Bailey Field
Football vs. Hobart

Monday, Sept. 30, 6 p.m.

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
Ron Burch, curator of art and architecture for the New York State Museum,on “Putting Hindsight First: Collecting Now for the Future.” Part of the exhibit, “Unionania! Union College Souvenirs and Memorabilia,” which
runs through Oct. 13.

Tuesday, Oct. 1,7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial
James B. Stewart, financial columnist, on “The Call to Duty: Leadership After September 11 and EnRon.”
First of the term in the Perspectives at the Nott lecture series.

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 7:30
p.m.

Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Women's
Commission presents Adam's Rib,  part of the Women in the Movies film series.

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 4
p.m.

Garis Field
Men's soccer vs. Potsdam

Thursday, Oct. 3, noon to 4 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse
Annual career festival sponsored by Becker Career Center

Thursday, Oct. 3, 4
p.m.

Frank Bailey Field
Field Hockey vs.
Williams

Friday, Oct. 4, 4:30
p.m.

Humanities 213
Fall Term Philosophy Colloquia presents
Laura Weed, College of St.
Rose, on “Quine and Chinese Philosophy:
Relativity, Indeterminacy, Anti-essentialism.”

Friday, Oct. 4, through Monday, Oct. 7, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: Sum of All Fears

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New Union faculty welcomed

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Union College this fall welcomed 24 new members to the
faculty. We introduced 12 in last week's issue. Here are the rest:

Claudine Lecocq,
visiting assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, earned her
Ph.D. at the University of Sciences and Technology of Lille, France.
She previously worked as an assistant professor at the University of Sciences and Technology of Lille, France.

Kathleen
LoGiudice,
assistant professor of biology, earned her master's and Ph.D. in
Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers University. She recently
finished working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, N.Y.

Raymond Martin, professor
and chair of the department of Philosophy, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He recently worked as
professor and director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, at the University of Maryland College Park. He is author
of a number of books, including Naturalization
of the Soul: Self & Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century, Self-Concern: An Experimental Approach to
What Matters in Survival
, The Elusive
Messiah,
and The Past Within Us: An
Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History
.

James L. Pethica, visiting
associate professor of English, earned his Ph.D. from Wolfson College, Oxford University. He previously
taught at Williams College, the University of Richmond, and Oxford University.

R. Chris Schnabel,
assistant professor of chemistry, earned his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry
at the University of Wyoming. He most recently worked as an
assistant professor of chemistry at Eckerd College.

Denise M. Smith, visiting
assistant professor of Spanish, earned her master's and Ph.D. in Spanish
linguistics at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Smith most recently taught Spanish courses at
Siena College.

Younghwan Song,
assistant professor of economics, earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His fields of
interests include labor economics, applied economics, and welfare and
poverty. He most recently was an
instructor at Columbia University.

John Charles
Stoner,
visiting assistant professor of history, earned his master's and
Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research
and teaching interests include U.S. political, social, labor history (19th and
20th centuries); sub-Saharan African labor, political history;
comparative history; and transnational history.

Pedro Teixeira, visiting
assistant professor of mathematics, earned his Ph.D. degree from Brandeis University. His research
area has been commutative algebra and the Hilbert-Kunz functions.

Michael F.
Vineyard,
professor and chair of the physics department, earned his master's
and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University. He most
recently has been an associate professor of physics at the University of Richmond.

Mesfin A.
Woldeyohannes,
visiting assistant professor of physics, earned his master's
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada. He most recently worked as an assistant
professor of physics at Brock University, Canada.

Yanqing Xie,
visiting assistant professor of Chinese, earned a doctorate of arts in
humanistic studies from SUNY Albany. She
most recently has been a lecturer at SUNY Albany.

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Laura Weed opens fall philosophy talks

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Laura Weed, a professor of philosophy at the College of St. Rose, will speak on “Quine and Chinese Philosophy: Relativity, Indeterminacy, Anti-essentialism” on Friday, Oct. 4, at
4:30 p.m. in Humanities 213 at Union College.

Her talk, free and open to the public, opens the Union College Philosophy Department's Fall Term Colloquia.

Other talks in the series are:

— Friday, Oct. 25, Randall Curren, University of Rochester, on “The
Structure of Socratic Ethics;” and

— Friday, Nov. 8, Fred Dretske, Duke University on “Change
Blindness: Where Philosophy and Psychology Intersect”

All talks are at 4:30 p.m. in Humanities 213.

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Curator Ron Burch speaks on art of collecting

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Ron Burch, curator of art and
architecture for the New York State
Museum, will speak on “Putting
Hindsight First: Collecting Now for the Future” on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6 p.m. in the Mandeville Gallery at the Nott
Memorial.

His talk is part of the exhibit, “Unioniana! Union College Souvenirs and Memorabilia,” which runs through Oct. 13. The exhibit contains a number of collectibles – from cups to hats and toys to prints – from Union's Special Collections.

In his talk, Burch will discuss the recent collecting of artifacts from the World Trade Center for an exhibit by the New York State
Museum, the philosophy and human
nature involved in collecting, and collecting at the museum level. He will also focus on how a curator determines what will be relevant for a collection for generations
to come.

Burch, who joined the state museum
in Albany in 1983, also was registrar
for the New York State Historical Association and the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown. He holds a master's degree in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate
Program, and a master's in U.S. History from Duke University.

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Across Campus — Fire-eating and BBQ

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

No Outlet performs at Skellar BBQ

Friday's Club Expo drew a record numbers of students to sign
up for nearly 100 clubs, thanks in no small part to an array of bands,
inflatable carnival attractions, a flight simulator and “wax hands.”

There was even a fire-eater, who arrived a bit later than
expected due to a wrong turn. “I guess that happens to the best of fire-eaters,”
remarks Matt Milless, director of student activities, who coordinated the event.
As it turned out, his late arrival was something of an advantage – his fire
showed up better in the dark.

Fresh off winning the most student votes for “Best Ribs” at
the Student Activity Fair on Friday, Skellar Manager Dale Metzger and his crew
pulled out the stops with outdoor grilled selections (including the famous
ribs) and a band, No Outlet, providing the entertainment.

And proudly displayed in the center of it all: the trophy
the Skellar won for “Best Ribs.”

So, what's that something that makes the Skellar ribs so
special? “Love,” says Metzger.

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