James
B. Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, attorney and editor-at-large of Smart Money, will speak on “The Call to
Duty: Leadership After September 11 and Enron” on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union
College.
His talk, which opens the College's
Perspectives at the Nott lecture series, is free and open to the public.
A
contributor to the New Yorker, and
formerly page one editor of The Wall
Street Journal, is the author of the national bestsellers Blind Eye, an investigation of the
medical profession, Den of Thieves,
about Wall Street in the '80s, and Blood
Sport, about the Clinton White House.
Stewart
is the recipient of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash and
the insider-trading scandal. As a reporter at The Journal, he covered the Milken and Boesky scandals, the mergers
and acquisitions boom of the 1980s and the world of investment banking and the
stock market.
A new
on-campus “portal” page (UniONcampus: http://oncampus.union.edu) gives faculty,
students, and staff quick access to the web tools they use most often. Some of
these tools and links include: Searching the faculty/staff directory, online
forms, campus announcements, and quick links to Human Resources, Schaffer
Library, Information Technology Services, etc.
The
new site is accessible to everyone, on-campus or off-, but some links will be
protected by a username and password (such as Blackboard system). The
“external” home page (www.union.edu) can
easily be reached from oncampus.union.edu, and vice-versa.
“It's like coming into our web site through the kitchen,” said Tom Smith, web site director.
Information
Technology Services is installing oncampus.union.edu as the home page for most
new computers (and upgrades) on campus.
Students and employers at next week's Career Festival will be using the “I” word: internships.
Once the place where students went for jobs, the fair has become a place where students and employers can discuss
internships that can lead to jobs, according to organizers.
The Career Festival is Thursday, Oct. 3, from noon to 4 p.m. in Memorial Fieldhouse.
“Many employers are offering
internships and cooperatives, which are good from both the perspective of the
student and the employer,” said Rochelle Caruso, assistant director of the Becker Career Center, who is organizing the fair. The programs are a good way for both the employer and student to find a good match, she said.
Reflecting the tendency of students to sit out the tight job market, there is a higher-than-usual representation of graduate and professional schools at this year's fair, Caruso said. “More students are at least considering graduate school as an option,” she said.
This fall's Career Festival has a
high representation of financial and technical employers, those who have
predicted a hiring need for a growing economy, Caruso noted, adding that the
National Association of Colleges and Employers predicts a 6 percent increase in
the number of students employed right out of college this year.
The Career Festival will host 85
employers and graduate or professional schools. For more information, call ext.
6176 or visit: http://cdc.union.edu/.
Student-painters step back to take a look at their work.
From left, frosh Chris Bory, Annick Monk-Goldsmith and James Montani were among the three dozen who repainted a mural outside Hamilton Hill Arts Center during John Calvin Toll Day on Saturday.
Michelangelo never had it so good.
About three dozen students got
some encouragement on Saturday while they repainted a large mural outside the Hamilton
Hill Arts Center:
the pounding rhythms of African drums courtesy of the Center's African drum
troupe, who were practicing inside for their fall show. “It's really neat,” observed one
student. “Music while we paint.”
The students were among an
estimated 200 from the College who took part in the eighth annual John Calvin
Toll Day to serve the city.
John Calvin Toll Day is supported
by Al Hill, a 1946 Union graduate, and his wife, Perrie. Toll was the great,
great grandfather of Hill, a retired attorney from Buffalo.
The Hills created the fund to encourage Union students to undertake volunteer
service. “We believe that the experiences from this activity will carry over
beyond graduation and enrich not only those they serve but also the
volunteers,” Hill said.
Adriana Zavala, a senior majoring
in sociology and Japanese, so enjoyed her summer internship at Schenectady Day
Nursery that she signed on to work there 16 hours per week even after her
classes at Union resume this fall.
Fleet intern Adriana Zavala '03 with a friend at Schenectady Day Nursery
That's on top of a double major, an
ambitious senior thesis on attitudes toward AIDS in Japan,
a job as a coordinator for Big Brothers/Big Sisters (she has a “little” too), a
DJ position with WRUC, and a term as president of the sociology club.
Esther Bauscher, a junior pre-med
student from Cambridge, plans to
continue working for Habitat for Humanity in Schenectady
once she resumes studies toward her majors in psychology and biology.
Zavala's and Bauscher's
experiences are typical of the six Union students who served as interns this
summer with local non-profits in a program sponsored by FleetBoston Financial
Group.
“They're all hooked,” said Janet
Mattis of the Becker Career
Center, who coordinated the
program. “All of the interns have said it was just right for them and that they
plan to continue in some capacity with their organization after this summer.”
The six interns are to give presentations
on their summer internships on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. in the Becker
Career Center.
Each will give a 15 minute talk. “I can assure you that they will be sharing
some very interesting and very positive experiences,” said Mattis.
Bauscher wanted to return this
summer to Habitat because volunteering there during high school was “the
greatest experience of my life.” Shortly after she arrived, however, she found
herself replacing a departed project manager. “I expected to be doing all this
menial stuff,” she said. “But I pretty much ran the show.”
Senior economics major Michelle
Arcuri interned at Bethesda House, where she assisted with a newsletter and
helped guests of the Schenectady
shelter with budgeting and other tasks. “I wanted to push my comfort limit
while I still had the chance to,” she said of working at Bethesda House. “After
graduation, an opportunity to volunteer at an organization like (Bethesda
House) would not be feasible, if for no other reason than financial.”
Other Union students and their
respective non-profits are: Tanu Chandra '03, Girls Inc.; Jessica Eaton '03, Schenectady
Museum; and Alyson Ligon '04, Nathan
Littauer Hospital.
The $20,000 grant from FleetBoston
covered a $3,300 stipend for each of the six students. The College has received
$75,000 in support from FleetBoston over the last three years.
“Union College has a unique leadership role in Schenectady,” said Hermes Ames, president of Fleet Bank of Upstate New York. “We are pleased to support their efforts to provide local non-profits with the benefits of their students' knowledge and expertise. This type of collaborative effort will benefit all of the participants as well as the entire community.”
