Posted on Oct 11, 2002

Joseph Telushkin, spiritual leader
of the Synagogue of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, and named by Talk
Magazine as one of the 50 best speakers in the U.S., will speak on Jewish
Humor:  What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews on Sunday, Oct.
13, at 1 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

His talk, sponsored by Union
College Hillel, is free and open to the public.

Telushkin was ordained at Yeshiva
University in New
York and pursued graduate studies in Jewish history
at Columbia University. 
He lectures throughout the U.S.
and also serves as an associate of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for
Learning and Leadership.

He has written many books including Jewish Literacy:  The Most
Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History,
the most widely selling book on Judaism of the past two decades, and Biblical Literacy:  The Most Important
People, Events and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible, chosen as a selection of the
Book-of-the-Month Club.

The talk, arranged through the B'nai Brith Lecture Bureau, is
being underwritten by the Union College Jewish Chaplaincy Fund, the Union
College Lamont Preachers Fund, and private donors.

For more information, call Margo
Strosberg at 388-6539

Posted on Oct 11, 2002

Deborah Slaner Larkin, an advocate
for Title IX and girl's participation in sports, will speak on “Why Does Social
Justice Take So Long? The Trials of Title IX” on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. in Reamer
Campus Center
Auditorium at Union College.

Her talk, which is free and open
to the public, is sponsored by the Women's Studies program at Union.

Larkin served on the President's
Council on Physical Fitness and Sports from 1994 to 2002, where she chaired a
national task force on girls and minorities in sports. She is the author of a
national research study titled “On the Benefits of Sports and Physical Activity
for Girls.” She is also past executive director of the Women's Sports
Foundation.

For more information, call
388-6423.

Posted on Oct 11, 2002

Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of
Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, opens the 2002-03 Union College Concert
Series on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m.
in Union College's
Memorial Chapel.

Recognized as one of today's most
gifted young artists, and enjoying an active career as pianist, chamber
musician, and conductor, his interpretations have won him worldwide critical
acclaim.  

The Series, now in its 31st
year, also features some returning favorites: the Artemis String Quartet,
Musicians from Marlboro, Boston Camerata and the Emerson String Quartet.

For details, visit:
http://www.union.edu/News/Events/ConcertSeries/

Following is a chronological
listing of concerts:

8 p.m., Wednesday, October 16: Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano

8 p.m., Saturday, October 26: Artemis String Quartet                                            

8 p.m., Wednesday, November 6: Musicians from Marlboro                          

8 p.m., Wednesday, November 13: Budapest Strings with Frederic Chiu, piano              

3 p.m., Sunday, November 24: Pacifica String Quartet with Ursula Oppens, piano

8 p.m., Saturday, November 30: Yefim Bronfman, piano                                                    

8 p.m., Tuesday, December 17: Boston
Camerata                                           

8 p.m., Friday, January 3: David Finckel, cello and Wu Han, piano          

3 p.m., Sunday, January 26: La
Fenice (Phoenix)                                    

8 p.m., Friday, February 21: Freiburg
Baroque Orchestra with Bernada Fink, mezzo soprano

3 p.m., Sunday, March 2: Emerson String Quartet                                  
            

8 p.m., Saturday, March 15: Midori, violin and Robert McDonald, piano      

8 p.m., Saturday, March 22: Flanders
Recorder Quartet and Friends      

8 p.m., Friday, April 4: Dubravka Tomsic, piano                                  

8 p.m., Friday, April 11: Nash Ensemble of London                                   

8 p.m., Wednesday, April 23: Arnaldo Cohen, piano

These concerts are made possible,
in part, by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Times
Union Newspapers, and the Schenectady County Initiative Program.

Faculty and staff may receive free tickets to concerts through Rosemary Filkens in the President's Office.

Posted on Oct 11, 2002

Laurie Garrett, the award-winning journalist and author of
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health, will speak on Tuesday,
Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Nott
Memorial.

Her talk, titled “Betrayal of Trust,” is part of Union's
Perspectives at the Nott lecture series. It is free and open to the public.

Garrett's new book argues that public health systems are
extremely fragile, that the wealth gap exacerbates public health stress and
that health systems are too costly and narrowly focused. “Western models of
individualized medicine are too costly and offer little benefit in terms of
life expectancy. They fail to address the fundamental roots of bad health in
poor countries such as un-clean water and lack of vaccines,” she writes on her
web site.

Garrett is the only writer ever to have garnered all three
of the “big Ps” of journalism: the Peabody, Polk (twice), and
Pulitzer.

She is a medical and science writer for Newsday,
where she has won numerous honors for her work. She was an award-winning
science correspondent on National Public Radio, and has appeared frequently on
national television, including ABC Nightline,
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie
Rose, Oprah Winfrey, and Dateline.

Garrett also is the author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases
in a World Out of Balance.

For more on Garrett, visit:  http://www.lauriegarrett.com.

Posted on Oct 11, 2002

Coming soon to the Reamer
Campus Center
are two franchises that should be familiar to coffee and ice cream lovers: Starbucks
and Freshens.

“We learned through surveys with
students that we need to try something new and different,” said Jim Holdren,
director of dining services. A number of colleges and universities are offering
popular franchises to students, but this is a first at Union,
he said.

Starbucks, the Seattle-based
coffee powerhouse, and Freshens, which offers a variety of frozen treats, will
be housed at a counter just south of the dining area at Dutch Hollow. There will be a “soft opening” on Oct. 21, with a grand opening at the end of that week.

Of the decision to bring in a
coffee and ice cream vendor side-by-side, Holdren said the two products work well together, selling at different times of the day. Coffee is a big seller in the morning and evening; ice cream is popular in the afternoon and between meals.