Posted on Nov 8, 2002

Through Nov. 22
Humanities Gallery
“Silk Spaces,” a series by Schenectady
artist Arlene Baker, which the artist calls “an exploration of the aesthetics
of the sublime on an intimate scale.”

Through Nov. 27
Social Sciences Gallery
Photo exhibit by students on term in Ireland.

Through Dec. 8
Arts Atrium Gallery, Arts Building
“Impressions from Nature's
Notebook,” works by painter Stephen Tyson.

Through Dec. 22
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Reaching for the Stars – The Story of
the Dudley Observatory,” an exhibit with lectures, a film series and
nights observing the skies. For a complete listing of events, visit: http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=2996

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Friday, Nov. 8, 4:30 p.m.
Humanities 213
Philosophy colloquium presents Fred Dretske of Duke
University on “Change Blindness:
Where Philosophy and Psychology Intersect.”

Friday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's hockey vs. St. Lawrence

Friday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium
Dudley Observatory
exhibition film series presents Chuck's Rocket and October Sky (Joe
Johnston, 1999, 108 min.). Also, celestial observing night, weather permitting.

Friday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium

Film:Chuck's Rocket (1960, 13 min) and October Sky (1999, 108 min.). Part of the
Mandeville Gallery exhibition, “Reaching for the Stars — The Story of the
Dudley Observatory.”

Friday, Nov. 8, through Monday, Nov. 11, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: XXX

Saturday, Nov. 9, 2 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Women's Hockey vs. Sacred Heart

Saturday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's hockey vs. Clarkson

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m.
Nott Memorial
Jan Ludwig, professor emeritus of philosophy, on
“Communicating Humanity's Widening Universe – 500 Years of Astronomical
Publications in the Collection of the Dudley Observatory.” Part of the
Mandeville Gallery exhibition, “Reaching for the Stars — The Story of the
Dudley Observatory.”

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Women's hockey vs. Sacred Heart

Sunday, Nov. 10, 3 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College Community Orchestra, led by Victor Klimash,
conductor. Free and open to the public.

Monday, Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Lecture by Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. Sponsored by Campus Protestant Ministry. Lecture cancelled due to illness.

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
“Women in the Movies” film series presents A Question of Silence. Sponsored by the Women's Commission.
Discussion to follow film.

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial
“All I Did Was Ask: An Evening with Terry Gross.” Perspectives
at the Nott presents the host of NPR's “Fresh Air.” Free and open to the
public. For more information, call (518) 388-6131.

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
The Union College chamber concert series presents the Budapest Strings, with
guest pianist Frederic Chiu, in a program of works by Purcell, Mozart and
Rozsavolgyi.

Thursday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Reading and performance
by poet, musician, activist, and cultural chronicler Edward Sanders.

Friday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium
Films: A Trip to the
Moon (1902, 14 min.) and Koyaanisqatsi
(1982, 87 min.). Part of the Mandeville Gallery exhibition, “Reaching for
the Stars — The Story of the Dudley Observatory.”

Friday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Women's Hockey vs. MIT

Friday, Nov. 15, through Monday, Nov. 18, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: Signs

Friday, Nov. 15, 9:30 p.m.
College Observatory, F.W. Olin Center
Observatory open house, weather permitting

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Nearly two dozen members of the
Union community spoke on Wednesday at a “Stop the Hate Rally” in Reamer
Campus Center.

The rally, organized in response
to several reported incidents of  homophobia, anti-Semitism and racism, drew
about 200.

“This is a time for everyone on
campus to step up,” said Fred Alford, dean of students. “It's an opportunity to
raise our community to a higher plane and to develop our community through a
stronger set of bonds.”

Posted on Nov 8, 2002

Poet, musician, activist, and
cultural chronicler Edward Sanders will perform his work on Thursday, Nov. 14,
at 8 p.m. in the Yulman Theater at Union
College.

The event is free and open to the
public.

Sanders' volumes of poetry include
Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Hymn to the Rebel Café, 1968,
and Chekov, as well as his ongoing multi-volume project, America: A
History in Verse.  He is also the
author of Tales of Beatnik Glory, a collection of stories, and of The
Family, an account of the Charles Manson Group.

A founder and leader of the rock
group The Fugs, Sanders operated the Peace Eye Bookstore on New
York's Lower East Side from
1964 to 1970. He is the editor of The Woodstock Journal, a local paper
dedicated to social and environmental activism.

Sanders has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His selected poems received the American Book Award.

For information, call (518)
388-6131.

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Diyana Milosevic, the director of
the Dah Theater of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, will present a lecture (with video
clips) titled “The Role of the Artist in the Dark Times” on Thursday, Nov. 14,
at 5 p.m. in Arts 215, at Union College.

At 8
p.m. the same day, actress Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic will perform “Singing
Bodies, Dancing Voices” in Old Chapel at Union.

“The Role of the Artist in the
Dark Times” comes out of the experiences in Yugoslavia,
which has been the site of internal warfare and then NATO bombing  during most of the 1990's.

In 
“Singing Bodies, Dancing Voices,” Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic performs
excerpts of roles she has performed with Dah Theater in the 10 years of their
existence, dealing with issues they have lived with during this time: war, ethnic
cleansing, and the breakup of their country.