Posted on Feb 21, 2003

The fourth-floor lounge of Reamer Campus Center has become a popular spot for study breaks, especially for students looking for some hard-to-find TV shows. One recent day, the lounge was filled with about a dozen students, equal parts French and Czech, to

Friday, Feb. 21, 1 to 3 p.m.
Old
Chapel
Contra Dance with fiddle music by Taconic Tonic with caller Paul Rosenberg
Free with Union ID; $5 general admission. Info: (518) 388-6201

Friday, Feb. 21, 3:30 p.m.
Women's Studies Lounge, Reamer Campus Center
“Motherless Daughters” with Shelly Cofield and Sarah Dohrmann, discussing “The Mommy Place” program they founded in New York City to work with girls who have lost their mothers. Especially important in assisting girls who lost mothers in the World Trade Center attacks, the organization also assists fathers who are raising children alone.

Friday, Feb. 21 to Monday, Feb. 24, 8 & 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: Jackass, the Movie

Friday, Feb. 21, 6 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. St. Lawrence

Friday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. St. Lawrence

Saturday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. Clarkson

Saturday, Feb. 22, 4 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. Clarkson

Monday, Feb. 24, noon
First floor Reamer Campus Center
Opening of Women's History Month bulletin board that will feature photos and narratives from members of the campus community under a banner that reads, “This is what feminists look like.” The opening will feature a reading by Prof. Peter Heinegg.

Monday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.
SS016
Film, Bread and Roses, about Latino
work and union organizing in Los Angeles.
Discussion to follow moderated by Profs. John Stoner and Teresa
Meade. Also sponsored by Latinas Hermanidades.

Monday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m.
Chet's
Debate with students and faculty, “Can Minorities Be Racist? Or is it
Prejudice?”

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 6 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. Williams

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Opening performance of The Laramie Project – the story of bigotry and tolerance as told by Laramie, Wyo., residents after gay student Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 through March 1 and at 2 p.m. March 2. For tickets and information, contact the theater box office at (518) 388-6545.

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. Williams

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
A Panel on Derogatory Words – Learn the history and impact of these damaging
words

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial
Science writer Philip Ball on “The Age of Molecular Engineering.” Part of the series on General Education Science sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Union College Jazz Ensemble with Prof.
Tim Olsen, director
Free admission. Info: (518) 388-6201

Thursday, Feb. 27, 11:30 a.m.
Memorial
Chapel
Founders Day Convocation. Address by science writer Philip Ball:
“Nanotechnology in Fact and Fiction.”

Thursday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m.
Nott
Memorial
“Vagina Monologues”
$5 admission – Proceeds to benefit a women's shelter

Friday, Feb. 28 to Monday, March 3, 8 & 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: 8 Mile

Friday, Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m.
Humanities
213
Philosophy Colloquia: Guest speaker Regina Kreide, University of Frankfurt, “Human Rights and Its
Critics”

Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. Vermont

Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
Achilles
Rink
Men's hockey vs. Vermont

Friday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. St. Lawrence