Posted on Feb 18, 2004

Union (11-14-5) begins their final four games at home this weekend and
says goodbye to two dedicated seniors.

With the last two regular season home contests against Colgate (16-9-5)
Friday evening, and Cornell (12-7-6) on Saturday night, the Dutchmen
will say goodbye to both it's seniors against Cornell, as Glenn Sanders
and Brent Booth play their final regular season home games.

Sanders, who is from Saugus, Massachusetts, will be playing in his 89th
game Saturday evening. For Booth, it will be game number 128. “It's
special” Booth said, “You really don't think of numbers during your
college career, just what it takes to get it done”. Booth has gotten a
lot done in four years, five goals, nineteen assists for 24 career
points may not seem like an accomplishment, but for Booth, again it's
really not about the numbers. “Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are!” Booth went on to say.

“Seize the day”, Sanders said when addressing teammates. “Take advantage
of what's at your fingertips, because it will be gone before you know
it.” For these two seniors, hockey will shortly be gone, but what
remains is a lifetime of memories.

Perhaps the best memory is just “one big one that revolves around the
times I have spent with my teammates,” Booth stated. “The feeling of
knowing that for the past four years you have worked along side a group
of stellar individuals to achieve the same common goal of winning hockey
games and having fun in the process. This process extends far beyond
what takes place on the ice, it's so much of the memories off the ice,
spending time with my teammates is what makes college hockey so much
fun.”

Sanders first memory of Union Hockey was the first day of physical
testing. “Our coach fed us enormous subs before we started our sprints.
Needless to say, it didn't sit well and a majority of the guys were
hanging over the fence. It wasn't necessarily the proudest hockey
memory, but it was the first!”

Booth and Sanders will give it their all this weekend as the Dutchmen
are currently just two points out of hosting a first round playoff game.
The ECAC playoffs begin March 7th at the site of the higher seed. Union
tied Cornell 1-1 on January 16th, and fell at Colgate 4-1 the following
night. Both games begin at 7 p.m. and can be heard on ESPN Radio 1300am
“The Team”.

The Dutchmen finish the regular season on the road with games at Yale
and Princeton, February 27th & 28th.

Posted on Feb 17, 2004

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted a Renewal Community Leadership Symposium on Feb. 18 for mayors and other officials to exchange information on successful approaches to win federal assistance for the revitalization of local economies and business expansion.

Among the participants were the mayors of Schenectady, Buffalo, Lackawanna, Jamestown, Niagara Falls and Rochester as well as officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the State Conference of Mayors, Fannie Mae, and other state and local economic development organizations.

While on campus, the senator greeted a number of Union students who were invited to the event.

Posted on Feb 16, 2004

Harry Wu, activist and former
political prisoner of China,
and Ethan Gutmann, journalist and author, will co-present a talk, “China's
E-Police State:
American IT Companies and American Values,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. in the F.W.
Olin Center
Auditorium.

Their talk is sponsored by Union's
East Asian Studies program and the Department of Political Science.

Wu, activist and former political
prisoner in the People's Republic of China,
is the foremost U.S.
campaigner against the human rights violations committed by the Laogai system.
Beginning when he was 23 years old, Harry Wu served 19 years in the Laogai
prison system for criticizing the policies of the Chinese Communist Party.
Since his release he has worked to expose the human rights abuses of the Laogai.  In research-gathering trips across China,
posing undercover as a U.S.
businessman or police officer, Wu has documented Laogai camps, detention
centers, and instances of Laogai produced goods being exported to the U.S.
He serves as the executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation. He has
also authored three books on the Laogai including: The Chinese Gulag (1992); Bitter
Winds – A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag (1994), and Troublemaker – One Man's Crusade Against
China's Cruelty (1996).

Gutmann is the author of Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and
Betrayal (Encounter Books, 2004). He is a visiting fellow at the Project
for the New American Century.

In his recent essay in The Weekly Standard, “Who Lost China's
Internet?,” Gutmann explored U.S. corporate complicity in Chinese Internet
censorship, and the transfer of surveillance technologies to Chinese state
security, while calling for a combined public and private response to China's
Internet crackdown. He has also written extensively on security issues, the
growth of Chinese nationalism, and the U.S.
business scene in Beijing for Investor's Business Daily, the Washington Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and other
publications.

For the last several years, Gutmann
was based in Beijing, serving as a
senior counselor for APCO China, the leading public affairs firm in China.
He also worked with Beijing Television as an executive producer. Previously, he
was chief investigator for the America's
Voice Television network in Washington,
and a foreign policy analyst for the Brookings Institution. He received both
his BA and his master's in political science and international relations from Columbia
University.

Posted on Feb 16, 2004

Novelist, essayist and poet Julia
Alvarez will give the main address at the Founders Day convocation on Thursday,
Feb. 26, at 11:30 a.m. in Memorial
Chapel.

Alvarez, whose address is titled
“In Celebration of Founders Day,” will receive an honorary doctor of letters
degree from the College.

Alvarez's writing incorporates her
vivid memories of childhood in the Dominican
Republic, which her family fled in 1960, and
the subsequent adjustment to a new life in New York City.

She first made her mark as a poet
but is best known for her novels. Her first novel, How the García Girls Lost
Their Accents, received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, was listed
by Americas
magazine as 1993's No. 1 bestseller in Latin America,
and was named by both the American Library Association and The New York
Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, In the
Time of the Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics
Circle Award.

She received her bachelor's
degree, summa cum laude, from Middlebury
College; and her MFA from Syracuse
University. She was a fellow at the
Bread Loaf School of English.

From 1975 until 1978, she served
as poet-in-the-schools in Kentucky,
Delaware, and North
Carolina. She has held positions as a professor of
creative writing and English at Phillips
Andover Academy
in Massachusetts, University
of Vermont, and the University
of Illinois. In 1984, she was the
Jenny McKean Moore Visiting Writer at George
Washington University.
Since 1988, she has been a professor of English at Middlebury
College.

Posted on Feb 16, 2004

Senior sprinter Sean Washington successfully defended his 55 meter championship in the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Track and Field Championship Meet held last weekend at St. Lawrence.

Washington, who went into the meet as the country's third-ranked sprinter in the event, earned 10 of the Dutchmen's team total of 39 points as he captured the event in 6.49, just off his record of 6.45 that he set as a sophomore, but better than the 6.52 he had in last year's meet. He also scored six team points by taking third in the 200 meter with a time of 22.83.

“We had 16 personal best, or personal records during the meet,” said assistant head coach Dave Riggi. “I can't say enough good things about the team this year and how well they performed at UCAA championship. I'm looking forward to a great state meet where I expect another great day of personal bests.

“Kaity Elias had a fantastic day,” continued Riggi. “She broke her school record in the 55 hurdles by .10 seconds. She also took over a half a second off her 200 time.”

For complete results, please click below:

web.stlawu.edu/sports/m_track/meet_info/ucaa_id_04_results.htm