Posted on Mar 5, 2004

We say thank you and farewell to
our kindred news spirit, Jeremy Dibbell '04,
outgoing editor-in-chief of Concordiensis.

Over the past year, Dibbell has
helped to guide campus news coverage of a range of issues from the redesign of
the College logo to the (almost) redesign of the calendar.

“It's hard for me to imagine how
anyone did this before we had computers to do everything for us,” he said about
putting together the weekly paper. Some of his predecessors, he notes, produced
Concordy twice weekly; the paper was
even daily for a stretch during World War II.

“Having a product on Thursday
morning is a surprise,” he quips. “Having it look good is a bonus. There will
never be a perfect Concordy, that's
one thing I have learned. But we can come close. It takes a lot of eyes and a
lot of effort.”

A political science major, Dibbell
is a native of Bainbridge, Chenango County.
A fixture at most campus events, he also has been active as a researcher with
the College's Special Collections, and in various positions with the Office of
Residence Life. Last summer, he joined a dozen college journalists in the 11th
annual Anti-Defamation League Albert Finkelstein Memorial Study Mission to Israel,
Poland and Bulgaria.

Dibbell praises the current and
newly elected staff of the paper, “all the people who take pictures, do ads,
and go to events so that others can hear about them. The staff makes the paper
what it is.”

Equally important, he says, are
the readers who not only follow the coverage but provide feedback.

“One of the things I've really
liked is that you can tell people are reading and that [the paper] is sparking
debate [such as a recent campus discussion prompted by an opinion piece on
illegal immigration]. That's what we all need to be going for.”

Next term, Jeff Roffman becomes
the new editor-in-chief, assisted by Joanna Stern, managing editor; and Rebecca
Wein, news editor.

As for Dibbell, who this year dedicated
most of every Tuesday in preparing the paper, “I don't know what I'm going to
do with my Tuesday nights. I'm interested to see what's on TV.”

Posted on Mar 5, 2004

As timeless as the vagaries of
human nature (and possibly as topical), Moliere's Tartuffe remains as
relevant today as when it was first performed in 1664 Versailles.

The Yulman Theater will stage its
production of the 17th-century comedy on Tuesday, March 2, through Saturday,
March 6, at 8 p.m.; and on Sunday,
March 7, at 2 p.m.

Admission is $7, $5 for Union
students with ID.

The production is under the
direction of Lloyd Waiwaiole, guest artist in costuming in the College's
Department of Performing Arts.

The play is a satire aimed at
religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe, the protagonist, is a 17th-century Elmer Gantry
whose personal struggle with sin, the world, and the devil is entirely
rhetorical. When he makes his way into the home and lives of a wealthy Parisian
family, the women of the household decide it is time to unmask the
“saint's” true nature.

Members of the cast recently
promoted the production by offering French cuisine at Upperclass Dining.

Posted on Mar 5, 2004

Dutchwomen
basketball's Nicole Cerniglia scored a season-high 16 points, 13 of which came
in the first half, and four other Dutchwomen scored in double digits as Union
defeated Mount Saint Mary, 78-47, in Wednesday's opening round game of the NCAA
Division III women's basketball championship at Memorial Fieldhouse.

Union, which is making its
first appearance in the national tournament in the 29-year history of the
program, will meet New
York University on Saturday, March 6, at 7 p.m.

Men's basketball advances in ECAC tourney

Meanwhile,
men's basketball advanced in post season on Wednesday as sophomore forward
Brian Scordato turned in his best all-around performance of the season, scoring
10 points with six assists, six rebounds, six steals, and some outstanding
defense to lead Union to a 65-53 victory over Utica College.

The
victory came in a quarter-final round game of the Eastern College Athletic
Association Upstate New York championship tournament, hosted by Union.

The
top-seeded Dutchmen improved to 19-7 and will host the tournament's final four
Saturday and Sunday at Memorial Fieldhouse. Union will
play UCAA travel partner Skidmore Saturday at 3 p.m. The first semi-final game, which is scheduled to tip-off
at 1 p.m., features Geneseo against Clarkson.

The championship is set for Sunday
at 1 p.m.

On the ice, turf

Men's hockey is to host Clarkson
starting Friday at 7 p.m. for the
best of three game series in the first round of the ECAC ice hockey playoffs.

In a sure sign of spring, men's
lacrosse will host Utica College
on Saturday, March 6, at 1 p.m. on
Frank Bailey Field.

For full results and stories,
visit our athletics web site at: http://www.union.edu/Athletics/.

Posted on Mar 5, 2004

The College's Ethics Bowl team
finished sixth out of 40 teams at the National Ethics Bowl Competition, held in
Cincinnati last weekend.

The Union team defeated Milliken
University, Western
Michigan University
and U.S. Air Force Academy before bowing to the University
of Montana in the quarterfinals. Indiana
University was the overall winner.

This was the second time Union
has participated in the national competition. Last year's team also made it to
the quarterfinals.

Representing Union were Nell Alk
'06, English major; Nat Brown '06, history and philosophy; Justin Geist '04,
psychology and political science; Jason
Tucciarone '05, biology and philosophy; and Jaime Werner '04, political science
and philosophy. Other members of the team, who competed in the Northeast
regional competition at Williams
College, were Noah Eber-Schmid,
'06, political science and philosophy; Jeff Marshall '05, philosophy; and Heidy
Sanchez '07, political science.

The team was sponsored by the
College's Philosophy Department and coached by Michael Mathias,
visiting assistant professor of philosophy. Support came from a grant from the
Intellectual Enrichment Fund.

Union is to host the regional
competition next year.

Ethics Bowl combines the
excitement of a competitive quiz with an innovative approach to education in
practical and professional ethics, Mathias said. A moderator poses questions to
teams of three to five students based on cases supplied in advance. One asked
them to consider the ethical obligation of a photojournalist who takes a
picture of a starving child. One case considered a worldwide ban on DDT, a
highly effective insecticide that has also been shown to threaten some species
of birds. Another dealt with the role an employer should take in providing
health insurance to employees.

The Ethics Bowl was held in
conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and
Professional Ethics. After competing, students met practitioners, professionals
and scholars for discussion of issues in practical and professional ethics.

“It was great to see the
enthusiasm of our students in talking with others from around the country about
ethical issues,” Mathias said. “For all the good we did in the
competition, the value of the preparation they put into it was just great.”

Posted on Mar 5, 2004

Orrin Pilkey, an internationally
known environmental geologist who has argued passionately for the responsible
development and protection of coastlines, will speak on “Rising Seas and Shifting Shores: The Mix of Politics and Science at the
Shoreline” on Thursday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

His talk, which is free and open
to the public, is sponsored by the College's Environmental Studies Program, the
Environmental Awareness Club and the Minerva Committee.

It is the second in a three-part
lecture series titled “Environmental Science and Public Policy.” Environmental
advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened the series on Feb. 18. Richard Bopp, a
specialist in contaminant issues from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will
speak on April 22. (see details below).

Pilkey, the James B. Duke
Professor Emeritus at Duke University's
Nicholas School
of the Environment and Earth Sciences, has devoted much of his career to the
study of coastal geology, focusing primarily on the
science and policy issues of rising sea levels on barrier coasts caused by the greenhouse
effect.

As director of Duke's Program for
the Study of Developed Shorelines, he has studied beach replenishment and other
forms of shoreline stabilization, mitigation of hurricane damage on barriers
and principles of barrier island evolution in Colombia,
South America. He also works with the Department of
Marine Science at the University of Puerto Rico and with the U.S. Geological
Survey in Woods Hole, Mass. He has more than 150 technical publications to his
credit.

Pilkey has received numerous
awards for his professional contributions, including the Francis Shepard Medal
for Excellence in Marine Geology and the N.C. Wildlife Federation Conservation
Educator of the Year award. He also has won the George V. Cohee Public Service
Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Pilkey is an
honorary member of the Society for the Study of Sediments and has been featured
in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire,
Smithsonian, Chronicle of Higher
Education and National Geographic.

On April 22, Richard Bopp,
associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, will speak on “Mercury
Deposition in New York and New Jersey:
From Geochemistry to Policy.”

Bopp studied chemistry as an
undergraduate at MIT, and has a Ph.D. in geology from Columbia
University. For the past 20 years
he has conducted research on various aspects of contaminant geochemistry in the
Hudson River, its tributaries, and other natural waters of
the Hudson Basin.

His research group at RPI uses
analysis of dated sediment cores to study the sources and distribution of PCBs,
pesticides, dioxins, PAHs, and trace metals. They also study atmospheric
deposition of contaminants, and in situ dechlorination of PCBs.

Bopp has been involved in several
major contaminant issues including the PCB problem in the Hudson,
dioxins in Newark Bay,
and disposal of contaminated dredge spoils.