Posted on Jun 4, 2004

Thursday, June 3, to Sunday, June 6
8 & 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Saturday, June 5
9 p.m. – Old
Chapel – Gibbons and Schwartz present El Paco Diablo with standup comedy by
Andrew Wininger.

Monday, June 7
Spring term exams begin

Saturday, June 12
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – The Baccalaureate
Commemoration.
6 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – A Baccalaureate Mass
sponsored by the Catholic Campus Ministry.
8 – 11 p.m. – Library Field – All are invited to the
Garnet Gala featuring dessert, music and dancing.

Sunday, June 13
10 a.m. – Library Plaza – Commencement exercises will be held
rain or shine. Following the ceremony, representatives from the College's
academic divisions will host receptions, the sites for which will be listed in
the Commencement program.

Posted on Jun 4, 2004

Michelle
Chilcoat,
assistant professor of French, has written an article, “Idéologie et romanticisme: habitude et
réflexion,” accepted for publication in L'Année
stendhalienne (No. 4, 2004). The journal is edited by internationally
renowned Stendhal scholars. In the article, she situates the classic French
author Stendhal between enlightenment and romance epistemologies, suggesting
that both are integrated in his literary production.

Posted on Jun 4, 2004

Wilfried Wilms,
assistant professor of German, published an essay, “Taboo and Repression in
W.G. Sebald's On
the Natural History of Destruction.” This essay examines critically Sebald's provocative engagement with the traumatic
histories of World War II and its aftermath. The essay appeared in W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, (eds. Anne Whitehead and Jonathan
Long, University of Edinburgh Press, UK, 2004) A paperback of this volume is being
prepared by a publishing house in the United States.

Posted on Jun 4, 2004

Héctor A. León '91, associate
dean of admissions, is one of 15 African American and Latino business and
community leaders to be honored at the Capital District Black and Latino
achievers Recognition Awards Banquet on Tuesday, June 8, at the Desmond
Hotel. Proceeds of the event go
toward programs for youth of color at the YMCA, where León
has worked with students on college admissions and the application process. Keynote speaker
is Coretta Scott King, founder and chair of the
King Center
for Nonviolent Social Change.

Posted on Jun 4, 2004

Robert L. Fleischer, research professor of geology, gave a talk on
May 7 to the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
College. The annual lecture, a
Jones Seminar with the title “Serendipitous Radiation Monitors,” described how
past radiation doses can be measured by studying accidental tracks that have
been left in ordinary solids such as eyeglass lenses, decorative glasses at
Hiroshima, an optical filter on the Moon, and frame glasses from living rooms.