Posted on Jan 28, 2005

Friday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Vermont

Friday, Jan. 28, through Monday, Jan. 31, 8 and 10 p.m.

Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Movie: Shark Tale

Saturday, Jan. 29, 4 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Vermont

Sunday, Jan. 30, 3
p.m.
Memorial
Chapel
Union College
chamber series presents Emerson String Quartet in part 1 of all-Mendelssohn
program (part 2 set for Feb. 6)

Tuesday, Feb. 1, 6
p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Women's basketball vs. Skidmore

Tuesday, Feb. 1, 7
p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Men's hockey vs. Harvard

Tuesday, Feb. 1, 8
p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Men's basketball vs. Skidmore

Wednesday, Feb. 2, 7
p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Quinnipiac

Thursday, Feb. 3,
4:30 p.m.
Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room
Philosophy Department Speaker Series presents Laurence
Thomas, Syracuse University, “When Honesty is a
Vice”

Thursday, Feb. 3,
7:30 p.m.
Yulman Theatre
East Asian Studies presents: “Shangri-La” — a
modern chamber opera

Friday, Feb. 4, 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Kenney Community Center
Snow Shoe Race
For more information or to sign up, call 388-6609.

Friday, Feb. 4, 6
p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Women's basketball vs. William Smith

Friday, Feb. 4, 7
p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Men's hockey vs. Holy Cross

Friday, Feb. 4, 8
p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Men's basketball vs. Hobart

Friday, Feb. 4
through Monday, Feb. 7, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Movie: Team America

Saturday, Feb. 5, 2
p.m.
Old Chapel
Union Women Connect Book Club discussion featuring “Four
Spirits” written by Sena Jeter Naslund

Saturday, Feb. 5, 2
p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Women's basketball vs. Hamilton

Saturday, Feb. 5, 4
p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Men's basketball vs. Hamilton

Posted on Jan 28, 2005

Union College's Nott Memorial hosts an exhibition aimed at deterring young people from driving drunk or riding with those who have been drinking.

“Friends: One Day, One Wrong
Turn” chronicles the effects of a November 2000 car crash at Colgate
University that claimed the lives of four college students — Katie Almeter,
Emily Collins, Kevin King and Rachel Nargiso. All four had accepted a ride from a drunk driver who lost control of the car and struck a tree.

The show, free and open to the
public, runs through Feb. 27 in Dyson Hall, the first floor of the Nott
Memorial. The show is open during regular Nott Memorial hours: daily from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call 388-6004.

The exhibition focuses on the
lives of the victims with individual histories, photos, possessions, interviews
and recordings. The aftermath that the families, friends, police and community
were left with is included as well.

The combination of these elements
creates an emotional reaction in observers, with the goal of behavioral change.
This approach creates a powerful message that may deter college-age students
from driving after consuming alcohol. The exhibition will travel to colleges
and universities throughout New
York State.

Friends is a traveling
exhibition sponsored by the Lewis Henry Morgan Institute at SUNYIT in Utica, N.Y.
It is curated by Denis Foley in collaboration with Rachel Seligman, director of
the Mandeville Gallery of Union College.

For more on the show, visit: http://people.sunyit.edu/~lhmi/Friends/

Posted on Jan 28, 2005

 “Moku Hanga,” the traditional printmaking
technique of Japan, will be
featured in an exhibition by eight woodblock artists living in North America in the College's Burns Arts Atrium Gallery
through Feb. 14.

A
gallery talk is scheduled for Feb.10, at 11 a.m. with April Vollmer, one of the
artists. Other artists are Suezan Aikins, Takuji Hamanaka, Daniel Heyman, Mike
Lyon, Bill Paden, Yasu Shibata, Keji Shinohara.

This
exhibition presents work by contemporary artists outside Japan, accomplished artists who cut
and print their own blocks to make original prints.

The
work of these artists demonstrates the possibilities of hanga woodcut as a
medium for contemporary expression. The exhibit explores a “flexible, non-toxic
printmaking process with a historical and cultural connection to Japan
and to an exciting period in world printmaking.”

Posted on Jan 28, 2005

An exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints by Walter Hatke, May I. Baker Professor of Fine Arts, is in the Nott Memorial's Mandeville Gallery through March 13.

“Walter Hatke: Recent Work” features works completed by the artist between 2000 and 2005.

Hatke, who has taught at Union since 1986, earned his bachelor's degree from DePauw University, and his master's and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. His works have appeared recently in the John Pence Gallery, San Francisco; Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe; and at MB Modern Gallery in New York.

The following poem by Jordan Smith, professor of English, was inspired by Hatke's “Open.” It appears in “A Sketchbook for Walter Hatke” that accompanies the show.

The door to the pew is open, as if a congregant had just
Left a moment ago, slipping quietly outside, as if the sermon
Came a little too close to home, or prayer seemed simpler somewhere
Else, a cigarette sheltered in one hand, out there among the trees,
Where smoke might rise in praise of breath's dispersal into
A fine sky, where someone unexpected might be listening. Still,
The door is open, the emptiness welcoming, and the wood's
Grain is another kind of meaning that has lasted a long time
Despite the rectitude of the white paint, this record of what living
Leaves behind: the fine whorls of the world always, almost
Just gone, and so without end, amen.

Posted on Jan 28, 2005

Barbara Rotundo, Union's first
peacetime woman professor, a prominent civic leader, and a pioneering educator
and scholar, died Dec. 24.

She was hired to teach in the English department in 1953. Her
appointment was only for a term or two in those all-male days. She was the
widow of Joseph Rotundo '29, former professor of economics and government and a
local radio commentator and public servant.

She later served as associate professor of English at the University at
Albany, where
she founded one of the first university writing workshops in the country and
wrote a grammar text.

She was a member and president of the Schenectady School Board and was
involved in wide-ranging civic roles in the Capital District, active in the
Girl Scouts, Job Corps, Carver
Community Center, Society
of Architectural Historians, Refreshing Springs Day Care Center, and Religious
Society of Friends.

In the Boston
area, she served as a historical tour guide and an Elderhostel instructor. She
was scholar respected for her work on 19th-century Boston and on the historical study of
cemeteries and gravestones.

A native of Schenectady, she graduated
from Mt. Holyoke
in 1942 and earned a master's in English at Cornell and a Ph.D. in American
literature from Syracuse
University.