Posted on Feb 7, 2008

Friday, Feb. 8 – Monday, Feb. 11, 8 and 10 p.m. /Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: Enchanted

Friday, Feb. 8, 6 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s basketball vs. St. Lawrence

Friday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. Harvard

Friday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men's basketball vs. St. Lawrence  

Friday, Feb. 8, 10 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Magician Norman NG

Saturday, Feb. 9, 2 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s basketball vs. Clarkson

Saturday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men’s basketball vs. Clarkson

Saturday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. Dartmouth

Saturday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. / College Park Hall / Winter Ball

Saturday, Feb. 9, 9:45 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Union club hockey vs. Southern Connecticut State University

Monday, Feb. 11, 12:55 p.m. / SSCI 104 / Pizza and Politics presents a talk by Dr. Laura Saldivia, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires and  JSD candidate at Yale University, on “Argentina’s Dirty War”

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial / OrisiRisi, African folklore performing arts company, celebrates Black History Month; sponsored by Black Student Union

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 10 p.m. / Old Chapel / Comedian Bernadette Pauley

Thursday, Feb. 14, 12:30 p.m. / Everest Lounge / Philosophy and Bioethics Professor Robert Baker presents, “On Prostituting the Work We Love” 

Thursday, Feb. 14, 7:00 p.m. / Green House Great Room / Philosophical Café hosts Samir Chopra of Brooklyn College, discussing “The Utopia Hope: The Power to Free Software to Stimulate Political, Artistic and Scientific Freedom”

Friday, Feb. 15 – Monday, Feb. 18, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: Beowulf

Friday, Feb. 15, 6 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s basketball vs. Rensselaer

Friday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Cornell

Friday, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m. / Reamer Auditorium / “The Vagina Monologues”

Friday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men’s basketball vs. Rensselaer

Friday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m. / Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium / Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company presents “Branches of Words”

Saturday, Feb. 16, 2 p.m. / Reamer Auditorium / “The Vagina Monologues”

Saturday, Feb. 16, 2 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s basketball vs. Vassar

Saturday, Feb. 16, 4 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Colgate

Saturday, Feb. 16, 4 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men’s basketball vs. Vassar

Saturday, Feb. 16, 9 p.m. / Old Chapel / Psychic fair

Posted on Feb 7, 2008

The acclaimed performing arts company OrisiRisi comes to the Nott Memorial Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. for an African folklore performance celebrating Black History Month.

A reception will follow the performance, which is free and open to the public.

Co-produced, directed and performed by veteran stage actor Don Harrell ’75 and his wife, Nigerian-born folk artist Ilenbilu Adetutu “Tutu” Harrell, OrisiRisi has been sharing the beauty and poignancy of African life and culture with others since 1986.

Pronounced “O-re-she-Re-she,” a Yoruba term meaning “different things,” OrisiRisi has received critical acclaim for its creative use of vocals, dance, drums and audience participation to impart African-rooted folk knowledge and educational experiences.

The performance is sponsored by the Black Students Union with U-Program, the President's Office, Academic Opportunity Program, the History Department, Modern Languages & Literatures, UNITAS, the Music Department, Africana Studies, and the English and Classics departments.

For more information, visit: http://www.orisirisi.com.

Posted on Feb 7, 2008

Union will host the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference XI April 4-5, and faculty members are urged to encourage students to join the festivities and submit papers, skits, plays or other presentations.

The deadline for submissions is March 1. For information, please visit: http://ethics.union.edu/nubc.html
 

“This is a celebration of undergraduate research and an opportunity to introduce a new generation of students to the field of bioethics,” said Robert Baker, chair of the
Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative and the William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy. He also directs the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School Medicine Bioethics Program.

Union was chosen as the host site by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). The theme for this year’s conference is “The Human Use of Human Beings in Medicine and Science.”

Tod Chambers, ASBH president and author of “Narrative Bioethics and Prozac as
a Way of Life,” will open the conference with a talk on “Witches, Punks and
Bioethicists.” Award-winning journalist Harriet Washington, author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,” will also address participants.

Other speakers will include Susan Lederer, chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and author of “Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.”

The event will also include a series of panels, workshops and discussions. A Bioethics Bowl will draw teams from Dartmouth, the National Hispanic University, University of Miami and other schools for formal debates on numerous bioethical topics.
 

Posted on Feb 7, 2008

Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, a noted figure in higher education and the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution, will be the featured speaker at Union’s Commencement, set for Sunday, June 15 at 10 a.m.

Simmons, who will receive an honorary doctorate in humane letters, is noted for her commitment to diversity and engineering, two key initiatives that are also integral to the Union campus.

“I am absolutely thrilled that Ruth Simmons will be our Commencement speaker,” said President Stephen C. Ainlay. “She has been an important leader in American higher education for many years, and we are honored that she has accepted our invitation.”

Simmons became president of Brown in 2001. She has created an ambitious set of initiatives for the Providence, R.I., school, with a focus on strengthening the faculty; increasing resources for undergraduate, graduate and medical students; improving facilities; and ensuring that diversity informs every dimension of the university.

Earlier, Simmons served as the president of Smith College, the nation’s largest women’s college. While there, she created the first engineering program at an American women’s college.

Simmons is a native of Grapeland, Texas, where her family worked as sharecroppers in the cotton fields during a period of segregation and “very quickly became socialized into believing I was worthless,” she recalled in a 2006 interview. “Grapeland was the kind of small, east Texas town where blacks got murdered if they stepped out of line.”

When she was seven, Simmons’ family moved to Houston, where opportunities opened up and “people bothered to insist I went to school and I loved it.

“There was a calm and order that was missing elsewhere in my life,” she said in the interview. “But, above all, there were books. My parents were deeply suspicious about my reading, but for me it opened a window into a different reality, where it was possible for someone like me to be accepted.”

Simmons is a 1967 graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans. She received her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 1973. She is fluent in French and has written on the works of poets David Diop and Aimé Césaire.

She also has served in various leadership positions at the graduate school at the University of Southern California, Princeton University and Spelman College.

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on a number of boards, including the Howard University Board of Trustees, Texas Instruments, and the Goldman Sachs Group.

She holds honorary degrees from numerous colleges and has received many prizes and fellowships, including the German DAAD and a Fulbright Fellowship to France. In 2007, she was named one of U.S. News & World Report’s top U.S. leaders and, for the second time, a Glamour magazine Woman of the Year.

Posted on Feb 7, 2008

The Black Student Union (BSU) will bring acclaimed performing arts company OrisiRisi to the Nott Memorial Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. for an African folklore performance.

The performance, which is free and open to the public, is part of the celebration of Black History Month. A reception will follow.

Co-produced, directed and performed by veteran stage actor Don Harrell ’75 and his wife, the Nigerian born folk-artist Ilenbilu Adetutu “Tutu” Harrell, OrisiRisi was created in 1986 to share the beauty and poignancy of African life and culture.

Pronounced “O-re-she-Re-she,” a Yoruba term meaning “different things,” the team has received critical acclaim for its creative use of vocals, dance, drums and audience participation to impart African-rooted folk-knowledge and educational experiences.

The performance is co-sponsored by U-Program, the President's Office, Academic Opportunity Program, the History Department, Modern Languages & Literatures, UNITAS, the Music Department, Africana Studies and the English and Classics departments.

For more information, visit: http://www.orisirisi.com.