Posted on Apr 22, 2010

Posted on Apr 22, 2010

To kick off Earth Week on Monday, several Union groups, including the Environmental Club, U Sustain and Ozone House, collaborated on a project to demonstrate what the campus community throws away.  he trash audit, Union’s first, was organized by Meghan Haley-Quigley ’11, and a video of the project was filmed by Christina Cerqueira '10. Watch it at the youtube link and on TVUC Channel 21.

Students have been involved in a number of other initiatives this week, including setting up information tables and rallying support for everything from Ecuadorian rainforest deforestation to planting in Octopus’s Garden. On Saturday, many students will take part in an Earth Day barbecue presented by Ozone House and Theta Delta Chi. 

This marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Week, a global movement dedicated to preserving and appreciating the planet’s resources.

Posted on Apr 21, 2010

The Union College Model United Nations Team received three awards at the National Model United Nations conference in New York City recently, capping months of hard work, academic focus and passion for world events.

“Model United Nations means everything to me. It’s an amazing experience,” said Lea Tessitore ’12, who participated for her second year. “The conference changes the way you think about politics, and it gives you more respect for the system,” she noted. “Simulating the real process makes you realize how difficult it is to pass resolutions that require a consensus among nations.”  

More than 5,000 students from some 40 countries and 340 schools took part in the event, which encourages young people to become responsible global citizens who can help in understanding the complexities of international relations and today’s interconnected world.

“Union has quickly established itself as one of the more prepared and capable delegations,” said Visiting Professor of Political Science Darius Watson, the team’s advisor for the past three years. “We have made some great strides in a relatively short time.”

The largest collegiate political simulation in the world, the conference includes four days of intense debates during which students lobby and delegate for states they have been studying and researching for months.

This year, the Union team represented the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The students came away with a Distinguished Delegation Award, and for the second straight year, also received an Outstanding Position Papers Award, “the only award that directly speaks to the quality of work the students produce in the class,” Watson said.

In addition, Andrew Churchill ’11 and Katrina Neiley ’10 were voted by their peers in the NATO committee as Outstanding Delegates.

Bradley Wilhelm ’10 spoke highly of the rigorous academic preparation beforehand in Watson's Model UN class.

“I learned how to speak powerfully to, work successfully with and eventually how to set the tone and agenda for a room full of intelligent and outspoken college students from around the globe," Wilhelm said.

Other team members include Cam Berjoan ’10, Maeghan Buckley ’11, Rachael Carson ’10, Austin Cheng '11, Patrick Donoghue '10, Alexandra Dumitrescu '10, Marissa Gordon '11, Kelsey MacElroy '12, Kate MacEwan '11, Carly Mand '10, Rachel Mayer '12, Keerti Murari '11, Kate Murphy '10, Richard Paikoff '10 and Ryan Vineyard '12.

Posted on Apr 21, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 7-8:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Discussion with the Diversity Doctor, Patrick Swift, on promoting widespread peace in a post-9/11 world. Co-sponsored by UNITAS, Multifaith Council, Student Forum and the Office of Multicultural Affairs in conjunction with CoExist Day. Swift is a faculty member at NYU Langone Medical Center, with dual faculty appointments in Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, and previously served as president of the New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury. A firm advocate for interfaith discussion, he is the author of the award-winning book, “One Mountain, Many Paths.” The first 100 people to arrive will receive a free signed copy of Dr. Swift’s book.  

Friday, April 23-Saturday, April 24 / College Park Hall / 102nd Topical Symposium, Modern Nuclear Applications, "Medicine, Power and Non-Proliferation,"  the New York and New England section day-long meetings of the American Physical Society spring meeting. Friday afternoon welcome by Therese McCarty, the Stephen J. and Diane K. Ciesinski Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Samuel Amanuel, assistant professor of physics. Friday evening (7:30-8:30 p.m.) talk by Mark Walker, the John Bigelow Professor of History, on "The German Physical Society and National Socialism." For information, visit www.nyssaps.org  

Friday, April 23, 4 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Women’s lacrosse vs. Clarkson University

Friday, April 23 – Monday, April 26, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film series: "The Lovely Bones"

Saturday, April 24, noon / Frank Bailey Field / Men’s lacrosse vs. Clarkson University

Saturday, April 24, 1 p.m. / Central Park / Baseball vs. Clarkson University (DH)

Saturday, April 24, 2-5 p.m. / Ozone House / Ozone and TDX present the 2^nd Annual Earth Day BBQ

Saturday, April 24, 3 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Women’s lacrosse vs. St. Lawrence University

Saturday, April 24, 8 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series presents Jeremy Denk performing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Charles Ives’s Sonata No. 1

Sunday, April 25, noon / Central Park / Baseball vs. Clarkson University (DH)

Monday, April 26, 12:50-1:50 p.m. / Everest Lounge / The Michael S. Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative and The Committee on Teaching workshop, "Re-Introducing an Honor Code at Union College," presented by the student-faculty Subcommittee on Academic Integrity; RSVP to Amy Bloom, blooma@union.edu or ext. 8386

Monday, April 26, 4-6 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Session 1: “Introduction and A Theory of Justice,” part of a three-day seminar on John Rawls; led by Rawls expert Jon Mandle of the University at Albany and Union philosophers Peter Murray, visiting assistant professor, Philosophy; Leo Zaibert, associate professor and chair, and Marc Wunderlich (one of Rawls’ former students), visiting assistant professor, Philosophy; Robert Baker will moderate.

Tuesday, April 27, 12:50-1:50 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Session 2: “Rawls, Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: Do Athletes Deserve Enormous Salaries?” Presenters: Jon Mandle of the University at Albany and Mark Wunderlich, visiting assistant professor, Philosophy; RSVP to Amy Bloom, blooma@union.edu or ext. 8386

Tuesday, April 27, 3:30 p.m. / Alexander Field / Softball vs. SUNY Oswego (DH). Support Strike Out Cancer efforts by wearing purple to the game. The team will accept donations in Reamer Campus Center Friday and Monday during the common hour, with donations to benefit the American Cancer Society

Tuesday, April 27, 4-6 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Session 3: Public Reasoning Revisited: Fanaticism and Democracy; Presenter: Jon Mandle of the University at Albany, RSVP to Amy Bloom, blooma@union.edu or ext. 8386

Wednesday, April 28, 12:50-1:50 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Session 4: “International Ethics: A Critique and Discussion of the Law of Peoples.” Presenters: Leo Zaibert, associate professor and chair, Philosophy, and Peter Murray, visiting assistant professor, Philosophy. RSVP to Amy Bloom, blooma@union.edu, ext. 8386

Wednesday, April 28, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Presidential Forum on Diversity Series presents Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-winning actress and leading advocate for the deaf community, speaking on “Nobody's Perfect: Achieving Inclusion, Diversity and Access."

Wednesday, April 28, 7 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Men’s lacrosse vs. Vassar College

Thursday, April 29, 3 p.m. / Central Park / Baseball vs. Southern Vermont College

Thursday, April 29, 4:30 p.m. / Everest Lounge / Philosophy Speaker Series presents Howard McGary of Howard University, “Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Reparations”

Thursday, April 29, 3 p.m. / Central Park / Baseball vs. Southern Vermont College

Friday, April 30, 8 p.m. / Emerson Hall / Fernando Altamura, piano; music by Albéniz, Vine, Rautavaara, Dutilleux, and others

Friday, April 30-Monday, May 3, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “Youth in Revolt”

Sunday, May 2, noon / Central Park / Baseball vs. Skidmore College (DH)

Sunday May 2, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Ensemble Pastourelle: Corine Salon, soprano and Friends; music by Spohr, Ravel, Debussy and others

Posted on Apr 21, 2010

Ben Jacobson ’67 was recently honored for a major gift to the local YMCA.

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