Posted on Mar 8, 2002

The College's Web site will change from garnet to
“IBM Blue” in celebration of Friday's conference and the launch
of the IBM Partnership with Union.

Here is a schedule of events on Friday:

10 a.m., Nott Memorial – panel discussion on
Converging Technologies, with panelists including senior executives
at IBM: John Kelly III '76, Steven Mills '73 and Robert Moffat
Jr. '78.

11:30 a.m., Nott Memorial – support announcement
and presentation on the IBM Partnership with Union.

1 p.m., Strauss Lounge, Reamer Campus Center – team-oriented workshop on how to define, assess and
design winning solutions. (Sign-up in Becker Career Center.)

Throughout the day, Reamer Campus Center
Atrium – interactive displays and demonstrations of
cutting-edge IBM technologies.

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

The College's Board of Trustees has approved a
2002-03 balanced budget that meets the challenge of limiting increases
in tuition and fees while supporting enhancements of the
College's academic, residential and athletic components.

Included in the budget:

• Tuition, room and board rates are to increase 4.9 percent
  to $34,253. The increase ends nine consecutive years of
  percentage decreases. Costs are $27,245 for tuition, $3,697 for housing,
  $3,042 for food, $229 student activity fee, and $40 for the phase-in of
  a House System fee.
• A commitment to continue to meet the financial need of
  all students. Financial aid is to increase 9.7 percent over the current
  year's forecasted expenditure to $18.9 million, $18.5 million of
  which represents institutional funds with the remainder provided
  by government sources such as work study and supplemental
  education opportunity grants.

The salary and wage budget is $34.8 million, representing about
36 percent of the total College budget. The pool for faculty and
administrators will increase 3 percent, and the pool for staff will go up by
4 percent.

The budget includes an entering class of 560 freshmen
and 30 transfer students. Budgeted enrollment for all four
undergraduate classes will be 2,030, an increase of 13 over this
year's forecasted enrollment and 11 more than the average enrollment for
the last six years. The increase in the freshman class is needed to
offset the loss of $500,000 occasioned by the fall in short-term interest
rates and represents the amount the College will realize from 40
students after providing for financial aid and academic support.

In other action, the board declared tenurable and promoted
to associate professor Davide Cervone, mathematics; William
Keat, mechanical engineering; Dianne McMullen, performing arts;
Presha Neidermeyer, Graduate Management Institute; and Edward
Pavlic, English.

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Last week's concert by Apartment Three filled Old
Chapel with more than 200 people, thanks in large part to a good deal
of research and leg work by economics majors Natalie Gulden
and Katie Butterfield, who used the marketing and publicity of
the event as the basis of their senior thesis.

“We were extremely pleased with the outcome,” Gulden
said after the show. “Because both of us would like to be a part of
the marketing/event planning industry, this thesis was exactly what
we needed before graduating.

“Our advisor, Hal Fried gave us a chance of a lifetime and we
are very lucky to learn so much about our abilities before leaving Union.”

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Events

Friday, March 8, 10 a.m.
Nott Memorial
IBM @ Union Day featuring a panel discussion on
Converging Technologies, with panelists including senior executives
at IBM: John Kelly III '76, Steven Mills '73 and Robert Moffat
Jr. '78. To be followed at 11:30 a.m. by a presentation on the
IBM Partnership with Union.

Friday, March 8, 1 p.m.
Strauss Lounge, Reamer Campus Center
Team-oriented workshop on how to define, assess and
design winning solutions. (Sign-up in Becker Career Center.)

Friday, March 8, throughout day
Reamer Campus Center Atrium
Interactive displays and demonstrations of cutting-edge
IBM technologies.

Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Yulman Theater presents Shakespeare's classic
Romeo and Juliet, with Frederick Kountz and Christa Marie Tiangha Flores
in the lead roles. Directed by
Prof. William A. Finlay.
Other shows are Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 3 at
2 p.m.; and March 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. For more information,
call the box office at ext. 6545.

Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
“Mozart and More,” a concert by the Union College and
Community Orchestra under the direction of Victor Klimash. Featured
guest artist is Young Kim playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No.
21 in C Major. This event is free and open to the public. For
more information, call ext. 6785.

Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Romeo and Juliet

Friday, March 8, through Monday, March 11, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: Spy Game

Friday, March 15, through Monday, March 18, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: Not Another Teen Movie

Exhibits

Through March 10
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Archi-neering,” an exhibition of drawings, photographs,
models and video of work by the architect Helmut Jahn, named one of
the Ten Most Influential Living American Architects by
the Institute of American Architects.

Through March 15
Social Science Faculty Lounge Art Gallery
“Intricate Perceptions,” a collaborative exhibit by Davide
Cervone, mathematics; Patrick O'Rourke, formerly of Mandeville
Gallery; and artist Jonathan Leavitt. Hours are Monday
through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Feb. 14 through March 21
Arts Atrium Gallery
Photography exhibits: “Pilgrimage” by Kevin Bubriski of
visitors at the World Trade Center site; and “Clips,” curated by
Prof. Martin Benjamin, a collection of news clips about
photography coverage of recent world events.

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Honored – David Magnuson, right,
a biology teacher at Cohasset High School, at the Founders Day
with former student Sarah Kidder `05, who nominated him for the
Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition Award. Magnusson, known
for leading adventurous field trips to Central America, told the
audience he was overwhelmed by the recognition, and urged them to
“take time … to write to (a teacher) to
let them know they made a difference.”

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Lori J. Marso, assistant professor of political
science, recently delivered a lecture to the Faculty Colloquium on
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship at Ohio State University.
Marso's lecture was titled “Citizenship and Sexual
Difference” and is part of a book she is completing titled
Dilemmas of Desire: Feminist Thinkers and Sexual Difference.