Posted on Apr 16, 1999

Friday, April 16, through Monday, April 19, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
Film committee presents Rushmore.

Friday, April 16, 7 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
Poetry reading by Haki Madhubuti.

Friday, April 16, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
Lecture/concert by Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company.

Saturday, April 17, 1 to 5 p.m.
Old Chapel.
Poetry workshop with Haki Madhubuti.

Saturday, April 17, 10 p.m.
Old Chapel.
Closing party for “Union Unite,” events aimed at fostering diversity.

Sunday, April 18, 11 a.m.
Upperclass Dining.
UCALL presents Vin DeBaun '47 on “Reflections of a Permanet Student.” Call
ext. 6148.

Monday, April 19, 7 p.m.
Social Sciences 104.
Sheila Healy, director of Empire State Pride Agenda, on legal and legislative rights.

Wednesday, April 21, 7 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
Prof. Robert Wells on history of College-community relations.

Wednesday, April 21, 8 p.m.
Social Sciences 016.
International Film Festival presents Fire.

Friday, April 23, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Schaffer Library.
Book sale.

Friday, April 23, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber series presents Borromeo String Quartet in second
all-Beethoven concert.

Through May 30.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial.
Work by painter Stephen Pace on exhibit.

Posted on Apr 16, 1999

With 55 students, Union's contingent was among the largest at the
1999 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, held last week at the University of
Rochester, said Prof. Tom Werner, who is chair of the NCUR board of governors.

Presentations by Union students were “universally very good, as they always
are,” Werner noted.

Also traveling to NCUR were professors Carol Weisse, Michael Hagerman and Ashraf Ghaly.

Union's NCUR representatives will join about 150 of their classmates to make
presentations May 7 during the Steinmetz Symposium, the College's annual showcase of
student scholarly and creative achievement.

Posted on Apr 16, 1999

The Canadian-Indian film Fire by Deepa Mehta kicks off a
six-event International Film Festival on Wednesday, April 21, at 8 p.m. in Social Sciences
016.

Other films are Wedding in Galilee (April 26), Underground (May 3), In
the Realm of the Senses (May 10), Faust (May 17) and Men with Guns (May
24). All films (except Fire at 8 p.m.) are at 7:30 p.m. in Social Sciences 016.

For information, contact Prof. Daniel Mosquera, modern languages, ext. 6415 or mosquerd@union.edu.

Posted on Apr 16, 1999

The College welcomes hundreds of prospective students and their families
for the second Admitted Student Reception on Monday, April 19. The College hosted 107
prospective Union Scholars for an overnight on Sunday, April 12, and then another 139
accepted students and their families on Monday. Faculty and staff were
“outstanding” and a record 35 Union students joined the prospectives at lunch to
talk about life at Union, said Kerry Mendez, associate dean of admissions. “We want
to thank everyone who rallies around our guests and makes them feel special the way that
only Union can,” she said.

Posted on Apr 16, 1999

If you want to know whether Union's new bike patrols are meeting
one of their main objectives – enhancing community relations – just ask Officer
Ed Teller.

“I talked to more people in the first three days than I have in the last three
months,” he said at the end of his first week on the bike.

Fellow Officer Joe Glasser, who rides the 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift, says that patrols are
meeting another important objective – safety. He says he has escorted a number of
students who were grateful for the company while walking or riding their bikes at night.

Teller and Glasser admit to a few sore muscles and some very sound sleeping once the
shift is over. But this week, they say, they're adjusting to life in the saddle.

One problem they haven't tackled yet: angry dogs like the one that took off after
Teller as he rode away from Tuesday's press conference on Seward Place.

Posted on Apr 16, 1999

Jay Newman, Gordon Gould Professor of Physics, was elected
member-at-large of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society's
Executive Committee.

A. G. Davis Philip, Research Professor of Physics, and Mark Kostuk '01
spent a week this spring studying some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, belonging to the
Globular Clusters, at the Vatican Observatory in New Mexico.

Grant E. Brown, assistant professor of biology, is co-author with
Jean-Guy J. Godin of an article, “Who dares, learns: chemical inspection behaviour
and acquired predator recognition in a characin fish,” in the journal, Animal
Behaviour, 57: 475-481. Brown and Godin also have written “Chemical alarm signals
in Trinidadian guppies: laboratory and field evidence,” accepted for publication in Canadian
Journal of Zoology. They also have written, with Jessica Pederson '99, “Fin
flicking behaviour: a visual anti-predator alarm signal in a characin fish (Hemigrammus
erythrozonus)” to appear in Animal Behaviour.