Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Friday, Oct. 16, through Monday, Oct. 19 – 8 and
10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
A Perfect Murder presented by Film Committee.

Saturday, Oct. 17, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
“Jamaica to Schenectady,” chamber music by a Caribbean ensemble to benefit
Hamilton Hill Arts Center. Sponsors include SPAM of Union College. Call 346-1262 for more
information.

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 12:25 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium.
Keith Yamamoto, professor and chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the
University of California, San Francisco, on “Gene regulation by steroid receptors:
How simple molecules do complex things.” Merck Foundation seminar presented by the
biology and chemistry departments.

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 5 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
Leo Fleishman, associate professor of biology, delivers faculty colloquium on “From
the Darien Gap to Havana: A Lizard's-eye View of the Caribbean.”

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
Spencer Crew, director of National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian
Institution, on “The New Challenges of Presenting History in Museums.”

Thursday, Oct. 22, 4:30 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium.
William M. Murphy, the Thomas Lamont Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Modern Literature
and renowned Yeats scholar, speaks on “The Fourfold Ambition of William Butler
Yeats.”

Thursday, Oct. 22, 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial.
Opening reception for “Martin Benjamin: Photographs 1970 to 1998.” Show runs
through Dec. 20.

Friday, Oct. 23, 1:30 p.m.
Steinmetz 106.
Poetry reading with Mathias Goritz and Daniel Wissmann. Presented by German Department and
German Language School of Albany.

Friday, Oct. 23, 4:30 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Plaza.
Ribbon cutting and opening of F.W. Olin Center.

Friday, Oct. 23, 5 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium.
Geologist and former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt on “The Business of Returning
to Deep Space: The Interlune-Intermars Initiative.”

Through Oct. 24
Arts Atrium.
“Joseph Byrne: Paintings and Drawings” features the artist's landscape
works.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Leo Fleishman, associate professor of biology, will
describe his research in a faculty colloquium titled “From the Darien Gap to Havana:
A Lizard's-eye view of the Caribbean on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 4:30 p.m. in Reamer
Campus Center Auditoirum.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Photographer Martin Benjamin will share his 28 years of
taking pictures – from trips abroad to a project with mentally retarded adults —
in an exhibit opening Oct. 22 in the Mandeville Gallery at the Nott Memorial.

“Martin Benjamin: Photographs 1970 to 1998” will
have an opening reception with the artist on Oct. 22 at 4:30 p.m. The show runs through
Dec. 20.

Benjamin, professor of visual arts at Union, has received
many distinguished awards including first prize in the Time-Life Bicentennial Photography
Competition.

Benjamin's life and work over the past 28 years have
been punctuated by events, picture-taking technologies, trips and classes which have
shaped and directed the body of work in this exhibition. The exhibition, in turn, is
organized in terms of these landmarks: trips to Italy, China and England; images of his
wife, Donna; editorial work; infrared and tri-X film; and Good Shots – the ongoing
series of pictures borne of Benjamin's photography class for clients of
Schenectady's Association for Retarded Persons.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

Spencer Crew, director of the National Museum of American
History at the Smithsonian Institution, will talk on “The New Challenges of
Presenting History in Museums” on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott
Memorial.

His talk, part of Union's Perspectives at the Nott
speaker series, is free and open to the public.

As director of the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of American History, Spencer Crew has helped change the portrayal of America's
past, shifting the emphasis from objects to people, highlighting America's diversity
and richness. The talk will address the challenges and rewards of participating in this
process of re-imagining America.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

A 1-0 victory over national power William Smith on
Saturday, and a 1-1 tie against Williams on Tuesday leaves women's soccer ranked
second in the state, and 16th in the nation, the first time the team has reached a
national ranking.

The team will vie for its first-ever UCAA title when it
plays St. Lawrence on Friday at 4 p.m., and Clarkson on Saturday at 1 p.m. Both games are
on Garis Field.

Posted on Oct 16, 1998

William M. Murphy, the Thomas Lamont Professor Emeritus of
Ancient and Modern Literature at Union College and an internationally renowned Yeats
scholar, will present Union's first Lamont Research Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 22, at
4:30 p.m. in Union College's F.W. Olin Center Auditorium.

The lecture is titled “The Fourfold Ambition of
William Butler Yeats.”

Murphy has authored five books about the Yeatses, and
written numerous scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as Irish literature,
Shakespeare, and Chaucer. As Anthony Bradley wrote in the Spring, 1996 Irish Literary
Supplement, “Murphy writes with elan and wit.”

His 1978 biography, Prodigal Father: The Life of John
Butler Yeats, was acclaimed by reviewers. In Quest, Hugh Kenner called it
“an achievement nearly as rare as its subject, the right book written by exactly the
right man.” In a front page review in The New York Times Book Review, Richard
Ellman praised Murphy's “absorbing and authoritative narrative;” and
Terrance Winch in the Washington Post Book World called it simply “a brilliant
work.”