Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Friday's Club Expo drew a record numbers of students to sign
up for nearly 100 clubs, thanks in no small part to an array of bands,
inflatable carnival attractions, a flight simulator and “wax hands.”

There was even a fire-eater, who arrived a bit later than
expected due to a wrong turn. “I guess that happens to the best of fire-eaters,”
remarks Matt Milless, director of student activities, who coordinated the event.
As it turned out, his late arrival was something of an advantage – his fire
showed up better in the dark.

Fresh off winning the most student votes for “Best Ribs” at
the Student Activity Fair on Friday, Skellar Manager Dale Metzger and his crew
pulled out the stops with outdoor grilled selections (including the famous
ribs) and a band, No Outlet, providing the entertainment.

And proudly displayed in the center of it all: the trophy
the Skellar won for “Best Ribs.”

So, what's that something that makes the Skellar ribs so
special? “Love,” says Metzger.

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

James
B. Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, attorney and editor-at-large of Smart Money, will speak on “The Call to
Duty: Leadership After September 11 and Enron” on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union
College.

His talk, which opens the College's
Perspectives at the Nott lecture series, is free and open to the public.

A
contributor to the New Yorker, and
formerly page one editor of The Wall
Street Journal, is the author of the national bestsellers Blind Eye, an investigation of the
medical profession, Den of Thieves,
about Wall Street in the '80s, and Blood
Sport, about the Clinton White House.

Stewart
is the recipient of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash and
the insider-trading scandal. As a reporter at The Journal, he covered the Milken and Boesky scandals, the mergers
and acquisitions boom of the 1980s and the world of investment banking and the
stock market.

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

A new
on-campus “portal” page (UniONcampus: http://oncampus.union.edu) gives faculty,
students, and staff quick access to the web tools they use most often. Some of
these tools and links include: Searching the faculty/staff directory, online
forms, campus announcements, and quick links to Human Resources, Schaffer
Library, Information Technology Services, etc.

The
new site is accessible to everyone, on-campus or off-, but some links will be
protected by a username and password (such as Blackboard system). The
“external” home page (www.union.edu) can
easily be reached from oncampus.union.edu, and vice-versa.

“It's like coming into our web site through the kitchen,” said Tom Smith, web site director.

Information
Technology Services is installing oncampus.union.edu as the home page for most
new computers (and upgrades) on campus. 

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Students and employers at next week's Career Festival will be using the “I” word: internships.

Once the place where students went for jobs, the fair has become a place where students and employers can discuss
internships that can lead to jobs, according to organizers.

The Career Festival is Thursday, Oct. 3, from noon to 4 p.m. in Memorial Fieldhouse.

“Many employers are offering
internships and cooperatives, which are good from both the perspective of the
student and the employer,” said Rochelle Caruso, assistant director of the Becker Career Center, who is organizing the fair. The programs are a good way for both the employer and student to find a good match, she said.

Reflecting the tendency of students to sit out the tight job market, there is a higher-than-usual representation of graduate and professional schools at this year's fair, Caruso said. “More students are at least considering graduate school as an option,” she said.

This fall's Career Festival has a
high representation of financial and technical employers, those who have
predicted a hiring need for a growing economy, Caruso noted, adding that the
National Association of Colleges and Employers predicts a 6 percent increase in
the number of students employed right out of college this year.

The Career Festival will host 85
employers and graduate or professional schools. For more information, call ext.
6176 or visit: http://cdc.union.edu/.

Posted on Sep 27, 2002

Michelangelo never had it so good.

About three dozen students got
some encouragement on Saturday while they repainted a large mural outside the Hamilton
Hill Arts Center:
the pounding rhythms of African drums courtesy of the Center's African drum
troupe, who were practicing inside for their fall show. “It's really neat,” observed one
student. “Music while we paint.”

The students were among an
estimated 200 from the College who took part in the eighth annual John Calvin
Toll Day to serve the city.

John Calvin Toll Day is supported
by Al Hill, a 1946 Union graduate, and his wife, Perrie. Toll was the great,
great grandfather of Hill, a retired attorney from Buffalo.
The Hills created the fund to encourage Union students to undertake volunteer
service. “We believe that the experiences from this activity will carry over
beyond graduation and enrich not only those they serve but also the
volunteers,” Hill said.