Posted on Oct 15, 1999

The faculty did not approve an AAC proposal

that would have required students to declare a minor by the end of their

first term senior year. We incorrectly reported last week that they had

approved the measure at the Sept. 30 meeting.

The faculty meeting scheduled for Monday, Oct. 18, has

been cancelled. Next meeting is set for Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 12:30 p.m.

in the Reamer Auditorium.

Posted on Oct 15, 1999

The critically acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet

will perform the third program in a six-part series of the complete

Beethoven String Quartets Friday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

The Borromeo Quartet, in its first performance of the

season at Union, will perform their All-Beethoven Program III which

includes Op. 18, No. 5 in A; Op. 18, No. 4 in c; and Op 131 in c-sharp.

Following their performance at Union, the Quartet will

go on to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to perform the same

program as part of the complete Beethoven cycle for the Sunday Concert

Series at the Gardner.

The Borromeo will complete the cycle during the

1999-2000 season at Union with three other concerts on Friday, Dec. 10, at

8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m., and Friday, April 7 at 8 p.m.

Posted on Oct 15, 1999

Brenda Wineapple, Washington

Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has recently

published two essays. The first, “Freud's Lying Dream,”

appears in the collection, That Obscure Subject of Desire: Freud's

Female Homosexual, edited by R. Lesser and E. Schoenberg

(Routledge). The second, “Hawthorne Family Values; or, the

Biographical Imperative,” appears in Biography and Source Studies,

edited by Frederick Karl (AMS Press), as the lead article and discusses

biographical method as it is applied, and misapplied, by Nathaniel

Hawthorne's family.

Robert Sharlet, Chauncey

Winters Professor of Political Science, recently published several

articles and essays, and a chapter. These include: “Constitutional

Implementation and State-Building: Progress and Problems of Law Reform in

Russia,” Chapter 4 in State-Building in Russia ed. by G.B.

Smith (M.E. Sharpe, 1999); “Russian Constitutional Change: An

Opportunity Missed,” in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of

Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1999); “The Fall of

the Soviet Empire and A New Era” and two other essays in Milestones

of the 20th Century (Grolier, 1999); and “Pravovye

prava v Rossii …,” in Konstitutionnoe pravo, No. 2 (27)

(1999), a Russian law journal published in Moscow.

Pilar Moyano, associate

professor of Spanish, delivered a paper titled “Utopia/Antiutopia:

centroamericana,” at the XIX Encuentro Internacional de la

Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. At this conference she was

elected member of the Board of Directors of the Asociacion de

Licenciados y Doctores Espanoles en los Estados Unidos (Spanish

Professionals in America, Inc.).

John Fox, visiting professor

of anthropology, has two manuscripts, “Community Kingdoms: Maya

Highlands,” and “Utatlan: A Galactic Capital” edited for

publication in a volume by Oxford University Press.

Rebecca Fisher, international

students assistant, has completed a joint, two-year project with Prof.

Michael Aung-Thwin of the University of Hawaii. With a grant from the U.S.

Department of Education, they created an interactive CD-ROM titled,

“The Making of Modern Burma.” The CD-ROM is on display at the

East West Center in Hawaii as part of a Burmese exhibit.

Posted on Oct 15, 1999

Campus Safety employs a number of vehicles to transport

officers and members of the College community: cars, vans, bikes, and soon

a trolley.

But we were surprised to see what appeared to be yet

another mode parked outside the Safety office: a canoe.

No, it's not for navigating the Hans Groot's Kill,

assures Sgt. Robert Tomeck.

It turns out the boat is awaiting its owner.

After the deluge from Hurricane Floyd several weeks ago,

the red canoe appeared at the base of the berm southeast of Frank Bailey

Field.

From the looks of it, Tomeck says, persons unknown

apparently stole the canoe from a nearby home and were using it as a sort

of toboggan to slide down the muddy hill.

No worse for wear, the boat sits chained to the west

side of the Facilities Services building.

If you know the boat or its owner, call Campus Safety at

ext. 6358.

Posted on Oct 15, 1999

The Union College Observatory is having open houses this

weekend, one on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. for the public, the other on

Sunday from 8 to 10 p.m. for members of the Union community.

The Observatory is at the top of the F.W. Olin Center.

Visitors may view the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, star

clusters or make a request.

Plans are to have monthly viewings of celestial objects

for the rest of the academic year, according to Prof. Jonathan Marr.

For general information on the Observatory open houses,

call 388-7100 or check the Web at

www.union.edu/PUBLIC/PHYDEPT/observatory.htm. For further details, call

ext. 6254.