The inaugural “Race for Literacy” is
seeking runners to take part in a symbolic journey from high school to
college on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 10 a.m.
The 5K course follows the “Educationway” from
Albany High School to the University at Albany. The race and the
accompanying family fall festival are to celebrate the signing of the City
of Albany's “Education Compact.”
For more information, call 454-5633 or visit
www.timesunion.com/race.
Read MoreIf current U.S. films aren't for you, check out
the new Chinese film series, every Tuesday at 7 p.m. this term in
Humanities 019.
“The idea is to offer something different, to bring
more diversity to the campus,” says Megan Ferry, Luce Junior
Professor of Chinese, who has organized the series.
Funding comes from the recent grant from the Henry Luce
Foundation to promote Chinese language, literature and culture.
Films (all with English subtitles) include:
— Oct. 5 – Blue Kite (1994)
— Oct. 12 – Project
A, Part II (1987)
— Oct. 19, Chungking
Express (1984)
— Oct. 26 Woman, Demon,
Human (1988)
— Nov. 2, Eat Drink,
Man Woman (1994)
— Nov. 9, Rouge
(1987)
Read MoreHuron Street was closed Monday for a block party
that included chalk drawings, dancing, face paintings and a barbecue for
about 100 residents and students who moved into the neighborhood through
the Union-Schenectady Initiative.
“The most poignant thing was to see the children
and adults doing things together,” said Gretchel Tyson, commnunity
outreach director.
Students from U-CARE organized games and dancing.
Students from Symposium House provided face painting for children.
“Like the project itself, the event highlighted the
strong partnership between Union and the College Park neighbors,”
Tyson said. “It was a great opportunity for residents to get to know
the students who live in the area.”
Read MoreKelen Barr '00 is the latest Union student to star in Carmine's
Table, a combination talk and cooking show airing this week on local
cable television.
She was one of several students from area colleges who
met for a lighthearted show on dorm food with chef and host Carmine Spiro,
who prepared sea bass in a pouch, an entrée he said students could
prepare in their dorm rooms.
“I've never cooked in my life,” Barr told
the host at one point.
“Now that you see how easy it is, do you think that
will change?” Spiro asked.
“No,” Barr replied.
Besides tasting the fare, Barr and students from Siena
and the College of Saint Rose talked about how they chose their respective
colleges.
Mark Will '99 and Prof. James Underwood were guests of
the show in August prior to the C-SPAN production at Union on President
Chester Arthur. On the menu for that show was “Mugwump in a
Hole,” a veal dish that was a favorite of Arthur's.
The show airs weekdays at 12:30 and 7 p.m., and weekends
at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Cable Channel 19 (Channel 9 in Albany, Troy and
Saratoga).
Read MoreAdrian Frazier, professor of English, is about to
publish his work of 10 years, a biography of Irish writer George Moore
(Yale University Press, London), but not before he tells colleagues how he
did it.
Frazier will speak on his biography of Moore in a
faculty colloquium on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 11:30 a.m. in the Reamer
Auditorium. Lunch will follow in Hale House Dining Room.
Frazier said he chose Moore in part because he is one of
the only major figures in Irish literature not to have been treated in a
recent biography. The last major one, written by Joseph Hone only three
years after Moore's death in 1933, was a success that would ward off
others who would have followed in Hone's footsteps, Frazier said.
Moore was a bachelor said to have had relationships with
a number of women, some of them fairly famous and prominent, Frazier said.
Among them were Lady Cunard, who received thousands of letters from the
writer. Since many of Moore's letters were lost or destroyed, stories of
his relationship have to be re-created from fragments scattered throughout
collections in the U.K. and the U.S., Frazier said.
“In lots of peoples lives, we see family
stories,” Frazier said. “In Moore's, there is no family, only
a cadre of people who took the place of family members.”
Though identified as a major figure of Irish literature,
Moore repudiated national identity and found national boundaries to be
illusory, Frazier said. While at military school, he would look around the
classroom wondering on what battlefields his fellow classmates would meet
their fate, he said.
Moore, born in 1852, wrote A Modern Lover (1883),
A Mummer's Wife (1885), and his autobiographical Confessions
of a Young Man (1888) and Hail and Farewell (1911-1914), a
memoir of his years as a founding member of the Abbey Theatre.
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