Posted on Jan 24, 2007

Through March 22
Wikoff Gallery
Nott Memorial
Imagine No Religion

 Imagine No Religion, a new student show featuring the photography of Frank Rapant '07, runs through March 22 at the Wikoff Gallery in the Nott Memorial. The project focuses on crimes against women in major world religions.      

    “I was amazed to discover the amount of abuse women are expected to take at the hands of ‘holy' men,” says Rapant in his artist's statement.

     Rapant is an English major and Visual Arts minor. He is also a full-time photolab technician in the Art Department.

Posted on Jan 24, 2007

Through Feb. 4
Mandeville Gallery
Nott Memorial
Armed

     A closing reception and panel discussion will be held today, Thursday, 4:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial for “Armed: Contemporary Art and Violence.” The Daily Gazette recently called “Armed” one of the best Capital Region art shows of 2006. Featured artists on the panel include Robert Beck, Gregory Green, Michael Millspaugh, Michael Oatmen, David Rees and Margaret Roleke. The event is free and open to the public. “Armed” explores the human obsession with weapons and the complexities of aggression. The exhibit features sculpture, collage, photography, painting and drawing by 11 artists. It was curated by Nadine Wasserman and Mandevilel Gallery Director Rachel Seligman.

Posted on Jan 24, 2007

Thursday, Jan. 25, 4:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Artists' reception and panel discussion on the exhibit, “Armed: Contemporary Art and Violence”

Friday, Jan. 26, 6:00 p.m. / Dance Studio / Afro-Cuban Dance Class

Friday, Jan. 26 – Monday, Jan. 29, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Movie: Running With Scissors

Saturday, Jan. 27, 10 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Kenya Safari Acrobats

Monday, Jan. 29, 12:50 p.m. / SSCI 104 / Pizza & Politics: “Running for the U.S. Congress: Reflections from the Campaign Trail,” featuring Jennifer Lawless '97

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 6 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women's basketball vs. Skidmore

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men's basketball vs. Skidmore

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m. / Alumni Gymnasium / Men's and women's swimming and diving vs. Williams

Thursday, Feb. 1, 4:30 – 6 p.m. / Shaffer Library / Philosophy Speaker Series presents “Emotions and Deliberative Reason”

Friday, Feb. 2, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. / College Park Hall / Conference: “Sustainable Development in the Capital Region”

Friday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink, Achilles Center / Women's hockey vs. Harvard

Friday, Feb. 2, 10 p.m. / Old Chapel / Slam Contest/Performance and the Mayhem Poets

Friday, Feb. 2 – Monday, Feb. 5, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Movie: Harsh Times

Saturday, Feb. 3, 4 p.m. / Messa Rink, Achilles Center / Women's hockey vs. Dartmouth

Sunday, Feb. 4, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series: Emerson String Quartet

Posted on Jan 24, 2007

A review of the Department of State's “Travel” Web site (www.travel.state.gov) by Donna Burton, associate professor, Schaffer Library, was published in Government Information Quarterly 2006 (v.23, #3-4). The site contains information about international travel warnings, trip planning, passports and visas, and residing, studying or teaching abroad. Burton also was acknowledged as a contributor in the research and confirmation process in The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred Shapiro (Yale University Press, 2006). In addition, she has contributed a review section on humor periodical publications (both print and online) for the 15^th edition of Magazines for Libraries, a standard reference source published in 2006 by CSA, a worldwide information company, and edited by former Union Librarian Cheryl LaGuardia.

Posted on Jan 24, 2007

Updated editions of two books by Professor of Anthropology George Gmelch, Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball and In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People (with JJ Weiner), have been published. Each book has a new chapter and a new publisher, University of Nebraska Press.