Winter Dance Concert, Department of Theater and Dance
Buy your tickets now for the Winter Dance Concert at the Yulman Theatre, Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4, at 8 p.m.
One of the major pieces, “Jean Cocteau: Le Prince Frivole,” set to music by Erik Satie, is an original creation by Miryam Moutillet, director of the dance program, and Charles Batson, associate professor of French, who co-taught “Staging Explorations in Theater and Dance.” It is the first collaboration of its kind between the theater and dance programs.
Other modern, ballet, jazz and tap pieces round out the program, including several works by two professional dancers who are members of the Union faculty, Alexis Pangborn and Marcus Rogers.
Tickets, available at the Yulman Box Office, are $10 for general admission, $7 for the Union community.
John Zogby, considered one of the most accurate pollsters in America, will give a lecture on “The Political Landscape in 2006: The U.S. and the World,” Monday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Union College's Nott Memorial.
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The talk, part of the Perspectives at the Nott series, is free and open to the public.
He will also speak to Union College students at noon in Room 103 of the Social Sciences building as part of the Pizza and Politics series put on by the Political Science Department.
Zogby is the president and CEO of Zogby International, an opinion and marketing research organization based in Utica, N.Y., with offices in Washington, D.C. The firm works with psychologists, sociologists, computer experts, linguists, political scientists, economists and mathematicians to “explore every nuance in language and test new methods in public opinion research.”
The company has tracked public opinion around the globe since 1984, working in more than 60 countries. Clients have included the Reuters News Agency, NBC News, Fox News, The Houston Chronicle, the Miami Herald and the Albany Times Union.
John Zogby appears regularly on all three nightly network news programs plus NBC's “Today Show,” ABC's “Good Morning America” and is a frequent guest for Fox News and MSNBC special programs, along with CNBC's “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” He also is a regular political commentator for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1996, Zogby was credited with being the only pollster to accurately predict within one-tenth of 1 percent the results of the presidential election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, and in the 2000 race, Zogby's polling foreshadowed the tight race between George W. Bush and Al Gore, while others predicted an easy victory for Bush.
He is currently working on a book about American consumers, which is scheduled to be published by Random House this fall.
Zogby holds degrees in history from LeMoyne College and Syracuse University.
A frequent lecturer and panelist, he is listed with Leading Authorities, a top speakers' bureau in Washington, D.C., and the National Speakers' Bureau in Chicago.
Things will be rocking at the third annual Rhythm for Life Concert to Fight AIDS, Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in Old Chapel. Tickets for the show, sponsored by Gamma Sigma Sigma, are $5 in advance and $7 at the door.
All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (CHABHA), an organization that provides relief to the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Performers include the Dutch Pipers, the Garnet Minstrels, the Gospel Choir and student bands White Punks on Hope, 3s' Company and Undercover Minority.
In addition to live music and refreshments, members of Gamma Sigma Sigma will be on hand to provide information about AIDS and CHABHA. Free condoms will be available courtesy of Planned Parenthood and Health Services. Both groups helped Gamma Sigma Sigma organize the event, along with the Social Enrichment Grant (SEG) committee and Seneca House.
“It was a great idea to put together a benefit concert at Union,” says Zach Fields '07, a singer/guitarist for White Punks on Hope, “and it's an honor to be able to play a show for such an important cause.”
Reappointment review committees have been formed for seven assistant professors: Kelly Black, mathematics; Aaron Cass, computer science; Palmyra Catravas, electrical and computer engineering; Zhilan Feng, Graduate College of Union University; Jennifer Matsue, music; Andrew Morris, history; and Andrew Rapoff, mechanical engineering.
Members of the campus community may offer written or oral testimony to committee members. Committees (with chairs listed first), are:
Black: William Zwicker, mathematics (ext. 6160, zwickerw@union.edu); Brenda Johnson, mathematics; Alan Taylor, mathematics.
Aaron Cass: Valerie Barr, computer science (ext. 8361, barrv@union.edu); David Hemmendinger, computer science; Thomas Jewell, Division of Engineering and Computer Science.
Catravas: John Spinelli, electrical and computer engineering (ext. 6307, spinellj@union.edu); Yu Chang, electrical and computer engineering; Michael Rudko, electrical and computer engineering.
Feng: Presha Neidermeyer, GCUU (ext. 6598, neidermp@union.edu); Alan Bowman, GCUU; Martin Strosberg, GCUU.
Jennifer Matsue: Timothy Olsen, music (ext. 6563, olsent@union.edu); Sharon Gmelch, anthropology; Dianne McMullen, music.
Andrew Morris: Steven Sargent, history (ext. 6360, sargents@union.edu); Andrew Feffer, history; Robert Wells, history.
Andrew Rapoff: Richard Wilk, mechanical engineering (ext. 6268, wilkr@union.edu); Ann Anderson, mechanical engineering; William Keat, mechanical engineering.
By mid-week, more than 300 members of the campus community had signed a petition produced by the Panhellenic Council and Spectrum (formerly UBGlad) that speaks out against discrimination and intolerance.
The petition, available for signing through Friday in the Student Activities Office (Reamer Campus Center Room 404), decries “bias-motivated violence – including derogatory comments, physical violence, and written abuse,” said Brooke Lamparello, Panhellenic's vice president of recruitment.
“It also states that we will no longer be ‘silent participants' in discrimination; our failure to act makes us just as guilty as the perpetrators.”
The petition comes as the campus is dealing with severalalleged bias-related incidents, including grafitti, vandalism and the attack of a Union student at another campus.
Jim Underwood, interim president, sent a message applauding the student groups' petition effort and urging people to sign “as a measure of support for building a better community at Union, a community characterized by mutual respect in which no one is made to feel demeaned and isolated.”
