'Over the Top' — Workers use a crane to inspect and repair the roof of the Nott Memorial on Friday, May 7.
A small section of plaster from
the domed ceiling of the Nott Memorial has fallen, causing the rescheduling of
some events and limited access to the first floor.
Mandeville Gallery and the third
floor study remain open during regular building hours: daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
If repairs stay on schedule, the
Nott is expected to be completely reopened before ReUnion Weekend, May 20-23.
The damage, which was discovered
April 27, is believed to be caused by moisture. College Facilities staff used
an infrared camera to find “cool spots” caused by water damage in a
section measuring about three feet by three feet.
Scaffolding was being erected
inside the building this week, and a large lift was being used on Friday to inspect and
repair the roof.
Bill Schwarz rejoins Union
as director of corporate and government relations with a renewed focus on
integrating the College and its Converging Technologies initiative with the
region's quickly developing technology sector.
Schwarz will play a lead role in
securing corporate and government funding to support Union's
programs.
“Union has
a proud history of innovation, and we continue to find new and effective ways
to meet the challenges and maximize opportunities,” Hull
said. “As the Tech Valley
initiative continues to transform this region, Bill will play a key role in
ensuring Union is an integral part of this exciting
process.”
Schwarz joined Union
in 1998 as director of media and government relations, moving to director of
corporate and government relations four years later. For much of the past year,
he worked in global communications and public affairs for GE Energy in Houston,
Texas.
The careers and words of three rising writers will be
explored in “Emerging Writers: An Evening of Poetry and Prose with Barbara
DeCesare, Elena Georgiou and Selah Saterstrom” on Tuesday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Old Chapel.
The event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by
the English Department, Women's Studies, the Dean of Students Office and
Schaffer Library.
Barbara DeCesare
is a 2004 Pushcart nominee whose poetry and fiction has appeared in more than
50 major literary publications. Her collection of poems, jigsaweyesore (Anti-Man Press 1999), is being adapted for a musical
production in New York City. She is
the poet laureate of Baltimore's
Number 1 rock radio station, WIYY FM 98.
The mother of three, she lives in Pennsylvania
where she works as a domestic law paralegal. The Baltimore
Sun says that Barbara's work is “what thunder looks like in writing.”
Elena Georgiou's
first book of poetry, Mercy Mercy Me
(Painted Leaf Press 2000), received the Lambda Literary Award for poetry and
was a finalist in the Publishing Triangle Award. The book was reissued by the University
of Wisconsin Press in the spring of
2003. With Michael Lassell, she co-edited the poetry anthology The World in Us. She has received many
major awards and fellowships including an Astraea Emerging Writers Award and a
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She is the coordinator of the MFA
in Creative Writing program at Hunter
College, where she also teaches
poetry. She also serves on the MFA faculty at Goddard
College. She lives in Brooklyn.
Selah Saterstrom's
experimental fiction has appeared in many literary journals including 3rd Bed, Monkey Puzzle and Tarpaulin Sky. She is an editor at The Ensign Literary Journal. Her first
novel, The Pink Institution, was
published by Coffee House Press in April. The Seattle
writer Rebecca Brown has said, “I am confident The Pink Institution is only the first of many astoundingly
beautiful, brutally disturbing works of art.” The author Jeanne Mackin has
called the book “a masterful debut.” Born and raised in the region
around Natchez, Miss.,
Selah lives in Asheville, N.C.,
and teaches at Warren Wilson
College.
A reception will follow the event. For more information,
call ext. 6620.
Attorney and author David Cole
will speak on “Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Double Standards and
Civil Liberties in the War on Terror” Tuesday, May 11, at 4 p.m. in Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.
Cole is a professor at Georgetown
University Law Center,
a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal
affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a commentator on National
Public Radio's All Things Considered. He is an expert on constitutional
law, criminal procedure, civil liberties and national security, and immigration
law.
A graduate of Yale
University and Yale
Law School,
he has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to
flag-burning. He has represented the “Los Angeles
8” for sixteen years, and has also represented numerous Arab and Muslim immigrants
against whom the INS sought to use secret evidence.
The American Lawyer named Cole one
of the top 45 public sector lawyers in the country under 45. New York Times
columnist Anthony Lewis has called him “one of the country's great legal
voice for civil liberties today,” and former CIA Director James Woolsey
has called Cole's new book, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional
Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003), “the essential book in the
field.” Cole's first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the
American Criminal Justice System, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999
by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by
the American Political Science Association, and awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu
prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001.
Cole's talk is sponsored by the
American Studies Program and the Minerva Committee.
With America's
pastime in full swing, some scholars are meeting to consider the culture of
baseball half a world away.
A day-long roundtable called “Baseball in Asia”
will feature a lineup of speakers on Friday, May 7, and a trip to the Baseball
Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for events there on
Saturday.
Here is the schedule for Friday (all talks in SS 016):
10 a.m. to noon — Joe Reaves, journalist and author of
the award winning Taking in a Game: Baseball
In Asia; and Marty Kuehnert, journalist,
broadcaster and author of books on Japanese baseball.
2 to 4 p.m. — Robert Whiting, author of You've Gotta Have Wa and recently, The Meaning Of Ichiro; and Bill Kelly of Yale
University, who has written on
Japanese fans and the Hanshin Tigers.
For more information, contact Prof. Ted Gilman at ext.
6064 or Prof. George Gmelch at ext. 6083.
