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Volume XI No. 26
March 31, 2003
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Major Campus Events, 2002-03
(Weekends unless noted)
·Admissions Scholar Days: Monday, April
7; Monday, April 14 (For information: 5261)
·Admissions Open Houses for Accepted Students:
April 12, April 19 (For information: 5261)
·Board of Trustees Meetings: May 15-17
(For information: 5585)
·Commencement Weekend: May 16-18 (For information:
5585)
·Reunion Weekend: June 5-8 (For information:
5904)
Announcements
ISEP Meeting: An International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) information meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 8, in Carnegie 112 at 4:30 p.m.. Application deadline for the spring 2004 semester is May 20, 2003.
Communications Internships: Writing-intensive internships are available for the fall semester in University communications. The internships earn credit as English 409. For information: Neal Burdick, nburdick@stlawu.edu or 5560, or Susan Ward, sward@stlawu.edu or 5821.
Softball Sign-Ups: The deadline for signing up for intramural softball is Tuesday, April 1, at 6 p.m. Registration forms are available on the Intramurals Web site.
Volleyball Fund-Raiser: A volleyball tournament on Sunday, April 13, will raise money for Renewal House, which provides safety to abused women and children. Teams with a minimum of six members ($2 entry fee per member) will find entry information on the Intramurals board in the Augsbury lobby. For information: Becky Rourke, 5937, brourke@st.lawu.edu.
Lunch Bunch: The Laurentian Women's Association Lunch Bunch meets on the first Wednesday of each month in the E.J. Noble University Center Formal Lounge. Remaining dates for the spring semester are April 2 and May 7. Reservations must be made by noon the preceding day with Mickey Williams, 386-8781.
Retirees Luncheons: University retirees gather on the second Tuesday of each month in the E.J. Noble University Center Formal Lounge for lunch. Dates for the spring semester are April 8 and May 13. Reservations must be made by noon the preceding day with Mickey Williams, 386-8781, or Wanda Renick, 386-3474.Achievements
Joshua Taylor '03, of Otego, N.Y., presented the results of research
he conducted for an honors thesis in geology at the joint meeting of the Geological
Society of America Northeastern Section and the Atlantic Geoscience Society
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 27-29. "Origin and Subsequent Modification
of K-Feldspar Megacysts with the Gray's School Body of the Hermon Gneiss,
Adirondack Lowlands, New York," presented with Associate Professor of
Geology John Bursnall, examines the possibility of magmatic crystallization,
metasomatism and metamorphic recrystallization in the rock. Taylor was a 2002
Baker University Fellow.
Twelve St. Lawrence University students were among those from 136 colleges and universities around the world participating in the 49th Harvard National Model United Nations in February. The St. Lawrence team represented Turkey, which presented an interesting challenge in view of current world politics. Participants were Jaralie Murphy '05, Oneida, NY; Molly Ryan '05, Champlain, NY; Shawn Mayo-Pike '06, Delmar, NY; Ivaylo Kolev '05, Sophia, Bulgaria; Dadojan Azimov '04, Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Matthew Huising '06, Cadyville, NY; Danielle Sanzone '06, Troy, NY; Clementine Vitek '05, Swarthmore, PA; Elizabeth Chadwick '05, Ogdensburg, NY; Jessica Nyce '06, Glyndon, MD; Joshua Lynch '05, Waddington, NY; and Vanessa de Bruyn '05, North Bonneville, WA.
Jolaine M. Roycewicz '03, of Hudson Falls, NY, is the recipient of a research grant awarded by Sigma Xi, a scientific research society. Roycewicz is a biology major, with a minor in chemistry. She has been awarded a grant-in-aid to support the research project entitled "Does habitat fragmentation alter genetic structure in small mammal populations?" It will be supervised by Fippinger Assistant Professor of Biology Erika Barthelmess, with whom Roycewicz also worked on a 2002 summer research project through a Merck-AAAS Fellowship.
In The News: March
Assistant Professor of Global Studies John Collins was quoted in a
March 25 story in the Detroit Free Press, on the use of military terminology
by the news media in times of war. He also was quoted in a March 22 story
in New York Newsday, about whether or not it is appropriate for news
media to use patriotic symbols in their mastheads and other identifiers and
in a March 22 story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on the vocabulary
being used to describe military actions in Iraq.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Danielle Egan and Visiting Instructor
of Sociology Ross Glover were both interviewed on the Radio Australia
program "Late Night Live with Phillip Abrams" on March 24; they
discussed the chapters they authored for the book Collateral Language:
A User's Guide to America's New War.
"The Astonishing World of Tomorrow," an exhibition of the work of political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, was featured in the "Endpaper" section of The Chronicle of Higher Education's March 21 issue.
Job Openings
(For all openings, St. Lawrence University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action employer. Complete position descriptions are available in the human
resources office or at http://www.stlawu.edu/resources/job.html. If a deadline
is not given, review begins upon receipt of applications.)
Alumni and Parent Programs: Assistant director for reunion
giving. Athletics: Head coach of women's volleyball and assistant
track & field coach. Information Technology: Student services
coordinator, April 9. University Advancement: Assistant
director of parent leadership giving.