THE Issue Number 4 • Oct. 9, 2006

State University of NewBulletin York College at Cortland A publication for the campus community

Jami Bistocchi Will Receive College-Community Appreciation Award Oct. 26 The College Council will present its Learning Adventure Child Care Center, of the summer months continue their 2006 College-Community Appreciation eight before-and-after school programs employment at one of three summer Award to Jami Bistocchi, the director of and three summer camps. In 2005, the day camps for children 5-15 years of age. the Cortland YWCA Child Care Program programs served 972 children in a variety Generally, 10 students work in these sum- since 1995, during an invitation-only of settings throughout Cortland County. mer camps. Another 36 students, during banquet on Thursday evening, Oct. 26, in Working under Bistocchi’s supervision, the course of the academic year, work as the Corey Union Caleion Room. SUNY Cortland students receive training substitutes in one of the YWCA’s three Bistocchi becomes the 24th recipient of required within their respective fields and preschool sites. In addition to childhood/ the annual award established in 1985 to have the opportunity to work or volunteer early childhood education, the Cortland formally recognize local residents who have with children in state-licensed “real-life” students major in psychology, recreation significantly assisted SUNY Cortland. settings, said Amy Simrell, executive director and physical education. In her capacity as director for the past of the Cortland YWCA, adding that Bistocchi serves on the Student decade, Bistocchi has provided employment, for those going on to graduate school or Employment Board and the Cortland internship and volunteer opportunities for maintaining teaching certification, their Association for the Education of Young more than 330 SUNY Cortland students, work at the YWCA has helped them to Children with SUNY Cortland faculty. the majority being early childhood, elemen- achieve their goals. The YWCA’s school-aged children take tary education or physical education majors Most SUNY Cortland students are advantage of the College facilities by skating seeking experience in their fields of study. employed in one of eight before/after in the Park Center and swimming in the Bistocchi directs a child care program that school sites, working an average of 15 hours Moffett Center pool. has grown considerably under her supervi- per week. In Spring 2005, 45 students Within the community, Bistocchi serves sion. She currently oversees the Drop-In were employed in this capacity. on the Cortland Area Child Care Council, Child Care Program, Nursery and Day A smaller number of students who Cortland City Schools’ Universal Pre-K School, Here We Grow Child Care Center, remain in Cortland during all or part Committee, and the Cortland County Local Early Intervention Coordinating Council. ‘Fundamentally Speaking’ Series to Feature Tariq Ali, She and her husband, Christopher, Political Commentator, Journalist and Filmmaker who is the City of Cortland Department of Public Works superintendent, and their Tariq Ali, a prolific author whose book the premier journal for the intellectual left two children, Hannah, 12, and Cosmo, 7, The Clash of Fundamentalisms traces the in Europe. reside in Cortland. origins of Islamic fundamentalism and “It would be hard to find someone who See the complete story online offers a controversial assessment of the would be better suited to talking about this at www.cortland.edu/news. Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, will speak on topic,” said Howard Botwinick, economics, Thursday, Oct. 19. who helped organize the lecture series. The writer, journalist and filmmaker In The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Ali Inside This Issue will discuss his book, published by Verso in devotes a chapter, titled “Letter to a Young 2002, as part of the yearlong series of lec- Muslim,” to a critique of radical Islam, 2 SEFA Campaign to Begin Oct. 18 tures and cultural events, “Fundamentally arguing that the use of violence advocated 3 Multicultural Workshop Planned Speaking,” at 7:30 p.m. in Old Main by Osama bin Laden is a “political dead- Brown Auditorium. The lecture is free and end” and adds that it does not “represent 4 Klezmer Jazz Band Will Perform open to the public. the future of Islam.” He also attacks the A native of Pakistan, Ali was selected to repression of women in Islamic society, 5 Tropical Nature Topic of Talk speak because he has addressed the dangers writing, “Everything seems static: our 6 Funding Award Recipients Listed of fundamentalism on both sides of the economy, our politics, our intellectuals war on terrorism. Ali, a self-described and, most of all, our religion.” 7 Faculty-Staff Activities atheist who now lives in London, is an At the same time, the book denounces 8 Coming Events editor of The New Left Review, considered the Bush administration for the way it has Continued on page 2  Issue Number 4

SEFA Campaign Fundraising Efforts Will Begin Oct. 18 SUNY Cortland will kick off its 2006-07 The College will offer incentives for Department of Transportation, the Office of State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) employees who donate to the 2006-07 SEFA Court Administration and the State Police. campaign on Wednesday, Oct. 18. The campaign. At the campaign’s end, a drawing Decisions are made locally on which agencies campaign, which relies on state employee for four prizes will be conducted. First prize are included and how funds are distributed. volunteers to canvas co-workers for donations, is a reserved campus parking space located in The community-based SEFA committee is will continue until Wednesday, Nov. 1. the parking lot closest to the winner’s building. composed of representatives from state agencies SEFA is the only authorized fundraising To be eligible, an employee must pledge and managers of human service agencies. campaign among state workers. It is directed at least $104. In addition, three Auxiliary Pledging takes place just once a year. by United Way of Cortland County and Services Corporation (ASC) gift cards worth Participants can choose to have their gifts unites fundraising efforts for a group of $25 each will be awarded as second prize. To shared among different organizations within agencies under a common umbrella. be eligible for one of these, employees must Cortland County, used in another county “SEFA is a convenient and effective way pledge at least $25 to the campaign. of their choice, or designated for individual for those of us who work at SUNY Cortland In addition to the college incentives, the local, state, independent or international to contribute to the betterment of our United Way for Cortland County is holding organizations. Examples of local agencies community, our country, and the world as a “Dollar Challenge” again this year. To include the United Way for Cortland a whole,” said SEFA Campaign Chair Herb be eligible for the grand prize, a cruise to County, Madison-Cortland New York State Haines, sociology/anthropology. “Payroll Hawaii, donors must give just $2 more per ARC (formerly Alternatives Resources and deduction is really an incredibly painless way week than they gave last year or pledge at Choices for Developmentally Disabled to do our part, because there are no checks to least $104 as a first-time donor, and all or a Persons), the American Red Cross, the Boy write and everything is taken care of for us. portion of their SEFA gift must be made to Scouts, Girl Scouts, Catholic Charities, It really can’t get much easier than that. And the United Way for Cortland County and/or Cortland Area Child Care Council, Cortland SEFA also gives us the flexibility to direct our member agencies.” Two air tickets to any County Child Development Center, contributions to the organizations we care destination in the state of are also Family Counseling Services, Lime Hollow about the most if we choose to.” available as a Dollar Challenge prize. Center for Environment and Culture, “Last year, 338 SUNY Cortland employees SEFA campaigns are also being conducted Mental Health Association, Salvation Army, contributed just under $40,000,” Haines at the State Department of Labor, the Depart- Franziska Racker Centers, United Service said. “As tremendous as that is, it represents ment of Environmental Conservation, the Organization, YMCA and YWCA. less than a third of the college’s workforce. And we’re also well behind most four year ‘Fundamentally Speaking’ Series to Feature Tariq Ali SUNY schools in terms of the average Continued from page 1 amount given per employee. We need to get the word out to our colleagues and co-workers dealt with Iraq in the wake of Sept. 11. Ali wrote his first novel, Redemption that their help is needed more than ever.” “To fight tyranny and oppression by using (Chatto & Windus), a political satire set in tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat contemporary Europe and America, in 1990. a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by His more recent fiction includes a series THE becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will of historical novels about Islam, including Bulletin not further the cause of justice or bring about Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Chatto & a meaningful democracy,” Ali writes in the Windus 1992), an account of Spain (the The Bulletin is published by the Publications and book’s prologue. “It can only prolong the Iberian Peninsula) and the fall of Muslim Electronic Media Office at State University of New cycle of violence.” Ali offers another direct Granada to Christendom; and The Book of York College at Cortland and distributed to faculty, attack on what he calls the “imperialist” U.S. Saladin (Verso 1998), a fictional memoir of staff and students. The Bulletin contains official College announcements, news reports and notices of government in a later book, Bush in Babylon Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, campus events. (Verso 2003). as told by his Jewish scribe Ibn Yakub. The Bulletin may be viewed online at Educated at Oxford University, Ali was Ali, the author of 24 books, is the second www.cortland.edu/images/bulletin.pdf. Information among the best-known radical student speaker in SUNY Cortland’s “Fundamentally for The Bulletin should be sent to Wendy Brooks, editor, Publications and Electronic Media Office, leaders in late 1960s Britain. He explores the Speaking” series, which is exploring the role Brockway Hall, Room 207-F, P.O. Box 2000, political activism of this decade in several of of fundamentalism in religion, politics and Cortland, NY 13045. his books, including Street Fighting Years: An science. It follows last year’s series of lectures The next issue of The Bulletin will be published Autobiography of the Sixties (Collins 1987), and cultural events, “Rights Inalienable in a Monday, Oct. 23. The deadline for copy for that issue is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17. an autobiographical account of his political Time of War.” All articles must be typewritten. Articles of more life that offers a transnational perspective of For more information, contact Botwinick than 50 words should be submitted in Microsoft the 1960s. at ext. 2435. Word format by e-mail to [email protected]. THE Oct. 9, 2006 Bulletin 

Workshop on Teaching Multicultural/Multinational Students Offered Oct. 9 A workshop for educators titled “Teaching Kwarnmark, who has a master’s degree in and the nation. The Department of Homeland in a Multicultural and Multinational Culture” engineering, directs information and system Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics will be offered on Monday, Oct. 9. development within the Department of estimated that 11 million unauthorized Olle (oó-leh) Kwarnmark, a manager with Product Quality and Product Information at residents lived in the U.S. by January of this European truck manufacturer Scania Corp., Scania Corp. He has experience in guiding year, an increase of 2.5 million from 2000. who has specialized in working with an inter- project teams composed of people from Currently, New York State has 560,000 national workforce, will present the workshop different professional backgrounds and from illegal aliens. More than 1.1 million foreigners from 3-4:30 p.m. in Corey Union, Room 204. different nationalities. live in the U.S. as legal permanent residents, Sponsored by the Institute for Civic Engage- A native of Sweden, Kwarnmark’s educa- with 137,000 of them in New York State. ment and the Clark Center for International tion has led to a unique approach to multi- For more information, contact Suarez at Education, the event is free and open to the cultural training and management that can ext. 4391. public. The session is designed for education be described as working “from the inside out.” majors, international students, current teachers “To be an effective communicator, a and community agency supervisors who work person must first understand and control Goofs and Goblets Planned with immigrants in tutoring or training settings. his own beliefs, emotions and behaviors,” For Oct. 23 in Corey Union As the number of immigrants to the U.S. Kwarnmark said. “After that, the individual increases, the number of non-native students must be able to empathize with others.” The annual Goofs and Goblets career in schools at all levels probably increases as Kwarnmark’s workshop will couch this dinner program will be held from 6-8 p.m. well, explained John Suarez, service learning approach in the context of the multicultural on Monday, Oct. 23, in the Corey Union and the Institute for Civic Engagement. classroom. He will adapt the workshop to the Caleion Room. The workshop will offer teachers the chance intended audience of education students and During Goofs and Goblets, students learn to empathize with an international student's will let the students take the discussion and to navigate a formal meal while talking about emotions in a U.S. classroom through role- activities in unexpected directions in order to careers with representatives from a variety of playing. Teachers also can reflect on some of make students’ learning more relevant to them. fields. All majors and class years are welcome. the culture-based barriers to effective teaching Suarez has gathered data on the rapidly Participants will be served several courses in multicultural and multinational classes. growing international presence in New York hosted by SUNY Cortland alumnus Mark Westfield ’78, the general manager at the Hempstead Golf and Country Club. Educators in Training Conference Set for Oct. 20 Westfield has taught at the highly acclaimed At least 108 education majors who have in focus groups to discuss their past quarter of Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, completed the first of two student teaching student teaching. N.Y. The program will incorporate career experiences are expected to attend this year’s At 3:30 p.m., an optional panel discussion networking and dining etiquette in a fun and Educators in Training (EIT) conference on about graduate programs at SUNY Cortland humorous way. Friday, Oct. 20. will be offered. The programs include Faculty or staff members who would like Sponsored by the Center for Educational Literacy, Teaching Students with Disabilities, to sponsor one or more students are invited Exchange, the conference takes place from Childhood/Early Childhood Development to attend the program as guests of the Alumni 7:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in Corey Union. The and English as a Second Language. Association. Participation is on a space-avail- conference is free and also open to SUNY SUNY Cortland faculty, staff and students able basis for sponsors. faculty. Faculty are asked to R.S.V.P. to the making presentations include Louis Larson Advance reservations are required by Oct. Center for Educational Exchange at ext. 4214. and John Shirley, career services; Bill Buxton, 17. Students may register in the Career Cynthia Benton, childhood/early child- literacy; Thomas Lickona, Center for the 4th Services in Van Hoesen Hall, Room B-5. The hood education, will welcome the student and 5th Rs; Cynthia Moriarity, foundations subsidized cost to students is $15, payable via teachers to the profession. and social advocacy; and Peter McGinnis, cash or check. A limited number of scholar- Various morning workshops, including graduate studies. ships are available on a first-come, first-served “Integrated Literacy Workstations,” “Discipline Area educators who will present include basis. Strategies that Work,” “Surviving Your First Cindy Christopher, Tully Central School Faculty or staff members interested in Year of Teaching,” “Technology in Your Class- District; Larry King and Tom Turck, Homer either sponsoring students or making a room,” and “Creating Teaching Materials” Central School District; and Erin Eckert reservation to attend, or both, should contact will be presented by College faculty and staff and Judi Haskins, Cortland Central School Lisa Grinnell at ext. 2224 or by e-mail at and local educators. District. Representing area New York State [email protected]. Sponsors must All students will attend three afternoon Teacher Centers are Stephen Bittner, Bonnie confirm student attendance and register presentations about job search strategies, Calzolaio, Bobbi Krout, Jill Christian-Lynch, students with the Career Services. practical classroom management techniques Patti Galimi, Amy Glassford, Marcy Phelps- The event is sponsored by the Alumni and ways to prevent peer cruelty and promote Hand, Pat Rice, Victoria Shephardson and Association, the Career Services and a grant kindness in the classroom. Students also will Ellen Thornton. from Auxiliary Services Corporation. meet with their student teaching supervisors  Issue Number 4

Indigenous Educators Klezmer Jazz Band Performance Set for Oct. 11 Meet at Mini-Conference An award-winning Klezmer band from the The band’s second CD, “Delusions of Indigenous educators from Akwesasne Washington and area will perform Klezmer” (2002), was called “profoundly Mohawk reservation and Onondaga Nation its eclectic mix of Eastern-European Jewish inspiring” by Music Monthly magazine. In a will share their ideas at a mini-conference music infused with jazz, classical, worldbeat review of the band’s first CD, “Y2Klezmer” titled “Indigenous Education Around and rock on Wednesday, Oct. 11. (2000), the Alexandria Journal wrote, Us: Experiences, Voices and Stories,” on The Alexandria Kleztet, which has released “Klezmer and ‘cool’ are rarely used in the Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Brockway Hall three albums to critical acclaim, will perform same sentence these days, but this band Jacobus Lounge. at 8 p.m. in Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge. changes all those misperceptions.” The conference will begin with a light The event is free and open to the public. Since its first CD was released, the band has dinner at 6:30 p.m., followed by the program Led by Seth Kibel, a Cornell University won six Washington Area Music Association from 7-9 p.m. It is free and open to the public. graduate who played in the former Cayuga Awards, including Best World Music Speaking about their respective educational Klezmer Ensemble, the Alexandria Kleztet Recording for all three of its albums. The communities’ philosophies and challenges has performed at the Kennedy Center in band was named “Best World Music Group” will be Nancy Powless, Onondaga, a fourth Washington, the Peabody Conservatory in in 2003 and 2004 and Kibel, a skilled swing grade teacher at the Onondaga Nation Baltimore and the Baltimore International and jazz instrumentalist, was chosen as “Best School; Danielle Rourke, Mohawk, Native Festival. World Music Instrumentalist” in 2003, 2004 American liaison and school guidance The band, known for its own style of alter- and 2005. In the largest nationwide inde- counselor for the Lafayette Central School native klezmer music, won rave reviews for pendent music awards program, the band’s District; and Phil Preston, Mohawk, a teacher its third album, “Close Enough for Klezmer,” latest release was recently nominated for “Best at the Akwesasne Freedom School. Students released in October 2005. The CD includes Klezmer Album.” from the schools may attend. five original compositions as well as creative Expanding beyond their mid-Atlantic The Onondaga Nation School, located on re-imaginings of traditional Klezmer music, base, the appearance in Cortland is part of a the Onondaga Reservation south of Syracuse, the secular folk music of the Jews of Central multi-date tour of Central New York, which N.Y., serves children from kindergarten and Eastern Europe that has been undergoing includes a performance at Elmira College and through eighth grade. When students gradu- a revival since the 1970s. the Ithaca Reform Temple Tikkun V’Or. ate, they matriculate to one of several high “While not as rock oriented or obviously The concert is sponsored by the Center schools, including Lafayette High School. avant garde as The Klezmatics or The New for Multicultural and Gender Studies. For The Akwesasne Freedom School is located Orleans Klezmer All Stars, the Alexandria more information, contact Linda Lavine at on the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation Kleztet is expanding the concept of what a [email protected]. bordering New York State, Quebec and klezmer band can be,” Sing Out!, a quarterly Ontario. It serves students from kindergarten folk song magazine, wrote last summer. through eighth grade. This conference is presented to provide a Panel to Address the Importance of Having a Will forum for open understanding among the educators in the area. It provides a voice for The broad-based community partnership Featured panelists will be Donald C. Native educators to address what “Indian Leave A Legacy of Cortland County will Armstrong, Esq. of Pomeroy, Armstrong education” means to them, and to share their present a panel discussion titled “What & Casullo, LLP; Robert M. Shafer, Esq. of challenges, joys and concerns. Additionally, Happens if You Die Without a Will?” on Riehlman, Shafer & Shafer; and Sally True, it gives the college community, citizens and Thursday, Oct. 19. Esq. of True & Walsh, LLP. present and future educators the opportunity The event, which is free and open to the “Whether you think of yourself as rich to learn from within the cultures about curricula public, takes place from 6:30-8 p.m. in or poor, or somewhere in between, it has designed and implemented by the nations, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge. become increasingly important for individuals and about the challenges students face upon Leave A Legacy of Cortland County to have a plan for their assets in the event of enrollment in the larger district schools. members comprise a variety of charitable their death,” said Peter VanderWoude, manager The conference is sponsored by the organizations, including social service and of planned gifts at SUNY Cortland, a Leave Campus Artist and Lecture Series, the arts organizations, churches, hospitals and A Legacy member. “It is never too early to C.U.R.E. Program, the Foundations and educational institutions. The partners help find out more about estate planning and its Social Advocacy Department and the English to promote the message that people from all benefits to your family and community.” Department. It was coordinated by Michelle walks of life, covering a wide range of ages Coffee and dessert will be served. For more Kelly and Linda Rosekrans. For more informa- and income levels, have the ability to make a information, contact VanderWoude at ext. tion, contact Rosekrans at 753-6264 or by difference in the lives that follow by leaving a 5309 or by e-mail to [email protected]. e-mail to [email protected]. charitable legacy. THE Oct. 9, 2006 Bulletin 

Belize Zoo Director to Discuss Wildlife Conservation Chamber Orchestra Concert Sharon Matola, director of the Zoo decades, the zoo has become world-famous, Features German Program in particular, for its focus on the restoration and Tropical Education Center and an inter- The College Community Orchestra will of the species, the Central nationally renowned conservation biologist, present a chamber orchestra program titled American Scarlet macaw, and jaguar habitat will discuss her current animal and habitat “Music From the Courts and Cathedrals of restoration. Matola is known for her work preservation efforts on Wednesday, Oct. 18. Dresden and Leipzig” at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, with the Scarlet macaw and tapirs. Matola’s talk, titled “Feathers and Fungi: Oct. 17, in Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge. Matola has been a vocal advocate for The Importance of Saving Tropical Nature,” The concert is presented in coordination species and habitat preservation. She battled begins at 7 p.m. in Bowers Hall, Room 109. with the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery exhibit, “A against the Belize government and a mul- The lecture is free and open to the public. Passion for Porcelain.” Admission is free. tinational energy conglomerate to prevent A native of Baltimore, Md., Matola grew Ralph Dudgeon, performing arts, will the construction of the Chalillo Project up having little direct experience with nature conduct the program that will include Dam. She rallied many eco-celebrities to but an early interest in animals. After serving Telemann’s “Aire de Trompette,” C.P.E. Bach’s her side, including , Robert F. in the U.S. Air Force and performing as a lion “Symphony No. 1 in D Major,” J. J. Quantz’s Kennedy Jr., and the late Steve Irwin, a.k.a., tamer in a Mexican circus, she came to Belize, “Concerto for Flute in D,” and J. S. Bach’s the Crocodile Hunter, but ultimately lost her the former British Honduras in Central “Cantata 211: Schweight Stille,” also known effort. The dam now floods 2,800 acres of America, in 1982. She took a temporary job as the “Coffee Cantata.” pristine tropical forest on the banks of the as a film assistant to documentary filmmaker Soloists for the concert will be flutist Maria 12-mile Macal River and its six-mile tributary, Richard Foster, who needed someone to Mucaria, trumpeter Ralph Dudgeon, and the Aspaculo. The hydroelectric project has manage the small collection of wild animals voice faculty members Gary Moulsdale, submerged a riparian habitat that once sup- he used for his wildlife films. David Neal and Ivy Gaibel. ported Scarlet macaws, jaguars, Baird’s tapirs, When filmmaking ended, there were For more information about the concert ocelots and spider monkeys. no funds to support the animals while or the College Community Orchestra, The presentation is sponsored by the Foster went to Borneo to complete another contact Dudgeon at ext. 5721 or offices of the President, Provost and Vice documentary there. Left in charge but with [email protected]. instructions from the par- President for Academic Affairs, Dean of ent film company to “get rid of the animals,” Arts and Sciences, and the Cortland College Matola decided to use the creatures to start Foundation, International Programs, Information Session Will Belize’s first modest zoo. Campus Artist and Lecture Series and Review Internal Grants The zoo was an immediate hit because Biology Club. most residents of Belize knew very little For more information, contact Timothy A new faculty information session titled about the country’s flora and fauna. Myths Baroni, biological sciences, at ext. 2725. “Internal Grant Opportunities” will be held about wildlife abounded. Over the past two from 5-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge. Reservations are required by Friday, Oct. 6, Nov. 1 Deadline Established for Non-tenure Track by calling the Research and Sponsored Programs Office at ext. 2511, or by e-mail Excellence in Teaching Award Nominations to Pam Schroeder at [email protected]. The Faculty Development Committee by members of the selection committee, and A dinner buffet will be served. announced that it will accept nominations the review of documentation provided by the Four internal funding programs will be for the Non-tenure Track Excellence in candidates. highlighted: Faculty Research Program, Teaching Award until Wednesday, Nov 1. Each year the winner is honored at the Summer Research Fellowship Program, Nominations should be sent to the Faculty Cortland Excels award luncheon in May. College Foundation Research Travel Grants Development Center, Memorial Library, The successful candidate will receive a plaque Program, and Teaching Innovation Grants. Room B-303. and a check for $1,000. The session will include an overview of This award has grown out of the desire to Guidelines for nominations and the the programs, discussion of the criteria, acknowledge those non-tenure track faculty award process can be found on the Faculty networking possibilities with previous award members who excel in teaching. Skill in Development Center Web site at recipients and members of the committees. teaching is the sole criteria for this award, www.cortland.edu/fdc/. Handouts of successful grant proposals will determined through classroom observations be available for distribution. The session is sponsored by the Research and Sponsored Programs Office, the College Research Committee and the Faculty Development Center.  Issue Number 4

Sports Schedule Funding Award Recipients Announced The Research and Sponsored Programs Edward Caffarella, school of education, Capital Letters Denote Home Games Office recently announced the following and Jean Rightmire, Liberty Partnerships funding awards: Program, received $326,040 from the Tuesday, Oct. 10 Lynn Anderson, recreation and leisure New York State Education Department for Women’s Soccer at Ithaca, 4 p.m. studies, received $175,00 each year for three “Liberty Partnerships Program 2006-2007” Women’s Volleyball at Oswego, 7 p.m. years from the New York State Developmental for July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007. Disabilities Planning Council for “Develop- J. Richard Kendrick, sociology/anthro- Wednesday, Oct. 11 ment of a Statewide Inclusive Recreation pology, and John Suarez, English, received FIELD HOCKEY vs. William Smith, Resource Center at SUNY Cortland,” for Jan. 1, $13,678 from the U.S. Election Assistance 4:30 p.m. 2007- Dec. 31, 2009. Participating faculty Commission for “Democracy Works if You include Susan Wilson and Vicki Wilkins. Do: SUNY Cortland’s Poll Worker Program,” Friday, Oct. 13 Scott Anderson, geography, received for the period from Aug. 7- Dec. 31, 2006. WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. Potsdam, 4 p.m. $1,500 from The Tournees Festival for Andrea Lachance, Cynthia Benton and Men’s Soccer at Potsdam, 7 p.m. “French Film Showing,” for the period from Elizabeth Klein, all from childhood/early Aug. 24-Dec. 31, 2006. childhood education, received $73,577 of Saturday, Oct. 14 Heather Bridge, childhood/early childhood continued funding from the New York State education, received $148,297 from the New Education Department for “Teacher/Leader WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. Plattsburgh, 1 p.m. York State Office of Family and Children Quality Partnerships Program,” for the period Football at Western Connecticut St., 12 p.m. Services for “Cortland Area Early Childhood from Sept. 1, 2006-Aug. 31, 2007. Field Hockey at New Paltz, 1 p.m. Professional Development Service,” for the Gail Wood, library, received $12,045, Men’s Soccer at Plattsburgh, 3 p.m. period from Sept. 1, 2006-Aug. 31, 2008. from the South Central Regional Library Wednesday, Oct. 18 Anne Burns Thomas, C.U.R.E. program, Council for “Coordinated Collection received $31,913 of continued funding from Development Aid,” for the period from MEN’S SOCCER vs. Oswego, 3 p.m. the New York State Education Department for July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007. FIELD HOCKEY vs. Morrisville, 4 p.m. “Teacher Opportunity Corps 2006-07,” for Women’s Soccer at Oswego, 3 p.m. the period from July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007. Friday, Oct. 20 Teaching Awards Committee Seeking Nominees Women’s Tennis — NYSWCAA Championships, 9 a.m., at Cornell The Teaching Awards Committee is seek- full-time teaching within the SUNY system. ing nominations for the Chancellor’s Award This promotion places a greater emphasis on Men’s Ice Hockey at Brockport, 7 p.m., for Excellence in Teaching and for promotion scholarly accomplishment, as compared with SUNYAC Challenge to the rank of Distinguished Teaching the Excellence in Teaching Award. Women’s Volleyball — SUNYAC East Professor. The committee will evaluate candidates for Round Robin, TBA, at New Paltz Colleagues or students may suggest names both awards with regard to criteria set forth Saturday, Oct. 21 of potential candidates. Self-nominations in statewide guidelines. These criteria include will not be accepted. Department chairs are the specifications that the candidates must: FIELD HOCKEY vs. Wilkes (Pa.), 1 p.m. eligible for either award as long as they carry a • perform superbly in the classroom WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. Wilkes (Pa.), 1 p.m. full-time teaching load as defined for depart- • be teachers/scholars who keep abreast of MEN’S SOCCER vs. Rochester, 7 p.m. ment chairs at SUNY Cortland. their field and use information from that field Women’s Tennis — NYSWCAA The following conditions must be met: in their teaching Championships, 9 a.m., at Cornell Chancellor’s Award • demonstrate a continual concern for the Football at Montclair St. (N.J.), 1 p.m. intellectual growth of individual students, and Men’s Ice Hockey vs. Fredonia, 4 p.m., Nominees must regularly carry a full-time teaching load. Prior to the year of nomination, • set high standards for students and help SUNYAC Challenge at Brockport them achieve academic excellence. Men’s/Women’s Cross Country — SUNYAC the candidate must have completed at least three academic years of full-time teaching on Names of nominees should be forwarded Championships, TBA, at Buffalo State the campus making the recommendation. in writing by Monday, Nov. 27 to Committee Women’s Volleyball — SUNYAC East Chair Jean LeLoup, international com- Distinguished Teaching Professor Round Robin, TBA, at New Paltz munications and culture, Old Main, Room Nominees must have carried a full-time 228. Committee members include Michele teaching load, both in terms of the number of Sunday, Oct. 22 Gonzalez, literacy; Bonni Hodges, health; semester hours taught and the number of Women’s Tennis — NYSWCAA Yolanda Kime, physics; and Virginia Levine, students served. A candidate must have attained Championships, 9 a.m., at Cornell President’s Office (ex officio). and held the rank of full professor for five years Guidelines for nominations are available and must have completed at least three years on the SUNY Web site at www.suny.edu/ of full-time teaching on the campus that rec- provost/facultyawards.cfm?navLevel=5. ommends the appointment and 10 years of THE Oct. 9, 2006 Bulletin 

Faculty-Staff Activities

David J. Barclay, geology, will present Bruce Mattingly, mathematics, is the Al Sofalvi, health, will receive the American “Slow and Fast Modes of Tidewater Glacier co-author of an educational module titled School Health Association’s (ASHA) Advance,” at the 118th annual meeting of the Some Problems are NP-Harder Than Others, Distinguished Service Award at ASHA’s Geological Society of America Oct. 22-25 published in May by the Center for Discrete 80th annual meeting to be held Oct. 11-14 in Philadelphia, Pa. Barclay will present Mathematics and Theoretical Computer in St. Louis, Mo. ASHA is a multi-disciplinary some new ideas that relate to the stability Science (DIMACS). The other organization whose mission is to protect and dynamics of glaciers that calve icebergs. authors are Sally Cockburn from Hamilton and promote the health and well being of These glaciers are important components of College and Ben Coleman and Kay Somers children and youth. the earth’s cryosphere, both today and during from Moravian College. Their module the last ice age, and so their dynamics are appears as Number 06-1 in the DIMACS Barbara Wisch, art and art history, has been important for understanding both recent Educational Module Series, and is freely invited to present a paper on Nov. 4 at the earth history and global climate change. available from the DIMACS Web site at symposium “Ritual in Rome,” sponsored www.dimacs.rutgers.edu/Publications/ by the Renaissance and Reformation Collo- Cynthia J. Benton, childhood/early child- Modules/modulelist.html. It is intended for quium of the University of Toronto. Her talk, hood education, recently represented SUNY use as a supplement in an undergraduate “Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Cortland at a national chapter officer-training course in graph theory, linear programming, Staging Marriage in Renaissance Rome,” will workshop for The Honor Society of Phi analysis of algorithms or independent study. explore the new philanthropy of dowering Kappa Phi. The workshop featured advanced poor maidens undertaken by 15th-century skill development in enhancing chapter public Christopher A. McRoberts, geology, will confraternities and the public festivities that relations and communication, recruiting and present “Linking Terrestrial and Marine evolved around this charitable act. involving faculty and professional staff, insuring Extinctions: Disaster Species and the End- chapter officer succession and continuity and Triassic Extinction,” at the 118th annual UUP Contract Negotiating increasing member participation. Benton meeting of the Geological Society of America currently serves as president of the SUNY planned for Oct. 22-25 in Philadelphia, Pa. Team to Visit Campus Cortland chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Approximately 6,200 geoscientists are The United University Professions (UUP) expected to attend the meeting. Contract Negotiating Team will visit campus John Cottone, exercise science and sport on Friday, Oct. 20. All SUNY Cortland studies, was recently elected president of the Joel Shatzky, English emeritus, has recently faculty and professionals are encouraged to New York State Athletic Trainers Association, settled in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he is teaching attend. an organization dedicated to enhancing the as an adjunct at Kingsborough Community The meeting will be held from noon to quality of health care to physically active College (KBCC). He also is dramaturge 3 p.m. in Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge. people. The association currently has a to the KBCC theatre club where he has A soup and sandwich lunch will be served membership of more than 1,400 certified provided program notes for their production from noon-1:30 p.m. Advance sign up by athletic trainers in New York State. His of “Cabaret.” His one-man play, “The Thursday, Oct. 12, is required for all who six-year term on the executive council will General,” about Robert E. Lee, has recently plan to eat lunch. include two years as president-elect, two been accepted for production during the Lee To register, contact the UUP Cortland years as president and the final two years as bicentennial year celebrations in 2007. Chapter Office, Old Main, Room B-18A, past-president. by phone at ext. 5991 or by e-mail to Kevin B. Sheets, history, chaired a panel [email protected]. Susana Davidenko, childhood/early discussion on “Teaching American History childhood education, was invited to serve with Technology” at the recent New York on the Program Committee for the 2008 Regional Teaching American History (TAH) annual conference of the National Council Grant Project Directors’ Meeting in Seneca Fall 2006 of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The Falls, N.Y. Funded by the U. S. Department Bulletin Schedule first planning meeting was held in September of Education, TAH grants provide professional in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the conference development opportunities for K-12 social will take place. She will be in charge of studies teachers. Sheets is the project director Issue Date Deadline reviewing approximately 300 proposals for the TAH grant “Crossroads of Change.” #5 Monday, Oct. 23 Tuesday, Oct. 17 for sessions and workshops related to early #6 Monday, Nov. 6 Tuesday, Oct. 31 childhood mathematics education. #7 Monday, Nov. 20 Tuesday, Nov. 14 #8 Monday, Dec. 4 Tuesday, Nov. 28 THE  Bulletin Issue Number 4

Coming Events

Monday, Oct. 9 Thursday, Oct. 12 Wellness Wednesday Series: “HIV Admissions Open House: Campus- Sandwich Seminar: “Reclaiming Testing: The Time to Know is wide activities begin at Park Center, the Standards: How — and Why NOW!” panel discussion, Corey 10:15 a.m. —t o Say ‘No’ to Substandard Union Exhibition Lounge, 7 p.m. Writing in College Courses,” Tim Lecture: “Feathers and Fungi: The Wednesday, Oct. 11 Emerson, Mary Lynch Kennedy and Importance of Saving Tropical Nature,” Sharon Matola, Sandwich Seminar: “‘Wuthering Homer Mitchell, English, Brockway and Tropical Education Center, Heights’ on the Page, Stage and Hall Jacobus Lounge, noon. Bowers Hall, Room 109, 7 p.m. Screen,” Thomas Hischak, performing Lecture: “The Joy of Sets and Other arts, and Karla Alwes, English, Decorative Delights: Porcelain in 18th Mini-Conference: Indigenous The Bulletin contains Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, Century France” Mimi Hellman, educators from Akwesasne Mohawk official College 12:30 p.m. Skidmore College, Brockway Hall reservation and Onondaga Nation, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge; light announcements, Workshop: “Writing Across the Jacobus Lounge, 7 p.m. dinner at 6:30; program from 7-9 p.m. news reports and Content Areas in Grades K-6,” notices of campus presented by Judith Schillo, child- Tuesday, Oct. 17 events. Information hood/early childhood education, Faculty Senate Meeting: Brockway Thursday, Oct. 19 for the The Bulletin Park Center Hall of Fame Room, Hall Jacobus Lounge, 1:10 p.m. Professional Women’s Lunch: should be sent to 4:30-6 p.m. Concert: “Music From the Courts Corey Union, Room 209, 12-1 p.m. the Publications and Information Session: “Internal and Cathedrals of Dresden and Sandwich Seminar: “Services Electronic Media Grant Opportunities,” Brockway Leipzig,” Brockway Hall Jacobus Offshoring,” William Skipper, Office, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, 5-6:30 p.m. Lounge, 8 p.m. sociology/anthropology, noon. Hall, Room 207-F, Wellness Wednesday Series: Estate Planning: “What Happens if P.O. Box 2000, “Living With HIV,” Corey Union Wednesday, Oct. 18 You Die Without a Will?” presented Cortland, NY 13045, Exhibition Lounge, 7 p.m. Sandwich Seminar: “Procurement by partners from Leave A Legacy of or by e-mail to Concert: The Alexandria Kleztet, Cards Unraveled,” presented by Sam Cortland County, Brockway Hall [email protected]. Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, Colombo and Terry Hollenbeck, Jacobus Lounge, 6:30-8 p.m. 8 p.m. purchasing, and Bruce Perine, Fundamentally Speaking Lecture accounts payable, Brockway Hall Series: Tariq Ali, filmmaker, political Jacobus Lounge, 12:30 p.m. commentator and editor of the New Left Review, Old Main Brown Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Book Talk Series: “Let’s Talk About Cortland It: Jewish Literature – Identity State University of New York College at Cortland and Imagination,” will look at The Metamorphosis, Memorial Library Teaching Materials Center, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 Conference: Educators in Training, Corey Union, 7:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. UUP Chapter Meeting: United University Professions (UUP) Contract Negotiating Team visit, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 Children’s Museum Series: “Puppet Theater,” Children’s Museum, O’Heron Newman Hall, 8 Calvert St., Cortland, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.