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Harpur College Students Profit from Law Day
During a brunch to kick off the day, Harpur College Dean Mileur told law school representatives, "We are very proud of our students. The University is very selective...If you find a student with a solid GPA from our school, they'll perform well in yours. We have a law school acceptance rate of around 90%. The biggest and most prestigious firms all have Binghamton University graduates." "Binghamton University has a long history as a pre-professional campus," said Heather Struck, Harpur College's Pre-Law Advisor. She explained that our students are so well prepared for law school because of the quality of our faculty, internship opportunities, and pre-law organizations such as Phi Alpha Delta, Thurgood Marshall Pre-Law Society, and the Mock Trial club. Struck also noted that visiting alumni who are lawyers come to campus frequently and share experiences from the real world of law. Two alumni happened to be on campus that very day for this purpose. Harpur College Alumni Bring Law to the Classroom Should a fictitious Long Island town with high unemployment allow a hazardous waste recycling plant to build a new facility within its borders? Is economic development more important than nature conservation? A mock town meeting in Dr. Steve Scalet’s Business Ethics and Law class addressed these questions and others on October 3, 2001. Alumni Ted Sommer `58 and David Weinsoff `80 moderated the meeting, bringing their decades of career experience into the classroom.
"This town can either go the ‘Bed and Breakfast and Boutique’ route or become an industrial site," said Weinsoff as he opened the town meeting. Teaching Assistants playing the roles of mayor, elder of a local Native American tribe, and CEO of the proposed plant, addressed the town’s Planning Commission, portrayed by Scalet, Sommer, and Weinsoff. Although the proposed recycling plant would create 174 new jobs, it would have a ten-year lifespan and could only run profitably at 100% efficiency. The mayor stressed the importance of new jobs; members of the Sierra club condemned the increased traffic and pollution the plant would bring. A lively discussion followed the mock meeting. Scalet asked students for a show of hands in support of or against the proposed facility. The class was divided nearly in half on the issue. They left with a realistic look at a very common issue, where citizens air their differences and consensus is rarely found. "The class was very good," said Brian Cashman ’04. "We never really see how these things work out." |
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Harpur College Alumni Share Their Career Expertise At a seminar entitled "Your Law Career: Factors to Think About," Harpur College Alumni presenters Jeff Tanenbaum `73 of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Owen Pell `80 of White & Case LLP addressed topics such as "What law firms look for in an associate," what questions to ask when interviewing," and "what is the market like." The October 3, 2001 seminar took place at the offices of White & Case LLP in New York City and was aimed at recent Binghamton University alumni who are currently attending law school in the NYC area. The young "attorneys-to-be" in attendance asked many career-related questions and received insightful and helpful information.
When it comes to the world of recruitment of associates, Tanenbaum and Pell know what they are talking about. Tanenbaum has practiced Bankruptcy law for 23 years. He has served on Weil, Gotshal & Manges' recruiting committee for 15 years and is currently the co-chair. Pell has been a litigator at White & Case LLP for 18 years and serves on the employment committee. Both attorneys have acted as guides and mentors to many young associates throughout their careers. Tanenbaum and Pell enjoyed the event as much as their audience. "This is so much fun for me," said Tanenbaum "I'm so proud of our graduates." The seminar was so successful that it went beyond its two-hour scheduled time and the law students stayed late to ask even more questions. "This was really great," said Eric Gallo `01 afterwards. "I got a lot of helpful information." Harpur College thanks its generous alumni, Tanenbaum and Pell, for sharing their time and talent. We're always looking for ideas and presenters for educational seminars such as this one. Please contact us if you can share your expertise with our students and alumni. |
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Binghamton
University's "Student of the Year" Finalists Announced
Photo by Evangelos Dousmanis. Finalists from the left are Alyson Marie Cammann, a Harpur College senior, majoring in math; Nathaalie Maxwell, a Harpur/School of Management senior, majoring in English as well actively pursuing a 3-2 program through SOM; Keyana K. Patterson, a senior, working on a triple major, double degree program through Harpur and the School of Education and Human Development; Rene' Raquel Marsh, a Harpur senior, majoring in English and rhetoric; and Sylvain Ruest, a Watson junior, majoring in mechanical engineering. The five finalists of Binghamton University's first-ever "Student of the Year" competition have been announced. They are, in alphabetical order: Alyson Marie Cammann is a Harpur College senior majoring in math. Cammann's name has made four consecutive appearances on the Harpur College Dean's list. She was named a USAA All American Scholar and earned a New York State Higher Education Services scholarship. She is a teaching assistant and is an active participant in Peer PRIDE, an organization of student-athletes who work with other student-athletes and local school students to help prevent substance abuse and to promote healthy lifestyle choices. She also sits on the Intercollegiate Athletic Board and is a four-year starter and scholarship player on the women's varsity soccer team. Cammann notes her strengths as having the ability to deal with children in a positive and caring way as well as her natural leadership abilities. Future plans include teaching math, having already 'tested' the water as an intern at Binghamton High School. Rene' Raquel Marsh is a Harpur senior majoring in English and rhetoric. Rene' has been a regular on the Dean's List and is a member of Pi Eta Sigma National Honor Society. Her name has appeared on the "Who's Who Among College and University Students" list and is a Minority Empire Scholarship winner. Currently, she is involved in BTV, WHRW and Pipedream. She is a member of the Black Dance Repertoire and an active supporter of EOP office activities, offering resources and services. She is a member of the Caribbean Student Association and served as a Resident Assistant in Oneida from fall 2000 to spring 2001. Marsh's interests include the performing arts, investing and civil rights activities. She is a great supporter of youth empowerment and has provided mentoring support for the Boys and Girls Club. Nathaalie Maxwell is a Harpur/School of Management senior majoring in English as well actively pursuing a 3-2 program through SOM. Maxwell's name has appeared on the "Who's Who Among College and University Students" list and is a United Missionary Baptist Church Book scholarship award winner. She has published poetry in the American Poetry Society's National Book and is a Langston Hughes "Night of the Arts" poetry contest winner. Maxwell is a recipient of the Diversity RA programming award. She is president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and has held the offices of vice president and is currently president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Maxwell is BSU's annual fashion show coordinator and wrote and produced the Haitian American Student Association's "HASA Night" play. She is a member of the Black Dance Repertoire and is a track team past record holder. Her interests include writing, reading and dancing. She is a teaching assistant for the English Department and served as a Dickinson RA for two and a half years. Her goal is to learn enough about life to be able to converse on a wide variety topics, offering meaningful input in all conversations. Keyana K. Patterson is a senior, working on a triple major, double degree program through Harpur and the School of Education and Human Development. Keyana's majors are psychology, human development and africana studies. She is a recipient of the Empire Minority Scholars Award and in Spring 2001 had a teaching assistantship through the School of Education and Human Development. She has made the Dean's list on a regular basis and was nominated for the "Who's Who Among College and University Students" list. Patterson is a member of the Binghamton University Orientation Board and has conducted educational workshops for the Juvenile Urban Mentoring Program. She is a coordinator of the BSU'S annual fashion show and served as entertainment coordinator for the Students of Color Support Center. Patterson is a student information assistant in the University Call Center and has served as an RA for Dickinson Community. Volunteer work includes being student recruitment volunteer for Teach for America and the American Cancer Society. She is a four-year veteran of the Black Dance Repertoire and the co-founder and two-year member of the BU Dance Team. In 1998, she served as host and co-producer of the BTV call-in show, "True Chaos." Patterson's interests include reading and motivational and poetic writing. She lists her strengths as having the ability to communicate as well as effective leadership skills. She also believes she has excellent problem solving skills and has the strength and ability to put herself in other people's shoes. Sylvain Ruest is a Watson junior, majoring in mechanical engineering. Ruest is an Eastern College Athletic Conference Merit medal award winner and is a 2001 nominee for the All-American Scholar Collegiate Award. He was selected for four consecutive semesters to the Watson Dean's List. Sylvain has offered tutorial support through the EOP Tutorial Center and serves as an undergraduate research assistant in an optoelectronics and fiber optics curriculum development project. Sylvain is a member of the Binghamton Success Program (BSP). He is a member of BU's men's tennis and has a long history of coaching school children during his breaks from BU. Ruest also finds time join colleagues on the soccer field. In his free time, Ruest likes to play chess, listen to music and travel. He lists his strengths as having the ability to be successful at any task he puts his mind to as well as always being able to put his best efforts into every project he tackles. The Student of the Year competition is being coordinated by the Homecoming 2001 committee to honor academic achievement, University involvement and knowledge of campus history. Preliminary judging began in October and the winner will be announced during the Midnight Madness festivities on Friday, October 12. The Student of the Year will be awarded a $1,700 scholarship, sponsored by the BU Alumni Association and the BU Foundation, a $500 University Bookstore gift certificate and a special plaque. Prizes will also be awarded to the remaining four finalists. |
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Paul F. Mattheisen Paul F. Mattheisen, associate professor emeritus of English, died Sept. 22, 2001, at his home. Born Oct. 4, 1925 in Minneapolis, Mattheisen earned his BA cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1953. Prior to his graduate work, he was a recognized actor and radio announcer who wrote and delivered commentaries on classical music. He completed his MA (1956) and his PhD (1958) at Rutgers University, where his thesis director was Leslie Marchand. He spent the next year in England at the University of Leeds as a Fulbright Scholar, working on the letters of Sir Edmund Gosse. From 1959 to 1991, he taught Victorian literature at Harpur College. Mattheisen also developed popular courses in the short story and technical writing. He was a devoted, respected and influential teacher, many of whose students remained in touch long after graduation. One of his former doctoral students made a four-hour trip every autumn to have dinner and conversation with him. Mattheisen published numerous articles on Victorian literature, as well as a substantial monograph on Browning’s The Ring and the Book. He was a superlative editor who, with Michael Millgate, co-edited Transatlantic Dialogue: American Correspondence of Sir Edmund Gosse (University of Texas Press, 1966). In subsequent years and following his retirement from teaching, he worked on The Collected Letters of George Gissing (Ohio University Press), which he co-edited with Arthur Young and Pierre Coustillas of the University of Lille. Reviewers at The Spectator called the fourth volume of this 10-volume set "one of the century’s most impressive feats of editing." In 1995, the Gissing letters won the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters from the Modern Language Association of America. Mattheisen also was senior editor, with Arthur Young, of With Gissing in Italy: The Memoirs of Brian Boru Dunne (Ohio University Press, 1999). At the time of his death, he had completed a book-length study of Sen. Bronson Cutting, a promoter of statehood for New Mexico. In accordance with Mattheisen’s wishes, his funeral was private and there will be no memorial service. Friends and colleagues wishing to acknowledge his life are asked to make contributions in his memory to the American Red Cross. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to: Prof. and Mrs. Donald Mattheisen112 Churchill Ave. Arlington, MA 02476 Nathan Hakman Nathan Hakman, professor emeritus of political science, died Sept. 26, 2001, at the Susquehanna Nursing Home in Johnson City. He was predeceased by his wife, Irene, and survived by their son, Donald. Born July 2, 1921 in Dorchester, Mass., Hakman earned a BA in 1943 from Ohio University, an MA in 1947 from Syracuse University and a PhD in 1954 from the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the faculty at Harpur College, he served as a research assistant for the University of Illinois’ Institutes of Labor and Industrial Relations (1948-50), Government and Public Affairs (1950-51) and Communications Research (1953-54). He was a labor and industrial relations analyst at the U.S. Wage and Stabilization Board in Chicago (1952-53). Hakman also taught at the University of Alabama, Michigan State University and the University of Denver until he began his career at Harpur College in 1960. His primary areas of interest were public interest litigation, political trials and judicial policy making.
Professor David Cingranelli said of him, "We were colleagues for about 15 years. He served in many administrative capacities during his career, including department chair. His field of research was constitutional law, so every political science major in Harpur College who went on to law school took a course from Nathan Hakman because they were very interested in the subject matter he covered. He was a very dedicated teacher." Hakman retired from Harpur College in 1985. He continued teaching into the early 1990s. Memorial plans are incomplete at this time. Harold Nieburg Funeral services were held Oct. 3, 2001 for Harold "Hal" Nieburg, an eclectic Binghamton University scholar who advised the Kennedys and was an authority on the Cold War and 1960s rebellion. Nieburg, 73, died in Florida Sept. 27 of natural causes. Nieburg, formerly of Vestal, was a political science professor for 25 years before retiring in 1995. He was an international expert on political conflict and a confidant of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and Sen. Paul Simon, former colleagues said. But he also had a reputation in Broome County as a dedicated 4-H leader who raised horses and chickens on his Vestal farm, was a computer expert and loved news photography, jogging and windsurfing. "Hal was a very imaginative and inventive kind of guy who didn’t fit the usual categories of academic life," said Eduard Ziegenhagen, professor of political science. Born in 1927 in Philadelphia, Nieburg was the son of a Russian Jewish police chief and served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He taught at universities in the Midwest before arriving at Binghamton in 1970. He later founded Harpur College’s political journalism concentration. Nieburg considered himself a civil libertarian in the early days of the Cold War but became more politically conservative as he grew older, said Edwin Rutkowski, associate professor emeritus of political science and Nieburg’s close friend. Nieburg is perhaps best known in academia for his 1966 book, In the Name of Science, which explored how science is used and misused in supporting political goals. He wrote Nuclear Secrecy and Foreign Policy in 1964 and Political Violence: The Behavioral Process in 1969 and Culture Storm: Politics and the Ritual Order in 1973. "He was ahead of a lot of people in understanding the cultural impact of the Vietnam War era of discontent," Rutkowski said. Rutkowski noted that he felt a kinship with Nieburg because both graduated from the University of Chicago. Nieburg was dedicated to his health and jogged in Vestal or windsurfed at Whitney Point Lake, even on the coldest days. "It would be freezing and he would put on a wetsuit and go out to Dorchester Park with his surfboards," Rutkowski said. Reprinted with permission of the Press & Sun-Bulletin. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Binghamton University
Foundation, PO Box 6005, Binghamton, New York 13902-6005, or to
any county 4-H program or other youth-oriented organization of your
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Davida
Adams-Davis is the president of the Thurgood Marshall Pre-Law Society
and Elizabeth Nicholson is the president of Phi Alpha Delta pre-law
fraternity. They are both senior PPL majors in Harpur College and
have always wanted to be lawyers. Adams-Davis wants to work in Constitutional
law and equal rights. Nicholson is attracted to the helping others.
They were among the 600 students who attended Law Day in the Mandela
Room on October 3, 2001. Aspiring law students took some time out
of their busy schedules to gather applications and ask law school
representatives about GPA and LSAT requirements, specialized areas
of study, bar exam pass rates, and everything else important to
a future in law.
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