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Harpur College Draws Thousands Harpur College opened its doors to nearly 2,000 prospective freshmen in Open Houses on October 27th and November 9th.
As high school students travel throughout the country learning more about where they will spend four of the most important years of their lives, Harpur College rolls out the red carpet to attract as many of them as possible. Faculty from each department speak personally with students and parents, answering questions about majors, courses, and career options. Representatives from Financial Aid, Admissions, and Academic Advising make applying to -- and paying for -- college a less daunting process. Participating in Open Houses is one of the most important steps Harpur College can take in keeping its student body strong. Cheryl Brown, director of admissions for Binghamton University, explained, "Students who visit our campus are more likely to apply and enroll than those who don't." Students who take time to see us personally are already interested in coming to school here. A trip to campus further strengthens that interest. "Open house visitations are a great way for students to connect with the University," remarked Julia Miller, director of Harpur College's Academic Advising Office. "They get to know what we're like and we get an opportunity to see students eager to become a part of our learning community."
More Open Houses are scheduled for April 7 and 13, 2002. If you
know any high school students, send them to Harpur! |
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Pavlovian Society Honors Dr. Ralph Miller
Miller deserves more than a medal for his impressive career, which has focused primarily on studying cognition and behavior in rats and humans. He has published over 200 papers, many with students, and serves as the editor of Animal and Learning Behavior. His career in Psychology began at Rutgers University, oddly enough, after earning a Master’s degree in physics. Because he wanted to both develop ideas and test them, he changed his major — and his entire future — to psychology. "Physics tends to differentiate between theorists and empiricists, whereas psychology does not," he summarized. In keeping with Bartle’s original vision of Harpur College, Miller is dedicated to both teaching and research. The best part about teaching, according to Miller, is watching his students enjoy and absorb the material. One course he finds particularly exciting is Evolution and Behavior because it has challenged his own beliefs. "If there is anything I’ve learned in 37 years, it is that experience has less influence on behavior than I thought," he said, "I have slowly become aware of the interaction of experience with genes. They don’t determine behavior, but they can create very strong predispositions." Miller feels hands-on research is just as important a teaching tool as lectures. "Classes provide only half of an education," he said, "Actually getting in the laboratory and seeing the creation of new knowledge is the other half." It also helps undergraduates narrow down their career paths; Miller has seen many students go on to become full-time researchers after working in psychology labs at Harpur College. An avid hiker, Miller is especially fond of the nature preserve on campus and serves on the University Committee for the Environment. Don’t expect Dr. Miller to stop and smell the roses for too long on his hikes. He has no plans to forgo psychology for the great outdoors. "I have had fun for the last 37 years. If I can maintain the same steam binding new relationships between experience and behavior, I would be ecstatic." Miller is delighted with the Pavlovian Society’s Gantt Medal and, not surprisingly, made a very fitting comparison. "We give our rats pellets and we give our children M&M’s as reinforcements. Faculty, like everyone else, are subject to reinforcement contingencies. It’s nice to be recognized." Harpur College is proud to offer students the opportunity to study with such renowned faculty. |
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Harpur
College Professor to Discuss Class Structure at Freedeman Lecture
Dubofsky will address the topic "The Ugly Secret of U.S. History: The Hidden Agonies of Class," by examining the disappearance of the working class both from the public mind and sight. He will explain why this trend has developed and explore the current status of the working class. Dubofsky is an internationally recognized expert on United States social and labor history. He came to Binghamton University from the University in Wisconsin in 1971. He has published extensively and received numerous awards and honors including a Fulbright Distinguished Senior Lectureship at the University of Salzburg, Austria in 1988-89 and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dubofsky's early books, particularly We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World and Labor in America and John L. Lewis: A Biography have been recognized as classics in the field. In 1991, Dubofsky was named a distinguished professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees and won the Chancellor's and University awards for excellence in teaching in 1996. The Freedeman Lecture was established by the History Department
to honor Charles E. Freedeman who taught French history, modern
European history and economic history at the University from 1968
until his retirement in 1991. The Freedeman Lecture is co-sponsored
by the Department of History and the Dean of Harpur College of Arts
and Sciences. |
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Rutkowski
Not Slowed by Retirement Retirement doesn’t mean inactivity for Dr. Edwin Rutkowski. Since 1991, he still reports to his office every day and keeps busy writing guest essays for newspapers and newsletters, including Binghamton’s Press & Sun Bulletin and the Binghamton-Borovichi [Russia] Sister Cities, the latter founded to promote international friendship during the Cold War. "Writing essays keeps me intellectually active and close to academia and scholarship, which are my main interests," he said.
Rutkowski taught at Harpur College from 1967 to 1991. During that time he saw the institution blossom from a small liberal arts college to a large state university. Rutkowski feels Harpur College has definitely fulfilled Glen Bartle’s vision as a "public Swarthmore." He remembers Harpur students as "brilliant" and remains impressed by the high class rankings and SAT scores of incoming freshmen. Although Rutkowski has published extensively throughout his career, teaching was always the high point. "Teaching is above all an engagement with others in the life of the mind. Imagine -- thinking for a living!" He enjoys hearing from his former students, knowing they’ve all gone on to fascinating careers in law, social work, foreign service, academia, and many other fields. His career specialized in political theory and Soviet Russia. His interest in that country stemmed from fighting in World War II. "We were in coalition with the Soviet Union and I was fascinated with this ‘strange alliance,’ as Winston Churchill called it." Throughout his career, he traveled to Russia several times, including half a year at Moscow State University in 1977. Rutkowski is the author of The Politics of Military Aviation Procurement, 1926 — 1934: A Study in the Political Assertion of Consensual Values (Ohio University Press, 1966). His article "Eastern Europe" twice appeared in editions of Political Handbook of the World (Mc-Graw Hill, 1978, 1979) and he has had a series of letters on foreign policy published in the New York Times over the last two decades. He currently lives in Vestal with his wife Rose Marie. They have
two grown children and three grandchildren. Rutkowski would enjoy
hearing from former students. His e-mail address is ehrutko@binghamton.edu |
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Harpur
Students Triumph in Debate Team September and October were some of the most successful months ever in the history of Binghamton University’s debate team. This is the first year that Binghamton’s team, at such an early point in the season, appears nationally ranked and has dominated regional tournaments.
The team was founded in the 1980s and is part of Binghamton Speech and Debate (BSD). In competition against teams from other schools, which may invest considerable funds in coaching, travel and other expenses for their debaters, it has enjoyed surprising success, triumphing over Harvard University at the Naval Academy’s Debate Tournament in 1998 and ranking sixth in the region in 1999. This year, the team is blessed with sponsorship from the Binghamton Scholars Program, which has made it better positioned than ever before to challenge some of the country’s best. At the first tournament of the season, held at the University of Rochester, other universities expressed amazement at the performance of Binghamton’s team. The novice team, composed of Jonathan Espiritu `03 and Lucy Smith `03, went 6-0 in pre-elimination rounds and ultimately advanced to semifinals, where it lost to West Point. Along the way, it triumphed over teams from the University of Vermont, Towson University and other teams from West Point. At the same time, the junior varsity team, made up of Becky Green `02 and Shane Cerkiz `03, went 5-1 and ultimately won the division championship. Junior varsity debate follows the same rules as the novice level, but debate is more intense because members are more experienced. Before Green and Cerkiz hit finals, where they defeated West Virginia University, they enjoyed success against Ithaca College, Towson University and the University of Rochester. Additionally, both Espiritu and Green were ranked as top speaker within their respective divisions. While only Green was able to attend West Point’s tournament, and competed on a team with a student from Cornell, her performance was still highly noticed by the audience and judges. Despite it being her first college tournament in the varsity division, she triumphed over Columbia University, the University of Vermont and Ithaca College. Green ended up ranked as sixth speaker out of 38 debaters – most with several years of college debate experience. The Binghamton team’s success continued at the University of Vermont’s tournament, where Green, once again debating "swing" [in partnership] with a student from Cornell, went 6-0 in pre-elimination rounds and ultimately advanced to the semifinals, where she fell to the University of Rochester. Green triumphed over debaters from Marist College and William Jewell. In addition, Green was skilled enough to bring home another top-speaker award. In the remaining months of the semester, as its membership flourishes, the team plans on sending even more members to tournaments at Harvard University, Liberty University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. And, as the team tightens its strategy throughout the duration of the season, the prospect of continual success appears very reassuring. Schatz is the debate team’s instructor and is pursuing graduate studies in English at Binghamton University. |
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Harpur College Mourns Art Professor Emeritus Ippolito Angelo Ippolito, 78,professor emeritus of painting and a major figure in abstract expressionism movement in New York City, died October 29, following a brief illness. A native of Italy, Ippolito immigrated to the United States in 1931 and studied at the Instituto Meschini in Rome, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts and the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School in New York City. From 1948-50, Ippolito and three other artists organized the Tanager Gallery in Manhattan that remained open until 1962. After teaching positions at such institutions as Sarah Lawrence College, UC Berkley, Stanford and Michigan State University, he joined the Binghamton faculty in 1971. He retired in 1995, John Thompson, chair of the Art Department, said Ippolito was the "central figure in the art department during his years here." Donald DeMauro, an associate professor and Ippolito’s colleague for several decades, recalls Ippolito’s "lust for life, for food, for sensuality, for physicality, he was very much was like that." DeMauro said while at Binghamton, Ippolito was a mentor to several painters who have since achieved prominence in New York City. A prolific painter, Ippolito exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirschorn in Washington D.C. He was member of the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. A collection of Ippolito's work and a more in-depth biography is online at http://www.giotto.org/cimabue/ippolito.html. Graveside services were held in Brooklyn last week. A memorial
service will be held in Vestal at the family’s convenience
and the Art Department is planning a memorial service on campus.
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Announcing
a new way for you to buy Harpur merchandise.
Shop the campus bookstore from the comfort of your PC or Mac. Want
to pick up a copy of the new Harpur history book The Cornerstone?
Visit...
For hats, shirts and other apparel, see http://www.bkstore.com/binghamton/merch.html
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For other Campus News, visit: http://www.binghamton.edu/home/about/default.html Back Issues: October
26, 2001 |
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Harpur
College’s Psychology Department has another feather in its
cap. 
Melvyn
Dubofsky, distinguished professor of history and sociology, will
deliver the 10th annual Charles E. Freedeman Memorial Lecture in
History at 4:30 p.m. Friday, November 9, in Casadesus Recital Hall
in the Fine Arts building of the Binghamton University campus. The
lecture is free and open to the public. 
Rutkowski
received an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from
Columbia University. He taught at the University of Detroit for
11 years before joining the faculty at Harpur College. Rutkowski
was drawn here because of greater academic resources and opportunities.
Check
out the Harpur mugs, the cool notecards and bumper stickers.
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