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President
DeFleur Addresses Campus Community,
Urges Tolerance and Vigilance
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In light of the war in Iraq, President DeFleur sent the following letter to all members of the Binghamton University Community on March 25, 2003.
This is a solemn time for the University as well as the nation and the world. We are all challenged to balance our feelings regarding international politics with our hope and support for the safety of our troops and civilians in the Middle East.
As an educational community our role is to gain a better understanding of the social, cultural, political and economic factors that create tensions between people and countries. Freedom of speech and open academic debate provide forums for the expression of many views and for learning. It is essential that we protect these. The diverse backgrounds and ideas of our students, faculty and staff enrich our campus and all perspectives must be given respect and tolerance. We particularly benefit from and value the participation of our international students, who represent nearly 90 countries, including those from the Middle East. They are a part of our educational community and our lives and we will continue to welcome students from around the globe.
In response to the notification from the U.S. government and New York State regarding the increase of the homeland security threat level to Orange (high), the University has taken additional steps to ensure the safety of the campus. The University has not been notified of any specific threat. However, I want to assure the campus community that we will remain vigilant and that appropriate departments are well trained and prepared for possible emergencies. The University Police website contains some security recommendations for the campus. We are asking that you report issues or problems to the appropriate offices on campus. Any instances of intimidation or bias-related harassment should also be reported to the University Police at 777-2393. In addition, all students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to carry their Binghamton University ID cards. Further information concerning national, state and local security can be found at http://www.binghamton.edu/home/updates/security.html.
The remainder of the academic year will be challenging as we are all impacted by world events in different ways. The University must continue to work together toward our goals.
Sincerely,
Lois B. DeFleur
President
GYPSY Tickets Still on Sale!
Join us on April 3, 2003 for our third annual theater party and performance to benefit the Harpur College Broadway Internships.
6:00 - 7:00: Theater Party - Hors D'oeuvres & Cocktails at SARDI's, West 44th Street
8:00: GYPSY at the Sam S. Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street
Don't miss this revival of the famous GYPSY, starring Bernadette Peters, with original choreography by Jerome Robbins.
Purchase your tickets today for the biggest hit of this Broadway season!
For more information, call 607-777-4278 or contact harprsvp@binghamton.edu.
For more information about the musical, check out http://www.gypsythemusical.com/about.html.
First
Person Singular:
Diane Smith `77, bringing out the best of Connecticut
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Diane Smith at Mystic Seaport in her adopted home state, Connecticut |
By creating her own major through Harpur College's Innovative Projects Board and working at WHRW and BTV, Diane Smith `77 gained the skills she needed to succeed in journalism and is now one of the most successful media personalities in Connecticut. Smith is the co-host of Connecticut's top rated Morning Show on WITC-AM News Talk 1080. An Emmy award winning TV journalist, she produces programs for CT Public TV based on her popular series, "Positively Connecticut," which tells the stories of the state's people, products, legends, and attractions. Smith has written three books based on the series. She told the Harpur Hotline about her journey from WHRW to her current role as Connecticut's unofficial ambassador.
It all started at WHRW. My first or second night on campus, someone at the dorm said the radio station needs volunteers and they were having a meeting. My very first weekend on campus, I was on the air. They needed someone to do the early Sunday morning news and I did it. I stayed at WHRW all my years at Binghamton. I was news director for two years, for a while I did a music show, and I was General Manager my senior year.
Though Harpur College's Innovative Projects Board, I wrote my own major in Communications, which was great. It let me focus on the things I knew would help me as a reporter. For instance, rhetoric, journalism, and political science classes all helped me in public speaking and reporting. My time at WHRW even counted as coursework.
A lot of my friends who went to communications schools couldn't get on their campus radio and TV stations because there was so much competition. That was never the case at Binghamton. The person who ran the campus TV station, Professor Joe Kiley, made it very hands-on for everyone. We produced news, game shows, and a soap opera.
I was GM of WHRW at an interesting time. The station had just gone from 10 watts to 1000, so we went from serving the campus to the whole Binghamton community. WHRW had the region's sole contract with the Texaco Network, the provider of the Metropolitan Opera. We broadcast African-American, Classical, Latino, Rock, Reggae and Pops music. It was — and still is — an interesting station that caters to a lot of people everywhere.
During the mid 70's, the State University lost a lot of funding and students held many protests against the faculty retrenchments. As GM of WHRW, I helped start the SUNY Radio Network, which linked up all the SUNY and CUNY stations so news of the protests could spread from campus to campus. WHRW broadcast the student takeover of the administration building and we had live reports of demonstrations at many other campuses.
I had great experiences at Harpur and met some wonderful faculty. I also Larry Gottbaum and the late George Wellwarth. I never had a door closed in my face. Somehow there was always a way to do the things I wanted, like major in communications.
Not only did I get a good and broad education at Harpur, I had great hands on experience in the area that made my career possible.
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My siblings and I all went to SUNY schools and my sister, Suzanne `81, went to Harpur too. She met her husband, Daniel Ferleger `80, on her first day of school, and they just celebrated 25 years together. They have two kids and their second son is Adam Harpur Ferleger, named after Harpur College!
I actually got my first job in radio right out of Harpur. WENE/WMRV in Endicott needed someone right away, so I started the day after graduation. A year later, I got a job at Channel 12 in Binghamton. I started there as a reporter and became an anchor.
After a few years, I went to New Haven to WTNH TV, an ABC affiliate for the state of Connecticut and worked as a reporter and anchor. Once I got there, I figured I'd stay just a few years, but I fell in love with the state.
People often asked why the news only covered negative stories. I went to my news director and said, "I know we try to cover good news, but it gets drowned out." So he said, "Then your new job is to find the good news."
That turned out to be the greatest gift ever. Along with two daily newscasts and general assignment reporting, I started doing a feature segment called "Positively Connecticut," sort of based on what Charles Kuralt would do when he'd go on the road. It really took off with the public.
I've since written three books based on the show: Positively Connecticut (Globe Pequot Press, 1998), Absolutely Positively Connecticut (Globe Pequot Press, 2000), and Christmas in Connecticut (Globe Pequot Press, 2001).
When I left WNTH TV three years ago, I licensed "Positively Connecticut," and took it to the state's public television station, CPTV. I expanded it from a feature segment to a series of 30 and 60-minute shows.
Some people say I'm Connecticut's official ambassador! Teachers ask me for advice on where to take kids on field trips. Some folks use my books as guidebooks. Connecticut has a little of everything in a small state: mountains, beaches, forests, culture, and great universities that bring international people here.
I started co-hosting a morning talk show at WTIC Newstalk 1080, a Hartford based news talk radio station in February 2000. We discuss everything, but we try to keep it as local as we can. The show can be anything from the light to the heavy, based on whatever the news of the day is. We were on the air live when the World Trade Towers were hit, and stayed on well past our 10:00 a.m. end time until 3:00 in the afternoon.
In reporting, you can get cynical because you often hear the bad side of life, but "Positively Connecticut" is my antidote. Even on the worst day when I've had to cover really bad news, I could always go back to my desk and start working on the next "Positively Connecticut" story. I am inspired and uplifted by the people I have met along the way, the people who give my state its character and heart and tradition.
Although
Binghamton University's athletic mascot is the Bearcat, the most familiar
animal here doesn't play games. However, it's as well known for its
successful "road trips" as some of our sports teams.
Ambystoma maculatum — the spotted salamander — is one of thousands of species of animal life in Binghamton University's 190-acre Nature Preserve. Each spring, the salamanders migrate from the woods where they spend the winter to a breeding place in a pond. To cross the roadway separating wood from pond, they use asphalt ramps installed by campus maintenance. Without the ramps, many wouldn't survive.
Harpur College Biology professor Dale Madison has performed delicate surgery on these amphibians and installed tiny microphones to track their migrations. He and student researchers even assist the spring spawning — guiding salamanders to the ramps or carrying them across the road, which is kept closed to traffic until the researchers give the all-clear. Work like Madison's is vital to helping these animals — important for insect control, but diminishing in New York state — to thrive.
Harpur Student Spotlight: Angela Rivas `03
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Harpur Senior Angela Rivas `03 |
If you want to know what's happening around Binghamton University, ask Angela Rivas `03. She has worked at the University Union's Information Booth since her sophomore year, a job that puts her in contact with everyone on our campus.
A graduate of Mother Cabrini High School in Manhattan, her hometown, Rivas chose to come here because of Binghamton's strong reputation combined with affordability.
Among Rivas' favorite professors is Richard Pindell, who teaches English Literature. "He's very animated, so he keeps you interested," she said.
Rivas is currently president of Sigma Lambda Upsilon Sorority, Inc. and also serves as Parliamentarian for the Latino Greek Council. She followed the lure of Greek life because of her desire to get involved with community, as well as for the lifelong relationships she knew she would make in a sorority. "It goes beyond friendship," she explained of sisterhood, "It's a bond you have with each other."
After graduation, Rivas plans to pursue a Masters of Arts in Social Sciences (MASS) from Binghamton University and concentrate her coursework in Health Care Administration, a field she became interested in after interning in the Campus Health Care Center.
Rivas said she will leave Binghamton with many happy memories, especially of the support she received from her E.O.P. counselors and of the fun times she had at Spring Fling.
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Williamson will address globalism at next month's Romano Lecture. |
Mark your calendar for Harpur College's annual Romano Lecture on April 24, 2003 at 5:00p.m. in the Anderson Center Reception Room. This year's topic is "Going Global: A 500 Year Perspective," presented by Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University. A reception will follow the presentation, which is free and open to the public.
World trade, mass migration and capital flows are driven by two forces: global policy and events having nothing to do with it at all. According to Williamson, the difference matters. He explained, "The world has seen two pro-global booms over the past five centuries, and two anti-global busts. The years between 1492 and 1800 were anti-global. The first pro-global century ended with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti-global backlash."
Williamson's lecture will report what we know about the winners and losers during the two pro-global centuries. It will also address how the winners responded to the losers' complaints. "Going Global" with conclude with some history lessons, including the role of political participation in the whole process.
Williamson is Harvard's Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Faculty Associate at the Center for International Development, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His areas of expertise include economic history and the contemporary Third World.
He has written several books, including The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950 (Routledge, 2000), Globalization and History: The Evolution of a 19th Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press, 1999) and the forthcoming Globalization in Historical Perspective (University of Chicago Press).
The Mario and Antoinette Romano Lecture Series was endowed in 1984 by Mr. and Mrs. Romano as a tribute to Mr. Romano's years as a Harpur College student. Each year, their endowment sponsors a lecture given by noted speakers in history, economics, art history and medicine.
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An Invitation for Alumni Golfers
All alumni are invited to attend the Fifth Annual School of Management Dean's Challenge to be held May 15, 2003 at the Scarsdale Golf Club in Hartsdale, NY. "Shotgun start" at 8:30a.m. Mark `81 and Cathy Deutsch `79 are graciously hosting the event.
For prices and more information, please contact Alan Greene `88, SOM Director of Development, at 607-777-2948 or agreene@binghamton.edu.
Click here for photos of previous SOM golf events.
In response to your much-appreciated feedback, the Harpur Hotline has developed a regular feature of alumni news. Please send us anything you want: publications, promotions, marriages, babies, graduations, retirements, etc. Many thanks to everyone who shared their stories! Here's what some of your fellow Harpur alumni and friends are doing:
1975: Elda and Ed McQuade live in Somers, NY and have raised three children: Edward, a senior at RPI, Paul, a senior at Somers H.S. and Stephanie, a freshman right here at Binghamton University. Elda said, "We are so happy Stephanie is there, and we really love to visit and see how much the university has grown." Elda teaches English as a Second Language in the Ossining School District and Ed is a V.P. with Miller Advertising in NYC. The McQuades would enjoy hearing from some of their classmates from 1975. Write to them at elda8@optonline.net.
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1978: Ronald B. Hauben has joined one of the largest law firms in the world, Bryan Cave LLP, as a partner in its New York office. Hauben comes to the firm from PwC Consulting, where he was General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and a partner; in that role, Hauben led the legal team which negotiated the sale of PwC Consulting to IBM Corporation in October 2002. Earlier, Hauben was global chief corporate counsel and a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and in that capacity was one of the lead attorneys in the combination of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, the largest professional services merger in history. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1989, Hauben was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Malcolm Muir and was an associate at a Philadelphia, PA, law firm where he specialized in commercial litigation with an emphasis on technology companies and intellectual property disputes. Hauben graduated from New York University School of Law in 1981. He and his wife, Vicki (Berger) Hauben `78, have two daughters and a son, and live in Larchmont, NY. |
| 1993: Jeffrey Gross and his wife Stephanie happily announce the birth of their first child, Julia Ava, on February 1, 2003. Gross is director of project management at Maxons Restorations Inc., where he has worked since 1994. He wrote, "Our company was instrumental in the cleanup effort of lower Manhattan after 9/11, and cleaned Trinity Church, St Paul's Chapel, dozens of office buildings and thousands of residential apartments in Battery Park City." |  |
1997: Alicia Dawn Dixon (M.A. 2000) and Larry Edward Garrard are getting married on May 31, 2003. Dixon is a claims representative for AIG, in Vestal. Her fiancé is a software engineer for L3 Communications, in Kirkwood, NY. Source: Press & Sun Bulletin
1998: Benjamin J. Gold and Ryan Mary Gates are tying the knot on June 28, 2003. Gates works for NCDC in Hempstead, NY. Gold is an advertising consultant for the Pennysaver News in Long Island, NY. Source: Press & Sun Bulletin
1998: Morristown, NJ law firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP is pleased to announce that Shari J. Polonetsky has joined their firm as an associate in its New York office. She practices commercial litigation, insurance and products liability matters. Earlier, Polonetsky was an associate with Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP in New York. She graduated from George Washington University Law School in 2001.
2001: Nicholas Colosi and Kelly Collins `01 (SEHD) have announced their engagement. Colosi is currently attending SUNY Cortland. Collins attends Marywood University and is employed by the Crime Victims Assistance Center in Binghamton. The couple plans to marry June 28, 2003. Source: Press & Sun Bulletin
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2001: Matt Tisdale attends Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He is on the staff of the Law Review, which recently elected him Editor in Chief! Currently, Tisdale works part-time at Morrison, Mahoney & Miller, LLP in Boston. |
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