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In the News
Skidmore’s faculty and staff were featured in a number of stories
in the general media this spring, as demonstrated by the following
list:
Sandy Baum, professor and chair, Department
of Economics, was included in stories in Education Daily
(“National Panel Seeks to Improve Financial Aid System,”
March 8, 2002), The Wall Street Journal (“Colleges Clamp
Down on Financial Aid,” April 11, 2002), U.S. News &
World Report (“Should You Study Part Time?” April
15, 2002), the Albany Times Union (“College Smart Loans
face uncertain future,” May 1, 2002), and The Los Angeles
Times (“College Further from Poor’s Grasp, Study Shows,”
May 2, 2002).
Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts
and Letters and professor of English, was in Newsday (“Filling
the Void,” April 10, 2002); Government Professor Roy
Ginsberg was a guest March 15 on “Roundtable,”
a program on WAMC-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate in Albany,
discussing his participation in the German Green Party's annual
conference in Berlin (the segment aired a second time during the
station’s March 17 news broadcast).
Timothy Harper, visiting instructor
in the Department of Management and Business, in
The Sunday Gazette (“Reparations Pick Up Steam,”
April 28, 2002); Mary Stange, associate
professor of women’s studies and religion, in USA Today
(“Female priests provide answer,” April 4, 2002), Professor
Jeffrey Segrave, chair of the Department
of Exercise Science, Dance, and Athletics, in The Chronicle of
Higher Education (“Dancing from Classroom to Locker Room,”
May 3, 2002) and in the Danish newspaper Politiken in an
April 13, 2002 article on sport and politics; Robert
Shorb, director, Student Aid and Family Finance, in The
Post-Star (“Bush loan proposal riles Schumer,” May
1, 2002); and Professor Jill Sweet
and Tang Museum Curator Ian Berry,
in an April 19 segment of “Roundtable” on WAMC-FM, discussing
“Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation,”
currently on exhibit at the museum.
Skidmore Yard Sale to Benefit Community Groups
Every spring at Skidmore, as students hurry to move out and head
home, they inevitably leave behind clothes, lamps, furniture, bathroom
and kitchen supplies, small appliances, and other items. This spring,
those goods will be made available — at bargain tag-sale prices
— to the Saratoga Springs community.
The nonprofit group Dump & Run Inc., a veteran sponsor of such
events, has partnered with campus and community volunteers to collect
unwanted items and sell them in a gigantic yard sale for the benefit
of local charities.
Among the participating groups, whose volunteers will staff the
sale and bring home a share of the proceeds, are the CAPTAIN Youth
and Family Services, the Shelter of Saratoga, the Salvation Army’s
Youth-at-Risk Program, the Saratoga Center for the Family, and Transitional
Services Association. Skidmore recycling intern Mary Patterson,
who is organizing the dormitory clean-out and sale, says the volunteers
will also include Skidmore students, faculty, and staff.
The Dump & Run yard sale is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Sunday, May 26, rain or shine, at the Saratoga Farmers’
Market pavilion on High Rock Avenue. The event is free and open
to the public.
Dump & Run founder Lisa Heller held her first college-based
recycling sale three years ago at the University of Richmond. Since
then, colleges from Tufts and Columbia to Bates and Acadia have
partnered with Dump & Run to raise money for a wide array of
nonprofit service organizations.
To support the Skidmore effort, Morr-is-Stored has donated storage
lockers, and Patterson is negotiating with local truck-rental agencies
as well. Skidmore’s residential life and facilities services
offices will help with the clean-out as usual — but this year,
their labors will contribute to the community instead of to the
landfill.
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