Campus News

SUNY Cortland will celebrate the completion of major renovations on one of its residential facilities, Fitzgerald Hall, with a grand reopening ceremony and open house on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. in the building lobby. The ceremony will feature guest speakers for the ribbon cutting followed by a reception and building tours.

Stephen Harris, a certified arborist who represents the company RPM Ecosystems, headquartered in Dryden, N.Y., will hold a seminar on “The Restoration Marketplace” on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at SUNY Cortland.

The internationally known philosopher and ethicist Robert Paul Churchill, who specializes in human rights, will discuss “Walls of Oppression: Why the Unjust Cannot Be Happy,” on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at SUNY Cortland.

Jason Clark '05 M.A., principal of Lake Street Elementary School in the Chittenango Central School District, and J.W. Gladstone, lecturer and writer, will discuss service-learning and address the methods best modeled when students work with their service communities at a lecture on Monday, Oct. 26.

SUNY Cortland’s Seven Valleys Writing Project (SVWP) will offer “Four Cups of Coffee,” a walking and writing workshop to be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, on the Commons in downtown Ithaca, N.Y. The event, from 9-11:30 a.m., is intended to inspire thoughts about writing creativity among the area’s school teachers and administrators.

An eight-member panel of SUNY Cortland alumni will discuss "BA in English ... Now What? Career Options for English Majors" from 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Lynn Parks '68 SUNY Cortland Alumni House on 29 Tompkins St. Free and open to the public, the event will be preceded by a 5:30-6 p.m. discussion of "Job Search/Grad School - Are You Ready?" that will be moderated by John Shirley, career services.

Broadway's diabolical musical thriller, "Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," will be presented by the Performing Arts Department for six performances at the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre beginning Oct 23.

One hundred twenty education majors, all of whom have completed the first of two student teaching experiences, will participate in the biannual Educators in Training (EIT) Conference on Friday, Oct. 23, in Corey Union.

Seven talented Red Dragon cross country teams, that included 31 All-Americans and a trio of NCAA individual national champions, will reunite on with their former coach Jack Daniels on Oct. 30 as part of the C-Club Hall of Fame Weekend.

Eight new members will be inducted into the SUNY Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame during its 41st annual banquet and ceremonies on Saturday, Oct. 31, in Corey Union.