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STEM alumnae share stories and advice Daniel Greenman News Editor

On 5PM-7PM, Wednesday, On 7PM, Tuesday, April 19, Maggie Hoffman ‘15 moderated “An Evening with Alumnae Rising Stars in STEM,” in which Paige Kotowitz ‘18, Sharifa Sahai ‘18, and Nora Swidler ‘14 discussed their times at Union and in STEM and gave advice for current students. Union’s Gold Network, which connects alumni to Union through networking events, volunteer opportunities and philanthropic support sponsored the event.

Hoffman began with her post-Union story. She returned from a Minerva Fellowship in Cambodia needing a job, not knowing what to do.

She sat with Becker Career Center’s Bob Soules, who said, according to her, “if

you want to learn in the best, brightest, most fast-paced environment, go to technology.”

Hoffman ended up working for Dell, where she has been for Kotowitz, a chemistry major and psychology minor, entered Union “fully undecided” with “science not at the top of” her list. She was “randomly placed into Chem 101” and said she “really enjoyed hands-on” lab classes, citing chemistry as the “central science.” Post-Union, she joined San Diego nanotechnology company nanoComposix’s Research and Development team, learning “the importance of real-world science applications.” She is now in PhD at University of California, Los Angeles.

Sahai had liked science since elementary school science fairs. A double major in computer science and biolo-

Courtesy of Young Alumni Philanthropy and Engagement Left to right: Paige Wotowitz ‘18, Sharifa Sahai ‘18, and Nora Swidler ;14

gy, she studied abroad thrice at Union in Australia, Ethiopia, and Fiji. She entered as a biology premedical student, and heard from professors in her computer science class that bioinformatics and computational medicine would be “real big” in the future. She cites her sophomore year NASA internship as steering her toward a PhD. “Everyone who worked there” had one, she stated.

Union professors who wanted her to be a professor also

Union, she deferred a Harvard acceptance for a Google software engineer job, but missed research and biology. She is now a third-year Harvard PhD candidate while studying in Harvard Medical School’s Department of Systems Biology.

Swidler, a French major and philosophy minor, said she “took advantage in everything” at Union. She studied abroad in France, was panhellenic president her junior year,

was on the basketball team, and “studied what [she] was interested in”. She worked in reality television casting found she wanted a different career. “Forged in Fire was a cool show, but I wanted to use my skill set,” Swidler said, which was being able to make information interesting and compelling. She was “kind of lost” until, three years post-Union, she also went to See STEM on page 2

Club loss: The Garnet Yearbook Team Daniel Greenman News Editor

Union’s Garnet Yearbook Team, the student club that produced “a yearbook for each graduating class,” according to Union’s “Clubs & Organizations” website, is currently nonexistent. According to Assistant Director of Student Activities, Katie Davin, it has no current mem-

their yearbook in 1877.

The last campus events email from the club was sent June 4, 2021. Sarah Trim, President of the Garnet Yearbook at the time, sent it to advertise the year’s book’s pre-order deadline, with a cost of $45 for a hardcover or Ebook.

Assistant Director of Student Activities Davin and “advisor for all[...] media groups on campus” worked with the

club’s most recent version.

She said it stopped operating this Fall term, when “there wasn’t a student to take the lead” after its leaders graduated last year. She said the club had three members that year and the “year before that maybe two. [It’s] not always easy for a club like that.”

The club’s most recent version, said Davin, “took pictures” and “sourced pictures from students” showing athletics, campus events and more.

The club’s most recent email asking for pictures from community members was last January 29, soliciting photos of people and friends, online and in-person events and “good memories from fall term”.

The club hosted senior portraits, too, which happened almost each year. Assistant Director Davin recalls that “last year we had over 200 students take their portraits.

Folks really still wanted that.”

She estimates the number of

people who buy a yearbook, when available, as “[m]aybe 50”. The portrait portrait process is continuing without the club after Davin pitched the possibility to the senior class council, and worked with the council last April and May. “[Every] senior that wants to be in [a portrait] gets a free portrait and can buy photos after the fact,” said Davin.

“Yearbook Club is like any other club,” Davin added, in that it was “based on student See YEARBOOK on page 2

Opinions. page 3 Earth Day is a protest, not a holiday

World, page 4 Updates on Yemen and Jerusalem

Sci/Tech. page 5 Ice volcanoes discovered on Pluto

A review of Club Drag-

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Soule, who told her to pursue sales, which had been “in the back of [her] mind the whole time.” She went into tech sales at Uber Eats, then Salesforce, and in the last two months, Google, where she is Digital Strategy Lead.

When asked why she pursued STEM, Sahai said that in medicine, a doctor can help a certain number of people, but that computational biology or computational medicine can have a much larger impact even if the careers have a “longer horizon.” She has hard days, and though sometimes “her research doesn’t work out” or she worries it won’t be used enough by people, she “[has] to think [she’ll] have many projects” later and appreciates gaining skills now. She appreciated software engineering too for acquainting her with an alternative career.

Kotowicz said PhDs are “no for the faint-hearted” but is “overall very happy” with hers, which was “the best option” for her career goals.

She cites its independent research project opportunities as “such a unique opportunity in academia”, though she knows there are many biology “opportunities in master’s and bachelor’s levels.”

Swidler cites her software as service (SAS) experiences early in her sales career as let-

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ting her “sink [her] teeth” into cold calling, as well as helping her convey complex concepts. In her jump from liberal arts to STEM, she cites her skill at interviewing: she can

Ramadan, and Kosher catering.

Sahai recalled a “very large gender imbalance” in her Union classes, where men “tended to be more loud,” con-

which “translated [perfectly]” to sales. She likes being the “person in the room everyone can go to.”

Many of Hoffman’s skills from Union—such as being teachable, listening, and working in teams—helped her support those who develop and code. Praising Union’s “cross-discipline degrees” she said she “can understand enough high-level things to empathize and communicate.” Kotowicz also praised writing skills she developed at Union as being “incredibly useful” in her PhD. Speakers were then asked about being women in STEM. Swidler said she was “very lucky to be raised by incredible, powerful parents who made sure [she] had a powerful voice”, because in her career she was surprised “how much [she’d] see people

more. She came to realize that some people who knew more had just started earlier, and that many of their talents were not innate. She spoke for starting girls in STEM much earlier

spirit.” She was “called sweetie, sexy or baby more times than [she] could imagine in the workplace,” she said.

She also recalled topping the sales board for four months at Uber Eats while male coworkers made $6 more an hour than she. But, she has “never seen a greater sense of inclusivity than at Google,” where she has seen feminine hygiene products in men’s and women’s restrooms, accomodations for those observing

At Google she has seen no “discrimination or outright sexism” but says that can depend on one’s manager or team. Her Harvard program is about half women, and she sees balance and opportunity for them there.

Kotowicz described her time at Union as a “bubble” as her graduating chemistry class was “predominantly” female. At work she saw a “big shift” toward the norm as she male in STEM.” She has had “opportunity in very supportive environments pretty much each step of her career” but has experienced feeling a “need to speak up more” in meetings while not being “too outspoken.” She also said she has dealt with wage gaps and “other small interactions” but cites “overall very good experiences.”

Many speakers also related to imposter syndrome.

Kotowicz said it is “very real” and that one should “take small victories[...] to heart”, herself having been unsure about pursuing STEM as she left Union. She applied to non-technology jobs including

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consulting and business-oriented positions but ended up “very grateful for [her] research position.” She hopes those pursuing STEM careers can “recognize [they] are in the right place.” Swidler said her sales metrics are helpful, as they easily gauge her success. She says “how did i get here” moments have gone

ers had also foregone PhD programs in favor of higher salaries or starting families.

Kotowicz took three years to work after Union. Though the average person starts within two years, she said she is “not the only one.” Breaks to her are “a personal choice”; she wasn’t ready to start a PhD right away. She used her gap

years. Sahai said that till she arrived at NASA, she worried they had made a clerical error in admitting her, but that positive feedback built her con-

and said it was worth it, even if studying for a GRE after being out of school two or three

more comfortable from then on.

In the Q&A segment, Sahai took a question about gap years after leaving Union before pursuing a PhD. She said she applied to 10 PhD programs and 30 jobs as a senior, including fellowships (she turned down a Fulbright scholarship to work at Google). She said one should weigh their options and that most programs allow a year of deferral, in which one can try a job. This, she said, can let

also said that it may make sense to earn more money in a job for some time than one would in a PhD. Generally, she recommended taking risks, not fearing setbacks, and taking advantage of all one can. Swidler also noted that one doesn’t have to be a “researcher or creator to be in STEM” and that they can “aid or assist’’ which is “just as important on a team.”

At the talk’s end Hoffman recommended using the Union network, citing a “very special bond between us Union alums and current students.”

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student interest. Without that it doesn’t exist.” She concludes “if there is student interest we’d be happy to help support them.” In accounting for low interest up to this point, Davin thinks that “part of it is [that] things are very digital now. We live in a digital world.

A digital book isn’t really what people want.”

The Concordiensis reached out to the latest President of The Garnet Yearbook Team, Sarah Trim ‘21, but received no comment.

book from 1877. This book’s

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Opinions Bianca Ring

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Review: “Our Flag Means Death” and LGBT+ representation Eva Crowley Contributing Writer

Max Original Series Our Flag Means Death aired recently, on March 24th. I had been putting off watching it, until I began seeing copious amounts of TikToks relating to the show. Before starting the show, I was expecting a lighthearted comedy about a wealthy and incompetant pirate; I realized early into watching it that in actuality it was a heartwarming love sto-

of choice, and of course, a plethora of LGBTQ+ representation. This sentiment was shared by other members of the LGBTQ+ community such as Olivia Logan of Union College’s Pride Club, who valued the way the show normalized queerness. Regardless of one’s gender or sexuality, Our Flag Means Death is a hilarious and relatable piece of media.

Our Flag Means Death takes place in the year 1717, in the midst of The Golden Age of Piracy. Loosely based on the life of the English aristocrat Stede Bonnet, the show follows Bonnet and his crew attempting to make a life of

pirating on board their ship, The Revenge. They eventually cross paths with the notorious Blackbeard, and end up sailing together for a while.

What separates this show from others is its portrayal of many types of genders and sexualities, ranging from gay men to gender non-conforming people. I asked Olivia Logan ‘24, a member of the Union College Pride Club, about her feelings toward the show. She said, “I feel like my favorite part about Our Flag Means Death was how it normalized queerness. So often shows make a big deal out of characters being a part

of the LGBTQ+ community, ing characteristic, as if it’s not something normal or natural. It was amazing to see how Our Flag Means Death told a thrilling, pirate-themed, queer love story without the subtle alienation we see in media today.”

Giving space for queer audiences to have three-dimensional characters to identify with can be really important and validate their experiences.

One criticism I have seen on the show has been that it is unrealistic that a majority of the characters are a part of the LGBTQ+ community. What is interesting about this take is

the disregard of how most media has been presented to us up until very recently. A lot of the time, screenwriters create exclusively straight relationships and make every character in their stories straight.

This is just as equally unrealistic, yet very few people protest against it. Historians have been writing gay people out of history for centuries. Making nearly every single character in Our Flag Means Death not heterosexual is unlikely, but it’s a great example of how easy it is to write a natural storyline with plenty of representation across the board.

College students are meeting with U-Sustain at 11:30 at Old Chapel to walk to the march together. Participating in this march will send a

to make our voices heard. In 2022, our planet remains in a state of crisis, and this Saturday’s Schenectady March for Climate presents an opportunity for us to demand that our government works to reverse the damage that has been done to our planet.

I hope that everyone who is available on Friday and Saturday can attend these events, because climate change affects everyone, and the climate justice movement needs all the support it can get.

Earth Day is a protest, not just a holiday Bianca Ring Opinions Editor

Friday, April 22, is Earth Day. Students and staff at Union College are celebrating in a number of ways, including an Earth Day celebration on campus. The Earth Day celebration, hosted by U-Sustain and the Environmental Action Club, will be held this Friday in front of Schaffer Library, from 5 to 7PM. Different clubs and organizations will have tables where they can present their respective contributions and information about the sustainability movement.

This event is a good opportunity for students to inform themselves about sustainability issues on both a local and global scale. But in addition to celebration is the potential for organizations on issues related to climate change. Also on April 22 is a march organized by various organizations in Schenectady which I implore everyone who cares about the environment to attend.

On a global scale, the effects of climate disaster have destroyed many environments and continue to displace peo-

ple. Emma Phillips ‘24, learned about some of the ways different nations around the world have been affected by climate change in her Environmentalism In Contemporary Art class last fall. In Ethiopia, for example, “people were displaced ing, and over 8 million people were food insecure in 2018 because of said drought,” says Phillips. “It’s not just small populations that are being affected, it’s all these big cities on the coast, and once it hits New York, we’re going to feel the effects of climate change.”

Locally, our city and college need to enforce policies to protect our ecosystem.

We’ve seen the effects of negligence in climate policy on our community in the form of polluted drinking water due to old and damaged pipes, and polluted water in the Hans Groot Kill, to name a few instances.

A disaster on the scale of climate change demands the full attention of activists and policymakers worldwide in order to be solved. It also demands the attention of people locally to promote change based on their circumstances. From the beginning, Earth Day depended on the activism of college students across

Day was established on April 22, 1970, by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson who was inspired by student protests against the Vietnam war, and was inspired to bring that type of activism to colleges through teach-ins and othe means.

According to EarthDay.org, 20 million people joined proorganized by thousands of colleges and universities across the United States. The cally chosen because it falls between spring break and puses, for the purpose of maximizing the ability of college students to participate.

Every day that our governments continue to ignore the climate crisis, more people are endangered, and an effective way to force our electto protest. Attending Saturday’s march is a great way to advocate for climate justice peacefully and assertively.

The Schenectady March for Climate is on Saturday morning at Schenectady City Hall, with a few speakers at the event before a milelong march through downtown Schenectady. Union

that they need to prioritize sustainability and environmental justice in their policies.

I implore everyone who cares about the environment to attend these events, both to be educated on the pressing issue of climate change and to advocate for climate justice in our city. 52 years ago, Earth Day was created

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Yemen’s transfer of power Zahra Khan World/Business Editor

BBC News reports Mr. Hadi announced this transfer of power would hopefully help in negotiating with “the Houth-

Yemen’s former President Abd- Rabbu Mansour Hadi transferred his political power to a new presidential council, and sacked his deputy.

Through the act of handing power to the leadership council, analysts say “developments offer a glimmer of hope for a country devastated by seven years of war”, according to Al Jazeera. The council will be responsible for managing Yemen’s political, military, and security affairs.

Yemen and sit at the negotiatical solution.” The seven year war is in reference to the conwhen the Iran- aligned Houthis seized control of large parts located West of the country.

After the former President state alliance restored his rule, creating a military stalemate.

While there are hopes of this new development contributing to a more positive shift in

establishing order in Yemen, there is still a long way to go.

Yemen’s political history has seen large amounts of disorganization and clashes between Yemen’s former President Saleh, who ruled before Hadi came to power (Hadi was Saleh’s Vice President at the time) and Hadi. The Houthis, a group of Zaidiyyah Shias, with links to Iran, seized Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, to demand for a new government and lower fuel prices. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the group took complete control of the pres-

this time period, a coalition of states led by Saudi Arabia “launched a campaign of economic isolation and air strikes against the Houthi insurgents, with U.S. logistical and intelligence support.” There was additionally no military unity within the country. Some military units remained loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, former ruler of Yemen who ruled for 33 years. Other units remained loyal to the Hadi government.

Due to the lack of progress in stopping the war (due to the ing over the course of these past several years have re-

people dead. Additionally, BBC news reports this war has led to “one of the world’s humanitarian crises, with more quarters of the population- in need of some form of aid.”

Violence at the Al-Aqsa mosque once again Zahra Khan World/Business Editor

police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque located in the Old City of Jerusalem. Police wanted to clear the way for Jewish visitors to the holy site, Palestinians wounded.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the recent center of a growing wave of violence between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters. The violence is in part due to the hilltop compound surrounding the Mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam, and the holiest place for Jews who refer to the holy site as the Temple Mount.

According to BBC News, “the question of rights there is one of the most contentious issues

of the Israel- Palestinian conthe wider Muslim world.”

The violence has escalated due to the timing of Ramadan, Easter Sunday, and Passover, which all coincide at the same time this year.

This has resulted in many people making pilgrimages to their respective holy sites within the territories. After the Friday prayers, Palestinains responded and started a rally in which they gathered in the courtyard, and were planning from Al-Aqsa to the Old City’s Damascus Gate. However, according to Aljazeera, Israeli forces also raided the compound through Bab al Silsila which is one of the entrances to the courtyard.

As a result, at least nine Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque. These in-

juries stemmed from the rubber coated steel bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades. Beita, which is located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, has also turned into an extremely bloody ground as tear gas and and rubber coated bullets at a demonstration These series of clashes between Palestinans and Israels have become heightened as a result of a series of air raids landed on the Gaza Missiles hit armed groups located northwest of Gaza City and north of Beit Lahia. In response to the attacks on Palestinians, Hamas, the group controlling the Gaza strip, issued a deadline to Israel to cease the attacks. However, seeing no response Hamas

Courtesy of iStock The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem intensive bombing campaign on Gaza,” according to Al Jazeera.

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Steinmetz Spotlight: Emma Puhalski ‘22 Avanti Khare Sci/Tech Editor

This week’s Steinmetz Spotlight is Emma Puhalski ‘22.

She is a Geoscience and Biology double major from Wilbraham, MA. Her research project focuses on stable isotope concentrations in sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

She writes about her work, “I am studying the stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen isotopes in the Antarctic sea scallop Adamussium colbecki as a proxy for past sea ice state in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Fluctuations in sea ice cover are major drivers of climate change, but Antarctica lacks notable proxy records of

sea ice state. Bivalves record environmental conditions and can track changes in sea ice cover over time.

Adamussium colbecki is a large sea scallop with a circum-Antarctic distribution and an abundant fossil record throughout the Holocene. Our group’s prior work showed ern scallop shells record seasonal variation in sea ice state over time when paired with growth markers called striae.

I have applied this paleoclimate proxy by analyzing A. colbecki subfossils from ter-

annual sea ice in shells from both sites. Preliminary results indicate that sea ice may have and BOS, which may represent a colder and more stable sea ice state for Antarctica in the past.”

western McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Seawater temperature proxy records suggest warm-

Fossil Adamussium colbecki shell sampled for oxygen (Left), and

Preliminary evidence for ice volcanoes on Pluto Avanti Khare Sci/Tech Editor

Researchers associated with have discovered evidence on Pluto for the possibility of noes are volcanoes built out of frozen ice that once oozed molten ice from under Pluto’s crust. This discovery points to the presence of an internal heat source that drove the melting of nitrogen and methane ice that erupted at the surface, according to Science.

“A history of cryovolcanism on Pluto is exciting because it shows that Pluto could somehow maintain heat and geo-

physical activity while being a great distance away from the Sun,” says Samantha Rosenfeld ‘22, a student researcher in the Physics department with a research interest in planetary science.

The features would be the solar system, says Jeff Moore,

though the research team is not yet willing to say that the features in question, named Wright Mons and Piccard Mons, are mounds of ice with meters above the surface. The rims of the mountains encircle pits that are nearly as deep as

the mountains are tall. Both formations are located outside the southern tip of Sputnik Planum, a prominent ice-covered basin. Moore says that it’s interesting that the volcanoes are seen at the edge of the Sputnik Planum, a deep basin that was likely created by a large impact. The stress of such an impact could have opened up conduits in the icy crust.

Because of the extreme distances and power limitations of the radio antenna,

Color variations of Pluto.

Pluto’s surface, is still being beamed back to Earth. Just 20 percent of the total data has been retrieved, according

zons principal investigator at

Southwest Research Institute

The surface temperature of Pluto is roughly -375 degrees Fahrenheit

Pluto has a thin atmosphere of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide

60-Second Sci/Tech

Pluto is named after the Roman god of the underworld

moons: Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx

Pluto has 0.2% the mass of Earth

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Trey Everett | Concordiensis Sunset in Winter (U-L), Easter at AOP (U-R), a tiny bunny (L-L), and fallen tree at Visual Arts (L-R)

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CRIME & FIRE LOG 04/12/22 - 04/15/22

4/12/22 4:52 p.m. Theft of personal property from vehicle - occurred on 04/12/22 at 2:53 am. Raymond Potter Lot. 4/15/22 Vandalism to college property - time of occurrence unknown. Park Place 200 block.

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Nickky Obi, Fiona Shyne, and Eastwood Yeboah Contributing Writers __________________________ If you are a person who enjoys musical theater with a pinch of place for you. Randy Wyatt, the director, put this play together out of love for the cabaret, which is a form of theater that includes songs, dances, and drama. From the different vocal ranges to the comedic commentary, these actors will have you fully invested and even make you feel a part of the show. With the use of the platform Gamiotics, the audience had the opportunity to dictate what they saw on stage during different parts of the show. Through Club Dragthe audience saw how relatable childhood songs were to their current lives. The cabaret showcased the incredible talent we have at Union, but ulfrom greater variety.

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of the night, they were quick-

set the stage for the rest of their own unique vocal register that was highlighted by the songs they sang. There is no better example than during

Moon.” This powerful performance delivered exactly what tures proving to be both entertaining and engaging. I do wish there was more time to highlight voices on a broader vocal spectrum, giving opportunities for those who have a deeper or higher register to showcase their singing abilities. Nonetheless, the memexcellent job, demonstrating once again that talent at Union is alive and well.

It was clear that Club well by choosing songs they knew brought them back to their childhoods. From “Being

Courtesy of Fiona Shyne ‘23 Fiona Shyne’23, Eastowood Yeboah ‘25, and Nickky Obi ‘25 providing review for Club

Begin”, this production was that would make anyone nostalgic for their formative years.

I was particularly drawn to the Arundhati Gore. Not only did incredible voice, but this performance illustrated the value of having the intimate setting of a cabaret. Gore engaged directly with the audience, enticing the entire room to clap along to the beat of the song.

This simple action brought the room to life in a way crowded theater halls could not accomplish.

However, where the song selections fell short was in their lack of variety. Hearing nothing but ballads for the bulk of the production began to feel very monotonous. It seems every song was meant to be a show stopper, but Courtesy of Union Theatre and Dance when the show did not stop I -

tigued from the repetition.

That being said, the inclufresh burst of comic relief that cut through the repetition of the performances. Between musical performances, the waiters would act out skits, in part chosen by the audience through the Gamiotic platform. This was a great way to increase engagement from the audience, having them consider whether they want to see the “evil twin,” “strange phobia,” or “wannabe popstar.” The waiters provided a much needed break from the intensity of the musical performances. However, this aspect with each skit only lasting a couple of minutes. perience right here on campus. This once-in-a-lifetime experience combines pure musical talent with ideas of

embracing the unexpected, delivering a great opportunity to support the Union community. Wyatt wanted, in his own words, for “students to learn how to create an intimate performing style…One of the coolest things in my view about what cabaret can bring to the table is the perfore.” Both Wyatt and the Club unheard of at Union College and while we feel like some was a valuable experience for the Union community.

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Woman of the Week: Susie Hanks Jackson Giamattei Staff Writer

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