Coming Events

With the high cost of electric power widely agreed to be a big drag on New York's economy, major players in the state's energy future will meet on Tuesday, April 30, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Nott Memorial for a discussion titled "New York's Utility Crisis: The Cost of Power." Ed Dague, managing editor of WNYT, will moderate. WMHT public television will produce a show to be broadcast in the near future. Participants include William Davis, CEO of Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; Joseph Kearney, president of U.S. Generating Co.; B. Robert Piller, director and general counsel of Public Utility Law Project of New York; and others.

Renee Robinson of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will teach a master class in the Horton Technique on Sunday, May 5, at 11:15 a.m. in the Arts Building Dance Studio. Admission is $10. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is to perform later that evening at Proctor's Theater. For more information on the master class at Union, call ext. 6545.

Boston Globe columnist and author Ellen Goodman is to speak on "Politics: Up Close and Too Personal" on Tuesday, May 7, at 8 p.m. in Union College's Nott Memorial. The talk is part of the Lewis Stern Lecture Series, created by gifts of Lillian Stern and her children, Janet and David, in memory of their husband and father. Goodman, who won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1980, has been associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe since 1967. Her most recent book is Value Judgments (1993).

Film director Spike Lee will address racism and racial issues as reflected in his works on Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. The event is sponsored by Peer Facilitators.