March 2019 Union in the Media Archive

A new partnership between Union and Proctors gives students a chance to gain experience on the professional stage while providing the venerable historic theater with a pool of local actors.

“It’s a new link between us,” says Andrew Mannion, lecturer in scenic design. “Proctors is putting on a professional children’s theater piece and co-producing it with Union talent.”

The Proctors enterprise is called the PB&J Café, and the inaugural show is “Stuart Little,” the classic children’s tale by E.B. White about a mild-mannered mouse born into an ordinary New York family and trying to survive in a human world.

The show was recently featured in the Times Union.

Inside Higher Ed posted an op-ed by President David R. Harris who argued that campus is the place for constructive engagement, not free speech. The op-ed was in response to a recent executive order by President Trump on campus free speech.

Hundreds from the campus community turned out Sunday for the seventh annual Dutchmen Dip. The event raised more than $20,000 to benefit the Shinebarger Memorial Scholarship, with an additional $20,000 matched by Tom Coleman '88.

The Daily Gazette and Times Union covered the event (subscription may be required).