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In the News

Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor of women's studies and religion, "Raise cattle naturally, safely on open range," USA Today, January 5, 2004. Stange, who raises bison, criticizes the feed-lot system of raising cattle for slaughter that large agribusinesses have made the norm. Read the article

Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor of women's studies and religion, "The Political Intolerance of Academic Feminism," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 21, 2002. Stange argues the need for academic feminists "to broaden and deepen the kinds of conversations we should be engaging in." Read the article

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, essay in the Albany, N.Y., Times Union May 26, 2002. The essay, titled "College Affordability a Public Policy Problem," appeared on the cover of the Sunday Perspective section. Read the article

Aldo Vacs, professor of government, essay in the Albany, N.Y., Times Union February 25, 2002, urging the U.S. government to let Argentina find its own solutions to its economic troubles. Read the article

Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology, on the National Public Radio show "Talk of the Nation" on July 31, 2002. The topic was "group dynamics under pressure." Hear the show

Jeff Segrave, associate professor of exercise science and Olympics historian, cited in a number of stories on the Olympics published between December 2001 and March 2002. He was included in five stories in the Christian Science Monitor, three stories in the Salt Lake City Tribune, and two stories in Provo Herald in Utah. He also was quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Deseret News (Utah), the Lawrence Eagle Tribune (Massachusetts), the Utica Observer-Dispatch (New York), and Politiken, a well-regarded Danish newspaper. Segrave was interviewed for a report broadcast on the National Public Radio network during Weekend All Things Considered (Feb. 10, 2002), and was a guest on several programs that aired on NPR affiliates in Providence, R.I., and in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Sandy Baum, professor and chair, Department of Economics, cited 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, N.Y., 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, in Newsday (“Filling the Void,” April 10, 2002).

Roy Ginsberg, professor of government, 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 Schenectady, N.Y., 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),

Jeffrey Segrave, associate professor of exercise science and 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 Glens Falls, N.Y., Post-Star (“Bush loan proposal riles Schumer,” May 1, 2002).

Jill Sweet, professor of anthropology, 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.

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