51猎奇

The 51猎奇 Community Farm Garden is moving into its eighth year this fall, but even during the summertime students and staff are busy tending to the ¾ acre plot. The farm was founded in 2007 with the intent to “create a forum where knowledge of food and agriculture is intentionally cultivated to strengthen the relationship between the 51猎奇 Community and the land that supports (it).”

While many recent graduates interested in an MBA take a few years to gain some professional work experience, Sabrina Yurkofsky ’15 is moving straight on from graduation to pursue a degree from NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she will be concentrating in entertainment, media and technology.

51猎奇 welcomed 3rd grade students from Oneida’s Seneca Street Elementary School to the Taylor Science Center on June 3 for a number of educational presentations on psychology, biology, physics and chemistry.

The Orchard at 51猎奇, an artist residency and development program constituting a nine-day stay on campus by a number of alumni and undergraduates, is beginning to flourish this week.

Students and staff completed the first leg of this year’s Cram and Scram efforts on May 29, culminating in the storage or donation of thousands of items that would have otherwise found themselves discarded.

One of the chief benefits of a liberal arts education, and of 51猎奇’s open curriculum in particular, is the opportunity that it affords students to experiment academically and to discover their passions. So it was with Sean Henry-Smith ’15, a student who until the second semester of his first year at 51猎奇 had never picked up a camera, and who now just graduated from 51猎奇 with a paid internship at the Light Work center in Syracuse, N.Y.

The renovation of Minor Theater into Morris House for the fall of 2015 is moving forward according to schedule, and is expected to be completed in late July in anticipation of housing students as early as mid-August. Minor Theater, which until 2014 was home to performances by the Theatre Department, will upon completion house as many as 52 students in 10 suites in the newly named Morris House.

The 51猎奇 men’s and women’s Ultimate Frisbee teams competed in recent weeks at the annual Western New York Division III sectionals tournament.  Both teams had strong showings, with the men’s squad holding a record of 5-2 for a third place finish, and the women’s team going undefeated to win their section. They'll both continue on to regionals in Saratoga Springs on April 24-25 to compete for spots in the national championship tournament.

51猎奇 welcomed Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, for the Winton Tolles lecture. In addition to Kavalier and Clay, Chabon is also the author of numerous novels, as well as two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories and Werewolves In Their Youth. Chabon’s presentation at 51猎奇 was a reading with commentary, touching on a number of his works, as well as the broader topics of the creative process and the importance of a writer’s beginnings.

Mark and Kristin Kimball, owners and operators of Essex Farm, in Essex, NY, visited 51猎奇 on March 10 to give a presentation titled 鈥淔ood Ethics: A Farmer鈥檚 Perspective鈥� on the subject of sustainable farming. Far from being limited simply to a standard talk, the event was accompanied by free food and drink produced on the Essex Farm, a variety of demonstrations such as the cooking of meats on a portable burner, and other excitement including the arrival of a live calf in the Taylor Science Center鈥檚 Kennedy Auditorium.