Union s upcoming fundraising will be comprised of a series of mini-campaigns and one of those campaigns will be for art and music. It is desirable for the arts program to expand into the colonnade section of the North College building. It was noted that the Pipers Minstrelles singing groups perform regularly at many functions. Whitney Merrill 94 initiated a discussion of the trimester system that Union is now following as compared to the semester system. The Union Scholars Program is an enriched program that attracts top students to Union College.
Students take four courses a term, allowing the option of graduating a year early.
One of the first Union Scholars graduated in three years this past June and is continuing his studies at Columbia Medical School. Such a program is better than a merit scholarship program. About 10 percent of this year s freshman class is enrolled in this program. Bob Howe 58 asked if being away during a junior year term abroad affects a student s admission to graduate school. Dean Fred Alford noted that nobody s GPA falls by going abroad.