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James S. Sherman Professor of Government Philip Klinkner was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about uncounted or "spoiled" votes in 2000. "[A]bout half of all ballots spoiled in the U.S.A. [in 2000] - about 1 million votes - were cast by nonwhite voters," Klinkner said. According to the article, the problem hasn't been properly addressed by politicians of either party because too many benefit from the uncounted votes.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in an article in the South China Morning Post about China’s increased involvement in the Middle East.  According to the article, "Some analysts [argue] that China would be a perfect partner for peace in the dispute because it had good relations with Israel and Arab nations and [is] not seen as overly biased." Li expressed concern that China is ultimately using the Middle East as "bargaining power regarding Taiwain."

Hamilton College alumna Rosemary Breslin '79, an acclaimed writer, died Monday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She was 47. Breslin suffered from a rare blood illness, which she described in a series of essays published in New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times and in her acclaimed memoir, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind: An Incurable Love Story.

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck was quoted in the Dallas Morning News in an article about the controversy surrounding Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11. According to the article, the debate over the film "shows how U.S. culture focuses almost exclusively on black and white." "The tendency of the West...is to dichotomize. [T]hose in the middle are often characterized...as wimps and wussies," Raybeck said. The article was also reprinted in several other newspapers.

Hamilton College alumna Mary Bonauto '83 has once again filed lawsuits on the behalf of same-sex couples, demanding that Massachusetts issue them marriage licenses, according to a New York Times article. Bonauto is challenging the constitutionality and discriminatory enforcement of denying marriage licenses to out-of-state couples. "The governor pulled [the law] off the shelves just to deny marriage to some gay and lesbian couples," said Bonauto.

Jeffrey Rubino '05 is one of four undergraduates to be recognized for using spectroscopy in the arts and sciences. The award is administered by the New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (NYSAS). Rubino, advised by Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren, used spectroscopy to study enzyme reactions. NYSAS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information related to spectroscopy.

An editorial published in the Utica Observer-Dispatch discussed the efforts of Young Han '06 and other Hamilton students to register to vote in Oneida County. According to the editorial, the Oneida County Board of Elections' efforts to obstruct student voters "just wasn't worth it." "Let college students register, make them feel welcome and. . .[m]aybe some of them will actually put down roots," the editorial suggested.

James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner was interviewed by the Central New York NPR affiliate WRVO about political segregation in the U.S. Klinkner published an article on this topic in which he claims that although popular media often claim that the U.S. is becoming increasingly segregated along political lines, there is little evidence to suggest Americans are in fact politically segregated.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller was quoted in an article in the Utica Observer-Dispatch featuring a bilingual Pentecostal Church located in New York Mills, Calvary Gospel, comprised largely of refugees from the former U.S.S.R. According to Keller, Pentecostal Christians were persecuted during communist Soviet rule. "It's a cultural sense that to be really Russian you would be Russian Orthodox," she said.

The Utica Observer-Dispatch published an opinion piece written by Hamilton College Chaplain Jeff McArn. It was written as part of the newspaper's roundtable discussion "Matters of Faith." In it, McArn discussed the political and religious uses and misuses of the term "evil." "We take the first step toward evil when we believe in our own moral superiority rather than seeing the image of God in each of us," McArn concluded.