Passing by Utica’s Salvation Army on a Thursday evening, one might assume a carnival is taking place behind its doors. Crashing cymbals, the occasional crack of a snare drum and muddled piano melodies can be heard from the Salvation Army’s chapel, their sounds pouring out into the street. Nearly overpowering this raucous symphony, the playful laughter and boisterous voices of the performance’s participants bring life to the musical melee taking place within. More ...

Hamilton was recognized with an honorable mention citation in the 2008 Campus Votes Challenge, a program that sought to encourage voting at colleges and universities nationwide during the 2008 presidential election. The College was among more than 40 undergraduate colleges and universities across the nation that participated in the challenge. More ...

Over the past month more than 40 Hamilton students participated in a Wilderness First Aid Certification course offered through the Hamilton Outing Club (HOC) with the outdoor leadership and safety school SOLO, Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities. HOC offered students the opportunity to take the class, a two-day, 16-hour course, over two weekends in October in the Glen House. More ...

Buoyant rhythms permeate the air. Colorful verses and inventive stanzas create an atmosphere of open and free expression. Aspiring free-style artists provide impressive and original rhymes, and student poets fill the room with both laughter and empathy with their dissertations. It’s Tuesday night, and the first Rhymelab of the year is taking place in Opus One. Students flood the lounge to read their poems, sing original songs and support friends performing. Others stop by just for a brief respite from the grind of pre-break schoolwork.  More ...

Performances of Moliere’s The Learned Ladies, Hamilton’s Fall Student Theatre production, continue Wednesday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theater. Tickets are $5 adults/$3 senior citizens and students. View a slide show of pictures from the production by Matt Poterba 12. More ...

Hamilton's Mock Trial team took first place at the inaugural Colgate Classic tournament, Nov. 7-8. The team, which was undefeated, competed against College of the Holy Cross, Canisius College, Drexel University, and then last year’s regional champion Syracuse University in the fourth, championship round. Twenty-four teams competed from schools that included Princeton, Amherst, and the University of Rochester. More ...

A Hamilton student trudges through the dark recesses of the night, video camera and tripod in hand. He and his friends are in the early stages of the sixth annual 24-Hour Film Festival, hosted by Hamilton’s Film Production Guild. They race across campus, routinely checking the time so as not to fall behind schedule. Each team of actors, producers, and directors has from midnight on Friday until midnight on Saturday to make a quality, entertaining five-minute film – which means they have little time to spare. More ...

Hamilton’s students in the Program in New York City attended a performance of the comedic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, or The Barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 4. More ...