Hamilton in the News

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, published a letter to the editor in the Christian Science Monitor (Jan. 27, 2004). Adair, who is also director of the ACCESS Project, wrote a response to a CSM editorial,“Marriage Skills, Federal Style,” about President Bush's proposal to spend $1.5 billion on promoting marriage to welfare recipients. Adair wrote, "Rather than spending $1.5 billion to promote marriage, our response should be to educate, train and support poor women so that they can earn sufficient salaries and become independent and financially secure — just like men."

Peter Cannavo, visiting professor of government, was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article, "Bush reputation on environment mixed."  Cannavo said, "The president's views [on the environment] were made plain by the conspicuous absence of this issue from his speech.  Perhaps he considers the use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional athletes, to which he devoted a good chunk of his time, to be a more important issue than the state of the planet we inhabit."

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz taped an interview for the Modern Language Association radio show What's the Word?, which is broadcast widely. His segment was part of a program on "Best Sellers," where he talked about author Sue Grafton  (Q is for Quarry).

Professor of History Maurice Isserman reviewed Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie for the Chicago Tribune. Isserman writes: "Woody was certainly good to his future biographers. He left behind a trove of unpublished letters, reminiscences and manifestoes ....  [Biographer Ed] Cray has mined these sources thoroughly .... The result is a reliable and lucid work of biography."

Maurice Isserman, professor of history, and Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Jr. Associate Professor of History, published opposing opinion pieces about the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade in the Utica, N.Y., Observer-Dispatch.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, discusses the presidential primary system on Wisconsin Public. The interview can be heard live on January 22 from 4-5 p.m. (Eastern) on WPR (click on Ideas Network.) Klinkner was also interviewed by New Hampshire Public Radio about celebrities endorsing presidential candidates and what, if any, impact these endorsements have on elections. His interview airs on New Hampshire Morning Edition, 5-8 a.m. on January 23.

Jonathan Rick '05 published an op-ed, "Missing ingredient from anti-poverty aid: capitalism," in the Syracuse Post-Standard.  Rick said, "So we donate spare change in water buckets at the dining halls, we fasted, we volunteered for Utica's soup kitchen.  But something was missing -- an ingredient so implicit in our bounty that we overlooked its necessity.  The manna is capitalism.  For capitalism, in contrast to the quick fixes of Hunger and Homelessness Week, is a long-term panacea."

Visiting Professor of Rhetoric and Communication John Adams is the author of an op-ed published in the Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard (1/20/04) on the State of the Union address. Adams said this year's address will be different in that the president will not only report on the condition of the nation, but must defend himself against charges of deceiving the American people on Iraq.

Ann Owen, associate professor of economics, was quoted in a United Press International article, "Stay the economics course, says Bush."  Owen, a former Federal Reserve economist, said, "The state of the U.S. economy can be summed up simply: short term – good; long term – bad. Large current budget deficits as well as increased future obligations for Social Security and Medicare indicate that the current level of spending is unsustainable.  Eventually, taxes will either have to rise and/or spending will have to be cut dramatically."

John Adams, visiting professor of rhetoric and communication, said in a VOA radio interview that he's struck by Martin Muther King's lavish use of metaphors -- unexpected words and ideas that create vivid images.  The interview will air on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 19. The show, heard around the world, aired at 7:33 a.m. and 11:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.