Hamilton in the News

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in the Agence France Presse article "Anti-corruption bloodbath in China shows signs of retreating." Li said, "The scale of corruption grows as fast as the Chinese economy does. If one does not deal with prevalent corruption in China, the Chinese state will not survive for long."

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government was interviewed by the BBC on Tuesday, April 26.  Li commented on the ongoing visits to China's mainland by the head of the Nationalist Party of Taiwan and its implications to peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC Newshour Weekend radio program on April 16. Li discussed the role of the Internet in China and how it has been used to spread news about the recent anti-Japan demonstrations in the country.

Aletha Asay '05 published a guest column in Utica's Observer-Dispatch about her experience as a volunteer in Hamilton's Urban Service Experience Program (USE). Asay said, "A liberal arts education has created in me a strong desire to live deliberately - that is to live, to be conscious of the results of all my actions. Since becoming involved in the refugee population through SHINE, and now through USE, I can see the impact of my actions within a caring community right here in Utica."

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by the BBC in a live broadcast on the demonstrations by tens of thousands of Chinese in Beijing in front of the Japanese embassy. Li discussed the origins of the protests. Japan's foreign minister demanded an apology from China after the violent anti-Japanese protests in Beijing and southern China. The protests followed plans to introduce textbooks in Japan that critics say whitewash Japanese militarism and its occupation of China during World War II.  

The Newark Star-Ledger won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of N.J. Governor Jim McGreevey's resignation last year. Jim Willse '67 is editor of the Star-Ledger. He joins Henry Allen '63 (Washington Post, for Criticism in 2000) and Melinda Wagner '79 (composer, for Music in 1999) as Hamilton alumni who have won or shared Pulitzers in the past six years. The Pulitzer Prizes honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in a Financial Times article "China sweeps aside older executives to make way for youthful verve." According to the article, "By appointing younger executives, the government has leapfrogged the generation who became adults during the Cultural Revolution, the decade from 1966 when students were encouraged by Mao Zedong to make revolution at the expense of all else."

Wil Lemon '08 was featured in a Poughkeepsie Journal article (3/28/05) about his travels to Chattanooga, Tenn., as a Hamilton College Alternative Spring Break volunteer. Lemon and nine other Hamilton students worked for a week on building part of the Cumberland Trail, which will, when complete, stretch 300 miles from the Cumberland Gap National Park on the northern border of Tennessee and Kentucky, southwest to the Tennessee River Gorge in Chattanooga. "Most kids want to just go out and party during spring break," Lemon said in the article. "I decided one week away doing some community service would be good for me."  

Professor of History Maurice Isserman was interviewed for a <I>Houston Chronicle</I> <A class="" href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3093070" target=_new>article</A> (3/20/05) about countercultural entrepreneurs in the 1970s.

Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon published an op-ed on steroid use by pro athletes in the Philadelphia Inquirer (3/20/05). In "Drug-free sport is an ideal worth preserving," Simon wrote, "When I raise the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in sports to my classes on ethics, students almost unanimously condemn their use. Recent allegations of steroid use in major league baseball are especially troublesome to many students. I suspect the unwillingness of players such as Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmeiro and Frank Thomas (and initially Commissioner Bud Selig) to testify before a congressional committee will exacerbate their concerns."