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The winter issue of Champion Magazine, the official magazine of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), published an opinion piece titled “Are educational and institutional values at odds?” in which Hamilton’s athletic program was highlighted. Scott Kretchmar, the author of the piece, referenced the college as an example of an institution that promotes “educational values related to participation over institutional values tethered to big-game weekends.”

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article about truthfulness in golf. In “Honesty Suits Golf to a Tee” (9/26/10), the writer reports that 14-year-old Zach Nash is returning the first-place medal he won at a tournament in August after he realized he inadvertently played the match with an illegal number of clubs in his bag.

In a Chronicle of Higher Education article about a CUNY graduate seminar in academic ethics, a text written by Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, is referenced as the one that the class was using. Simon’s text is Neutrality and the Academic Ethic, a 1994 volume that is part of a 15-book series on academic published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Triggered by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’ recent condemnation of golf and The New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen’s criticism that golf has little or no moral worth, former golf coach and Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon penned an opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor.

The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, a book edited by Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, has been translated into Chinese. It is part of the "Blackwell Guide" to various areas in philosophy.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, was elected board vice president for the Forum for the Scholarly Study of Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education. The election took place at the recent convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in Washington, D.C.

Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 6 to five faculty members from the English, government, economics and psychology and philosophy departments. They were honored during the Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year.