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The communication and government departments held their traditional post-election discussion panel on Nov. 4 in the Red Pit. Government Professors Philip Klinkner and Verena Blechinger-Talcott and Communication Professor John Adams shared their insights into the results and implications of the 2004 election, and answered questions from the audience. The discussion was moderated by Professor of Government Frank Anechiarico.

Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East editor and Paris bureau chief, and author of the Newsweek Online "Shadowland" column on the world of spies, soldiers and terrorism, gave a talk titled "Fact, Fiction and Foreign Policy" at Hamilton on Oct. 28. Dickey spoke about what he has learned from his 25 years as a foreign correspondent, with much of that time spent in Baghdad, Cairo and Jerusalem. Dickey also spoke about his two novels about terrorism, Innocent Blood and The Sleeper.

Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, led a discussion about the economic proposals of presidential candidates Bush and Kerry at the first Levitt Center Think Tank lunch of the semester. While the candidates recognize the same economics-related issues as important, Owen said, they sometimes have very different approaches to solving them. Owen is a former Federal Reserve economist.

Dave Lupinski, director of recycling for the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority, spoke to students on Oct. 19 about the two-county region's recycling program, as well as recycling efforts at Hamilton.

Kirk Ormand, professor of classics at Oberlin College, gave the classics department's Winslow Lecture on Sept. 29. His talk, titled "Electra In Exile," focused on the political and social meaning of setting, gender, and exile in Euripides' version of the Electra myth. The talk was part of the Winslow Classical and Archaeological Lectureship.