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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.