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Evan Smith, '87, was a panelist on NPR's Sept. 29 show of "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" Smith is the editor of Texas Monthly magazine. This news quiz program airs weekly.

Theresa Gallagher, staff assistant in Student Activities, took home the "Best of the Show" ribbon for her patriotic quilt, "Stars & Stripes for Matt," at the Mohawk Valley Quilt show held Sept. 29-30.

A week after the terrorist attacks, students of the Peace and Justice Action Group organized a noon rally attended by many members of the campus community. The audience heard from students and faculty members on the history of the region, philosophy of waging a just war and appeals for caution and concerns about curtailing civil liberties in the United States.

As the Pentagon prepares to unveil new press rules for covering the war on terrorists, a Hamilton College government specialist warns that in “restricting fundamental freedoms like press liberty, we risk giving terrorists the victory they seek.”

Matthew Amster, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, wrote a review of Kayan Religion: Ritual Life and Religious Reform in Central Borneo (KITLV Press) authored by Jerome Rousseau. The review was published in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, a quarterly Dutch journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Thomas Diggins, visiting assistant professor of biology, published a paper, "Cluster analysis of the Chironomidae of the polluted Buffalo River, New York, USA," in the Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical and Applied Limnology (Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.) This December issue was released September 2001.

Hamilton College professor and chair of psychology Jonathan Vaughan has been awarded an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Strokes.

In his new book, The Free and Open Press : The Founding of American Democratic Press, (NYU Press) Robert W. T. Martin, visiting assistant professor of government at Hamilton College, provides a careful, new analysis of press liberty.

Government Professor Cheng Li was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article, "Boomers assuming leadership Fourth generation will soon dominate the party," about leadership changes in China.

An article, "An ONIOM Study of the Bergman Reaction: A Computationally Efficient and Accurate Method for Modeling the Enediyne Anticancer Antibiotics," by Steven Feldgus, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Chemistry, and George Shields, professor and chair, has been accepted for publication in Chemical Physics Letters.