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Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has created a new senior officer's position at the college and named David L. Smallen to fill it. Smallen will become vice president for information technology, the seventh member of the college’s senior leadership team. He had been director of Information Technology Services (ITS) since that position was created in 1986 and was director of the Computer Center from its inception in 1974. In 1987, he created the Office of Institutional Research at Hamilton and directed that office for a decade.

"'A Lot Has Built Up': Omission and Rhetorical Realism in Dostoevsky's The Gambler," by Peter Rabinowitz, professor of comparative literature, appeared in Narrative 9, no. 2 (May 2001): 203-209.

Hamilton College has entered into an exclusive arrangement that enables its students and faculty to study and teach at Pembroke College of Oxford University. As part of the agreement, up to five Hamilton juniors each year will enroll at Pembroke. They will enjoy full privileges in Pembroke and Oxford academic and social life, including the university's famed tutorial program.

Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and feature writer and editor for the Washington Post, will speak at Hamilton College on Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge at the Bristol Campus Center.

A new, endowed fund, the income from which will be used to make gifts or grants to organizations and agencies servicing the Town of Kirkland and the Village of Clinton, has been established at Hamilton College by anonymous donors.

John O'Neal, artist-in-residence of the Kirkland Project, will perform "Til the Midnight Hour, Sayings from the Life and Writings of Junebug Jabba Jones," on Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall.

Highlights of men's and women's basketball, hockey, swimming, track and field, and squash for the week of February 18.

Gabriela Gonzalez, member of the new National Science Foundation-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project, will deliver the Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The lecture, "Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe," is free and open to the public.

Miriam Ching Louie, board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, will deliver a talk at Hamilton College, "Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Sweatshop," on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit at Kirner-Johnson.

A new report says that Utica, NY, has done a good job welcoming and providing for Bosnian refugees. The report summarizes interviews with 100 Bosnian families resettled in this area and catalogues psychological, social and economic adaptations of the Bosnian refugees to this community and the strategies they have used for successful adjustment. The report was issued by researchers Reed Coughlan and Judith Owens-Manley through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College.