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  • A group of 12 incoming Hamilton College first year students are spending their final week before the beginning of school serving the greater Utica community. The program, established by College Chaplain Jeffrey McArn aims to show this new crop of Hamilton students the opportunities for service in Utica. This is the first year for the pre-orientation program that began on August 19 and runs through August 23. Among other community service activities the group has painted for Habitat for Humanity, worked with children at the Jesus Christ Tabernacle of David Community Center, visited the Refugee Center and the Abraham Hospice House.

  • Director of the Hamilton Jazz Archive and Lecturer in Saxophone Monk Rowe attended the Advanced Oral History Seminar at the University of California at Berkeley, August 11-16. Rowe was one of 25 people from the United States, Japan and Singapore to be accepted to attend the event and share their experiences in gathering oral histories to learn more about ethical, legal and technology issues. He represented the Hamilton College Jazz Archive.

  • In 2000 Dr. John Lott, a scholar and researcher published a paper on affirmative action, police departments and crime. The paper, “Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk,” investigates the relationship between the adoption of affirmative action hiring policies and crime; Lott concludes that the resultant hiring of racial minorities or women police officers they can expect a corresponding increase in crime rates. Professor of Mathematics Larry Knop and senior sociology/mathematics double major Shauna Sweet felt these statistics warranted further investigation. The April 2000 article was published in the Journal of Economic Inquiry, and the findings were based on the analysis of Law Enforcement Management and Administrative statistics surveys administered by the Department of Justice, and FBI Uniform Crime Reports.

  • Some young children are better than others at making friends. Child psychologists are working toward determining what skills more socially adept children possess, and what can be done to help children who are having a difficult time building friendships. Assistant Professor of Psychology Julie Dunsmore, Jamie Abaied '04, Liz Casey '03 and Ellen Jamison '04 collected and analyzed data this summer in efforts to answer these questions.

  • Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive Monk Rowe, presented talks to students at Sauquoit Elementary School in June and to teachers in the Utica Arts and Education Institute in July. The subject of the talks was the jazz photos of the late great bassist Milt Hilton. Mr. Hilton’s gifts of photos to the college were used.

  • Over the previous two weeks the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House was the home to almost 200 boys for the annual Continental Basketball Day Camp at Hamilton College. Head men’s basketball coach Tom Murphy is the camp director and was joined by assistant coaches at Hamilton College, Stan Evans, Randie Torgalski. The one-week session for boys entering grades 5-8 ends August 2, with a one-week camp for boys entering grades 9-12 began Monday, August 5. The campers worked on individual skills and station drills in the mornings, play full games, attend lectures and swim in the afternoons.

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  • Barbara Smalley ‘83 competed in the 2002 Ironman USA, Lake Placid, on July 28. An Ironman competition consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. The Lake Placid Ironman is one of only four officially sanctioned Ironman North America events. Smalley competed for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training (TNT). TNT has raised millions of dollars toward finding cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. Smalley finished the swim in 1:12:47, the bike in 7:45:25 and the run in 5:47:24, crossing the finish line just after 10 p.m.

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  • Does a wandering mind impede your ability to complete a task on the Internet? Do negative, intrusive thoughts decrease your efficiency while working on the web? These are questions that a group of Hamilton College professors and students are trying to answer this summer. Rebekah Grome ’05 and Lindsey Schantz ’03 are collecting and analyzing data with Hamilton College Associate Professors of Psychology Penny Yee and Greg Pierce in their study of cognitive interference. Cognitive interference is the types of thoughts people have when completing a task.

  • The Bible says that the truth will set us free, but it also tells us about a Roman official who asks “What is truth?” and receives no answer. Must we always tell the truth? Is lying always wrong? Are there legitimate degrees of falsehood? Are human beings disposed to falsehood as well as the truth? Is deception part, perhaps even a necessary part of human nature – and of nature itself? These questions and others were considered from July 18-21, as the Hamilton College Office of Alumni Programs hosted the 2002 Hamilton College Alumni Seminar in the Liberal Arts. This year’s seminar was titled “Truth, Deception and Lies.” Nineteen alumni and friends of the college joined Edward North Professor of Classics and moderator Carl A. Rubino for the weekend activities.

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  • Six ambitious and gifted Native American teenagers took part in the Oneida Nation/Hamilton College Summer Science Program July 8 - 19. Over the two-week period these students conducted research in psychology, microbiology and chemistry. The students were nominated for the program by teachers or guidance counselors, and submitted an application and letters of recommendation for this selective program. On July 30 the six students presented scientific posters to the tribes councilmen and clan mothers.

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