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Fans of Hamilton College baseball can follow the first game of the Continentals' New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division series at Wesleyan University live on April 10.

Living in Washington during the first 100 days of the Obama administration and studying the modern presidency, students in the Program in Washington have considered various comparisons with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On April 8, the legacy of FDR came to life with a visit to the FDR Memorial.

Shelley McConnell, visiting assistant professor of government, was interviewed for an Associated Press article (4/9/09) about a U.S. Coast Guard drug seizure in Venezuela. The article noted that it is unusual for Venezuela for offer credit to the U.S., having suspended cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 2005 under president Hugo Chavez.

Michael Ondaatje, the best-selling and award-winning author of such books as The English Patient and Divisadero, read excerpts from his vast body of work to the Hamilton Community as part of the Tolles Lecture Series on April 9. The reading was sponsored by the Dean of Faculty Office.

Katheryn Doran, associate professor of philosophy, gave a paper titled "Building Better People? Three Secular Arguments Against Germline Genetic Engineering," and Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett presented the paper "Preventing the Emergence of Evil in the 'New Eugenics'" at the 10th Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil. in Salzburg, Austria. 

A former political prisoner in Somalia, whose death sentence was commuted following a wave of international pressure, will speak at Hamilton College on Tuesday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. 

Hamilton College blanked host Hobart College, 9-0, in a non-conference match played indoors at Bristol Field House on April 8.

Mary Daphne Kostakopoulos, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Turkey. She is a communication and French major at Hamilton.

Kevin Rowe '10 presented a paper at the Western Political Science Association Conference in Vancouver in March. Rowe is a government major at Hamilton. His paper was titled "Civic Environmentalism's Search for Identity: Reconciling Democracy and Environmental Protection." Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo also attended, and presented a paper on Thoreau and Civic Republicanism.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series has canceled a classical Indian music concert by Shafaatullah Khan on Friday, April 10. Instead, the Asian Studies Program "Asia and the Arts" Series will present a concert by the Japanese Taiko drum group Taikoza. This concert will be held at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall and is free and open to the public.