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In a timely celebration of Constitution Day, Anna Law spoke to the Hamilton College community about immigration and refugee policy under the Trump administration. The lecture, titled "A Nation of Immigrants No More?: Trump, Immigration and the Constitution," touched on a number of current issues. Law holds the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights at CUNY Brooklyn, so she tied the various threads to aspects of our Constitution.

While the weekend of September 7 may have been an ordinary one for most people, it was anything but for the Marathon Canoe Racing Team. The team of 19 paddlers, led by captains Gus Huiskamp ‘21 and Roger Danilek ‘21, competed in the Adirondack Canoe Classic alongside Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings. The race customarily begins in Old Forge on the Friday after Labor Day and snakes its way through a series of lakes and rivers supplemented by portages over the course of three days before ending in Saranac Lake.

Marianne Janack gave the opening paper at a conference at Cambridge University's Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities on Sept. 12.

Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph ’81, who spent a day on campus last fall, sharing his expertise with Hamilton students, has just published a book about the company that would go on to change the way America consumes entertainment.

“I absolutely do not think we would have found each other (if we’d been allowed to choose),” said Rachel Harshaw ’17 in an interview in The Atlantic titled Colleges would rather freshmen not choose their roommates.

He wasn’t looking to be mesmerized. What he wanted was a job. In 1977, history major Tom Stoenner was about to graduate with zero interest in grad school or teaching as his next move. When he saw a notice on a Kirkland bulletin board about a glassblower in need of an apprentice, he applied.

A song. A camera. A personal story. These are just some of the elements that students were told to work with and embody during a theatre workshop led by Michael Breslin ’13.

The College has received funding to supplement the series by stimulating discussion of pressing social issues across a wide range of subject areas.