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It was a busy Halloweekend for the Outing Club as the newest batch of leaders was eager to get out into the High Peaks and show what they learned. Many students found that crisp, cool mountain air is the perfect remedy for a mid-semester lull and were able to enjoy the pristine beauty of fall in upstate New York.

Students participating in Hamilton’s fall 2017 New York City Program visited the Whitney Museum’s exhibition An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 on Oct. 18.

In an essay titled When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism published by The New York Times, Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, reviewed the history of the Communist Party in the city during the 20th century.

Hamilton College will construct a new PGA-quality golf practice facility and name it for longtime professor and coach Bob Simon, President David Wippman announced.

It all started as an ordinary night at Hamilton College. On October 27, students held a classic costume party with feathered masks, Halloween music and red solo cups of soda. Suddenly, partygoers were startled by a scream for help. A man was found in the hallway—lying dead—with a suspicious bite mark on his neck.

The Hamilton College women's rowing team captured the silver medal in the club championship eights at the 2017 Head of the Schuylkill Regatta on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia on Oct. 28.

After spending two years in Washington D.C., Will Rusche ’13 returned to the Hill that is Hamilton College to discuss his experience as a researcher at the White House in the Office of Communications.

Some Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) members made Halloween a little happier for some children and senior citizens at Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare on Oct. 29. The student-athletes donned costumes and visited the pediatric ward and Senior Care Center of St. Luke's Hospital.

Hamilton alumnus and Goldman Sachs President and Co-Chief Operating Officer David M Solomon '84, P'16, discussed how the college contributed to his career success in a recent interview.

Professor Naomi Guttman, Department of Literature and Creative Writing, had a busy summer: in early July, she traveled to the U.K. to give the paper, "Maple Moon: Landscapes of the Sugar Maple in a Time of Climate Change" at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.