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On Monday, Oct. 4, nine Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in Southern India performed an opening consecration ceremony of sacred dance and chanting in the Emerson Gallery atrium before beginning their creation of a sand mandala of compassion. This ancient tradition is a reminder of the Buddhist concept of impermanence.

The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is hosting its annual Green Week to encourage sustainability and raise environmental awareness within the Hamilton community from Oct. 4. – Oct. 8.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate presented a paper at the International Society of Religion, Literature, and Culture conference. Plate's paper, "Face, Ethics, Cinematics" was part of a panel that explored the ethical challenges that can occur in filmic close-ups, especially close ups of the human face. His paper brought work in neurosciences together with film studies and ethics to explore the topic.

Doug Lemov '90, managing director of True North Public Schools, will discuss how to put more students on the path to college in a lecture on Monday, Oct. 4, at 4:10 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. His presentation “Building Effective Schools: Lessons from High-Performing Schools," is free and open to the public. It is based on his book, Teach Like a Champion: Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College.

Clifford Christians, research professor of communications and professor of media studies and journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give a lecture titled “Truth in a Technological Age,” on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Steven F. Hayward, the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, will give a lecture on Monday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. His lecture, “Is Sustainable Development Sustainable? Unconventional Reflections on Eco-Economics,” is free and open to the public.

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York City took advantage of some of the city’s highlights on Sept. 29. In the evening, after dining at Gabriel's, the group had the good fortune to attend a performance of the NY Philharmonic in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center where Alan Gilbert had conducted Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

Tina May Hall, associate professor of English and winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, opened the 2010-11 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series (PCWS) with a reading on Sept. 29, at the University of Pittsburgh. The PCWS presents creative writing as an intellectual endeavor, bringing notable contemporary writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction to the campus.

Members of the cast and crew of the Theatre Department's fall production of Slaughter City recently traveled with Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp and lighting designer David Stoughton to Purdy and Sons Food Inc., a meat packing plant in nearby Sherburne, N.Y. Slaughter City by Naomi Wallace is a drama based on real-life conditions in a modern day Southern slaughterhouse.

Pollster John Zogby doesn’t know what will happen in the upcoming midterm election. And he’s not afraid to admit it.