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Approximately 170 students, Muslim and non-Muslim, participated in the annual "fast-a-thon," sponsored by the Muslim Students Association on campus on Sept. 8. The day of fasting during the month of Ramadan, ending on Sept. 9, brought students of several faiths together. One of the reasons for holding the annual event is to offer non-Muslim students the opportunity to experience what Muslims practice for an entire month.

Hamilton College’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center will sponsor a series of evening lectures for the 2010-11 academic year focused on three thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability, and Inequality and Equity. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Hamilton College athletic trainer Becky Osier was featured in a recent article that appeared in the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

Anthony Balbo '13 scored a goal and Eric Boole '13 made one save as Hamilton College tied SUNY Cortland 1-1 in a non-league game at Hamilton's Love Field on Sept. 8.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was interviewed and quoted in a BBC Magazine article titled Mad Men and the 60s - the decade is in the detail. The article explored the “un-60sness of the early 1960s,” the years in which the TV series is set.

Untitled@large presented its annual Shakespeare in the Glen production on Sept. 4-5. This year’s show was The Merchant of Venice, produced by Rouvan Mahmud ’11 with assistants Sam Bristol ’11 and Alison McLaughlin ’11.

Austin Briggs, Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, has published “Joyce’s Nymph of the Yews: Debates about the Nude in Painting” in The Dublin James Joyce Journal (no. 2/2009), a new peer-reviewed publication appearing under the auspices of the University College Dublin James Joyce Research Centre in association with the National Library of Ireland.

Two Hamilton College athletes were honored by the Liberty League on Sept. 6 when the league selected its weekly award winners.

Hamilton College will host “Stone Canoe Readings,” a reading featuring five poets, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The Stone Canoe is an annual journal of writing, art and ideas from upstate New York, edited by Robert Colley '66 and published by Syracuse University. This event is free and open to the public.

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