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The Buffers, Hamilton's all male a capella group, continued a Valentine's Day tradition by delivering singing Buffergrams to people all over campus.

Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, “Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s New World Social Geography,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Her appearance is part of Hamilton's commemoration of Black History Month.

Classics Professor Barbara Gold was interviewed for a United Press International (UPI) feature article about the origins of Valentine's Day. In the UPI article Gold says love for ancient Romans was interesting, both to live and to write about, because it was painful, like a disease.

Hamilton College will host its fourth annual winter carnival, FebFest 2003, through February 15 on the campus. FebFest will feature a snoccer tournament, snow sculpture contest, community sledding, a Battle of the Bands and Gong Show. Many events are free and open to the public; others require admission with a FebFest button.

The Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College in conjunction with the current exhibition "Whistler & His Contemporaries, Prints of Venice" presents Lunchtime Tuesday Talks, "Food for Thought," beginning on Tuesday, Feb. 11, noon to 1 p.m. in the Emerson Gallery. Guest curator Professor of Art Deborah Pokinski will discuss "Whistler in Venice."

A benefit production of Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues” will be performed at Hamilton College on Friday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. This will be the fourth consecutive year that the Obie Award-winning play will be performed on behalf of the V-Day 2003 College Campaign. This production is sponsored by the Sexual Assault Center and the Office of the President. Tickets are $3 and may be purchased at the door.

The latest book has appeared in the "Theory and Interpretation of Narrative" series co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz with James Phelan. Written by Robyn Warhol, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, it's titled "Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms."

Federal and New York State Income Tax forms are available in Burke Library (ext. 4735). The Library has the standard forms and instructions available. Unfortunately, the complete reproducible federal forms have been delayed this year, but the library expects them to be available by the end of February.

Tim Berbenich '02 has been hired by the New York Jets football organization as an offensive assistant. He interned for the Club as an operations intern during training camps from 2000-2001.

The Monk Rowe Trio kicked off the Oneida Public Library's "America in the Jazz Age Winter Jubilee" on Feb. 8. The Monk Rowe Trio performed 1920s-era jazz and blues, with saxophonist Rowe, bassist Genevieve Rose and drummer Greg Caputo. Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, also appeared solo at the library on Feb. 23.