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The Hamilton College Performing Arts opens the Contemporary Voices and Visions Series on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m. with Paul Zaloom’s Velvetville in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts, on the Hamilton College campus.

Hamilton College is ranked in 18th place in the 2003 U.S. New & World Report America's Best Colleges rankings, released on Sept. 13. Hamilton is tied with Colgate and Colby; in the 2002 rankings, Hamilton tied with Colby for 20th place. U.S News judges colleges on a number of criteria, including peer assessment, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity and financial resources.

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was interviewed for a Christianity Today article (Sept. 9, 2002) about the growth of the homeschooling movement. Stevens is the author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement. In the magazine article Stevens discusses homeschooling mothers, who bear "the clear imprint... of liberal feminism."

The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College continues its 2002-2003 series “Masculinities,” with a lecture by Anne Fausto-Sterling on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8 p.m. in KJ Auditorium on the Hamilton campus. Her lecture, "Thinking Systematically about the Emergence of Gender," will be followed by a reception and book signing. It is free and open to the public.

Today, September 12, the Hamilton community will celebrate the “Spirit of September 12.” From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Beinecke Student Activities Village will set up stations for voter registration; blood drive sign-ups (blood will be given on September 24); community service opportunities (through Hamilton Action Volunteers Outreach Coalition); and other activities to celebrate the spirit of September 12.

The Classical Connections series kicks off Hamilton's performing arts season with a performance by cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Anthony de Mare on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 Hamilton employees, and seniors and $5 students. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m., and 1 1/2 hours prior to all performances. Call 859-4331 for more information.

Hamilton's French department, in collaboration with the Kirkland Art Center, has received a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture to participate in "Tournees," the French film grant program run by the Society for French American Cultural Services and Educational Aid. The $1,800 grant, supplemented with support from the Office of the President, the Vice President of Academic Affairs/Dean, and the departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies, will enable the French department to show five contemporary French films during the year and to open them to the general public. The first film, "Amelie," an upbeat romantic comedy, will be shown on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 4 p.m. in KJ Auditorium.

The brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon are holding a 9/11 Philanthropy Drive in Beinecke Student Activities Village on Wednesday, September 11th, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Brothers will be there to collect your donations. ALL PROCEEDS will go to the Clinton Volunteer Fire Department and to the FDNY.

Hamilton College Professor of Anthropology Doug Raybeck was interviewed for a San Diego Union-Tribune article (Sept. 9) about today's "disposable age." Raybeck says, "Things are increasingly complex and increasingly interdependent, and that makes us increasingly helpless. We end up feeling frustrated."

A.G. Lafley, a 1969 graduate of Hamilton College and a member of the college's board of trustees, is profiled in the Sept. 9 issue of Time Magazine. Lafley, chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble, is credited with "leading consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble from one hit to another," says the article. Innovations such as the Crest SpinBrush and Whitestrips have "sent P&G's profits into double-digit growth and made the company the best performer on the Dow Jones this year, rising 14%, to nearly $90 a share," according to Time.