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"Slightly Motivated," an indie film written by Hamilton alumnus Peter Muggleworth '01, is being shot this week on the Hamilton campus. The Continentals' softball field is serving as the backdrop of a little league baseball game, which features a number of local children as team members. Muggleworth, a foreign language/political science major while at Hamilton, spent the last year writing "Slightly Motivated," which takes a wry look at the life of three recent college graduates. Hamilton alumnus Neil Basu '01 is cast in the film as Doug, one of the graduates. After shooting additional scenes at the Clinton Cinema, the crew will return to their home in Boston to complete filming. A premiere will be held in Clinton when the film is completed.

A letter to the editor by Richard Fuller, Hamilton dean of admission and financial aid, was published in The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2002. Fuller wrote to add support to a WSJ article about the need for high school guidance counselors. "A great many of our youth will never know the opportunities that exist for them in higher education because they either don't know they exist or they don't know how to get there," Fuller wrote. He noted that Hamilton College participates in the Higher Education Opportunity program that provides academic, social and financial assistance to disadvantaged students. "But even these efforts require there to be someone in the guidance office for a prospective student to interface with...someone to tell the students and their parents they can go to college and it can be affordable."

Richard Bernstein, a 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, and chief U.S. strategist at Merrill Lynch,was interviewed for a New York Times article about Federal Reserve rate increases. "'Either you get big gains in earnings growth and the Fed is tightening, or you get mediocre gains in earnings and the Fed is on hold,' Mr. Bernstein said. The correlation between higher interest rates and earnings growth has exceeded 80 percent during the years Alan Greenspan has been chairman of the Federal Reserve, he added."

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has announced the appointment of Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner to the James S. Sherman Chair at Hamilton. Appointments to faculty chairs are made by the president, acting on the recommendation of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has announced the appointment of Associate Professor of History Douglas Ambrose to the Sidney Wertimer Jr. Chair at Hamilton. The appointment to the chair is made by the president, on the advice of Vice President and Dean of the Faculty David C. Paris.

Marc David, Hamilton's new Assistant Dean of Students for Multicultural Student Affairs, is asking for campus support of his proposed initiatives. He is seeking members of the community to serve as a resource base for multicultural students.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin announced today that two faculty members have been promoted to full professor. Christophre Georges, an associate professor in the economics department, and John McEnroe, an associate professor of art, were promoted effective July 1. In promoting Professors Georges and McEnroe, President Tobin acted on the recommendations of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty David Paris, the elected faculty members of the Committee on Appointments, senior colleagues in the departments of economics and art, past and current students and a group of nationally recognized scholars.

Thirteen recent Hamilton graduates and undergraduates are packing their bags to begin travel around the world as the recipients of prestigious and competitive national fellowships. Among the fellowships awarded were the J. William Fulbright Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship, NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and Watson Fellowship.

Hamilton College soccer coach Perry Nizzi is hosting the annual All American Soccer Camp this week on campus. More than 200 girls and boys from all over the Northeast are spending their days doing skills and drills, playing World Cup and competing in full games each evening.For information on next year's camp, contact Perry Nizzi at 315-859-4756, or via e-mail, pnizzi@hamilton.edu.

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was interviewed for a feature article about homeschooling families in the August 2002 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. Stevens, author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (2001) says, "Homeschooling provides intimate, individualized attention by an instructor who knows the child better than anyone else.These aren't fancy, fashionable ideas. This movement is built around things we all know work, but that we don't all do."