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College offices will be closed for the following upcoming holidays: Thanksgiving Holidays: Thursday and Friday, November 22 and 23; Christmas Holidays: Monday and Tuesday, December 24 and 25; New Year’s Day: Tuesday, January 1, 2002.

Professor of Anthropology Doug Raybeck was interviewed for a page one USA Today article about the popularity of war movies after the September 11 attacks. "Movies that reflect heroism and striving for a good cause...will do very nicely," Raybeck predicts. "Downers won't do well. People want to feel good," he says.

Tim Whitehead, a 1985 graduate of Hamilton College, has been named head hockey coach at the University of Maine.

The Inter Society Council is sponsoring a blood drive on Wednesday, Nov. 28 , from 12-5 p.m. in the Annex. Every donor will receive a free Red Cross t-shirt. Sign up on Tuesday in Beinecke, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., or e-mail ebuckley.

Dr. Carolyn E. Johnson, past international president of the United Methodist Women, and United Nations consultant on peace, justice and women and development, will deliver a lecture, "Gender and Beyond Borders: Creating Networks of Community and Change," on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. Her visit is part of the Africana Studies Program Fall Series on race.

AIDS Awareness Week events will begin on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at Hamilton College. Activities will include lectures, films and discussion groups. All events are free and open to the public.

Hamilton junior Shauna Sweet will give a lecture, "Stories You Tell, and Stories You Don't: Identity on the Appalachian Trail," on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit (KJ 109). Her research was funded by the Bristol and Schambach Scholars Program, which awards research grants to students who have Bristol or Schambach scholarships.

Hamilton College Trustee Thomas Schwarz '66, who served as acting president of the College in 1999, has been nominated to serve as interim president of Purchase College of the State University of New York by Robert L. King, SUNY chancellor. SUNY's board of trustees is expected to act on the nomination at its meeting on November 26.

Phil Klinkner, associate professor of government, will be the next speaker in the Kirkland Project Brown Bag series on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at noon in the Red Pit at KJ. His talk is titled "Whose Vote Doesn't Count?: An Analysis of Spoiled Ballots in the Florida 2000 Presidential Election."

Twenty local middle school girls participated in Girls Speak Out: Conference on Individuality and Group Identity, held on Nov. 17 at Hamilton College. The conference was organized by Hamilton Senior Jessica Ambrose, who started a group at Clinton Middle School to give middle school girls a comfortable environment in which they could talk and write about issues important to them. This year she received a grant from the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Central New York to expand the program to other schools.