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Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, an historian and author of On the Pill, a social history of oral contraception, will present a lecture, "Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Struggles Over Reproductive Rights in the 20th Century," on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, Hamilton College. The lecture is free and open to the public.

In a study conducted for USA Today, Hamilton College Government Professor Philip Klinkner found that ballot design and race were the crucial factors in accounting for spoiled ballots in the Florida 2000 election. Klinkner’s analysis finds that when you control for various factors, non-straight ballots (butterfly ballots, two-page ballots, multiple column ballots, etc.) had a spoilage rate of approximately three times that of straight ballots (one page, one column) --2.4% vs. 7.5%.

The November issue of Jazz Times mentions Hamilton's Jazz Archive in Nat Hentoff's column, "Final Chorus." In a column about Jo Jones, Hentoff writes, "Locke spoke of Jo, and his own life in jazz, for the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, directed by Monk Rowe. The Archive's hundreds of oral histories range from Doc Cheatham to Bill Charlap."

Government Professor Cheng Li spoke to the U.S. National Committee for Asian Pacific Security on Friday. He discussed U.S.-China relations in light of President Bush's recent APEC visit.

Lavinia Limon, interim executive director of Immigration and Refugee Services of America (IRSA) and the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) spoke at the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College during a luncheon on Nov. 2.

Long Night's Journey Into Day, the award-winning documentary on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will be shown tonight, (Thursday 11/1), at 7 p.m., in KJ Auditorium. It will be followed by a discussion of the New South Africa and J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, Disgrace. Sponsored by the members of Sociology 381, Global Racisms, and English/CompLit 282, New Literatures in English.

Emerson Project award winner Meghan Lynch will read her "Poems from the Merrimack Valley," today (Thursday, Nov. 1), at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Lynch researched the history of North Andover and her personal relationship with the area. From her research she created a collection of poems drawing from her understanding of the area and her personal experience.

Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and La Vanguardia are co-sponsoring "Operation Christmas Child." The groups will collect small gifts, pack them, wrap and send them off all over the world to be given to needy children. There will be collection boxes in the Chapel, Cafe Opus and Beinecke for the next two weeks. These gifts can be anything that will fit in a shoe box, such as small cars, dolls, yo-yos, pencils, toothbrushes, washcloths, lollipops, socks, or books. Gifts and monetary donations may be dropped off at the Beinecke Table from Monday - Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Contact Kit Schofield at(315) 859-2552 or kschofie@hamilton.edu for information or to volunteer.

Come to the Emerson Gallery to purchase holiday cards featuring images from the Samuel Hopkins Adams Collection of prints by Currier & Ives. Each box contains eight cards, with envelopes, featuring some of the most beloved winter scenes from Currier & Ives, blank inside. $10/box, cash or check only. Make checks payable to: The Friends of Art.

Kevin Williams, Ph.D., and cross-country, track and field coach from the University at Albany, will speak at Hamilton on Thursday, Nov. 1, at noon in Science 318. Williams will discuss his research on goal setting and performance, titled, "Pursuing Personal Performance Goals over Time: Discrepancy Production and Revision Processes." His visit is sponsored by the Hamilton College Psychology department and Psi Chi. Bring your lunch and enjoy!