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Around the Hill asked Hamilton employees the question, “Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 affected your travel plans, and if so, how?”

Shirley Croop, staff assistant in the Office of Admission, just celebrated her 41st anniversary of employment. She is the longest-tenured staff member at the College.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a free recital featuring soprano Rebecca Karpoff and pianist Fred Karpoff on Sunday, November 4, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert will include Mussorgsky’s song cycle “The Nursery” as well as humorous American songs and works by Schubert and Strauss.

Questions about life in the Ice Age will be discussed by Archaeologist Donald K. Grayson of the University of Washington when he visits Hamilton for a lecture, "Ice Age Extinctions," on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit at KJ.

David L. Smallen, Hamilton College's vice president for information technology, and Karen L. Leach, vice president for administration and finance, are leaders of a national study that indicates colleges' spending on information technology is growing faster than their spending in other categories. The researchers who gathered the data said the survey suggests a widening "digital divide" among American colleges. The data, presented in Indianapolis at the annual conference of Educause, are from the Cost of Supporting Technology Services (COSTS) project. COSTS is an annual survey of colleges' spending on information technology. Most of the institutions included in the survey are four-year institutions that do not offer doctorates.

“Halloween is not satanic,” says Hans Broedel, a medieval historian at Hamilton, “They have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Halloween was originally the Celtic New Year which was Christianized in the Middle Ages.” Broedel explains that one of the hallmarks of Christianity is that they adopt other holidays as their own; Easter is another example of this. He says, “The Celtic New Year became All Saint’s Day, then All Souls and our Halloween. There is nothing Satanic about it at all.”

Hamilton College students will host the 12th annual Trust Treat -- a Halloween celebration for more than 200 Utica-area children, on the Hamilton College campus to provide a safe and fun evening of trick-or-treat on Halloween night, Oct. 31. The Utica children, with Hamilton student guides, will trick-or-treat on campus in the residence halls where costumed Hamilton students hand out candy and provide some fun tricks for the children. Some private societies and residence halls also will sponsor haunted houses during the evening.

Anthropology Professor Douglas Raybeck will discuss his fieldwork in Malaysia in a talk titled, "A Generation of Change in Kelantan, Malaysia: A 30 Year Slide Show," on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in KJ 223. Everyone is welcome.

Anthropology Professor Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a San Diego Union-Tribune article (Oct. 24) about the need for people to feel they're in control when dealing with technology. "Any technology that improves our control over our environment, or our perception of control, will sell like hotcakes," Raybeck said.

Café Opus will present an evening of live acoustic music on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 9-10:30 p.m. The performance will feature original songs and covers (including U2, Radiohead and REM) played by Andrea Higgins, a frequent performer at Virgo Bat & Leo Phrog's Coffeehouse in Utica, and the guitar and mandolin playing of Matt Stringer '03.