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We are encouraging our students to take advantage of the Blood Drive on campus September 25, which is being sponsored by the Inter-Society Council. The Red Cross strongly encourages you to make an appointment because they have a specified number of technicians at the drive and may not be able to accommodate walk-ins. ISC will have sign-up tables in Beinecke next week, Wednesday, Sept. 19 through Friday, Sept. 21.

Hamilton College will host a campuswide open forum tonight, Thursday, Sept. 13, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel, titled "Terrorism: Thinking About the Attack on the U.S." Faculty panelists will include Shoshana Keller, history; Yael Aronoff, government; Ann Owen and Tolga Koker, economics; and Russell Blackwood, religious studies. This is not a public event and is open to members of the Hamilton community.

For news concerning the terrorist attacks as they relate to Hamilton College go to: Hamilton's Response.

The lecture by author Lorene Cary scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 13 has been cancelled.

Hamilton Performing Arts opens its season with a Classical Connections Concert featuring the Cavani String Quartet on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Winners of the 1989 Naumburg Award, the Cavanis are a delight to hear. This program will feature Bartok, Debussy and Schubert. Join the Cavani Quartet after the performance for an informal "Meet the Artist" in Cafe Opus, moderated by Hamilton orchestra conductor, Heather Buchman. Tickets are $10/fac. & staff and $5 students. To reserve tickets, call the box office at 859-4331.

The talk by Paula Rothenberg, director of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, scheduled for today, Sept. 11, has been postponed.

Performance Artist Kate Bornstein will present "On Men, Women and the Rest of Us," on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theatre. Her appearance is sponsored by The Kirkland Project as part of its 2001-02 programming, "The Body in Question."

The department of German and Russian will sponsor a lecture, in English, by the young dramatist, translator and novelist John von Düffel on Monday, Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Browsing Room, second floor of Christian Johnson Hall. Mr. Düffel's newest work, Ego, is set to appear this month.

The Kirkland Project 2001-02 series, The Body in Question, kicks off today with a Hamilton faculty panel discussion, "What the Body Knows," with moderator Chandra Mohanty, and panelists Carole Bellini-Sharp, Katheryn Doran, Sue Ann Miller, Susan Sanchez Casal, and Thomas Wilson. Today at 4 p.m. in the Emerson Gallery, followed by a reception.

Heidi M. Ravven, an associate professor in the Religious Studies department at Hamilton College, has been promoted to full professor.