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Seventeen students and three faculty members in French spent the weekend of April 17-19 in Montreal, Quebec, exploring many aspects of this bilingual city which is only five hours away from Clinton. Students viewed a piece of the Berlin Wall that was given as a gift to Montréal in 1992, for the 350th anniversary of the city. During a guided tour of the old and modern city, students -- who pledged to speak only French during the trip -- were told about the complex history of the area, and how bilingualism affects public and private life.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an article titled "Narrating the Detective: Nansensu, Silent film Benshi Performances and Tokugawa Musei's Absurdist Detective Fiction" in Japan Forum (21:1), Routledge. This article discusses how Tokugawa Musei, arguably the most famous benshi or silent film narrator/commentator, undermined conventions of detective fiction by adding aspects of benshi narration to the typical formulae of detective novels. By doing so, Musei supplemented the main narrative with a perspective external to the diegetic narrative.

SUNY Oneonta scored four runs in the top of the 10th inning and the visiting Red Dragons held on for a 7-3 come-from-behind win against Hamilton College in a non-conference baseball game played at DeLutis Field on May 3.

Kristen Selden '09 broke her own school record in the 100-meter hurdles and Hamilton College finished in sixth place at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships, which were held at St. Lawrence University on May 1 and 2.

Hamilton College won the 3,200-meter relay and the Continentals finished in seventh place at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships, which were held at St. Lawrence University on May 1 and 2.

Alex Augustyn '10 drove in four runs on two home runs and a double to lead Hamilton College past visiting Amherst College, 9-3, in a New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division game played at Royce Field on May 2.

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall's novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, has been published by Caketrain Press. The novella is a collection of 48 short short stories that trace a year in the life of a couple trying to conceive a child.

Native American speaker Thomas R. Porter will give a lecture on Monday, May 4 at noon in the Chapel. Porter, whose Native American name is Sakokweniónkwas (He Who Wins Them Over or He Who Enables Them to Do Something), is a member of the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, an Iroquois territory located on the St. Lawrence River.

Four Hamilton College men's lacrosse players were honored by the Liberty League on April 30 when the league announced its end-of-season awards.

Prison walls serve two main purposes: they keep the prisoners in, and they keep the outside world out. Last semester, students from Hamilton used literature to permeate these walls. Professor Doran Larson's 400-level seminar concentrated on prison writing, and traveled outside the classroom to participate in a creative writing class taught by Professor Larson at the maximum security Attica State Prison.