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Moustafa Bayoumi, a professor at Brooklyn College and author of How Does It Feel to Be A Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, will give a lecture on that topic at Hamilton on Thursday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium (G027) of the Science Center. This event is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, the History Department and the Dean of Faculty Office, and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College was shut out for the first time all season in a 7-0 non-conference loss against nationally ranked No. 9 SUNY Cortland at DeLutis Field in Rome, N.Y., on May 5.

Hamilton College's Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place on Friday, May 8, at 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel. Utica businessman F. Eugene Romano, a 1949 graduate of Hamilton, will present remarks at the ceremony.

John Donohue III '74, the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor at Yale Law School, was among leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is one of 212 new Fellows and 19 foreign honorary members to join one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent policy research.

Ten students have been selected as new writing tutors for the 2009-2010 academic year. They are, from the Class of 2010, Ethan Kamer (history) and Lizzie Marris (sociology); Class of 2011, Rachel D'Angio (environmental studies), Leigh Ercole (psychology), Courtney Flint (history), and Sushmita Preetha (women's studies). Students selected from the class of 2012 are Maeve Gately, Nora Grenfell, Julia Litzky, and Andre Matlock.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg has written the essay for the catalog, New Traces of The Brush: Calligraphy and Painting by André Kneib. The essay appears in both English and Chinese. The exhibition of the French artist, André Kneib, is currently on show at Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai, China.

Hamilton College finished in a tie for fifth place in the overall team standings at the New York State championships, which were held on Whitney Point Lake on May 2 and 3.

Hamilton College finished in a tie for fifth place in the overall team standings at the New York State championships, which were held on Whitney Point Lake on May 2 and 3.

New York City might be expensive, but last fall, its luxury handbags weren't. In the middle of a crashing economy, consumers who were desperate to cut expenses and save cash decided to forgo the indulgences for which they clamored just a year earlier. As Saks Fifth Avenue CEO and Hamilton College Charter Trustee Steve Sadove '73 tells it, Saks found itself with an excess supply of seasonal products that would be unfashionable within months, and it needed to unload them, fast. So while other retailers were pursuing a conservative strategy of 30 percent discounts, Saks slashed prices on many big-ticket items by 70 percent.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was invited to give a talk at the symposium "Human Security and Business: Focusing on Conflicts, Human Mobility, and Governance" on April 27 at City University London. Her talk was titled "The Korean 'Hostess' Club 'Rose' in Japan and Human Security."