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On Oct. 27, students in the Program in New York City attended a performance of the Broadway show, Billy Elliot. This show was named by TIME Magazine as the "Best Musical of the Decade."  The musical was an excellent fit for a program that examines issues in labor economics and employment relations since a main backdrop to the show is a strike by coal miners.

University of South Carolina professor Gordon Smith and Mark Welton, a professor at the United States Military Academy, will present “Foreign Corruption, Regime Stability, and U.S. National Security” at Hamilton College on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 4:10 p.m., in Dwight Lounge at the Bristol Center. The panel is part of the 2010-11 Levitt Center series on “Security” and is free and open to the public.

A college student dressed as Ms. Frizzle – the red-haired and eccentric science teacher from The Magic School Bus – relaxes on a couch as she scans the room that was once just an ordinary common space for dorm residents. Now it’s been transformed into a haunted house, with the help of some jack-o-lanterns, cobwebs, fake spiders, pumpkins and plastic rats scattered across the floor.

Dr. Condoleezza Rice gave a lecture and answered questions on foreign policy and her time as Secretary of State under the Bush administration as part of Hamilton College’s Sacerdote Great Names Series on November 1 in the Field House.

A few dozen Hamilton students taking Government Department courses were treated to a small-group question and answer session with Sacerdote Great Names Speaker Dr. Condoleezza Rice on Nov. 1, prior to her lecture. Students from Distinguished Visiting Professor Maj. John Dehn's Seminar in War Powers Class joined Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny's international relations classes to ask questions of Dr. Rice in a half-hour session. The conversation was ranging, covering many international policy issues and a handful of domestic issues.

Family and friends of Hamilton students turned out about 1,500 strong for the annual Family Weekend, Oct. 28-31. Visitors enjoyed musical performances, sat in on classes and viewed posters of students' summer research.

John H. O’Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus, presented a paper, “Resolving Tom Jones: Text and Film” at the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Buffalo, Oct. 21-23.

William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Language & Literature Hong Gang Jin gave the keynote speech at the Fifth Annual Five College Chinese Language Conference at Smith College on Oct. 30. Her talk was titled "Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Methodological Principles and Best Practices."

Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn presented a lecture titled “Permutations and Geometric Realizations of K 2, n” on Oct. 27, at Skidmore College.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Cheryl Casey presented in two roundtable discussions at the 68th Annual New York State Communication Association Conference at Honors Haven Resort in Ellenville, N.Y.