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The 11th Annual AIDS Hike for Life will take place on Sunday, April 26 at 11 a.m. The 5k (3.1 mile) fundraising run and walk on Hamilton's campus will benefit AIDS Community Resources, a not-for-profit organization.

Christopher Hill, visiting assistant professor of history, has been elected to the executive council for the South East World History Association. SEWHA was established 20 years ago as an affiliate of the World History Association, headquartered in London. It promotes the study of history that transcends national, regional and continental boundaries.

On Wednesday, April 22, Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "Firm and Employee Effects of an Enterprise Information System: Micro-econometric Evidence" with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen from the Hanken School of Economics (HSE) in Helsinki, Finland at the Helsinki Center of Economic Research at the University of Helsinki. Jones also presented "The Nature and Effects of Corporate Governance in Co-operatives" on the same day at HSE.

Hamilton College will compete in the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference track and field championships at Connecticut College's Silfen Field complex in New London, Conn., on April 25.

Hamilton College will compete in the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference men's golf championships at Middlebury College's Ralph Myhre Golf Course in Middlebury, Vt., on April 25 and 26.

Delia D. Aguilar, visiting Irwin Chair and associate professor of women's studies, gave a keynote address, "Beyond the Model Minority," at the annual conference of the Northwest Filipino American Student Association held in Washington State University from April 17-19. Aguilar also conducted a workshop on the Filipino diaspora, its problems and prospects in a time of global crisis.

Students of Professor Sharon Rivera's Comparative Politics (Government 112) classes and members of the Hamilton community participated in a mock debate and election exercise involving six political parties campaigning for the parliamentary elections of West Europa on April 21.

In response to New York University's and Colby College's announcements that they are no longer requiring applicants to take either the SAT or ACT, InsideHigherEd.com, in an April 21 article titled "SAT Skepticism in New Form," addressed the issue. Editor Scott Jaschik reviewed similar decisions made by other institutions in years past including Hamilton's decision to become SAT-optional in 2001. Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer shared some of her observations with Jaschik.

On April 19, students in the Program in Washington D.C. took a break from politics and research papers to enjoy our national pastime. Joined by some alumni from the area, students watched the Nationals snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by yielding four ninth-inning runs to the Florida Marlins.

In 1997, Ralph Upson Stone '80 had completed research on his doctoral dissertation, "Women Leaders in Kenya," when he was brutally murdered by a still unidentified assailant in his home in Washington, DC, at the age of 38. Determined that his years of labor would not be lost, his mother, Anne Upson Stone, put the finishing touches on Ralph's research and concluded the writing of his dissertation. In 1998, at age 68, she successfully defended it before her son's professors at George Washington University. That summer, Ralph's Ed.D. degree was posthumously awarded, with his mother and father, Frederick L. Stone, Jr. '51, on hand to receive it.