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Daniel Hooley, professor of classics at the University of Missouri, will present the Classics Department's Winslow lecture on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Chris Abani, a Nigerian writer and professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, will read from his fiction and poetry on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel as part of the English department's fall 2008 reading series. It is free and open to the public.

Charter Trustee David Blood '81, managing partner of Generation Investment Management and Al Gore, chairman of the firm and former U.S. vice president, co-authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal titled "We Need Sustainable Capitalism" (11/5/08).

Students, parents and faculty gathered in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House for "Midnight Madness" late in the evening of Saturday, Nov. 1, to celebrate the beginning of the basketball season with Hamilton's men's and women's teams and raise money for the Johnson Park Center in Utica.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department presents Roberto Zucco by French contemporary playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes. Directed by Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp with a cast of Hamilton College students, the production runs Nov. 6-8 and 12-15, at 8 p.m., and Nov. 8 and 15 at 2 p.m. All performances are in Minor Theater.

Hamilton College's Peter Kosgei '10 (Kapsabet, Kenya/Kapsabet Boys' HS) earned New England Small College Athletic Conference men's cross country Performer of the Week and New York State Collegiate Track Conference men's Runner of the Week honors on Nov. 3.

Nancy Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, chaired a session on the "Empire of Letters" at a conference titled "Empire Without End," at Duke University Oct. 31-Nov. 1. The conference was sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of Classical Studies, Program in Women's Studies and the Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms. The keynote address was delivered by Wole Soyinka.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, was quoted extensively in a Nov. 4 article titled "With emotions running high, America votes" in the Buffalo News.

Hamilton has a reputation as a College with exceptional alumni support, both financially and as a beloved place to return for Reunion Weekend. But George Baker, Jr. '74 and Frank Vlossak IV '89, are taking their commitment to Hamilton a step beyond, as they have returned for the fall semester to team teach the Government Department class "Lobbying and Government Relations."

The New York City Alumni Maurice Isserman