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Thomas Meehan '51 has co-written a new musical, Cry Baby, (with Mark O'Donnell) that premieres November 6 through December 16, at the La Jolla Playhouse of La Jolla, Calif.  The Alumni Associations of Los Angeles and San Diego have group tickets for the December 8 show. Alumni and friends of Hamilton College are invited to experience "this hilarious new musical."

For a platoon at Camp Warhorse in Baquba, Iraq, the holidays might be a bit cheerier thanks to a connection forged between a group of Hamilton students and a Physical Plant employee who is currently serving there. Horticultural Grounds Worker John Gates and his platoon of some 40 men will be the recipients of care packages collected and sent by students at Hamilton. A new student organization, Hamilton College Supports the Troops (HCSTT), was formed in November to gather care packages to American troops serving abroad.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies Laura Brueck gave an invited lecture on Nov. 30 titled "Good Dalits, Bad Brahmins: Melodramatic Realism in the Hindi Dalit Short Story" as part of the University of Michigan's Center for South Asian Studies Scholarly Lecture Series.  

Tanguy L'Aminot, editor of Etudes Jean-Jacques Rousseau and director of the study group at the Sorbonne focused on the work of this 18th-century Swiss thinker, has announced the publication of volume 16 in this series, for which Professor of French John C. O'Neal wrote an article: "La confusion de la société dans la Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles et la question de la modernité de Rousseau" (pp. 253-266). As an honorary associate member of the Centre d'Etude des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles at the Sorbonne, O'Neal participated in the work of this study group in 2003-2004. He is chair of the French Department at Hamilton.

During Fallcoming Weekend '07, the Alumni Council accepted by a unanimous vote the Nominations Committee's nominations for Bell Ringer and for the Distinguished Service Award.  The committee also selected a recipient for the College Key Award.

Students in Government 285: Introduction to Environmental Politics, led by Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo, will hold a mock Senate hearing on climate change legislation on Wednesday, Dec. 5, from 4 – 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Cannavo says that attendees to this event should "expect informative expert testimony, spirited debate, self-serving political grandstanding and fascinating presentations covering everything climate-related, from distributive justice to alternative fuels to White House policy to oil reserves to international relations." This event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton Board of Trustees has unanimously elected Alan G. (A.G.) Lafley, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Procter & Gamble Company, to be its next chairman, and George F. (Jeff) Little II, co-president of George Little Management LLC, as its next vice chairman.

Students from Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera's Politics in Russia class hosted adult learners from the Refugee Center for lunch in Dwight Lounge on Nov. 29. The Hamilton students are participants in Project SHINE (Students Helping In the Naturalization of Elders) and the adult learners were natives of the Ukraine, Moldolva and Belarus. Hamilton students participating in the lunch were Alex Hodosy '09, Abdel Abdelghany '10, Cali Garson '09, Akila Bond '09, Jessy Gelber '09, Kate Marek '09 and Stephanie Ryder '09. The SHINE program is operated through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, spent three weeks in England in November as a Visiting Scholar at Oxford Brookes University where he presented several seminars. He also lectured on U.S.-European relations at the University of Bath and participated in a symposium and book launch of his most recent publication, Europe at Bay (co-authored by J. Magnus Ryner), at Oxford Brookes on Nov. 16.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper titled "Mythical Ancestry and the Authority of History in Medieval Scottish Verse and Chronicle" at the University of Edinburgh on Nov. 28. Terrell is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, where she is writing a book on medieval Scottish poetry and historiography.