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Associate Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Steve Wu published "Financial Shocks and Worry about the Future" in the November issue of Empirical Economics. The article shows that households that experience adverse financial shocks worry more about the adequacy of their financial resources in retirement, even after controlling for the effects of these shocks on overall wealth.

The Publius Society, a new student organization at Hamilton, will discuss campaign finance and the First Amendment on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. at the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Marc Elias '90, distinguished visiting instructor of government and a nationally recognized expert in campaign finance, will present opening remarks.

Students from Professor of Government Theodore Eismeier's American Political Process class gave presentations on the major candidates. The students chose who they wanted to represent and gave presentations on their candidate's political platform.  For the Democrats, Anna Scott '11 represented Barack Obama, Lindsay Getman '10, Jacob Kleinrock '11 and Jenna Cohen '10 represented Hilary Clinton, and Tom Yarnell '10 gave his support for John Edwards.  The Republicans were represented by Jeff Corbett '09 for Fred Thompson, Frank Matt '10 for Mitt Romney and Ed Ajaeb '11 and Gates Helms '11 for Rudy Giuliani.

Students selected to read their work during this event:  Katie Naughton '08 and Emily Tang '08, winners of the Thomas E. Meehan Prize in Creative Writing; Christopher Parmenter '10, winner of the Adam Gordon Poetry Prize for Freshmen; Fiona MacQuarrie '09, winner of the Rose B. Tager Prize in Fiction; Rachel Richardson '09, winner of the George A. Watrous Prize in Poetry; and Nicole Dietsche '09, winner of the George A. Watrous Prize in Fiction.

Headfirst for Halos by Nicole Dietsche '09.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented a paper titled "Two Types of Movements in Japanese Nominalizations and Edge Phenomena" at the 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at UCLA on November 9-11. In this paper he showed that the left edge of sentences and DP (and Nominalizations) have the identical structure. This was demonstrated by using interactions between negation and the universal quantifier. This paper further supports the idea that sentences and DP are rooted from a more fundamental structure, but they are instantiated differently.

Hamilton hosted a panel discussion titled "Global Problems, Regional Actions: Sustainability in the Mohawk Valley" on Nov. 13. Panelists included Utica Mayor Tim Julian; Utica attorney Peter Rayhill; John Furman, president of Utica/Central New York Citizens in Action; Hamilton Director of Environmental Protection, Safety and Sustainability Brian Hansen; Patrick Raynard, general manager of Bon Appétit; Elaine Hills, a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Albany; and Hamilton senior Jenney Stringer. Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo was moderator. Each panelist suggested ways in which citizens can become involved in local sustainability efforts and highlighted methods of addressing large-scale environmental problems.

Gary E. Knell has served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Governmental Affairs Committees and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Geographic Foundation Board of Governors and AARP Services, Inc. Knell now serves as president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind the production of Sesame Street and other educational children's programming viewed in 140 countries. On Monday, Nov. 13, he spoke to a packed Chapel audience, following a brief introduction by assistant professor of psychology Jean Burr.

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was interviewed for an Associated Press article about the ways in which presidential candidates end their speeches on the campaign trail (11/10/07). In the article, which was published in The Washington Post, The New York Times and Newsweek.com, Adams and other communication experts analyze how the various presidential candidates use their final words to send home a message with the audience. "Candidates often save their most emotional material for the end, after they've established their credibility and followed up with the nuts and bolts of their plans. Usually, speakers will pick up the pace toward the end -- it's like NASCAR rhetoric,' Adams says.

The women's soccer team, two cross country runners and the men's rugby team all advanced in national competition.