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The Hamilton College Democrats will take on the Hamilton College Republicans in an Election Day debate on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Allison Gaston-Enholm '09 will serve as moderator. The debate questions will be based on topics agreed upon by both sides. The Democrats will be represented by Will Leubsdorf '10, Rachel Horowitz '09 and Kye Lippold '10, and Republican debaters will be Elizabeth Farrington '10, John Molfetas '09, Colin Forwood '09 and Tim Minella '09. The event is funded by Student Assembly and is free and open to the public.

John H. O'Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, was honored at the 2007 annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held at Dartmouth College on October 25-28. O'Neill was recognized with a special session titled "Libertinism: A Panel in Honor of John O'Neill." At the Society's business meeting he was presented with a plaque in recognition of his 18 years as newsletter editor for the organization.

The week of Nov. 5 is National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week and Hamilton is proud to recognize its 22 student volunteers. The current active members are Sujitha Amalanayagam, Nicholas Berry, Ashley Bourgeois, Megan Brousseau, Christina Clark, Ruth Duggan, Erin Evans, Max Falkoff, Michael Flanders, Ellen Griffin, Megan Herman, Shane Knapp, Jared Leslie, John Lofrese, Ryan Messier, Ben Saccomano, Amanda Schoen, Alexa Schwarzman, Ryan Seewald, Denroy Thomas, Emma Trucks and Kendra Wulczyn.

"The Flower in the Gun Barrel," an essay written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman was featured on PBS' BILL MOYERS JOURNAL (11/2/07). The piece was originally published last month in The Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review. Isserman's essay recounts his experience as a participant in the march and analyzes the event's importance in the evolution of the Vietnam anti-war movement. The program producers highlighted the essay along with photographs provided by Isserman.

Hamilton College's $700 million endowment and the alumni investment team that contributes to its success were featured in a New York Times article "How Smaller College Endowments Still Reap Big Returns" (11/04/07). The article noted that while it is sometimes difficult for smaller college endowments to match the returns of Ivies like Harvard and Yale, Hamilton with its $700 million endowment returned 21.1 percent last year. Henry Bedford '76, Richard Bernstein '80, David Solomon '84 and Robert Morris '76 were acknowledged in the article as providing "alumni expertise" to Hamilton's endowment. Bedford is portfolio manager at Moore Capital Management, Bernstein is chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, Solomon is co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Morris is founder of Olympus Partners, a private equity firm.

Philip Pearle, professor of physics emeritus, was interviewed for a New Scientist feature article "Taking the spookiness out of quantum theory" (11/3/07). In an article that questions whether quantum theory is "the final theory," Pearle comments on physicist Stephen Adler's "emergent quantum theory" – an idea that builds quantum physics from the bottom up, starting from a hypothetical lower level that obeys classical physics. "This work is truly ingenious," Pearle said in the article. "Is it the long-sought formulation that makes quantum, theory understandable? I'd say a definite maybe."

Martha Mockus, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women's studies, published an article titled "MeShell Ndegéocello: Musical Articulations of Black Feminism" in the new interdisciplinary anthology Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom, edited by Christa Acampora and Angela Cotten (SUNY Press, 2007).

Gillian Zucker '90 was featured in a Dallas Morning News article "The women of NASCAR: Females making inroads in sport dominated by men" (11/4/07). Zucker, president of California Speedway since 2005, said in the article that she decided she wanted to run a sports franchise while working as a non-paid intern for a minor league hockey team in Utica when she was a student at Hamilton.

Visiting Professor of English Scott MacDonald, currently on leave from Hamilton and teaching with the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard, presented two "Cinema 16" shows at the Harvard Film Archive in September.

The week of November 5-11 is National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week. Ryan Seewald '10 is a member of Hamilton's Emergency Medical Services team and here offers observations about his first three months on the job. We are proud to recognize all 22 members of HCEMS.