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Director of Financial Aid Matt Malatesta participated on WIBX's "Speak Out Show" with U.S. Congressman Michael Arcuri on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 9 a.m. in a discussion of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act. The bill was signed into law by President Bush on Sept. 27.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor and Lecturer in English Literature emeritus, was honored for his 50 years of teaching at Hamilton during Fallcoming 2007 weekend. The English Department sponsored a day-long symposium on the poet James Joyce, on whose work Briggs is an expert.  Joyce scholars from across the U.S., Canada, Dublin, London and York participated, as well as current and former students of Briggs. Among the panelists was John Gordon '67, an English professor at Connecticut College and former student of Briggs who has published three books on Joyce.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, is quoted extensively in the Oct. 15 issue of TIME magazine in "The Man to See." The article analyzes the leadership of China's president Hu Jintao and the forces and issues within the government that he must address. Li describes the two distinct factions within the government, the populists led by Hu and his allies, and the élitists, made up of so-called princelings--children of top officials--and supporters of former President Jiang Zemin. They represent "two starkly different sociopolitical and geographical constituencies," according to Li.

Junior Eric Kuhn interviewed comedian and political satirist Mo Rocca for MSNBC.com’s monthly column highlighting the charitable engagement of a celebrity. Kuhn talked with Rocca about his work on behalf of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit that pays for poor students to attend Catholic schools in New York City.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a talk at the second Smith College Alumnae Mathematics Conference. The purpose of the conference is to celebrate the 70 plus alumnae who have earned Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences, the 20 plus who are currently in graduate programs, and the current students who may follow this path. In her talk, Boutin surveyed her recent work on finding a small set of vertices that captures all of a graph's symmetries.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Myles Brand will speak on "The Place of Intercollegiate Athletics in American Culture," on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 8:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. This program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and the Department of Philosophy.

Charter Trustee Richard Bernstein ’80, chief U.S. investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, detailed the anatomy of the credit bubble during a lecture on Sept. 27, organized by Professor of Economics Chris Georges. According to Bernstein, the fear of deflation at the turn of the century led central banks to provide record amounts of liquidity by decreasing key interest rates, namely the Fed funds rate. The latter, coupled with increased Fed transparency caused investors to become less risk-averse, a scenario which left no asset class starved for capital with the effect of reducing returns.

The pinnacle of the 1967 football season occurred when the Continentals scored 22 points in the closing minutes of play to beat St. Lawrence 36-34. This victory was part of a great campaign by the Blue with a record of six wins and one loss, a record that has only been matched once in the past forty years. To commemorate the outstanding season led by Coach Don Jones, the 1967 team gathered again on the Hill to celebrate their season with friends and family. Events included a pre-game dinner with the Continentals, a tailgate and half-time ceremony during the Hamilton vs. Wesleyan contest, a post-game reunion team dinner, and plenty of time to visit The Little Pub to remember the "Glory Days."

Dr. Rafael Campo spoke to the Hamilton College community in a lecture titled “Fact Versus Truth: Examining Health Disparities through Diverse Illness Narratives” on Thursday, Sept. 27. Campo argued that literary works may have equal or greater power than traditional biomedical knowledge to understand and treat illness.

Hamilton Biology Professor Emeritus Eugene Putala presented a talk titled “The Root Legacy: Homestead, Glade and Glen” on Saturday, Sept. 29, on the deck of the Outdoor Education Center. His remarks were part of the celebration of the opening of the Emerson Gallery exhibition, “The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist.”