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Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin gave a lecture at Cornell University's Language Resource Center on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Her topic, "Integrating Task-based Instruction into Foreign Language Curriculum: A Working Model for Syllabus Design", focused on guiding principles and challenges with regard to implementing a task-based curriculum.

Hamilton College will host its 6th annual Relay For Life to benefit the American Cancer Society from Friday, Oct. 19, through Saturday, Oct. 20, in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The relay begins at 7 p.m. and continues through 7 a.m. on Saturday. To date 183 students and 31 groups are registered. The women's soccer team is currently in the fundraising lead with $3,120 pledged. Last year's relay raised more than $20,000 for the American Cancer Society. Students can still register for the event online.

The Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center has received four design and construction awards since its dedication in 2006. The building was awarded the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) - New York Council Award of Excellence earlier in the year. It was one of only three athletic buildings included in The Chronicle of Higher Education "Campus Architecture" special section in February. In September, it was recognized with the New York Construction's Best of New York 2007 "Best Sports Facility" and also the "Award of Merit" in the restoration category.

Frank Anechiarico, Maynard Knox Professor of Government and Law, participated in a conference on "Law and the War on Terror" at West Point from Sept. 25 – 27. Anechiarico lead a panel on "Presidential Power and the Constitution in the War on Terror." The conference was attended by military lawyers, representatives of other government agencies and the media. Anechiarico is a director of the Center for the Study of the Law of War at the United States Military Academy, which sponsored the conference.

"Information Technology and the Dream of Democratic Renewal" is the title of the next Hamilton College Levitt Center lecture in its year-long series, "The Age of Information." Langdon Winner, the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), will present his talk on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Science Auditorium in the College's Science Center. The program is free and open to the public.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the Oct. 4-7 centennial meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, of which she is a past president. She organized and presided over a panel, "The Past as Prologue: The Role of Classics in a Liberal Education," which included two college presidents, one former college president, two college provosts, three former associate deans of faculty and the president of the Teagle Foundation -- all of whom are classicists. She also gave remarks at a panel on "A Century of Developments in Classical Scholarship and Pedagogy" on the journal of which she is the editor, the American Journal of Philology, now in its 128th year.

Laura Brueck, Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies and visiting assistant professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper at the annual conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which took place from Oct. 12-14. Her paper "From Victim to Victor: Rape Revenge Fantasies in Dalit Women's Literature" argued that Dalit (ex-"untouchables" in India) women use written narrative to reject the role of "victim" in which they have regularly been cast(e), both in reality and popular imagination.

Forty years ago, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, attended the Oct. 21 march on the Pentagon, a protest organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. In an article titled "The Flower in the Gun Barrel" in the Oct. 19 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Isserman recounts his experience as a participant and analyzes the event's importance in the evolution of the Vietnam anti-war movement.

A letter to the editor written by Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson about a recent New York Times article titled "Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Game at Church" appeared on the publication's Web site on Oct. 14.

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, outlined Hamilton's Diversity and Unity Summer Institute Program at a two-day conference, Oct. 2-3, in New York City. The conference, "Closing the Minority Achievement Gap in Higher Education," was attended by presidents and other top-level administrators from across the country.