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Parents of the the Class of 2008 will be honored at a reception and wine tasting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 of Family Weekend in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Center. Hamilton's Edward North Professor of Classics (and wine aficionado) Carl Rubino will lead the tasting of a selection from the Peconic and Cakebread wineries. (both have Hamilton connections!) Executive Assistant to the President Meredith Harper Bonham, who oversees Commencement weekend, will join them to provide a preview of the May 2008 graduation festivities. To let us know whether or not you are able to attend, please contact Pauline Caputi, 866-729-0314 or pcaputi@hamilton.edu

A "Taste of the Mohawk Valley" reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 in the Field House. This Family Weekend event hosted by President Joan Hinde Stewart and Dean Joseph Urgo will give Hamilton parents an opportunity to meet other parents as well as Hamilton faculty members and staff. The reception will feature foods unique to Central New York provided by Bon Appetit and area restaurants will offer samples of their menus and prizes of dining-out gift certificates. Entertainment will be provided by student groups HEAT, Tropical Sol and Capoeira.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Myles Brand spoke to a packed Hamilton College Chapel on Tuesday, Oct. 2, about the alignment of intercollegiate athletics and higher education. Brand made a case for the continued link of the two institutions, stating that athletics is “connected to higher education because, and only because, it helps educate.”

Read Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital, and join the author for reading and discussion on Friday, Nov. 9 at 2:30 p.m. in the Great Room at Spencer House. Turner Hospital is Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, and this event is sponsored by English Department and Office of the President.

Former Iowa Governor Thomas J. Vilsack '72 has been named to co-chair a Council on Foreign Relations independent task force formed to make U.S. policy recommendations for international engagement on climate change. Vilsack, an attorney with the Des Moines, Iowa, office of Dorsey & Whitney, and former New York Governor George E. Pataki will lead a 30-person task force that will examine the economics, science and politics of climate change.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a paper titled “Frames of Engagement: Video Podcasts and the Teaching of Chinese Culture and Society” on the panel “Sharing Expertise: Podcasts and Web Units for Students and Teachers of Asian Studies” and chaired a panel on “Teaching Together: Simulcasts and Guest Lectures on Asian Studies” at the 2007 Symposium on Asia and the Curriculum. The symposium was held at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs on Sept. 28. “Frames of Engagement” represented a reflection on the suite of six digital video podcasts on which Goldberg and Michael Viveiros, a senior majoring in Asian studies, had collaborated with the support of an Emerson Research Grant this past summer.

Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, has published an article in the current issue of The Journal of African American History. His article, “Vanguards of the New Negro: African American Veterans and Post-World War I Racial Militancy,” examines the participation of African American veterans in several post-war black radical organizations, and how their physical and symbolic presence informed the broader ideological tenor of the New Negro movement. The article is drawn from Williams’ larger forthcoming book project, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers and the Era of the First World War. The Journal of African American History, founded in 1916 by Carter G. Woodson, is the leading peer-reviewed journal devoted to African American life and history.

In a Reuters article published by The Washington Post, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, commented on the reasons behind dwindling crowds of protestors as opposition to the Iraq War mounts. “Largely absent from the actions are young people, who were the majority of Vietnam-era protesters -- perhaps because they do not risk being drafted into the military or from a sense that they can express their opposition to the war on the Internet, rather than on the streets.” 

The annual Clinton Community Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 7, from noon to 3 p.m. on the Village Green in Clinton. Fall Fest is an event that was started in 2002 by Hamilton's Class of 2005 to promote and strengthen the relationship between Hamilton College and the village of Clinton. It is free and open to the public.

Laura Purdy, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, authored an article titled "Is Preconception Sex Selection Necessarily Sexist?" on Sept. 28, 2007, in Reproductive BioMedicine Online. It will also be published in the next Ethics Supplement issue of the upcoming December print volume.