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Barbara Gold was the invited keynote speaker at the 27th Australasian Classical Society meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She gave the evening keynote address, which was the Australian Humanities Academy Trendall Lecture for 2006, on "Inhuman She-Wolves and Unhelpful Mothers in Propertius' Elegies." She also gave another paper at a regular session of the conference on "Rhetoric and Auctoritas in Juvenal's Satires," and she presided over another session (at which Carl Rubino gave a paper on "Horace, Carmina 4.1: The Long Goodbye"). While there she also (as editor of a classical journal) attended a meeting of the classical journal editors from Australia and New Zealand.

My Dish, a monthly publication by Hamilton food service provider Bon Appetit's parent company, The Compass Group, featured an article titled "Bon Appetit Opens Green Café at Hamilton College" in its February issue. The Green Café combines Hamilton's new environmental efforts along with its existing local purchasing of agriculture and fisheries to create and offer a unique experience. General manager Patrick Raynard said the "new café is an embodiment of our food philosophy and commitment to sustainability." Some of the café's initiatives include "Green Goals" and "Farm to Fork" which include the purchasing of more than 50 percent of produce from Wagner Farms in Rome, N.Y., and a new vegan and vegetarian station. Their use of biodegradable paper and environmentally friendly cleaning products also add to Bon Appetit's goal to be socially responsible.

The Vermont Ski Areas Association  has promoted Parker Riehle from vice president and general counsel to president. He replaces David Dillon, who is taking a job as president of the Haystack Club in Wilmington. Parker has represented VSAA in legislative and regulatory matters since 1998 except for a two-year hiatus as special assistant and deputy legal counsel to Gov. James Douglas.  A native of South Burlington, he earned his law degree from Vermont Law School. (http://www.vtliving.com/skiing/vsaa/index.shtml)

The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center presents "Economics of Terrorism" on Monday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. as part of its year-long lecture series, "The Responsibilities of a Superpower." Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and director of the industrial relations section at Princeton University and a frequent contributor of "Economic Scene"columns in The New York Times, is the evening's speaker. This event will be held in the Chapel and is free and open to the public.

This spring marks the Hamilton Alumni Leadership Training’s eighth semester on campus. HALT, which began in the 2002 – 2003 academic year (then known as “YALP,” or Young Alumni Leadership Program), is a program designed to create connections between current students and alumni and college administrators. The program, with 32 members for the 2005 – 2006 year, also trains current students to be leaders within the Hamilton community after they graduate.            

The Preliminary Rounds of the 2006 Hamilton College Public Speaking Competition begin on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 1 p.m. in the Chapel. Students can compete for one of three prizes. All interested students are asked to register in advance by sending an e-mail to cwphelan@hamilton.edu. In the e-mail, students should indicate which competition they are registering for and identify their class year. Registration for the competition indicates a commitment to participate.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and N.Y. State Sen. Ray Meier (47th district) spoke before a large group of New York State legislators, New York State Lieutenant Governor Mary Donohue, policy advisors, researchers, faculty from the state University of Albany and administrators from the State Budget office in Albany on Feb. 7. They gave their talk during a reception that opened the gallery exhibit of "The Missing Story of Ourselves," at the State Capitol Building. The photo exhibit will be on display there for one week.

The Classical Connections Series at Hamilton College presents the Marian Anderson String Quartet on Friday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The ensemble will perform works by Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Dmitry Shostakovich and Johannes Brahms. Tickets for this performance are $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, and $5 for students. All seating is general admission. For more information or tickets, call the box office at (315) 859-4331, 1-4 p.m. weekdays.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer has performed his one-man show, "99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask," at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Herkimer County Community College and Indiana University of Pennsylvania during February. Cryer worked on the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

Eric Kuhn '09 will host former Vice President Al Gore's attorney David Boies, and FOX news anchor Mike Jerrick on his WHCL 88.7 FM radio show on Thursday, Feb. 9, beginning at 3 p.m. Jerrick will be the guest from 3-3:30 p.m. and Boies from 3:30-4 p.m. The show can also be heard at www.whcl.org. Boies was lead counsel for Gore in the litigation relating to the 2000 election Florida vote count. Jerrick is co-host of "DaySide" and is weekend co-host of FOX and Friends.