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The spring F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1977) on Sunday, Feb. 21. All F.I.L.M. series events are on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building and are free and open to the public.

Hamilton’s Powder Club took 38 students to Killington, Vt., in January for a three-night ski trip. Killington is home to some of the East Coast's finest skiing and snowboarding terrain.

Magic Man, an electronic rock band from New England, visited the Annex on Feb. 18 for a CAB Acoustic Coffeehouse performance. Magic Man’s show was a highlight of this year’s FebFest.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) with Jonathan English, tenor, and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, on Sunday, Feb. 21, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Third Saturday series continues on Saturday, Feb. 20, with a lecture by Carol Bradford, horticulturist and gardening columnist for The Syracuse Post Standard. She will present “Springtime in Japan” at 10 a.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. All Arboretum events are free and open to the public.

Jared Mandelbaum ’18, Mr. HOC, was the victor in the annual Mr. Hamilton competition, held on Feb. 17 as part of FebFest. He prevailed over Mr. Track, Colin Horgan ’19, Mr. Psi U, Alan Yecies ’17, Mr. Philanthropy Committee, Jose Olivares ’16, Mr. Culinary Society, Thomas Hoffman ’16, Mr. HAVOC, Alan Yeh ’18 and Mr. Buffers, Sean Rose ’19. 

Eighteen Hamilton College seniors were elected to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society, at the February meeting.  The inductees are: Nejla Asimovic, Joelle Baer, Rachel Beamish, Laura Becker, Christopher Bousquet, Kathleen Buckley, Gaela Sarah Dennison-Leonard, Caitlin Kennedy, Alex Mitko, Michael Nelson, Lillie Ogden, Matthew Palmer, Ianna Recco, Rebecca Rees, Nicole Saitta, Nathaniel Somes, Ryan Sutyla and Michael Verostek.

Nine Hamilton College students attended the annual Harvard National Model United Nations Conference in Boston, Feb. 11-14. The conference brought together students from 70 different countries to participate in simulations of United Nations committees.

“Be a Match” the posters and emails exhorted, advertising the Feb. 17 marrow registry drive held at Hamilton. After four such events and 500 sign-ups, Milinda Ajawara ’16 has been identified as a Hamilton match for an individual in need of a marrow transplant. Be the Match, the organization that maintains the registry, rightly proclaims that “every potential donor who proves to be a match has a chance to be a hero and save a life.”

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, published a letter in The Times Literary Supplement (London). The letter enlarged upon an earlier discussion in the journal of strain between Edith Wharton and publisher John Lane.