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Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series with the early music group Pallade Musica on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Mal Condon, founder of Hydrangea Farm Nursery, will present a lecture titled “Success with Hydrangeas” on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 10 a.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is part of Hamilton’s Arboretum Series and is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a question and answer session.

Distinguished veteran and cyber-policy specialist Col. Glenn (Alex) Crowther appeared at Hamilton Wednesday as this year’s headline speaker for the annual General Josiah Bunting III Veterans Day Lecture. Crowther’s lecture was hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Institute Undergraduate Fellows at Hamilton College and was prefaced by a brief introduction by Professor of History Robert Paquette.

Hamilton’s student-run Mock Trial team took home the 1st place trophy from the University of Rochester’s “Yellow Jacket Invitational”  held on Nov. 6-8. This is the third year in a row that the team has won this tournament. In addition, two of Hamilton’s attorneys (Silvia Radulescu ’17 and Andrew Fischer ’17) won Outstanding Attorney Awards, and one witness (Patrick McConnell ’19) won an Outstanding Witness Award. This means that the judges consistently ranked each student as being one of the best attorneys or witnesses in their trials.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented a paper and chaired a panel on Nov. 7 during the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, Ore.

Beginning his lecture at Hamilton on Nov. 10 Jacob Stoil asked the audience, “What is Zionism?” Stoil, the visiting instructor of peace and conflict studies at Colgate University, received a range of answers ranging from “Jewish liberation,” to “homeland,” “statehood,” and “safety.”

From their very first days on the hill, Hamilton students dedicate major portions of their college careers to community outreach and volunteer service. The Hamilton College COOP, or Community Outreach and Opportunity Project, provides Hamilton students with countless rewarding opportunities to volunteer and lend a helping hand to those in need.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was recently named the winner of the 2016 LCC Activism Award by the Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC) of the Society for Classical Studies for her “tireless work promoting the rights and well-being of sexual minorities.”

Author and former TIME journalist Barrett Seaman ’67 returned to Hamilton on Nov. 9 to discuss the role of journalism in modern society and the tendency of people today to cluster with other like-minded individuals. With the rise of accessible technology, this clustering has the consequence of making moderate and unbiased news a less valuable commodity. Seaman was the third guest in the SpecSpeak  journalism series.

Hamilton Association for Volunteering Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) sponsored its 14th annual Dodgeball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 7, and 20 teams raised more than $900 for Team IMPACT. Team IMPACT is a non-profit organization that matches children with life-threatening and chronic illnesses with college athletic teams.