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The Hamilton Outing Club recently brought the 10th annual installment of the Reel Rock Film Tour to campus. Reel Rock is a traveling film festival showcasing some of the year’s most outstanding feats of rock climbing and climbing cinematography.

John H. O’Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus and lecturer in English, recently presented a paper at Trinity College during the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Nan Aron, the president of Alliance for Justice, spoke at Hamilton on Nov. 4 about the cases on the Supreme Court’s docket this upcoming term as well as close-minded opinions about how the Supreme Court should function. In Aron’s opinion, the four most important cases this term involve unions, abortion, voting rights and affirmative action, all of which are more “hot button” issues than the court faced last term.

Hamilton's women's ice hockey team and men's and women's golf teams recently took part in the community clean-up in Clinton and New Hartford. Team members raked leaves and did other clean-up in preparation for winter for people who needed assistance with yard work.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series presenting cellist Matt Haimovitz. Haimovitz comes to Hamilton with a unique concert-going experience – a moveable feast of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. One suite, accompanied by overtures recently commissioned by Haimovitz, will be performed on Friday, Nov. 6, at three separate locations around campus and in the village of Clinton, with the balance of the suites and overtures in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Colum McCann, an Irish writer of literary fiction, will read from his most recent work Thirteen Ways of Looking, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is sponsored by the English and Creative Writing Department and is free and open to the public.

Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey was recently named co-editor-in-chief of ACM Inroads, a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery. Bailey will serve in this position with Laurie Smith King, a professor of computer science at the College of the Holy Cross.

The lecture about Life on Mars by Dr. Herbert Frey, chief of the Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:30 p.m., has been cancelled. Organizers hope to reschedule Frey's lecture.

The uneven cadence of fingers on a keyboard is almost background music in residence halls and academic buildings on campus. It could have been yesterday, when Lucas Phillips ’16, editor-in-chief of the campus’ newspaper, The Spectator, checked his email for contributions by his staff; or it may have been more than five decades before, when Henry Allen ’63 sat in his Kirkland Dormitory bedroom completing homework on his typewriter.

Contemporary artist Renée Stout and textile artist Karen Hampton will present a lecture focusing on their creative process and artwork currently on display at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 4:15 p.m., in the Wellin Museum overlook on Hamilton’s campus. The lecture, part of the Wellin’s Artists in Conversation series, is free and open to the public.