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Step Up to the Plate, the final film in the Tournées Festival, will be shown on Sunday, March 2, at 4 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The screening is free and open to everyone; suggested donations of $3. to the Kirkland Art Center are welcome.

Wednesday, February 26, was no ordinary day.  Hamilton celebrated — Starting Today Others Pay — the day when the cost of operating the College for the remainder of the academic year is paid not by tuition and fees, but by income from gifts provided by alumni, parents and friends.

Many college students plan on spending their spring break soaking up the sun on a beach; however, 11 Hamilton students, accompanied by a faculty advisor, plan on volunteering on an organic coffee farm in Nicaragua. The trip is part of Hamilton’s Alternative Spring Break program, a student-run volunteer organization. The coffee farms they will visit—Finca Esperanza Verde or Green Hope Farm—play a large role in the community and economy of San Ramon, Nicaragua.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents Symphoria on Friday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton will host a film screening of America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments to recognize National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW). The screening will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., in KJ Auditorium.

Hamilton’s curling team finished the 2013-2014 season ranked 16th in U.S. College Curling Merit Point Standings, thus qualifying for Nationals which will be held March 14-16 in Blaine, Minn. Hamilton Team 1 will be competing against 15 other teams from all over the country. Team 1 members representing Hamilton are captain Meghan Doherty ’14, Tara Huggins ’14, Josh Devinney ’15 and Jake Davidson ’15.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate was elected president of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL)/CrossCurrents during a recent meeting of the board of directors in New York City.

Katherine Terrell, associate professor of English and creative writing, recently presented a paper at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, titled "Poetry, Politics, and Legendary History in Medieval Scotland."

John Given, associate professor and program director of classical studies at East Carolina University, will present the Winslow Classics Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 4 p.m., in room 3024 in the Taylor Science Center. The lecture is titled “Theatre as a Laboratory for the Humanities: A Classicist’s Tales of Directing Ancient Plays” and is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik gave a presentation titled "Vikings to Varangians: Medieval Scandinavians and the World They Made" to the Scandinavian Club of the Mohawk Valley on Feb. 19.