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The X-Viper Hour Audio Theater Group brought professors, administrators and students together for a special Faculty Stars Showcase on WHCL 88.7fm on Oct. 21. Professors Richard Bedient, Gregory Pierce, Alfred Kelly, Katheryn Doran and Nat Strout, along with Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo and students Mark Fitzsimmons '09, Katie Myers '08, Jennifer Mitchell '09 and Richard Sonne '08 recreated "The Tom Keeler Murder Case."

Mike Barlow '75 is the author of Partnering With the CIO: The Future of IT Sales Seen Through the Eyes of Key Decision Makers (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). His co-author is Michael Minelli. According to a review CIOs (Chief Investment Officers – the executives who make and influence major IT processing decisions) spend more than $1.2 trillion on software and hardware each year. Partnering with the CIO looks at the InfoTech sales process from the CIO's perspective. Barlow '75  is an award-winning journalist, seasoned media professional and management consultant. He graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in English Literature. 

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller participated in a roundtable discussion on "Teaching in and about Eurasia: Methods and Resources for a New Generation of Teachers," at the Central Eurasian Studies Society conference in Seattle on Oct. 19. The roundtable was sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, and concerned a seminar Keller taught in Kyrgyzstan and a new, internet-based teaching resource tool she is developing with SSRC.

Brian Chiappinelli '92 gave a talk titled "The Great Divide: Understanding the 'Buy Side' and the 'Sell Side'" on October 21. The event was part of the new alumni-led Hamilton Investment & Finance Series which aims to prepare students for interviews, internships and careers in financial fields. The talk provided an extensive introduction to the variety of careers available on the buy side and the sell side, and emphasized the importance of Hamilton's liberal arts education to the students' success in finance, regardless of their majors.

Dean of Faculty and Professor of English Joseph Urgo published Violence, the Arts, and Willia Cather (Associated University Presses) in October. Co-edited with Merrill Skaggs of Drew University, the book gathers 23 critics to explore Cather's "cyclical encounters with death and disaster" and her commitment "to making art in the face of violence." In his introduction to the volume, "Existential Terror in Cather," Urgo examines the recurrence in Cather's fiction of "a sensibility reflective of living in a world that may be destroyed, or may destroy us, in a moment."

The weather was beautiful, the Red Sox were victorious, and the city of Boston welcomed the Hamilton College Alumni Association in fine fashion to the 43rd Head of the Charles Regatta October 20 and 21. Nearly 70 alumni, parents and friends gathered in the Reunion Village to cheer on the Hamilton College Crew Team as they competed in the Men's Four, Women's Four and Women's Eight Collegiate Races.   

David Corn, Washington editor for The Nation, a Fox News Channel contributor and best-selling author, will lecture on Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. This event, hosted by the Hamilton College Democrats, is free and open to the public.

Ten members of Hamilton's class of 2008 were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Marco Alberto Allodi, Kristin Suzanne Alongi, Kate Elizabeth Berlent, Daniel Lawrence Campbell, Katharine Ruth Hottenstein, Jonathan David Millhauser, Thao Nguyen Thi Nguyen, Nathan Luc Vandergrift, Magdalena Maria Wierzbicka and Sarah Keller Wissel.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, has been named to the list of 100 Most Influential Sports Educators by the Institute for International Sport (IIS). Among other honorees are Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods, sportscaster Bob Costas and Duke University men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Visiting Instructor of French John Lytle presented a paper at the 33rd annual 19th Century French Studies Colloquium, organized by the University of South Alabama in Mobile, which took place Oct. 18-20. His paper was titled "High and Low Approaches to History in Prosper Mérimée's 'La Vénus d'Ille.'"