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It wasn’t all play and no work for Hamilton College students during their spring break, March 9-23. From a science class in Ecuador and a service trip to Honduras, to choir performances in the Carolinas and the curling team competing in Chicago, Hamilton students were pursuing their academic, charitable and athletic interests all over the globe.

The Hamilton College Alumni Association today announced the results of its Alumni Trustee election. Nancy Roob ’87, Torrence D. Moore ’92 and George D. Baker Jr. ’74 received the greatest number of votes, as certified by Elections USA, an independent firm contracted to manage the election, and will join the College's Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2007. Each year three Alumni Trustees are elected to serve four-year terms on the Board. A total of 3,638 ballots (20% of alumni) were cast by the March 20, 2007, deadline, with the results as follows:   Nancy Roob ’87 - 2312   Torrence D. Moore ’92 - 2182   George D. Baker. Jr. ’74 - 2167   Ben S. Wu ’73 - 1837   Peter D. Brown ’73 - 1497   The Alumni Association congratulates the new Trustees and thanks all of the candidates for their interest in serving Hamilton.

The Hamilton College Alumni Association today announced the results of its Alumni Trustee election. Nancy Roob ’87, Torrence D. Moore ’92 and George D. Baker Jr. ’74 received the greatest number of votes, as certified by Elections USA, an independent firm contracted to manage the election, and will join the College's Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2007. Each year three Alumni Trustees are elected to serve four-year terms on the Board. A total of 3,638 ballots (20% of alumni) were cast by the March 20, 2007 deadline.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz gave a paper titled "'You May Be Surprised to Receive My Letter': Toward a Narratology of Scambaiting" on March 16 at the International Conference on Narrative in Washington D.C. Scambaiting is a sport that turns the tables on e-mail scammers: on receiving a scam letter, the baiter assumes a fake identity, writes back, and strings the scammers along for as long as possible with the double intention of wasting their time and of generating an interesting narrative. Rabinowitz's paper explored the complex rhetorical structure of these narratives and showed how they challenge some of the common assumptions of narrative theory--in particular, how they trouble the distinction between fiction and nonfiction.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series welcomes photographer and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart on Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Lockhart will screen her newest film Pine Flat, which has been described as a highly formalized meditation on adolescence in a rural California community. All F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

Despite a Nor'easter over the weekend of March 16-17, two Hamilton College debate team members made it to Boston to compete in the Brandeis University Debate Tournament. Laura Wright '10 and Jessica Yau '08 competed against 37 teams, including 27 novices. Wright and Yau won 5th best novice team and Yau received 8th best novice speaker. On April 6-7 four students will travel to Chicago for the University of Chicago's debate tournament. The debate team members scheduled to compete are Philip Fraccola '08, John Molfetas '09, Yau and Wright.

Jennifer Potter Hayes K ’73 has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to the U.S.-Korea International Education Administrators program. Hayes is currently employed as a program developer and career advisor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where she works with graduate international students. She was formerly Director of Alumni Programs at Hamilton College and prior to that, Registrar.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman was interviewed for a New York Times article (3/20/07) about the donation of memorabilia to New York University from the Communist Party USA. According to the Times "The cache contains decades of party history including founding documents, secret code words, stacks of personal letters, smuggled directives from Moscow, Lenin buttons, photographs and stern commands about how good party members should behave." In the article, Isserman said "the party started out as an underground revolutionary organization but achieved its greatest successes and popularity in the late 1930s as part of the Popular Front, which it joined at Moscow’s direction."

Hamilton's Mock Trial team placed fourth in the American Mock Trial Association National Tournament on March 16-18 in Waukegan, Ill. Team members who competed are: Wenxi Li '10, Alia Rehman '10, Larry Allen '09, Stuart Lombardi '09, Joshua Agins '07, Michael Blasie '07, Scott Iseman '07 and Stacy Sadove '07. They are coached by Jean-Marie Westlake.

Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major has published an article he co-wrote in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Vol.48, No.3). Major's article, "On recovering continuum topology from a causal set," was written with Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India) and David Rideout (formerly of Hamilton College now at Imperial College, London).