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Hamilton's Contemporary Voices and Visions Series opens on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m., with Tim Miller’s new one-man show, "Us." Funny, fast and furious, "Us" takes the audience on a whirlwind journey that re-thinks the American musical as inspiration for radical politics and queer identity. "Us" contains nudity and adult themes. The Performance will be held at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus. Individual tickets are $15-$18 for adults with discounts for seniors and students. For more information about any performance or to receive a free season brochure, call the box office at 859-4331.

About 60 students and half a dozen faculty members are bringing the performing arts to the greater Utica community through Hamilton’s Arts Outreach Program. Through the Outreach program, started by Katie Berlent ’08 about three years ago, Hamilton musical groups perform for schools and various community organizations.

Eric Kuhn '09 will interview Pat Buchanan, Ron Reagan and George Lakoff (author of Don't Think of an Elephant!) on the college’s radio station WHCL 88.7 FM on Monday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. The show, Kuhn and Company, can also be heard at www.whcl.org. Kuhn is soliciting questions from his audience for Buchanan, Reagan and Lakoff. He asks that all questions be sent to him at ekuhn@hamilton.edu.

David Paris, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Government, has been appointed as a senior fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He is working on AAC&U’s campaign, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP). AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.

By 6 a.m. on Oct. 4, a group clad in t-shirts and shorts had already gathered outside the former Saunders Hall of Chemistry. As soon as the doors opened, the whir of exercise bikes and the rhythm of treadmills replaced the clatter of construction equipment that had been sounding for the past nine months. The new Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center was finally open.

The fifth annual Clinton Community Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 8 on the Village Green from 1-4 p.m. Fall Fest is free and open to the public. Members of the community are encouraged to attend with their families.

Hamilton's annual Fallcoming Weekend will be highlighted by the dedication of the Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center and the Little Squash Center. Athletic naming donors will gather on Thursday evening, and the weekend begins in earnest on Friday with Alumni Association and Trustee programming. Fallcoming is a traditional time for alumni to reconnect with classmates and friends in our beautiful autumn campus environment.

About 300 Hamilton alumni and guests attended a New-York Historical Society event featuring historian Richard Brookhiser, Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History, and Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin on September 26.  “The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton,” took place at the Historical Society’s Manhattan building and was co-hosted by New York University Press. It was part of the New-York Historical Society Series "History and Current Affairs."

Hamilton College will host its annual Fallcoming Weekend from Thursday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Oct. 15. In addition to campus tours, a football game and dedication of new athletic facilities, the Fallcoming celebration brings a broad spectrum of arts opportunities to the community that are free and open to the public. Highlights are listed below.

Six students from the Government and History departments along with three faculty members attended a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis on September 28.  Ellis, author of several best-selling books and frequent contributor to the History Channel and C-SPAN came to the area at the invitation of the Oneida County Historical Society, and gave a talk titled, "The Founders and Today."