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The Hamilton Farm Garden hopes to offer a place for all community members to garden. To get started Hamilton gardeners are encouraged to help plant bulbs and garlic on Saturday, Nov. 17, any time between 11 a.m and 2 p.m. Garden organizers are also looking for donations of the following: shovels, hoes, rakes, tomato cages, stakes, hand tools, buckets, wheelbarrows, hoses, gloves and pots. The garden is located east of the Ferguson House parking lot. Contact garden@hamilton.edu.

The Hamilton Performing Arts Classical Connections Series continues Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in Wellin Hall at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Conducted by Daniel Hege, the SSO will perform Brahms's "Symphony No. 3" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome." The program will also include a premiere of Syracuse composer Andrew Waggoner and "Stretched on the Beauty: Concerto for 4 Cellos and Orchestra."

Hamilton College dance students performed a piece called "Wind Over Wood" composed by Lecturer in Dance Richard Lloyd '73 and choreographed by Associate Professor of Dance Elaine Heekin. The Hamilton students were accompanied by wind ensemble Lavender Trio. In addition, guest artist and choreographer Olivier Wecxsteen, former principal dancer with Boston Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, performed and set a work for Family Weekend with Hamilton student dancers.

Associate Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Steve Wu published "Financial Shocks and Worry about the Future" in the November issue of Empirical Economics. The article shows that households that experience adverse financial shocks worry more about the adequacy of their financial resources in retirement, even after controlling for the effects of these shocks on overall wealth.

The Publius Society, a new student organization at Hamilton, will discuss campaign finance and the First Amendment on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. at the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Marc Elias '90, distinguished visiting instructor of government and a nationally recognized expert in campaign finance, will present opening remarks.

Students from Professor of Government Theodore Eismeier's American Political Process class gave presentations on the major candidates. The students chose who they wanted to represent and gave presentations on their candidate's political platform.  For the Democrats, Anna Scott '11 represented Barack Obama, Lindsay Getman '10, Jacob Kleinrock '11 and Jenna Cohen '10 represented Hilary Clinton, and Tom Yarnell '10 gave his support for John Edwards.  The Republicans were represented by Jeff Corbett '09 for Fred Thompson, Frank Matt '10 for Mitt Romney and Ed Ajaeb '11 and Gates Helms '11 for Rudy Giuliani.

Students selected to read their work during this event:  Katie Naughton '08 and Emily Tang '08, winners of the Thomas E. Meehan Prize in Creative Writing; Christopher Parmenter '10, winner of the Adam Gordon Poetry Prize for Freshmen; Fiona MacQuarrie '09, winner of the Rose B. Tager Prize in Fiction; Rachel Richardson '09, winner of the George A. Watrous Prize in Poetry; and Nicole Dietsche '09, winner of the George A. Watrous Prize in Fiction.

Headfirst for Halos by Nicole Dietsche '09.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented a paper titled "Two Types of Movements in Japanese Nominalizations and Edge Phenomena" at the 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at UCLA on November 9-11. In this paper he showed that the left edge of sentences and DP (and Nominalizations) have the identical structure. This was demonstrated by using interactions between negation and the universal quantifier. This paper further supports the idea that sentences and DP are rooted from a more fundamental structure, but they are instantiated differently.

Hamilton hosted a panel discussion titled "Global Problems, Regional Actions: Sustainability in the Mohawk Valley" on Nov. 13. Panelists included Utica Mayor Tim Julian; Utica attorney Peter Rayhill; John Furman, president of Utica/Central New York Citizens in Action; Hamilton Director of Environmental Protection, Safety and Sustainability Brian Hansen; Patrick Raynard, general manager of Bon Appétit; Elaine Hills, a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Albany; and Hamilton senior Jenney Stringer. Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo was moderator. Each panelist suggested ways in which citizens can become involved in local sustainability efforts and highlighted methods of addressing large-scale environmental problems.