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Hamilton College won the Gilman Plate for the fourth straight year and swept every race in a regatta against rival Union College on the Mohawk River in Schenectady, N.Y., on April 14.

Hamilton College won the Gilman Cup for the third straight year and swept both races in a regatta against rival Union College on the Mohawk River in Schenectady, N.Y., on April 14.

The New York Times highlighted Hamilton's annual gift campaign in an April 15 article titled "Colleges Ask Donors to Help Meet Demand for Aid." The article discussed the challenging fundraising environment with which colleges and universities are dealing and how institutions are appealing to donors to assist in meeting the growing demand for financial aid.

"I grew up as a nomad," announced Suleiman Nuh Ali to those in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium on April 14. "In my childhood I cannot remember a place my family stayed more than a month." Nevertheless Ali's experience in his native Somalia was not unique: approximately 65 percent of the Somali population is nomadic, traveling "without borders." And as the lecture progressed, it became even clearer that borders – or, more specifically, the conflict between those political boundaries formed from within and those formed from without – drastically influenced the course of Somalia's history.

Comedian and satirist Andy Borowitz P'11 will perform at Hamilton on Thursday, April 16, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. This event is hosted by the Hamilton College Democrats, and it is free and open to the public.

At Spring Volunteer Weekend, Saturday, April 4, 2009, the Committee for Kirkland College organized a special afternoon of events to recognize the 40th anniversary of when women arrived on the College Hill.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave a presentation, "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Women, Poverty and the Politics of Feminist Representation," at the University of Texas San Antonio on April 7.

Thirteen Hamilton seniors on campus and two students in Hamilton's program in Beijing recently took the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI test) for Chinese language proficiency. ACTFL language tests determine a candidate's ability to use the language effectively and appropriately in real-life situations.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell will speak at Cornell University on Wednesday, April 15, on "The Collective Protection of Democracy or Old-Fashioned Interventionism? Lessons from Nicaragua." Her talk will focus on the use of the Inter-American Democratic Charter to frame an international response to Nicaragua's constitutional crisis in 2005.

Hamilton College will host a Bone Marrow Registry Drive on Thursday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Tolles Pavilion. This drive is in memory of Katharine C. Eckman, a member of Hamilton's Class of 2009, who passed away last October from leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. The drive is organized by her friends.