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Hamilton College placed eighth out of 16 teams in Hamilton's own fall invitational, which was held on Oct. 4 and 5.

Gustavo Arellano, contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times and author of the best-selling book, Ask a Mexican!, will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in  Hamilton's Fillius Events Barn. The lecture, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students and is free and open to the public.

A 2006 book to which Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds contributed a chapter, has been chosen as a winner of the Florida Publishers Association 2008 Book Awards. The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation was named in the best Adult Nonfiction category. Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of its hollow, curved, conical tube shape.

Members of the Social Justice Initiative, a Hamilton College student organization formed in 2007, presented copies of a petition with approximately 370 signatures to members of the college's Board of Trustees as they arrived for their quarterly meeting on campus Saturday, Oct. 4. The key point was the students' proposal of a cultural education center.

William Smith College broke a 1-1 tie with a goal in the 68th minute and the visiting Herons went on to a 2-1 Liberty League win against Hamilton College in a showdown between two nationally ranked top 10 teams at Love Field on Oct. 4.

Hamilton College lost all four matches in a tournament at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., on Oct. 3 and 4.

Trinity College scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 40-yard catch-and-run with 23 seconds left in the fourth quarter and the undefeated Bantams went on to a 20-15 New England Small College Athletic Conference win against host Hamilton College at Steuben Field on Oct. 4.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez Plate has had three book chapters published in the last month. The chapters include, "From Iconoclash to Iconomash," in Re-Enchantment, James Elkins and David Morgan, eds. The Art Seminar, vol. 7 (New York: Routledge, 2008); "Filmmaking and Worldmaking: Constructing Time and Space in Ritual, Myth, and Film," in Teaching Religion and Film, Greg Watkins, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; part of the Teaching Religious Studies Series); and "Seeing Words, Reading Images: Allegory and Interpretation in Bak and Benjamin," in Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, The Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak, Gary Philips, Danna Nolan Fewell, Yvonne Sherwood, eds. (Boston: Pucker Art Gallery, in conjunction with Syracuse University Press, 2008).

When Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi suggested to Jia Huang '09 that she create an exhibit for her senior thesis that would correspond with the 2008 New York Conference on Asian Studies, Huang immediately embraced the opportunity. Although she has attended school in the United States for the past six years, she admits that the prospect of writing a 40-page thesis paper in her second language was daunting. Conversely, an exhibition would ensure that her knowledge of and interest in Asian culture would translate to a wider audience. 

A video featuring six Hamilton students discussing the vice presidential debate on Thursday, Oct. 2, tops the Washington Post Vote '08 Web site. Produced by senior Eric Kuhn, the video features sophomore Scott Bixby and seniors Kara Labs, Melissa Balding, Sam Risen, David Riordan and Allison Gaston-Enholm. Five students felt that Biden had prevailed in the debate and one student was undecided. The video, which also is on the CBS News site, appears with a video produced on the campus of Columbia University.