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Ten members of Hamilton's class of 2008 were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Marco Alberto Allodi, Kristin Suzanne Alongi, Kate Elizabeth Berlent, Daniel Lawrence Campbell, Katharine Ruth Hottenstein, Jonathan David Millhauser, Thao Nguyen Thi Nguyen, Nathan Luc Vandergrift, Magdalena Maria Wierzbicka and Sarah Keller Wissel.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, has been named to the list of 100 Most Influential Sports Educators by the Institute for International Sport (IIS). Among other honorees are Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods, sportscaster Bob Costas and Duke University men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Visiting Instructor of French John Lytle presented a paper at the 33rd annual 19th Century French Studies Colloquium, organized by the University of South Alabama in Mobile, which took place Oct. 18-20. His paper was titled "High and Low Approaches to History in Prosper Mérimée's 'La Vénus d'Ille.'"

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was a guest in a discussion about China's leadership, foreign policy and U.S. -Chinese relations on The Charlie Rose Show on Oct. 18. Li was joined by Perry Link of Princeton University and Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. The program is a talk show hosted by acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose that engages America's newsmakers in all fields. It airs Monday through Friday on more than 200 PBS affiliates throughout the United States. 

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, presented a paper "The Dark Ghetto: Race, Subjectivity, and the Dialects of Dislocation" at a multidisciplinary symposium held October 12-13 at SUNY Binghamton. The paper focused on the tragic dimensions of ghetto life and the ways in which human subjectivity can positively transform it. In keeping with the symposium's theme: "Modernity and Locality: Discrete Spaces in Global Culture," Franklin's paper highlighted the ways in which American ghettos are hyper-segregated both spatially and socially.

Ann Bancroft, the internationally acclaimed polar explorer, spoke at Hamilton on Thursday, October 18, about experiences and triumphs during her career as a polar traveler. She first spoke at the College 11 years ago, shortly after her 1992-1993 expedition. Bancroft was the first woman to reach the Arctic Pole on ice, which she accomplished on May 4, 1986. On January 14, 1993 she and three other women became the first women to lead an all female expedition to the Antarctic Pole. They were also the first to reach the pole without any corporate sponsorship. Then in 2001 Bancroft and a fellow female explorer, Liv Arnesen, became the first women to cross the continent of Antarctica. Her lecture focused on the difficulties of entering the field and then developing a viable and meaningful career out of her lifelong passion.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Classical Connections series will present a concert by the Baltimore Consort on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Levitt Series speaker Langdon Winner, the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presented "Information Technology and the Dream of Democratic Renewal" on October 18 in the Science Center. The presentation focused on the conviction that new technology will revitalize democratic society. Winner also highlighted such themes as the public disconnect created through the rise of technological advancements, as well as the role the Internet plays in working toward a democratic society.

"Sex, Celibacy, and Gender Roles among the Shakers," will be presented on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. in Hamilton's Kennedy Science Auditorium in the Science Center by Glendyne Wergland, this year's Couper Phi Beta Kappa Lecture speaker. The event is free and open to the public. Wergland's most recent book, Visiting the Shakers: 1778-1849, was recently published by Hamilton's Couper Press.

Mike Barlow '75 is the author of Partnering With the CIO: The Future of IT Sales Seen Through the Eyes of Key Decision Makers (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). His co-author is Michael Minelli. According to a review CIOs (Central Investment Officers – the executives who make and influence major IT processing decisions) spend more than $1.2 trillion on software and hardware each year. Partnering with the CIO looks at the InfoTech sales process from the CIO's perspective. Barlow '75  is an award-winning journalist, seasoned media professional and management consultant. He graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in English Literature.