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The "Eat Local Challenge," hosted by Hamilton food service provider Bon Appétit and local farmers on September 25, received widespread local media coverage. All the food served at a campus-wide picnic came from local producers -- within a 150-mile radius. Articles on the Eat Local Challenge appeared in the Syracuse Post-Standard and Utica Observer-Dispatch, and the event was covered on local NBC affiliate WKTV. Follow links below to see the stories.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung gave two lectures for the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. On September 20, she gave a talk on her book chapter "Mizu-shoubai and the Sex Industries in Japan" from the forthcoming edited volume Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society. Chung discussed the legal categories of the sex industries in Japan by focusing on the legal term "fuuzoku" (folkways) and its applications to the industries.

Rafael Campo, an award-winning poet and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will give a lecture and present a poetry reading at Hamilton College on Thursday, Sept. 27. The lecture, “Fact versus Truth: Examining Health Disparities through Diverse Illness Narratives,” will take place at 4:10 p.m. in the Chapel and the poetry reading begins at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Both events are free and open to the public. 

Martha Mockus, Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, presented a paper at the “Music, Justice, and Gender” conference at Syracuse University in September. This event brought together scholars, performers and activists from the worlds of women’s studies, performance, composition, historical musicology and ethnomusicology with faculty and students from the universities involved in the newly instituted Upstate New York Humanities Corridor – the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester), Syracuse University and Cornell University.

The X-Viper Hour (audio theater group) presented Alfred Hitchcock's classic WWII spy thriller, Notorious, in their first-ever live audience performance on September 23.  XVH entertained residents at Clinton's Alterra Assisted Living Center, recreating the feel and fun of old-time radio for an excited audience.

Food service provider Bon Appétit and local farmers are hosting the "Eat Local Challenge" on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Hamilton, where all the food served at a campus-wide picnic will come from local producers. The picnic will take place on Dunham Quad from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reuben Haag, head chef at Hamilton, says he spends time finding farmers within a 150-mile radius of campus, and deals regularly with about a dozen farmers from upstate New York.

The 32 students in Hamilton's Ecology class (Biology 237) enjoyed beautiful, unseasonably warm weather when they made their annual trek to the top of Whiteface Mountain on Sunday, Sept. 23. The instructors are Associate Professor of Biology Bill Pfitsch and Biology Professor Ernest Williams, Jr., and they were joined by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder and Valentin Sukhare, postdoctoral associate in chemistry.

Sandra Steingraber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College, will give a lecture titled “Living Downstream,” on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Filllius Events Barn at Hamilton College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton College and the Kirkland Endowment. 

Hamilton's Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is sponsoring a number of activities to celebrate Green Week, Sept. 24-30.

Two Hamilton graduates are quoted, and their companies featured, in the Oct. 7th special issue of Fortune magazine devoted to leadership. In an article titled “Leader Machines,” writer Geoff Colvin asserts “… the world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they’re in, their real business is building leaders.”