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Dan Sloan, Jesse Thomas & Gretchen Maxam, members of Hamilton’s Desktop Integration Services Team in ITS, presented the imaging system they use to manage the installed software and keep Windows XP up to date in the ITS public labs and technology enhanced classrooms to a group of peers at a Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Special Interest Group workshop on February 5. Their presentation, titled "From Inventory to Ctrl-Alt-Delete," illustrated how imaging can be automated almost to the push of a single button.

British artist Steven Pippin will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 4:15 p.m in the Red Pit in the Kirner Johnson Building. His presentation will be followed by a reception in Café Opus on campus. Both the presentation and reception are open to the public and free.

The Mock Trial Team qualified to attend the national championships for the first time in the team’s history this past weekend in Syracuse. Hamilton’s qualifying team faced Harvard University, Brown University, SUNY Binghamton, and Syracuse University during its four rounds of competition and handed the Harvard team its only two losses of the competition. The members of Hamilton’s qualifying team are Josua Agins '07, Michael Blasie '07, Scott Iseman '07, Ben Johnston '07, Wenxi Li '10, Dillon Prime '07, Alia Rehman '10 and Stacy Sadove '07.

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, written by Hamilton Professor of History Maurice Isserman and Georgetown Professor of History Michael Kazin, has been revised and re-released. This third edition of the book expands its interpretive survey of the political, social and cultural history of 1960s America through additional coverage of youth movements and the New Left including Latino and Asian radical movements.

Hamilton football alumnus Sean Ryan '94  recently went to work for the National Football League (NFL) as an offensive quality control coach for the New York Giants, according to The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.). 

Ten Hamilton College students traveled to Boston to participate in the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) from Feb. 15 -18. The students are members of Model United Nations, an organization that orchestrates student-run Model U.N. conferences throughout the year. The purpose of the organization is to assist students in improving their public speaking and writing skills while learning about the official U.N. procedures and issues. As members, students assess the problems and possible solutions to regional problems throughout the world.

Sandra Guerrero, visiting assistant professor of sociology, presented findings of her research on the role of women in the formation, consolidation and legalization of squatter settlements in Latin America, at the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies in Baton Rouge Louisiana, Feb. 12-17.

Joseph Volpe, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1990 to 2006, gave the annual Tolles Lecture, titled “The World Of Opera,” on Sunday, Feb. 18, in the Chapel. Volpe spoke about his career with the Met and some of the issues involved in performing arts management. Each year, the Tolles Lecture Series brings distinguished speakers from the fields of literature, journalism and theater to Hamilton to lecture and meet with students.

Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, delivered the inaugural lecture for Colgate University's Nietzsche and Beyond Lecture Series on Feb. 15.  Titled "Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Race,"  Franklin's lecture outlined the major methodological features of Nietzschean genealogy and went on to describe how it can serve both critical and existential functions in relation to the history and future of conceptions of racial hierarchy.

Joseph Volpe, who retired as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in 2006, will give the Tolles Lecture on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 5 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, titled “The World of Opera,” is free and open to the public.