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The Hamilton College community will celebrate Al Ham weekend April 30-May 1 with several activities open to area families. Participate in village of Clinton clean up on Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. - noon, on the Village Green. This will be followed by a May Day Music festival from 2-6 p.m. on Minor Field. Enjoy music from Tim Reynolds, Virginia Coalition, Jennifer Gentle and more. The weekend concludes with the Spring on the Hill campus picnic on Sunday, May 1, from 12-3 p.m. on the Main Quad. The picnic will feature entertainment, food, games and fun with the Clinton community. All families are welcome.

Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, recently published an article titled "Choice of Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Estonia," with Panu Kalmi (Helsinki School of Economics) and Niels Mygind (Copenhagen Business School). It was published in Post-Communist Economies, Volume 17, Number 1 (March, 2005).

New York State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi presented the final lecture of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center series on the U.S. budget on Wednesday, April 27. Hevesi discussed in the New York state budget and the recent budget process in the context of a “historical reform movement.”

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman led a workshop on music technology at the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College on March 21-22. Workshop participants included instructional technologists and librarians from many of the 37 liberal arts colleges in the mid-Atlantic and New England region that are affiliated with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education.

Described by Professor of History Maurice Isserman as the anti-Arthur Schlessinger, author Rick Perlstein presented a lecture at Hamilton on April 26 titled “Hell in the City of Angels: the Watts Riot of August 1965, and the End of the Liberal Consensus.” Perlstein shared the manuscript of the prologue to his new book, a sequel to the New York Times bestseller Before the Storm. He explained that the sequel will be much like the original except the red-thread, or the “anti-red thread,” of this book will be the story of Richard Nixon.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government was interviewed by the BBC on Tuesday, April 26.  Li commented on the ongoing visits to China's mainland by the head of the Nationalist Party of Taiwan and its implications to peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Charles Brumley, author of “Guides of the Adirondacks: A History” presented a lecture as part of Hamilton Environmental Action Group’s Green Week celebration on April 25. Brumley, a guide from the Adirondack State Park, discussed the history and preservation of the park, focusing specifically on the history and evolution of Adirondack guiding and guide boats.

The Hamilton College English Department, Burke Library, Emerson Gallery and Creative Writing Program, in conjunction with Colgate University, are hosting a conference on April 28-May 1 to observe the centenary of American poet and critic Ezra Pound's graduation from Hamilton. From 1903 to 1906 Pound studied Anglo-Saxon and Romance languages on the Hill.  

Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen Wu recently presented papers at SUNY Binghamton and Syracuse University. His paper at Binghamton was "Fatalistic Tendencies: An Explanation of Why People Don't Save." At Syracuse he delivered the paper, "The Search for Research Talent: Information Networks and Admissions to Economics Ph.D. Programs."

James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner participated in a panel discussion titled "Democracy and Voice" at the Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future: Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 conference held in April at Yale University. The conference goal was to make a critical assessment of the impact of the Voting Rights Act on both the study and practice of politics and to examine how it transformed the political landscape.