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Walter Fisher, University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, presents "Making Ethical Judgments" Tuesday, April 19, at 4:15 p.m. in the Red Pit. Fisher will discuss the elements in ethical judgment making, including facts, reasons, values and emotions. The lecture, sponsored by Communication, Comparative Literature and Sociology Departments, is free and open to the public.
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Society's obsession to draw connections between an author's fictional literature and his or her actual life is the "disease" of the current fiction novel, said author Salman Rushdie. Readers either assume a novel is based on the author's life or try to identify with a fictitious character in the novel, Rushdie told a standing-room-only audience inWellin Hall during the annual Tolles Lecture on April 13. Although fiction writers do not typically reflect their own life experiences in their work, he acknowledged that what happens to a writer shapes the way he sees the world.
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director of the Congressional Budget Office and Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, gave a lecture titled "The Economic and Budget Outlook: Policies and Priorities" in the Hamilton College Chapel on April 11. Holtz-Eakin discussed the CBO's current budget projections and how they could be affected by policy changes.
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Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya presented a paper at the 41st Chicago Linguistics Society, held in April at the University of Chicago. The paper was titled "Nominalization and Case Marking in Japanese." In his talk Kamiya argued that the structural case in Japanese is marked in phonologica form, while the structural case in English is marked at narrow syntax. This is a one place where two languages are parameterized in principle and parameter framework, Kamiya said. He also gave a talk at a workshop on SOV variation held at Syracuse University on April 9 and 10. That talk was titled "Theta Marking, Syntactic Category, and Inherent Case in Japanese." Kamiya argued that there is no complementizer in Japanese, but the so-called complementizer in Japanese is actually an inherent case that is marked in narrow syntax. Thus, he claimed that there are two case marking place in syntactic derivations: one is at PF for structural case and the other is in narrow syntax for inherent case.
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Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published a translation of “The Shanghaied Man,” a short story by a Japanese novelist, Tani Joji, in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945 (2005). The Japanese writer Tani Joji (1900-1935) produced a wide-ranging body of work in the early 20th-century. He wrote under three pseudonyms, Tani Joji (for a series of short stories based on his vagabond life in the U.S.), Maki Itsuma (for mystery fiction) and Hayashi Fubo (for samurai fiction with a famous anti-hero Tange Sazsen). This work stems from Omori's current project, Detecting Modanizumu: Shinseinen [New Youth] Magazine, Tantei Shôsestu [Detective Fiction], and the Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950.
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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, has been named to the editorial board of Journal of Public Management, a leading academic journal in the field of public administration in China. The journal is published by the Management School of Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the most prestigious universities in the People's Republic of China. Li is among the five overseas board members of the journal.
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The second annual Hamtrek triathalon will take place on campus on Class and Charter Day, Friday, May 6. The event -- a huge success in 2004 -- will feature a 525 yard swim, 12 mile bike ride and 5k run. Visit the HamTrek Web site to sign up: http://students.hamilton.edu/HamTrek/.
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Britten Chase, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded the college’s prestigious Bristol Fellowship. The Bristol Fellowship was begun in 1996 as part of a gift to Hamilton College by William M. Bristol, Jr., (Class of 1917). Its purpose is to perpetuate Mr. Bristol’s spirit and share it with students of the college that was such an important part of his life. Created by his family, the fellowship is designed to encourage Hamilton students to experience the richness of the world by living outside the United States for one year and studying an area of great personal interest. Chase’s project is titled “Bike Culture and the Culture of the Bike: A Worldwide Study of the Function and Personal Meaning of Bicycling.”
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World War II heroes, the Navajo Code Talkers, will lecture on how as both Americans and Native Americans they were moved to serve their country and their experiences in combat around the Pacific. This event will take place on Monday, April 18, at 8 p.m. in the College Chapel. The lecture, sponsored by the Voices of Color Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
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Aletha Asay '05 published a guest column in Utica's Observer-Dispatch about her experience as a volunteer in Hamilton's Urban Service Experience Program (USE). Asay said, "A liberal arts education has created in me a strong desire to live deliberately - that is to live, to be conscious of the results of all my actions. Since becoming involved in the refugee population through SHINE, and now through USE, I can see the impact of my actions within a caring community right here in Utica."
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