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Professor of Economics Betsy Jensen co-authored an article with Jean R. Sternlight titled "Using Arbitration to Eliminate Consumer Class Actions: Efficient Business Practice or Unconscionable Abuse?" The article was published in the Winter/Spring 2004 volume of Law and Contemporary Problems, a Duke University School of Law journal. Co-author Sternlight is the Saltman Professor of Law and director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boyd School of Law.  

Young Han '06 was interviewed for NPR's "Morning Edition" on September 29 for a segment about students' right to vote in the town where they attend college. Han tried to register in Oneida County, but was told he should vote absentee in Seattle, where his parents live. Since then Han has become active in efforts to register college students to vote in their college towns.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman published two poems, "Katie Flower" and "Two Rivers," in Connecticut Review, Spring, 2004.

Jazz Archive director Monk Rowe and the Hamilton College Jazz Archive were used as resources for an eight-part series on the life and music of jazz great Count Basie that will air on NPR weekly though November 13. The series' producer, Jim Luce, said, "Without the help of the resources of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, it would have been difficult or near impossible for me to make the Count Basie Centennial Radio Project rich in first-person detail. It is this very detail that makes it possible for the new generation of Americans to really get an idea about the man and his music...In an era when our cultural treasures of the 20th century need to be archived, treasured and celebrated, it is the work of the Hamilton College Archives that makes it possible for broadcasters like us to hone our craft. Thanks to Monk Rowe and the Hamilton College Jazz Archive for helping to make it possible."

Hamilton College was noted as an example of colleges offering tuition insurance in an article in The Wall Street Journal (9/28/04). Assistant Controller Gilles Lauzon provided background about the plan Hamilton offers for "The Latest Campus Accessory: Tuition Insurance."  The article notes that, "At Hamilton...the number of students buying the insurance plan has gone up about 12% from last year." Lauzon said about 200 students have the insurance, offered through A.W.G. Dewar Inc., an insurance agency in Quincy, Mass.

A delegation from Capital University of Economics and Business, host of Hamilton's Associated Colleges in China (ACC) program, visited Hamilton Sept. 26-29. They visited with several departments and faculty and enjoyed a special Chinese Language Table that included more than 50 Chinese language students. 

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was a presenter at the National Communication Association Convention held in Miami in November. The topic of the roundtable discussion on citizen discourse was "Rhetoric and Concord."

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been elected president of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association (CLTA). She will assume the presidency in November. Jin served for two years on the organization's board of directors and was elected as vice president of CLTA and  chair of the CLTA annual conference in 2003. CLTA is an internationally recognized organization for Chinese language and culture professionals. It has more than 500 members from the U.S. and other parts of the world at higher education and pre-college education levels.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has been awarded two new grants. The first, from the National Council for Eurasian and East European research, is for a project titled "Economic Performance and Human Resource Management Policies: Econometric Evidence from the Baltics."  The second grant was from the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan for a project titled, "Insider Econometrics: Evidence for the Balkans."

The first book to be read and discussed by the Hamilton College Book Club will be Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.  Members of the Hamilton community may still join the club. Below is some information about the book.