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Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager was interviewed for the Shreveport (La.) Times about Buddhists practicing the Soka Gakkai International tradition in the Shreveport area. Soka Gakkai is characterized by an activism for world peace and as being one of the most evangelistic of the Eastern traditions.

Hamilton College will host a free faculty recital on Sunday, Sept. 19, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Sara Mastrangelo, violin, and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, will perform Bach's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Harpsichord, Schumann's Sonata for Piano and Violin, and Korngold's Sonata for Violin and Piano.  

For some Hamilton students, the summer provides a special opportunity to conduct independent research. More than 100 students spent at least part of their summer on the Hamilton campus in labs, studios and the library.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government was interviewed by Voice of America on September 14.  Li discussed the upcoming meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Jonathan Kozol, a distinguished educator, scholar and activist, will speak at Hamilton College on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the college Chapel. Kozol will present a lecture titled “Savage Inequalities:  Class, Race, and Social Justice in U.S. Public Schools.” It is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods will conduct the Central New York Jazz Orchestra in "Suite Funk" on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 9 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The first major jazz production of the season, the concert will feature new and experimental Big Band music. Free and open to the public.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman and Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, were interviewed for two separate articles that appeared in The New York Times (9/12/04). Isserman was interviewed for a Week in Review piece, "How Many Deaths Are Too Many?," concerning deaths in the war with Iraq. Li discussed the mass migration within China in the article, "In a Tidal Wave, China's Masses Pour From Farm to City."

Ten performers from the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will visit Hamilton College as part of the Sophomore Seminar, Freaks, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The performance is free and open to the public.

In the run up to this fall's elections, Congressman Boehlert has been criticized by some for his purported underperformance in securing congressional funds for his district. Both Democratic and Republican critics of Congressman Boehlert have claimed that federal spending in his district is well below average. They reference a study done for the Associated Press that looks at data through 2001. The study claims Boehlert's district ranked only 326th out of 435 congressional districts.

Dalton Conley, the Director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and professor of sociology and public policy at NYU, gave a lecture titled "Is the Family Home a Level Playing Field?" on Sept. 9. Conley, the author of several books on socio-economic inequality as it is transferred across generations, has most recently published "The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why." In his talk, Conley discussed the findings of this book, including that while family class is an important predictor of eventual socio-economic success, there is often pronounced inequality in the outcomes of different siblings.