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Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for a Buffalo News article about Sen. John Kerry and the Democratic National Convention. Klinkner predicts that with Kerry's comfortable position of being tied with President Bush in the polls, the Democratic candidate "will most likely hunker into a do-no-harm mode. "It's like halftime at a basketball game, and you're ahead by two points," Klinkner said. "You go into the locker room and say you're going to keep on doing what you're doing."  

Andrew Conway '04 presented a paper at the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, held June 27-29 in Pittsburgh. Conway, the only undergraduate invited to present at the conference, gave a paper titled "Collapsing the al-Qaeda Network." It was based upon his senior honors thesis for government, an interdisciplinary approach to assessing terrorist networks and creating policies to combat them. Conway's idea was to view terrorist networks like computer networks and attack terrorists in equivalent ways.

Photography Lecturer Sylvia de Swaan has completed two two-week segments of a six-week residency program awarded to her by the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA) in Buffalo. 

Phil Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government was interviewed by The Los Angeles Times for an article about Republican party activities during the Democratic National Convention. "The Republican game plan seems to call for (Vice President Dick) Cheney to show the flag and 'make sure the Democrats don't get all the attention,'" said Klinkner.

For an archaeology major, classroom study is important but visiting an excavation site is key to understanding an area. Wendy Garratt-Reed, ’05 (Reading, Mass.) was recently awarded an Emerson Scholarship from Hamilton College that will enable her to conduct an archaeological study of an early 19th century homestead in St. George, Maine. Working with Hamilton Professor Tom Jones, Garratt-Reed plans to spend six weeks this summer in St. George, doing archaeological excavations. After the excavations, Garrat-Reed will spend four weeks conducting research, pursuing any lingering questions regarding the history of the homestead site.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for the article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about political conventions.  In the article, "Political conventions have lost some luster," Klinkner said, "They don't serve any function anymore.  They're kind of like the Electoral College; they just ratify the decisions that are made elsewhere."

Many academics believe that "modernization in East Asia can be directly linked to the growth of mass transportation in major cities." Jubin Kwon '05 (Lexington, MA) agrees, and will travel to Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Seoul to study different cities and their public transportation to see if transportation does link to modernization.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, wrote an opinion piece for Newsday about the 9/11 Commission report. He stated: "... the commission's report will do little to quell the controversy surrounding 9/11." This op-ed was reprinted in the Newark Star-Ledger and Albany Times Union.

Hamilton College faculty offer their views on issues to be discussed during the political conventions. 

Andrew Lyons '06 (New Haven, Conn.) is hoping to uncover a little bit of history, and end debates surrounding the death of an innocent slave in Charleston, S.C., in 1822. He will do this with the help of Hamilton College History Professor Robert Paquette and funding from an Emerson grant.