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The Utica Observer-Dispatch published an op-ed written by Hamilton student Jonathan Rick '05.  In the op-ed, “Covering dictatorships can mean covering the truth,” Rick discusses Iraqi distortions and oppression of news coverage under Hussein. He declares, “It is futile and fraudulent for a news agency to operate in a dictatorship.”

Today President Bush will again be arguing for the extension of the Patriot Act. Two Hamilton College professors, experts in constitutional law and corruption, express their concerns.

Dr. David P. Faxon, a member of the Hamilton class of 1967 and an Alpha Delta Phi brother, presented the fourth installment in this year’s Alpha Delta Phi Lecture series on April 20 in KJ’s Red Pit. Faxon is currently a professor of medicine and chief of cardiology at University of Chicago Hospital and was the former president of the American Heart Association. Faxon discussed his personal experiences with angioplasty, his life and research in the field of cardiology, and his experiences with the American Heart Association.

The Crossville (Tenn.) Chronicle published a feature article about Hamilton College students who visited there in March on an Alternative Spring Break trip. The article is reprinted here with permission from The Crossville Chronicle. "If you were to hear that a college student defiantly overcame multiple delays and a canceled flight in order to reach her Spring Break destination by taking a greyhound bus across country at a personal cost of $144.26 and over 27 hours, you probably wouldn’t be too surprised. After all, it is nigh impossible these days to separate college students from their weeklong Dionysian revelry this time of year."

Vilayanur Ramachandran, professor of psychology and director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego, will deliver The James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture on Thursday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium.  His talk, "What neurology can tell us about human nature and the meaning of art," is free and open to the public.

On April 18, a group of Hamilton students slept in a cardboard structure in the McEwen breezeway to support Habitat for Humanity and raise awareness about poverty housing and homelessness in America. The students constructed a simulated "shanty town" of cardboard boxes in the breezeway and spent the night in it. During the evening, College Chaplain Jeff McArn facilitated a discussion on poverty housing and what students can do to end it.

Hamilton College will host the 6th annual AIDS Hike for Life on Sunday, April 25, on the college campus. Registration begins at 10 a.m., with the 5K walk starting at 11 a.m. AIDS Hike for Life benefits AIDS Community Resources whose six offices give direct support to hundreds of HIV-infected individuals, their partners, families and friends. All funds raised stay in the Mohawk Valley. Sponsored by AIDS Community Resources and the Hamilton College class of 2004.

Vice President for Information Technology Dave Smallen was interviewed for a Chronicle of Higher Education article (4/23/04) about technology budget cuts at colleges. In the article, "Will Colleges Miss the Next Big Thing? Technology budget cuts could hurt innovation on campuses, officials worry," Smallen said budget cuts look like they are getting deeper. The article notes that Smallen "is one of the leaders of the annual Cost of Supporting Technology Services survey of computing administrators, and he says initial data from the latest survey, whose results will be released this fall, show 'pretty dramatic' IT reductions."

Jaime Volker, a junior majoring in classical languages at Hamilton, has been awarded a national Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. She is the third student from the Classics department to receive the scholarship since 1999.

Hamilton College Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano gave a lecture at the University of Utah.  The lecture was titled "Queer Temporality and the Play of Mourning: AIDS, Melancholy, and the Future(s) of the Past."