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A faculty panel comprised of James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Phil Klinkner, Associate Professor of History Shoshanna Keller, Assistant Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons, Hamilton College Chaplain Jeff McArn, and System Administrator Jenn Sturm gathered with the greater Hamilton community to discuss and debate the issue of same-sex marriage in the Chapel.

Reunions 2004 will reverberate with echoes of the past, celebrate the present and provide a vision of what the future holds for the people who comprise Hamilton College.   Alumni in class years celebrating Reunion (1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999) have received their registration materials. All other class years are invited , and all can register through May 25 online in the Reunion web site. This year you can also see who has registered to attend from you class in the “Who’s Attending” section of the web site.

Director of Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt will lead this week's Think Tank discussion on "The Academic Labor Movement and What It Tells Us About Higher Education." Think Tank meets on Fridays at noon in KJ 221 (above the Levitt Center in the back). Discussions last for about an hour; a bag lunch is provided or bring your own.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper, "A Coming Crisis of the EURO? Transatlantic Subordination and Social Contradictions of the EMU" at the International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention. The conference titled "Hegemony and its Discontents" was held in Montreal, March 17-20.  The ISA promotes research and education about international affairs and is the most widely known scholarly association in this field.

Verena Blechinger-Talcott, assistant professor of government, presented a Brown Bag lunch discussion titled "'Can you hear me now?' Internet and Democracy in East Asia and Western Europe," on March 31. Examining broadly the effect that the Internet has had on politics and society globally, Blechinger-Talcott also addressed the Internet and its effects on East Asia’s social, economic and political divisions.

Chuck Miller '85 was the recipient of three writing awards from the Truck Writers of North America. He received their inaugural awards in three categories: Gold Award for Magazine / Entertainment article; Best of Magazine award; and Best of 2003 article. Miller's award-winning article is "Convoy Rides Again," published in RoadKing Magazine about songwriter C.W. McCall, who wrote "Convoy."

Dr. Nina Schoch, DVM, presented an interactive lecture titled “The Adirondack Loon Program: A New Approach to Wildlife Understanding,”  at Hamilton on March 30. She explained in-depth not only the general background information of loons, but also the work of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society and the Adirondack Loon program. Schoch was a veterinarian in the Adirondacks who has given up her practice to devote herself to full time work for The Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Adirondack Park.

Members of the Hamilton College Music faculty, conducted by Heather Buchman, will join forces for a program of late Romantic Bohemian and Viennese masterpieces: Antonin Dvorak's Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 and Richard Strauss' Bourgeois Gentleman, on Thursday, April 1, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Artist and art historian Suzanne Anker, whose exhibit, titled “Origins and Futures,” is currently on display in Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery, gave a talk of the same name about her work and its themes on March 30. Anker’s work uses genetic imagery and explores the way the human body can be seen as code-script following the genetic revolution. Anker is also the co-author of a book called Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age which explores the moral and bioethical questions raised by genetic technology and connects them to art. Following a short talk on the inspiration for her work, Anker walked students, faculty and guests around the exhibit and talked about the pieces.

Assistant Professor of Physics Gordon Jones was interviewed for Scholastic's Science World  (April 5, 2004) magazine about the kinetic power of yo-yos. Science World is published bi-weekly during the school year and distributed widely to middle school through high school students. Jones was interviewed for an article about an MP3 player that uses energy from a spinning yo-yo to play music. He explained how the yo-yo's potential energy turns into rotational kinetic energy. "It's like a yo-yo trick but you pull that energy out to do something useful," said Jones. The yo-yo celebrates its 75th birthday on April 1.