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Airports are peculiar places.  People come and go to all sorts of destinations - some exotic and some mundane - with names such as Maui, Oslo and Pittsburgh.  My neurotic tendency of being early to important things provided me ample opportunity to study the controlled chaos around me as I waited for my boyfriend to arrive from Oklahoma.

When many people think about New York City, especially in a visual sense, they often think about 5th Avenue, Madison, Times Square, Rockefeller Plaza, the Empire State Building, and all else that makes this city so grand.  And while I think of these places too, they make up my past image of the city more than my current one.  As a kid, I remember my favorite part about visiting the city was looking up at the tall buildings and feeling dizzy.  I remember going to Radio City Music Hall for the Christmas Special and being amazed at how magnificent everything was, how bright and extravagant it all looked.  It was like everything was larger than life and covered in glitter. 

Having related New York’s optimum mode of transportation last week, the subway, I will take the opportunity this week to discuss the opposite end of the spectrum: driving in the city. This was something I hoped never to have to experience, but fate thrust into my hands the keys of a rented Plymouth Voyager used for delivering props. My mission was to return the van from the studio at 42nd and 7th Avenue Times Square to the rental place just a few blocks away at 40th and 10th Avenue.

Steve Sadove '73, vice chairman of Saks Incorporated, and an alumni trustee at Hamilton, has been appointed to the additional post of chief operating officer. In making the announcement, Brad Martin, chairman and ceo of the company said "Steve Sadove has made an outstanding contribution in the two years since he joined the leadership team of Saks Incorporated. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated the ability to innovate and to identify and maximize strategic business opportunities while generating best-of-class operating performance."

Tickets for the 2004 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball 1st Round Championship game with Hamilton hosting St. John Fisher, are on sale now. The game is Thursday, March 4 at 7 p.m. in Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.  Tickets are $3 for Hamilton students and $4 for the general public. Tickets will be on sale in the Alumni Gym Lobby on Wednesday, March 3, from 12-5 p.m., and Thursday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to noon. They will also be available at the door prior to the game.  

This past Thursday we went on a tour of the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE is not open to the public so we had to go through heavy security just to enter the building. The guards explained that the building was the number one terrorist target in the world, which didn’t surprise me at all. After clearing the security checks, our group proceeded to a balcony area that looked over the main trading floor. We witnessed first-hand the craziness and intensity of the trading floor, approximately 3,500 people conducting their duties simultaneously. We learned that the different firms outfit their employees in a specific color jacket to distinguish them from other companies’ employees. We saw a lot of straight faces for the most part, until half-way through the tour we heard screams and cheers from a group of men who had clearly hit it big with some stock.  

Indeed there is culture all around us in New York City; it is what this city was founded on of course. It just so happens that every possible thing I did this week had some sort of culture, and it was purely by accessibility to all of these things.

Darkness.  Silence.  All at once, the night sky appears and illuminates everything around me. Oooo.  Ahhhh.  Then I hear a voice from above.  Could it be?  No, wait!  It’s Tom Hanks!

I did not realize how much I actually liked New York City until I left for the weekend. I was surprised to discover how much I missed the city while I was in Buffalo. I seemed to catch myself comparing the city to the Buffalo area.  For example, I compared how it is faster and more efficient to take the subway everywhere instead of having to get into a car and drive a lot farther away.  Everything is so much closer in the city. I also thought that New York has many more “night life” options than Buffalo.  There is always something new and different to see in the city.  Not only that, I could not stop talking about the city and everything there is to do it there.  I would talk about the museums I have seen, the shops I have browsed, the places that I plan to go, etc. Leaving the city helped me to discover how much I enjoy being there. 

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was interviewed for a Chicago Tribune article about gender roles in the film The Passion of the Christ. It reads: "Of the other female characters in the film, though, almost all show kindness to Jesus. 'You almost have this implicit force of female power to relieve his suffering,' said Steve Humphries-Brooks, a religious studies professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y." This article also appeared in the Orlando Sentinel.