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Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about presidential candidate Howard Dean's statements regarding the capture of Saddam Hussein.  Klinkner said the capture of Hussein, combined with the recent endorsement of Dean by former Vice President Al Gore, have broadened a "fault line" in the Democratic race.  "The danger for Democrats in painting Dean as a candidate of the left is that they are giving Republicans material to use against him, should he emerge as the party's nominee," Klinkner said.

Ann Frechette, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, conducted a workshop on Chinese culture in November in Foxboro, Mass., for families adopting children from China. At the workshop, Frechette lectured on "Chinese History," "Language, Nation, and Ethnic Relations" and "Families, Festivals and Food." She also presented a paper  in December at Davidson College titled "Democracy and Democratization among the Tibetan Exiles."

Zhiqun Zhu, visiting assistant professor of government, published a letter to the editor about Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to the U.S. in The Christian Science Monitor.  Zhu said, "Competing national interests determine that the two countries will become neither strategic partners nor strategic competitors. The best we can hope for is a pragmatic relationship in which the two countries continue to cooperate on issues of mutual concern and agree to disagree on issues such as human rights and Taiwan."

Dana Luciano, assistant professor of English and visiting faculty fellow at the University of Utah, participated in a roundtable discussion, "Keywords for the Study of Untimely Sexualities," at the 2003 American Literature Association Symposium on Queer Theory in Cancún, Mexico in December. Luciano's paper on the keyword "Brooding" discussed the temporality of the queer illness diary, focusing on the Diary of Alice James and the film Silverlake Life.

Jerome "Dewey" Gram, a 1963 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Los Angeles Times article (12/4/03) about writing the novelization of the new Tom Cruise movie, "The Last Samurai." According to the Times:  "He has been novelizing movies for 25 years, having written 15 of them, including 'Sneakers,' 'A Perfect World,' Gladiator,' 'Ocean's Eleven' and, most recently, 'The Life of David Gale.' His books have been translated into French, German and Japanese, and one, 'The Ghost and the Darkness,' into Hebrew. His best seller to date is 'Gladiator,' which has shipped in the high hundreds of thousands of copies, according to Penguin."  

H.T. Chen and Dancers will return to Hamilton College on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 4 p.m. in Minor Theater to present a program that celebrates the modern dance company’s 25th anniversary. The program will include excerpts from Opening the Gates (1993) and Warriors of Light (1998) in addition to "13 Sounds, 25 Years," a short documentary film about the 25 year history of HT Chen and Dancers.

Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren has been awarded two grants. The Research Corporation has funded a proposal titled "Characterization of sol-gel encapsulated amine oxidase and chloroperoxidase" to support Elgren's continuing work to characterize the mechanism of action associated with these two metallo-enzymes.  The award supports upgrading existing equipment, supplies and summer stipends for undergraduate collaborators. The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society has funded a proposal titled "Characterization of Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle of Amine Oxidases" to support half of Elgren's sabbatical leave in 2004-05.  The research will be conducted at Montana State University in Bozeman.  

Gil Whiting, assistant visiting professor of Africana Studies, presented a lecture at the Association for Career and Technical Education annual conference in Orlando, Fla. on December 12. Whiting's topic was "African American Fathers: Pathways to Discovering Their Futures." The lecture presented an inside look at qualitative research with 50 young black fathers as they go through a nationally recognized fatherhood-training program. The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.

Curtis L. Decker '66 has been named chairman of the board of The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) for a term beginning in January 2004. The CCD is a coalition of national consumer, advocacy, provider and professional organizations headquartered in Washington, D.C. Since 1973, the CCD has advocated on behalf of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities and their families. CCD has worked to achieve federal legislation and regulations that assure that the 54 million children and adults with disabilities are fully integrated into the mainstream of society.  

The family and friends are visiting from far-flung places and you’ve caught up on conversation, played enough board games to last a year and attended every Continental sporting event on campus. Now where do you take them for fun? Around the Hill asked some Hamilton employees, and they graciously shared plenty of ideas.