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Maurice Isserman, professor of history, and Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Jr. Associate Professor of History, published opposing opinion pieces about the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade in the Utica, N.Y., Observer-Dispatch.

Jonathan Rick '05 published an op-ed, "Missing ingredient from anti-poverty aid: capitalism," in the Syracuse Post-Standard.  Rick said, "So we donate spare change in water buckets at the dining halls, we fasted, we volunteered for Utica's soup kitchen.  But something was missing -- an ingredient so implicit in our bounty that we overlooked its necessity.  The manna is capitalism.  For capitalism, in contrast to the quick fixes of Hunger and Homelessness Week, is a long-term panacea."

"On the environment, the President's views in the State of the Union Address were made plain by the conspicuous absence of this issue from his speech, aside from a brief and vague discussion of energy policy," said Peter Cannavo a visiting professor of government at Hamilton College.  "Perhaps he considers the use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional athletes, to which he devoted a good chunk of valuable time, to be a more important issue than the state of the planet we inhabit. 

"The Bush Administration must seize the moment now to push forward toward an Israeli-Palestinian settlement," says Hamilton College government professor Yael Aronoff.  The author of When and Why Do Hardliners Become Soft? An Examination of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Aronoff analyzes the current possibilities for Middle East peace. "The capture of Hussein stimulated some goodwill in the Middle East last month, and the recent signing of the Geneva Accord renewed a bit of hope. However, our window of opportunity to leverage this goodwill and achieve President Bush's 'Roadmap' goal is small. Without some very serious and immediate arm-twisting by the U.S. of both Palestinian and Israeli leaders, this opportunity will disappear.

Professor of Geology Eugene Domack is the editor of Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: Historical and Paleoenvironemental Perspectives, published by the American Geophysical Union. AGU released this "cohesive, structured monograph" at its annual meeting in December.

Etin Anwar, Freeman Fellow in Asian Studies, published an article, "Prophetic Models in Islamic and Christian Spirituality in the Thought of Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart," in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. This comparative study of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad in Christianity and Islam reveals common background, basic similarities and differences.

Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart, in consultation with Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty David Paris, announced the following faculty appointments to endowed chairs.

Hamilton President Joan Stewart told students, faculty and staff gathered for the annual Martin Luther King dinner that part of the slain civil rights leader's legacy is service.

Footworks returns to Hamilton College with StepAfrika! in a special collaboration called SoleMates on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall.  Celebrating a shared American heritage, each company represents a different range of traditional percussive dance art while presenting innovative original choreography. From Southern Appalachian clogging to the stepping tradition of African-American fraternities and sororities, SoleMates explores the similarities and differences of these black and white music and dance forms and illuminates how these traditions have influenced each other.

Visiting Professor of Rhetoric and Communication John Adams is the author of an op-ed published in the Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard (1/20/04) on the State of the Union address. Adams said this year's address will be different in that the president will not only report on the condition of the nation, but must defend himself against charges of deceiving the American people on Iraq.