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Comedian Bill Cosby will perform at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. as scheduled, despite the inclement weather. Mr. Cosby has arrived on campus so the Sacerdote Great Names Series show will take place in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Hamilton College’s Emerson Gallery, host to "Hamilton Collects Photography: The First 100 Years," is sponsoring an exhibition tour on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. Co-curators William E. Williams '73, professor of fine arts and curator of photography at Haverford College, and William Salzillo, Hamilton professor of art and curator of the "Hamilton Collects" series, will lead the tour.

John Freyer '95, is co-star of "Second Hand Stories," a 30-minute reality show about two men riding around the country looking for rare and unique items at garage sales, thrift stores and other places. It was broadcast on WCNY-TV (Channel 24) on Tuesday, Oct. 14, as part of a nationwide test by PBS. If the program is well-received by viewers, PBS will consider seeking corporate funding to make "Second Hand Stories" a regular series. Freyer is the author of All My Life for Sale (Bloomsbury USA), which describes his experience selling almost everything he owned on the eBay Internet auction service, then visiting people who bought the items.

Hamilton College’s science departments hosted Science Exploration Day for the Wettel Elementary School in Vernon on October 14.  This imaginative program helps Wettel students develop a stronger awareness of science by participating in hands-on science experiments and simulations.  The Science Exploration Day also allows students to develop a broader and more diverse recognition of science extending beyond chemistry, physics and biology. Hamilton science faculty members who hosted the students were: Dave Bailey, geology; Karen Brewer, chemistry; David Gapp, biology; Gordon Jones, physics; Tom Jones, anthropology; and Doug Weldon, psychology.

Leigh Keno, a 1979 graduate of Hamilton, and his brother, Leslie, will host a new weekly series on PBS, "Find!" The Keno brothers are also appraisers on the popular "Antiques Roadshow." "Find!" will send the Keno brothers into homes to uncover hidden treasures. Leigh Keno owns Leigh Keno American Antiques, a gallery in Manhattan dealing in fine 18th- and early 19th-century American furniture and decorative arts. He majored in art history at Hamilton.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was interviewed for this article about the lack of black voters in the California recall election. According to the article, "Only 6 percent of registered African-American voters participated." Klinkner said, "There is a defensiveness in voting. People with a stake are much more likely to vote. White people feel they had a stake in California." 

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, is scheduled to participate in a live World Today BBC program on Sunday, Oct. 12, starting at 6:30 p.m. Li will discuss the prospect of Chinese democracy. Check your local NPR station for times or click on <A class="" href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_today_vote.shtml?configfile=vote2.xml> BBC World Service </a> to listen via the Web.

José Esteban Muñoz presented a witty, colorful lecture, titled  "Brown Feelings, Queer Lives" on Oct. 8 as part of this year's Kirkland Project series. The lecture, which was originally scheduled as part of the 2002-2003 Kirkland Project Series "Masculinities," discussed various types of emotion and how, currently, in American culture, excessive or extreme emotions, in particular emotions expressed by Latin culture and homosexual culture, are oftentimes replaced by watered down, domesticated emotions and ideas. Muñoz believes that emotion, the way one experiences emotion, and the way in which emotions are conveyed, can be used in various ways to examine one’s identity.

Dallas Burtraw, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, gave a lecture, "Applying science and economics to the study of air pollution in the Adirondacks," on October 8 at Hamilton College. The lecture was part of the Levitt Public Affairs Center series, "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."

China is scheduled to become only the third country to put a man into orbit, according to BBC reports. This is a "showcase for China's coming of age as a major player in international affairs," said Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government.