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Author Peter Cameron, a 1982 Hamilton graduate, was interviewed for the Contra Costa Times Book Club column (9/7/03). Cameron is author of The City of Your Final Destination. Cameron discussed the characters in the book, which was published in paperback this year (Plume).

Members of the Hamilton community watched William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in the Grant Garden of Root Glen in performances on September 6 and 7. The prodcution was presented by Untitled at Large, and directed by Shannon Fitzsimons '05 and Nathan Williams '04.

Students and faculty filled the Chapel to listen to world- renowned environmental thinker and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva on Sept. 7.  Shiva is the first speaker of the 2003 Kirkland Project series, "Alternatives to Globalization and War." The lecture was co-sponsored by the biology department, the environmental studies department, and the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton. 

The Kirkland Project will explore its 2002-04 series theme, "Technology, Science, Democracy: What's at Stake," with a panel discussion on the topic on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Participants will include Stuart Hirshfield, Computer Science; Carl Rubino, Classics; and Bonnie Urciuoli, Anthropology. The panel will be moderated by Martine Guyot-Bender, French, with Vivyan Adair, Women's Studies, respondent. The discussion will be followed by a reception.

The Kirkland Project Brown Bag series will kick off the fall term with a talk, "One on One With the Masters of Jazz," by Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, on Friday, Sept. 12 at noon in the Emerson Hall (E.L.S.) living room. The Hamilton College Jazz Archive has gathered over 250 videotaped interviews with jazz artists, famous and unsung. Rowe will present a series of informative, poignant and humorous clips from select interviews along with information about access to the archives resources. Brown Bag talks are informal. Bring your lunch and join us for discussion, cookies from Cafe Opus will be provided.  For more information, please call the Kirkland Project office at x4288.

Jeannine Murtaugh, associate director of the Career Center, was one of the adult leaders or "the den mother" as she put it, for the nine first-year students who selected the Urban Service Experience (USE) program for their orientation.

Hamilton College has been identified as one of the nation's top colleges for writing, according to a national survey of top college administrators. Only two U.S. colleges and 11 universities received the distinction.

Susan Sanchez-Casal, associate professor of Spanish and women's studies, was a presenter at Harvard University's Color Lines Conference this summer. Sanchez-Casal and Amie Macdonald '87, assistant professor of philosophy at CUNY John Jay College, presented their paper "Racial Democracy and Citizenship in Higher Education." This work further develops--in the specific context of racial democracy --their initial proposals for realist pedagogy outlined in their co-edited book 21st Century Feminist Classroom: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002). The conference was a historic gathering of antiracist academics, legal theorists, journalists, civic leaders and policy makers. In the words of the conference organizers, the motive of the conference was "to make a historically significant contribution to the realm of research as well as the arena of national discourse on the future of racial integration and the integration ideal."

World renowned environmental thinker and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva will open Hamilton College's Kirkland Project 2003 series with a lecture "Alternatives to Globalization and War," on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and Biology department.  The 2003-04 Kirkland Project series theme is Technology, Science and Democracy.

What do a dairy farmer, a librarian, a former Miss Ohio, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, a truck mechanic and Hamilton’s associate director of foundation, corporate and government relations have in common? All happen to be women and professional athletes – members of the Women’s Professional Football League (WPFL).