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Grass Valley, Nevada, part of the Great Basin, was home to some of the earliest Americans. Under the supervision of Tom Jones, professor of archaeology, 10 Hamilton students are participating in an archaeological field school and dig to explore how early Americans lived. To follow their six-week adventure, read weekly reports posted on their Web site: Field School 2003.

Hamilton College hired Jim Taylor as the College's new sports information director on July 1.

Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was recently appointed as secretary of the Institute of Current World Affairs. In addition to his duties as secretary, Li will serve as trustee of the two private foundations: The Friendship Fund Trust and the Crane Trust. The two trusts combined have a net worth of $8 million and help support the activities of the Institute.

Hamilton College Men’s Ice Hockey Coach Phil Grady and SUNY Fredonia Men’s Ice Hockey Coach John Meredith started the Hamilton Ice Hockey Camp together 19 years ago. Since then the four-week long (first two for boys and the last two for girls) camp has grown to such popularity that there is a waiting list at least 150 names long every year of eager young hockey players. Coach Grady commented, “The amazing thing about the popularity of the camp is that we do no advertising at all, everything comes from word of mouth as the result of a good experience.”

An article by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz, "'A Bird of Like Rarest Spun Heavenmetal': Music in A Clockwork Orange," recently appeared in the newest volume in Cambridge University Press' "Cambridge Film Handbooks" (Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, edited by Stuart Y. McDougal; Cambridge University Press, 2003). The essay explores very different treatments of music in Anthony Burgess' original novel and in Kubrick's film--and argues that Kubrick's reversal of Burgess' aesthetic position is one reason why Burgess considered the movie a "misdemeanor."

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven is co-author of an article in The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 23, 3rd quarter, 2003, titled "Science and Ethics: Robert Halliday and Heidi Ravven look to biology for some moral education."

Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon was interviewed by the San Antonio Express-News for an article about golf as the sport of corporate culture. "In golf, unlike other sports, you spend all day with the person," said Robert Simon, a philosophy professor and former golf team coach at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. "You can't avoid them. You have time to talk and socialize."

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, was interviewed for the CNN program Lou Dobbs Tonight. The segment on China aired on July 2 and re-aired on July 4. This piece, "China's Challenge: Can democracy and capitalism succeed in China?" is part of the CNN series, "Capitalism & Democracy," in cooperation with The Economist magazine.

Courtney Shealy, a double gold medalist and world record holder in swimming for the 2000 Olympic Games, spoke on the Hamilton campus on July 2. She is visiting Hamilton as a guest clinician to this summer's swim camp. In addition to winning gold in Sydney, Shealy was named the NCAA co-swimmer of the year with teammate Kristy Kowal. She is the only woman in NCAA Division I history to have competed in two varsity sports on the same day while at the University of Georgia where she also played volleyball.

Hamilton alumnus Alan G. "A.G." Lafley '69 is featured in the July 7 issue of BusinessWeek magazine. In a cover article titled "The P&G Revolution," Lafley is credited with "engineering a remarkable turnaround." Under Lafley, who took over as CEO in 2000, Procter & Gamble's stock has risen 58% to $92 a share and the company's key consumer products have "gained so much market share that they are again the envy of the industry."