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Thomas J. Schwarz, a 1966 graduate of Hamilton College and partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City, has been named president of the State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase. Schwarz has been acting president since January 2001. SUNY's trustees approved his formal appointment as president on April 29.

Theodore Lowi, a professor at Cornell University and one of the leading political scientists in American History, visited the Hamilton College Government Department, speaking at the faculty and majors dinner. His talk, “Cold War II, reflections on Ideology” addressed the selection process for a model of foreign policy conduct, first pinpointing past presidential selections, and then explaining the inevitability of George W. Bush’s choice of what Lowi referred to as Napoleonic foreign policy. “The nature of a cold war,” Lowi claimed, “is that it is theory driven.” He went on to explain George W. Bush’s foreign policy as a “policy of no policy,” criticizing governors who become presidents for their narrow focus on domestic policy and specifically Bush for his faith based approach to foreign policy decisions, especially foreign aid.

Professor of Classics Carl Rubino is the recipient of a Christian A. Johnson Teaching Fellowship that enabled him to travel to Nevis in January and New York City in February to do research on Alexander Hamilton, with a view to incorporating it into the sophomore seminar he teaches with Frank Anechiarico.

Come to a discussion on Tuesday, May 13 in the Remote Collaboration Facility at 4:10pm on how GIS was used in Soph 265 (Social Movements: The Environment) to investigate questions of environmental justice. This demonstration will be of special interest to faculty in the social sciences wondering what could be done with desktop GIS software and how it could fit into any research and teaching which already involves the use of demographic data.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited lecture titled "Isometrically Embedded Graphs" at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar, University of Colorado at Denver in April. Boutin's work shows that a graph (think wiring diagram) can be "drawn" in Euclidean space of some dimension so that its symmetries are precisely displayed. Her work brings together aspects of graph theory, geometry and abstract algebra.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera had an article printed in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 118, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 81-106. It is titled "Engagement, Containment, and the International Politics of Eurasia."

Assistant Professor of Government Yael Aronoff wrote an opinion piece examining how presidents Bush and Carter used their religious beliefs to determine foreign policy. "Same God, Different Outcomes" was published in the Syracuse Post-Standard. (April 23, 2003.)

The AP Newswire service, along with the New York Times, announced “Thomas Schwarz, a prominent lawyer who has been interim president of Purchase College for 16 months, has been formally named president.” Schwarz is a Hamilton trustee and served six months as acting president in 1999 at Hamilton, according to the article. During his time already at Purchase, Schwarz has eliminated a $5 million deficit the school had accumulated.

Students in Hamilton's "Race Matters" Sophomore Seminar will hold a public debate to determine the winner of this year's "mock" National Book Award Winner for the Most Influential Book on Race in the 20th Century, on Thursday, May 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Events Barn.

Hamilton's second community event, Spring on the Hill, will be held on Sunday, May 4, from 12-3 p.m. on the main quad. Similar to last season's Fall Fest, Spring on the Hill is an effort to bring Hamilton's community together with the Clinton community for an afternoon of food, live entertainment, and family festivities.