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Bernadette Brooten, the Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University, will present the Classics Depatment's Winslow Lecture on Wednesday, April 30, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit (Kirner-Johnson Hall). Her topic is "Slavery's Long Shadow over the Lives of Girls and Women." The lecture is free and open to the public.

An op-ed authored by Visiting Instructor of Government Carlos Yordan recently ran in Maine’s Bangor-Daily News. According to Yordan, the rebuilding of Iraq post war and post deconstruction of Baghdad will be difficult, expensive, and controversial. Several questions, such as who will pay for the reparations, and how will Iraq rebuild their economy, remain unanswered. Yordan also predicts that however the United States deals with the problem will influence voters in the upcoming 2004 election.

"Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is not a Class Privilege in America," is a photographic exhibit currently being featured at the Emerson Gallery. The show is curated by author and historian Rickie Solinger and photographer Kay Obering. The show incorporates some 50 images that picture the complexities of being a mother in contemporary America and challenges the prevailing ideas that motherhood in America should be a class privilege. In presenting a range of award-winning photographs and texts of poor women who have been deemed "bad mothers" by virtue of their poverty, this exhibit presents counter views of struggle, resistance, love, strength and hope. Free and open to the public. The Emerson Gallery is located on the Hamilton College campus in Christian Johnson Hall, directly behind the Chapel. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10

Members of the Hamilton College community will participate in a "Christmas in April" project on Saturday, April 26. The Hamilton Action Volunteers Outreach Coalition (HAVOC), with sponsorship from the Office of the President, will assist in painting the house of an elderly Utica homeowner. Other sponsors include Fleet Bank, Par Technology, Utica National Insurance and McDonald's. All are welcome to help. For more information contact Jeff McArn at ext. 4130.

The Performing Arts at Hamilton presents an evening of chamber music featuring the Woodwind, String and Brass ensembles playing Brahms, Nielsen, Barber, Debussy and more, on Friday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Free and open to the public.

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, professor of Africana Studies and French, made a second appearance on Syracuse's WCNY-TV "Hour CNY" on April 9. Sharpley-Whiting discussed the University of Michigan's admissions case, currently before the Supreme Court. WNCY is a Syracuse, N.Y., PBS station.

Hamilton College will celebrate Jazz Archive Day on Monday, April 28, from noon to 9 p.m. at Cafe Opus and the Jazz Archive, located in McEwen Hall. From noon on there will be multiple listening and viewing stations and displays of the photographs, books and memorabilia held by the archive. At 7:30 p.m. Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, will host a program of "Classic Clips" on a large screen in Cafe Opus. Poignant, informative and humorous stories from some of most personable and talkative interviewees will be featured as well as a segment from the film, "Joe Williams/A Portrait in Song," filmed in Wellin Hall in 1996.

Mezzo soprano Susan Graham performed a song written especially for her by Ben Moore '82 in her recent U.S. tour. The Baltimore Sun reported "Graham and her partner brought down the house with the premiere of a novelty song written for her by Ben Moore." Moore's "Sexy Lady" is a comedy song that complains about being stuck in "trouser roles," performing as a man in operas by Mozart and Strauss. Among the venues where Moore's songs have been heard are Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center and Chicago's Orchestra Hall.

Visiting Professor of Rhetoric and Communication John Adams presented, "Epideictic Rhetoric's Reception and Civic Engagement" at the Eastern Communication Association Pre-Conference "Discourses of Citizenship," April 23-24.

Cut it out kids! Reaching unprecedented levels of popularity on the now-classic sitcom Full House and America's Funniest People, veteran comic Dave Coulier is invading the Annex, on Friday, April 25, at 8 p.m. With a delightful mix of classic cartoon voices and edgy new material this is a show that cannot be missed! Special guest John Bush, and one lucky student opener. FREE on campus, $5 off campus.