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Join the Atlanta Alumni Association for an evening at the High Museum of Art. Thursday, May 1 6 - 8:30 p.m. 1280 Peachtree Street, NE Atlanta, GA $45 per person ($40 for the Classes of 1998-2002) *Price includes ticket to the exhibit, open bar and hors d'oeuvre buffet. Please RSVP by April 21 by calling the Office of Alumni Programs toll-free at (866) 729-0314 or emailing Jackie Thompson at jdthomps@hamilton.edu. Schedule of Events: 6 p.m.- Join Hamilton and Kirkland alumni for a reception in the Boardroom. 7 p.m.-Hear an update on the visual arts at Hamilton by David Nathans '72, acting director of the Emerson Gallery and enjoy an introduction to the exhibition by Michael Shapiro '71, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director, High Museum of Art. 7:30 p.m.- View the exhibition: Old Masters, Impressionists and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Location: High Museum of Art; Atlanta, GA Cost: $45 Contact: Kerri Page '98 kpage@hamilton.edu (866) 729-0314

Cheng Li, professor of government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was quoted in the L.A. Times article "China Hands Off Powers to Next Generation", about power transition struggle between old and new leaders. Jiang Zemin gave up his presidency during the March National People's Congress meeting but he also placed many of his own allies in the top positions. Zeng Qinghong, the new vice president of China has long been a friend of Jiang, and it is questioned whether if he will maintain a close relation with Jiang or try to get new President Hu's trust. However, some experts believe that these two will find a way to work with each other. Li said, "Probably Hu gets along with Zeng. The future depends on their cooperation, not vicious struggle. Although Hu is likely to proceed with caution at first, he has given some signals about the direction he intends to take."

Barbara Warnick, a professor in the department of communication at the University of Washington will present a lecture titled “A Rhetorical Approach to Candidate Campaign Sites on the World Wide Web” on Monday, April 7 at 11 a.m. in List 106. Warnick is a past editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech and the author of Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Rhetoric and Communication.

An online discussion titled "Athletics at Hamilton College" will be held on Tuesday April 22 at 8 pm led by David Thompson, director of Athletics at Hamilton College. David will host a live chat and discuss the role of athletics in the life of the College. All interested alumni/ae are invited to join in the discussion and can do so by registering with Hamilton's Online Alumni Community (HOLAC).

Hamilton's April 1 panel on the Iraq war was an impassioned session featuring six faculty members and moderated by government department chair Alan Cafruny. Speaking on the faculty panel were government professors Yael Aronoff, Peter Cannavo, Steve Orvis, Carlos Yordan and Phil Klinkner, and Tolga Koker from the economics department. Following the professors' remarks, a heated question and answer session was conducted.

Chinese AIDS activist and physician Wan Yanhai, and Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies will give the Edwin B. Lee Lecture on Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. Their lecture, “China's Looming AIDS Crisis,” is sponsored by the Edwin B. Lee Fund and the Dean of Faculty’s Office, and is free and open to the public.

The fourth in a series of HILLgroup Discussions will be held on Tuesday, April 8th, at 4pm in the Christian Johnson Browsing Room. Jesse Thomas, Multimedia Specialist, Krista Siniscarco, Multimedia Assistant, and the Reference Librarians will facilitate the discussion on how to incorporate the services offered by the MPC into your courses and professional activities.

Bill McKibben, a journalist and writer on environmental issues who lectured at Hamilton College in 2001, will return to Hamilton for a lecture on Friday, April 4, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. His talk is titled “Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age,” based on his forthcoming book of the same title. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Philosophy department.

Shayna McHugh '05, has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2003-04 academic year. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

John H. O'Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, will present "Jane Austen's Novels and Heritage Cinema: Thoughts on Adaptation," as the next guest in the Faculty Lecture Series, on Friday, April 4, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.