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Seventeen Hamilton College seniors were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are: Evan Adair, Jessica Atcheson, Adam Berkwitt, Jordan Burns, Damien Ellens, Rebecca Fabricant, Elana Feuer, Robert Gordon, Andrew Horner, Michael Kogut, Erin Kress, Matthew Liptak, Pamela McBurney, Ryan McKone, Brendan Rogers, Andrea Stroud and Yuliya Zorkina.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao published an article, "'My genius is no more than a girl': Exploring the Erotic in Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius," in a special number of the French journal Annales du Monde Anglophone 16 (2e semester, 2002), pp. 111-129. The volume was edited by Helene Aji and titled, "Ezra Pound dans le vortex de la traduction."

James "Sparky" Rucker, singer (guitar, banjo, & spoons) and Rhonda Rucker (harmonica & banjo) will lead a humor-filled journey through 400 years of African-American cultural and folk history on Friday, March 7, at 12-12:50 p.m. in Schambach 201. Their presentation will include railroad songs, Appalachian music, old-time blues, slave songs, Civil War music, gospel, work songs, cowboy music, ballads and original compositions. Open and free to all. Bring your lunch!

A round-table discussion, "Multiple Perspectives on Special Educational Services," organized by Jonathan Vaughan, professor of psychology, was held as part of Education in a Liberal Democracy sophomore seminar in March.

Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat was elected secretary/treasurer of The Faulkner Society. Kodat's review essay, "Faulkner and 'Faulkner'" has been published in the Spring 2003 issue of American Literary History (ALH).

Esther Kanipe, Marjorie and Robert W. Ewen Professor of History, has been asked to serve on a Utica College advisory panel for a new program, "Adapting Curriculum for Student Success," which will deal with improving the quality of education for students with disabilities.

Professor of Women's Studies Chandra Talpade Mohanty published "'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anti-Capitalist Struggles" in SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 28, no. 2, Winter 2003.

Filmmaker Robert Bilheimer '66 was featured in a Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article about his new film, A Closer Walk, a documentary about AIDS (www.acloserwalk.org). According to the article, "The Bristol Hills filmmaker and his small crew traveled from the ramshackle huts of Uganda to the dusty byways of India to the frigid and forgotten ghettos of the former Soviet Union to the mean streets of Kansas City. They talked to some 75 people - dying children, dedicated doctors and famous leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, rock star-activist Bono and the Dalai Lama. And they enlisted Oscar-nominated actors Glenn Close and Will Smith to narrate."

Margo Okazawa-Rey, an activist fighting for the security of women world wide, visited the Hamilton College campus on March 3 to discuss why women, in particular, should be against the war with Iraq. She began by citing some statistics on a war’s impact on women. According to Okazawa-Rey, the percentage of war victims who are civilians is now around 90%, most of whom are women, children and the elderly. She also said that the increase in the U.S. national budget for the war on terrorism is three times the size of the budgets of all of the “rogue nations” combined. Okazawa-Rey lamented that “after 9/11 I saw the use of women as a justification for war.”

Hamilton Faculty and Students came together on March 3 for a dramatic reading of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, a world wide theatrical protest of the War in Iraq. The play, about a planned conjugal strike by the women of Greece in order to create peace between the warring Athenians and Spartans, was retranslated for the event by Drue Robinson Hagan. The reading was sponsored by the Department of Classics, Theatre and Dance, Women’s Studies (Irwin Chair), the Kirkland Endowment, and Hamilton’s Peace and Justice Action Group, and benefited the Mohawk Valley Peace Coalition.