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Saturday, March 15, 2003 Baltimore, MD Sunday, March 16, 2003 Richmond, VA Tuesday, March 18, 2003 Atlanta, GA Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Blairsville, GA Thursday, March 20, 2003 Chapel Hill, NC Friday, March 21, 2003 Washington D.C. Saturday, March 22, 2003 Binghamton, NY

$25 per person, alumni only Due to limited space there will be NO on-site or walk-in registrations. *This event is for Hamilton alumni only. Please RSVP by Friday, Feb. 28, to secure your spot.

Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert will lecture on "The Mexican Middle Class and the Economic Crisis," on Thursday, March 6 at 4:10 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 107. It is free and open to the public.

The 5th annual Hamilton College Alternative Spring Break (ASB) “Not So Silent" Auction will be held on Thursday, March 6 in the Beinecke Village Annex. Bidding on silent auction items will take place from noon to 8 p.m., with a live auction at 7 p.m. Among the items to be auctioned are gift certificates from Clinton and New Hartford restaurants and shops, and items such as haircuts, manicures, pizza, clothing articles and quilts.

Government Professor Cheng Li was quoted by Agence France Presse in an article “Jiang, China’s ‘interim leader’, still active in semi-retirement”, about the current role of Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

The "sonic stylings" of Doc Woods and the Hamilton College Jazz Combo, Keith Foster, Louis Bosso, Khori Newlander, Dan Hilton and Richard Stahnke, were heard by a full-house at the Village Tavern. The set included standards such as "Summertime" and "My Favorite Things" and originals by Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods.

Colin Adams delivered the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture on February 25 in the Chapel. Adams, the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, discussed hyperbolic geometry in his talk, "Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space: Investment Opportunities for the New Millennium." 

Professor of Africana Studies Tracy Sharpley-Whiting was a guest on Syracuse PBS station WCNY's "Hour CNY," on Feb. 26. Sharpley-Whiting discussed racial profiling on the talk show.

Charlotte Beck and George Jones, both Leonard C. Ferguson Professors of Archaeology, co-authored, "Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin," with Eric E. Jones, Pennsylvania State University and Richard E. Hughes, Geolchemical Research Laboratory in American Antiquity (2003, vol. 68.) A map from their article is used for cover art. The study relies on stone tools as "calling cards," or maybe "tourist stickers," to describe the geographic patterns of movement of the human groups in the western deserts at the close of the ice age and shortly thereafter.

The "sonic stylings" of Doc Woods and the Hamilton College Jazz Combo, Keith Foster, Louis Bosso, Khori Newlander, Richard Stahnke and Dan Hilton, were heard by a full house at the Village Tavern. The set included standards such as "Summertime" and "My Favorite Things" and originals by Doc Woods.