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Professor of Classics Barbara Gold wrote an essay about "Valentines from Ancient Rome" which was featured on the poppolitics.com Web site.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano is mentioned in a New York Times article (2/13/03) about the difficulties in getting rid of old and obsolete computers. System administrator Jenn Sturm is also quoted.

Erik Jacobsen '97, with his faculty advisor Professor of Geology Eugene Domack, published a paper in the Bulletin in Quaternary and Geomorphology. This paper, "Late Pleistocene-Holocene retreat of the West Antarctic Ice-Sheet System in the Ross Sea: Part 2 - Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Signature," has been nominated for the prestigious Geological Society of America Kirk Bryan Award.

Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, “Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s New World Social Geography,” on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Her appearance is part of Hamilton's commemoration of Black History Month.

Shayna McHugh, '05, presented a poster, "Investigation of Bioactive Constituents of Stylotella aurantium from Guam," at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Feb. 13-16. McHugh, who had been awarded a travel grant by Merck/AAAS, was accompanied by Robin Kinnel, Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry.

Classics Professor Barbara Gold was interviewed for a United Press International (UPI) feature article about the origins of Valentine's Day. In the UPI article Gold says love for ancient Romans was interesting, both to live and to write about, because it was painful, like a disease.

Hamilton College Classics Chair Barbara Gold was featured in Discovery News, among many other media publications such as the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Boulder City News, and the Staten Island Advance, and regarding her recent analysis of ancient Roman love letters and valentines. According to Gold, the ancient Romans wrote of lust, pain, and hatred in love letters, much different from today’s cards of love, caring, and friendship. Although the letters may come off sounding harsh, Gold admitted that she admires the Roman’s passion and complexity: “they melded coarse obscenities with deepest expressions of sexual, erotic longing.”

The presidents of the 11 schools that make up the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) have made a unanimous decision to decline a request from U.S.News & World Report for detailed statistical information about the institutions’ athletic teams and programs. The members of NESCAC are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Trinity College, Tufts University, Wesleyan University and Williams College.

Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin has announced a new policy that prohibits smoking in all campus facilities and entranceways. The new policy takes effect with the start of the 2003-04 academic year in August.

Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs David Paris was heard coast to coast on Bill O'Reilly - The Radio Factor.