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Join the Metropolitan New York Alumni Association for a reception with President Gene Tobin on Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at the Princeton Club of New York. Hors d'oeuvres and open bar included.

Join the Rochester, Buffalo and Central New York Alumni Associations on Friday November 15th for the Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion exhibit and reception.

Tom Vilsack, a 1972 Hamilton graduate, won re-election as governor of Iowa Tuesday night. When he was first elected to the post in 1998, Vilsack became Iowa’s first Democratic governor in three decades. Upon completion of his second four-year term, he will be the longest-serving Democratic chief executive in the state’s history.

Delaware Republican Michael Castle, a 1961 Hamilton graduate, easily won re-election to his sixth term in Congress with 72 percent of the vote, according to unofficial election returns Tuesday night.

Professor of Government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Cheng Li gave a speech in Paris to the Centre d'Études et de Reacherches Internationales, on Oct. 28. Li spoke on the leadership changes and institutional development in the China's 16th Party Congress meeting.

In a Time Magazine Asia (Nov. 4) article on the Chinese Communist Party's strategy to appease the middle class, Cheng Li, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and a professor of government said, "These people have vivid memories of the uprising in Tiananmen Square, and have come to see it as a dead end, a revolution that went nowhere." He continued, "The middle class has sided with the government."

On the eve of the 16th Party Congress, Cheng Li, professor of government at Hamilton College and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, will provide an overview of China's 4th Generation leadership at a CNA Corporation press conference held at the National Press Club from 2-4 p.m. on Nov. 7.

Following last month's visit by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - the latest in the Sacerdote Series Great Names at Hamilton - the Alumni Programs Office circulated an e-mail to the Hamilton community asking for ideas and suggestions for future speakers.

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Professor of Classics Barbara Gold had an article, "Accipe Divitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial," published in Flavian Rome: Culture, Image and Text, edited A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Leiden: Brill, 2003) and released Nov. 2002. She is also president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and presided over the semi-annual meeting in New Brunswick, N.J., in October.