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Reception: 6:00 p.m.; Presentation: 7:00 p.m. $15 per person ($10 for the Classes of 1998-2002) *Price includes heavy hors d'oeuvres and open bar* For more information or to R.S.V.P. please contact the Office of Alumni Programs toll-free at (866) 729-0314. Location: Princeton, New Jersey Open to: Alumni

Pre-concert discussion with Musicologist and Artistic Director Jeremy Geffen at 6:45 p.m. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

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Monk Rowe was named the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive at Fallcoming. Williams was instrumental in the founding and growth of the jazz archive and received the first honorary degree given by Hamilton to jazz artists in 1989. Rowe, a saxophone instructor, has conducted most of the 200+ video interviews of jazz greats that are in the archive.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article titled "The New Age of the Grown-Ups," in which he cautions against making too much of age as an asset. "It didn't help Bob Dole," he notes of the GOP presidential candidate who, at 73, was handily defeated by President Clinton in 1996.

Another book has been published in the Theory and Interpretation Series that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan at Ohio State University Press. The book, Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction, is written by Ellen Peel.

Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government discussed the new look of longevity in Washington. The article said there seems to be something poignant about the current outreach to veterans, as if the times yearn for the stability of a more sober generation. To demographers, lobbyists and other experts, the aging of government seems a response to danger.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano and Assistant Professor of Sociology Kris Paap, with Marianne Janack, and Meika Lowe of Colgate University, served on a panel at Colgate titled "What Makes a Man? Intellectual Investigations into Manhood, Masculinities, and Men." This panel was a repeat of the Kirkland Project's opening panel, given at Hamilton on Sep. 5 and also featured Gil Whiting.

Kirk Pillow, professor of philosophy, presented his paper, "Hegel and Homosexuality," at the national meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Chicago in October.

Professor of Anthropology Bonnie Urciuoli gave the second talk in Hamilton's Faculty Lecture Series on the varying meanings of the words "diversity and multiculturalism." Urciuoli shared data from her ongoing study of students at Hamilton and how the college environment has led them to change their use and definition of many terms associated with diversity and multiculturalism.