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Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, traveled to Buffalo with AV Director Tim Hicks to interview two prominent jazz musicians, pianist Al Tinney and saxophonist Bobby Militello. Tinney, who is 82 years old, played an active role in the formation of bebop jazz. He was the house pianist at Monroe's Cafe in New York City, where much of the experimentation by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie took place. Tinney also appeared as a child actor in the original production of Porgy and Bess. Bobby Militello is currently playing saxophone with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He is also the owner of the Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo's hottest jazz club and was able to offer a unique perspective on the current jazz scene.

Professor of Chemistry George Shields, Matthew D. Liptak '03 and Dreyfus Fellow Steve Feldgus presented a poster, "Absolute pKa Determinations for Protonated Nitrogen Compounds," at the Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, held in Groton, Conn. In addition, Shields gave a lecture titled "Basic Research and Drug Design: Computational Chemistry at Hamilton College" at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

Bob Simon (Philosophy) was one of three speakers at a conference held at Trinity College, titled "The Game of Life and the Liberal Arts College." The conference examined the claims of the widely discussed book The Game of Life, about the effects of intercollegiate athletics on academics at selective liberal arts colleges.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Opportunity Programs, and the Chaplaincy are sponsoring a Gospel Workshop on November 14-16. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please reserve a space by forwarding an Email to mdavid@hamilton.edu.

Last summer Craig Latrell (Theatre and Dance) chaired two panels and presented three papers on intercultural theatre and teaching Asian theatre at the annual conferences of the Association for Asian Performance and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. At the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, he chaired a panel called "Performing the State: Images of State Power and National Identity in Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Pacific." For that panel, he presented a paper on Singapore's new performing arts center as an image of the state. A portion of Latrell's article "After Appropriation" appears in Richard Schechner's new book Performance Studies: An Introduction, published by Routledge. Latrell was also elected by the Association for Asian Performance, the national association for Asian performance scholars, to serve a second term as president. In addition, Latrell's review of Robert Yeo's Singapore Trilogy appears in the current issue ofAsian Theatre Journal.

The Jazz Archive, located in the lower level of McEwen will be open during the following hours for the rest of the fall semester. Monday & Wednesday 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Appointments may also be made with Monk Rowe at ext. 4071.

Associate Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies Susan Sanchez-Casal presented a paper at the Puerto Rican Studies Association in Chicago, in early October. The paper was titled "Abraham Rodriguez's Spidertown: Repositioning Race and Gender in the Internal Colony." October 17-20, with her book co-author Amie Macdonald, Sanchez-Casal headed a panel dedicated to critical anthology 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (2002) at the University of Michigan conference "Redefining Identity Politics-Internationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism." The panel was focused on the theoretical introduction of Sanchez-Casal's book, "The Pedagogical Relevance of Identity." This conference was the fourth in an ongoing series of bicoastal conferences.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair will deliver a lecture at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 4:30 p.m. at Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick. Her talk is titled "Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in America." The lecture is open to the public. For more information call the IRW at Phone: 732-932-9072, or e-mail irw@rci.rutgers.edu·

Hamilton students will host the 13th-annual Trust Treat, a tradition that brings more than 200 Utica-area children (and kids of Hamilton employees!) to campus for a safe and fun evening of trick-or-treating on Halloween night, October 31.

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