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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, spoke with a class of Hamilton students prior to his public lecture on Monday, Sept. 23. Giuliani addressed questions on topics including the "war on terrorism," U.S. strategy toward Iraq and immigration policy.

Speaking at Hamilton less than two weeks after the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, “Don’t let [the terrorist acts of September 11] stop you from leading your life.” In his talk as part of the Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton, Giuliani said, “Do start thinking about courage a bit differently. Courage is not absence of fear in a dangerous situation. The opposite is true. Courage is managing your fear in order to do what has to be done.”

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Sept. 22 edition of Newsday. "A Debate Around Morality" discusses welfare reform and the need to provide educational opportunities for welfare recipients.

Professor of Government Cheng Li appeared live on C-SPAN on September 23. He was speaking at a hearing by the U.S.-China Commission on the "Chinese Leadership Succession and Its Implications." Li is in Washington, D.C, this year as a Wilson Center fellow.

Yale University Professor of Law and alumnus Drew S. Days III '63, and Hamilton College Assistant Professor of History Peter Hinks are participating in a conference at Yale Law School, "Yale, New Haven, and American Slavery," Sept. 26-28. Days will participate in a session on "Reparations, Reconciliation and Repair: Present Remedies for Past Wrongs." Hinks is giving a paper in a session on "The Edwardsian Tradition and Post-Revolutionary Yale."

The Hamilton College Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series will continue with a lecture by activist, poet and author Luis Rodriguez on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn on the Hamilton campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette presented a paper titled "State Building without a State" at an International Institute for Asian Studies conference on "Revisiting the Asian State," Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 28-30, 2002. In addition Frechette was asked to serve on the selection committee for the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program (IDRF) in September.

Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology is quoted in a San Diego Union-Tribune article about the technological world we live in today. Raybeck said, "Our toasters, our VCRs, our TVs, any 6-year old can turn on one of these," he continues, "Not one person in 10,000 can fix them or understand how they work."

Hamilton College Professor of Government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow Cheng Li will speak before the National Committee on US-China Relations September 25. Li will discuss the change in Chinese leadership in his talk, "Hu's in Charge after the 16th Party Congress?"

Cheng Li, professor of government and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, will speak Sept. 23 as a panalist for the US-China Commission in a hearing, "Chinese Leadership Succession and its Implications."