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Members of the Hamilton community gathered for a debate titled "Can the Left and the Right Find Anything to Agree on About the Sixties?" Maurice Isserman, William R. Kenan Professor of History and co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, and David Horowitz, conservative activist and co-author of Destructive Generation, Second Thoughts about the Sixties, debated the legitimacy and legacy of the radical movements of the 1960s. Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Paris introduced the speakers and moderated a question and answer follow-up session.

Hamilton College Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was interviewed for an article about the growth of homeschooling for the Denver Rocky Mountain News (Sept. 2, 2002). "In the early '90s home schooling was still questionable...In the last 10 years in this country it's become an acceptable, if still unconventional school option," Stevens said.

Professor of Government Cheng Li gave a talk at the Woodrow Wilson Center as part of a discussion on "The 16th Communist Party Congress and Leadership Transition in China." Li was selected as a 2002-2003 Wilson Center fellow and will spend the year in Washington, D.C.

"Jazz in Caz," a weekend jazz and street painting festival to be held in Cazenovia on Friday, Sept. 20, through Sunday, Sept. 22, will feature some Hamilton College talent. "Doctuh" Mike Woods and the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble will perform on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. at the outdoor stage/theatre on Lincklaen Street next to the Lincklaen House and Cazenovia College Theatre. Hamilton a cappella group "Tumbling After" will perform at 6:20 p.m., and a cappella group "The Buffers" will perform at 6:40 p.m., both at the outdoor stage/theatre.

Hamilton students and employees are reminded that Hamilton College IDs will be required to gain entrance to the special reserved seating section for the Rudy Giuliani lecture on Monday, Sept. 23. Those with Hamilton IDs may bring one guest. Hamilton community members without IDs are welcome to sit in the general public seating area. Attendees are reminded that large bags or backpacks cannot be brought into the field house for this lecture. Also, there will be no photography, video or audio recording permitted at this event. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. If the field house reaches capacity, the doors will be closed and lecture-goers are invited to view Mr. Giuliani's speech via closed circuit TV in the Science Aud., Physics Aud., Science 313, 318 or 323.

Professor of Government and China expert Cheng Li was quoted in a Reuters article about the change in Chinese leadership and the relationship between Zeng Quighong and Hu Jintao. Speculation surrounds Zeng, the head of the Organisation Department, on whether he will become a member of the small but powerful Politburo Standing Committee. Hu is not part of Jiang’s personal network. “Evidence suggests that Hu and Zeng have formed a relationship that is both competitive and cooperative,” Li said.

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was a guest on a St. Paul, Minn., radio talk show on Sept. 18. Stevens discussed homeschooling with host Ruth Koscielak, whose show is heard on five affiliate stations in Minneapolis. Stevens is the author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton, 2001).

In anticipation of another large crowd for its Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton, Hamilton College officials have announced special parking and shuttle bus plans for the lecture by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday, September 23. Giuliani will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Doors will open at 6 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Group seating is full and no additional reservations are being accepted at this time.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has been named Hamilton College’s Pembroke Fellow for fall 2002. One or two Hamilton faculty members serve each year as visiting fellows at Pembroke College, one of the 39 independent and self-governing colleges that comprise the University of Oxford in England. Reciprocally, Pembroke sends senior fellows to Hamilton twice a year for two weeks to give lectures and seminars and to meet with students and faculty.

George Borjas an economist from Harvard and the author of numerous books and articles on immigration was the opening speaker, September 12, in the Levitt Center’s series on “Immigration and Global Citizenship.”