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A book edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, to which she also contributed, has received a positive review in the recent Bryn Mawr Classical Review (9/14/02). The reviewer, Barbara Goff of the University of Reading, calls the book "substantial and impressive," and says "Nancy Rabinowitz's Introduction does an excellent job of dancing through what she rightly calls the 'minefield' of the critical terminology surrounding matters of gender and identity."

The Hamilton College Performing Arts opens the Contemporary Voices and Visions Series on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m. with Paul Zaloom’s Velvetville in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts, on the Hamilton College campus.

William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, will lecture on Monday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. in the Hamilton Chapel. His talk, "Roots of Racial Tensions: Immigration and the Realities of Today's Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods" is one in the series sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Hamilton College is ranked in 18th place in the 2003 U.S. New & World Report America's Best Colleges rankings, released on Sept. 13. Hamilton is tied with Colgate and Colby; in the 2002 rankings, Hamilton tied with Colby for 20th place. U.S News judges colleges on a number of criteria, including peer assessment, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity and financial resources.

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was interviewed for a Christianity Today article (Sept. 9, 2002) about the growth of the homeschooling movement. Stevens is the author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement. In the magazine article Stevens discusses homeschooling mothers, who bear "the clear imprint... of liberal feminism."

In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark off to find a water route to the west. Their mission was to map the unchartered territory from St. Louis to Oregon. In 2002, Hamilton College Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris sent History Professor Maurice Isserman and Associate Professor of Geology Todd Rayne off to retrace Lewis and Clark's journey. Isserman and Rayne will be teaching a interdisciplinary sophomore seminar on Lewis and Clark in spring 2004.

On Wednesday, Sept. 18, David Horowitz, a conservative activist, writer and publisher of the online magazine, “Frontpagemagazine.com,” will appear with Hamilton History Professor Maurice Isserman in a forum titled, “Can the Left and the Right Find Anything to Agree About the Sixties?” Horowitz’s books include Destructive Generation, Second Thoughts About the Sixties and Radical Son. Isserman is co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s and The Other American: the Life of Michael Harrington. The forum will be presented in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Red Pit at 7:30 p.m.

Alan Cafruny, The Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, and Carlos Yordan, a visiting instructor of government, were interviewed by the Utica Observer-Dispatch for a September 13 article discussing President Bush's address to the UN general assembly.

Martin Charron, Ph.D., a research associate in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, will speak at Hamilton on September 16. His seminar, “A testicular dilemma: how gene expression in Sertoli cells is regulated by male germ cells,” is part of the Hamilton College Biology Department Seminar series. The event is in the Science Auditorium at 4:10 pm.

Director of the Library Information Systems Ken Herold will participate as a correspondent with the Information Ethics Group (IEG), a research association and joint collaboration between Oxford University and the Università degli Studi di Bari. The area of research of the IEG is the philosophy of information, the theoretical field concerned with the critical investigation the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilization and sciences, and the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems.