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The Salt City Jazz Collective will present a free jazz concert on Tuesday, April 2, at 9 p.m. in Café Opus at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts at Hamilton College.

Associate Professor of Asian Art History Steve Goldberg presented a plenary lecture, "Chinese Calligraphy in an Age of Globalization," at Considering Asia: Indentity, Community, Ecology, sponsored by Asia Studies Development Program with the support of the Luce Foundation, held at Agness Scott. He also presented a paper, "On Chinese Calligraphy," at the Atlanta College of Art.

Hamilton's Great American Heart Run and Walk Team raised $6,346 in its best effort yet. Hamilton co-chair Marylyn Nassimos reports that Hamilton's 89 participants raised an average of $71.30/person. These numbers represent an increase in participants and in money raised from last year.

The ACCESS Project and Women's Studies Professor/ACCESS co-director Vivyan Adair are featured in a National Journal (3/9/02) article,"Get Hitched, Stay Hitched," concerning President Bush's plan to give states money to encourage marriage among welfare recipients.

Brookings Institution Fellow Jia Qingguo presented, "The Improvement of Sino-American Relations after September 11: Is it Sustainable?" on March 13, at Hamilton.

Four students along with visiting Professor of Biology Thomas Diggins joined members of the Sierra Club and the New York Old Growth Forest Association (NYOGFA) in Saratoga Spa State Park on March 10 to determine if the forest was old growth or not. The park is located just north of Albany, NY, and was going to be developed into a golf course until the Sierra Club stepped in and argued for its protection.

The Emerson Gallery is located in Christian A. Johnson Hall on the campus of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Admission to the exhibitions and special events is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 1- 5 p.m. For more information, please call the Gallery at (315) 859-4396.

Richard K. Betts spoke on "Problems and Opportunities in Counter-Terrorism," on March 12, in the Chapel at Hamilton College. Betts, who is the Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, is also director of Columbia's Program in International Security Policy and of the Institute of War and Peace Studies. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Pop band Guster has been booked by Hamilton College to play the Stanley Performing Arts Center in Utica at 7:30 p.m. on April 24. Guster will perform with special guests, Howie Day and Phantom Planet. Tickets for members of the Hamilton community are $12. Two tickets can be purchased with each Hamilton ID.

While many of their peers head off to the beaches of Cancun and Florida for colleges' annual spring break, 96 students from Hamilton College are packing up to do volunteer work in eight cities during Hamilton's break, from March 15-29. The students are participating in Alternative Spring Break, a series of trips geared toward community service.