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Professor of Government Cheng Li was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times (Feb. 22) for an article about Hu Jintao, China's vice president who is considered the likely successor to president Jiang Zemin. "It would be unwise for Hu Jintao to be in the spotlight too much or to express his opinions too openly while his boss, Jiang Zemin, is still in charge," said Li.

De Bao Xu, associate professor of Chinese, presented a lecture, "A Multimedia Approach to Teaching Chinese at Hamilton: A Nine-Year Practice," on Monday, Feb. 25, in the Red Pit. The talk was part of the Humanities Forum.

Vivyan Adair, assistant professor of women's studies, published an article in the winter 2002 issue of Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society (University of Chicago Press). Adair's article is titled "Branded With Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the U.S."

Hamilton Government Professor Cheng Li was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article about China's future political leadership. Li said, "It would be unwise for Hu Jintao to be in the spotlight too much or to express his opinions too openly while his boss, Jiang Zemin, is still in charge." Li goes on to comment that "Now it is still the Jiang administration; it should be Jiang's show. It will be Hu's show when he officially takes over."

Hamilton seniors will present student recitals this weekend. Friday's performance will feature Martin Nedbal, clarinet, with Sar-Shalom Stong, piano, and Florent Renard-Payen, cello at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. On Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Jeannette Gould, soprano with Valerie Ludlum Wright, piano will perform. Both concerts are free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Anna Tan Wilson and Paul Venet of Binghamton University visited Hamilton in February to show how multimedia technology can be integrated into undergraduate course work in sciences. They described a course titled "Multimedia in Biology," which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Susan Bordo, professor of English and women's studies and the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, will deliver a lecture, "Beauty on the Brain," on Friday, March 8, at 4:10 pm in the Hamilton College Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Joel Johnson, a 1965 graduate of Hamilton and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods Corp., was featured in a Feb. 20 Wall Street Journal article about meatpackers' rush to market meats under national brand names.

In "Recalling Timbuctoo, A Slice of Black History, The New York Times highlights a plan by Gerrit Smith, an 1818 Hamilton graduate and a wealthy landowner at the time, to give away land to black families so that blacks could "acquire the means to vote."

Professor of Anthropology Douglas Raybeck presented "The Quincunx of Kelantan: Values and Change over Thirty Years." (with Victor de Munck) at the 30th annual meeting of The Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Feb. 20-24, in Santa Fe, NM.