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College Offices will be closed for the Christmas Holidays: Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24 and 25; and New Year’s Day, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2002. Classes resume on Monday, Jan. 21.

The men's basketball team was defeated 93-84 by the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, in the final round of the Adidas Desert Shoot-Out in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The loss at the tournament leaves the Continentals with a 5-1 record for the season.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: The heavy snowfall is causing problems for the breeding penguin population... Penguins normally build their nests out of rocks in snow free areas...

Hamilton student Diana Duran '03, will be spending Christmas in Antarctica. She is part of a Hamilton group, led by Geology Professor Eugene Domack, spending a month doing research there.

Religious Studies Professor Heidi Ravven gave an invited paper, "The Garden of Eden: Maimonides' Account of the Imaginative Origins of Morals and Society," for the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta, GA, in December.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: We never did get our blue sky yesterday. The clouds settled back in and most of the day was a bright overcast.

The men's basketball team defeated Wartburg College (Iowa), 84-73, in a first-round game at the Adidas Desert Shoot-Out in Las Vegas on Dec. 18. Joe Finley led scorers with 22 points. The Continentals will face the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh in the next round on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 5:45 p.m. (Pacific time)

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Today has the potential to be a beautiful day. An early light snow has ended, high clouds are thinning overhead and the clouds around the mountains are breaking up.

Jeff James, a 1975 graduate of Hamilton and the new director of the Cunningham Dance Foundation in New York, was interviewed in the December 13 issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. He was formerly vice president for advancement and external affairs at the California Institute of the Arts.

The Santa Claus made famous by wood block engraver Thomas Nast came alive for a group of 6th graders from Clinton's St. Mary's School and residents of Alterra Village on December 14. The two groups were treated to a lecture by Hamilton College Professor Jay Williams, who collects wood block engravings by Nast and is curator of an exhibition of Nast's Santas at the Emerson Gallery.