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Long Night's Journey Into Day, the award-winning documentary on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will be shown tonight, (Thursday 11/1), at 7 p.m., in KJ Auditorium. It will be followed by a discussion of the New South Africa and J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, Disgrace. Sponsored by the members of Sociology 381, Global Racisms, and English/CompLit 282, New Literatures in English.

Emerson Project award winner Meghan Lynch will read her "Poems from the Merrimack Valley," today (Thursday, Nov. 1), at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Lynch researched the history of North Andover and her personal relationship with the area. From her research she created a collection of poems drawing from her understanding of the area and her personal experience.

Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and La Vanguardia are co-sponsoring "Operation Christmas Child." The groups will collect small gifts, pack them, wrap and send them off all over the world to be given to needy children. There will be collection boxes in the Chapel, Cafe Opus and Beinecke for the next two weeks. These gifts can be anything that will fit in a shoe box, such as small cars, dolls, yo-yos, pencils, toothbrushes, washcloths, lollipops, socks, or books. Gifts and monetary donations may be dropped off at the Beinecke Table from Monday - Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Contact Kit Schofield at(315) 859-2552 or kschofie@hamilton.edu for information or to volunteer.

The new music group California E.A.R. Unit will perform on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts at Hamilton College. The E.A.R. Unit will also present a free workshop on computer-generated music on Friday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. in Hamilton College's Electronic Music Studio.

Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, published a paper titled "Preliminary Evidence on Changing Employment Practices in Central New York" (with Takao Kato and Adam Weinberg) in the proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meetings of Industrial Relations Research Association.

Elizabeth Jensen, professor of economics, and Ann Owen, assistant professor of economics, published "Pedagogy, Gender, and Interest in Economics," in the Fall volume of the Journal of Economic Education.

Assistant Professor of History Kevin Grant presented, "The Imperial Origins of International Labour Law," at the North American Conference on British Studies in Toronto.

Peter Rabinowitz, professor of comparative literature, has written an article, "Magnetic Power, Electric Thrills: The Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk," perhaps the first thorough survey of recordings of Gottschalk's music. The article appeared in International Piano 5, No. 18 (November/December 2001).

Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat was a participant in a seminar titled "Benjamin: Memory, Experience, and the Designs of Modernism" at the annual Modernist Studies Association conference at Rice University October 12-15. MSA seminar participants each present a "position paper" on the seminar topic for general discussion. Kodat's paper was titled "'In the pleats of the old material': Reading the Queerness of Modernity in Benjamin."

In a HRMagazine article which examines the popularity of home schooling across the US as an alternative form of education,Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens commented, "Homeschooling is a boutique option, but it's legitimate." Stevens has just published a book on the subject, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement.