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A "Take Back the Night" forum will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 9 p.m. in the Red Pit (KJ). Take Back the Night is a community forum for both women and men, faculty and students, to support those affected by sexual assault directly or indirectly. It is an opportunity to seek solace in others' stories or tell your own. Everyone is welcome to speak or just listen.

The Winslow Lecture, featuring Swarthmore College Professor Helen North, will be presented on Thursday, October 18, 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit. Her lecture is titled "Think Mortal Thoughts." North, a native of Utica, is Centennial Professor Emerita of Classics at Swarthmore College, where she taught from 1948-1991.

Bernard Lefkowitz, independent journalist and author of Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb, will lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College student Justin Ginsberg ’04, will air his WHCL radio show, "Justino on the Radio," live from the Turning Stone Resort on Monday, Oct. 15, from 7-8 p.m. The show will feature talk about current Oneida Nation events and how the Oneidas have helped their people, as well as a look at all that Turning Stone Resort has to offer.

Edward "Ned" Walker, a 1962 graduate of Hamilton College,was a featured guest on the PBS program Frontline on Oct. 9 in a discussion about the Middle East. Walker was Ambassador to Israel under former President Bill Clinton. He previously served as United States Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt from 1994-1997, as Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations with Ambassadorial rank from 1993 to 1994, and as United States Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 1989 to 1992 through the period of the Gulf War.

The Hamilton Humane Organization will be selling Yankee Candles in Beinecke this Thursday and Friday, Oct. 11 and 12 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. These make great gifts and come in a large assortment of aromas. All proceeds will benefit the Rome Humane Society.

Sailing is back at Hamilton for the first time in five years. The club has recently purchased a "flying junior," a 13 foot inter-collegiate racing boat, making it possible to practice on Oneida Lake. Julie Smith '04, Jarrel Price '04, William Fuhrman '04, Stacey Stump '02, and Ben Auerbach '05, participated in Cornell's Fall Open Regatta this weekend.

This Friday's Think Tank will feature a discussion about the conflict between immigration policy and welfare policy. Featured speaker for the talk, which begins at 12 noon in KJ 222, will be Economics Professor Paul Hagstrom. Lunch will be provided.

On Thursday, October 25, from 8-9 p.m. EDT, in a live online chat, Professor Phil Klinkner will discuss the events of September 11 and how President Bush's response compares to the actions of past leaders in times of national crisis. Only registered members of HOLAC (Hamilton's Online Alumni Community) may participate in the chat.

The first talk in the new Faculty Lecture Series was held Friday, Oct. 12. Assistant Professor of Philosophy Kirk Pillow spoke on the topic "Does Goodman's Distinction Survive LeWitt?" He describes his talk as follows: "Philosopher Nelson Goodman argues that certain art forms (painting, sculpture) can be forged while others (music, literature) cannot be forged (when forgery is understood in a certain way). In the talk Pillow used the 'wall drawings' of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt to raise problems with Goodman's germinal distinction between autographic and allographic art forms." The Faculty Lecture Series provides an occasion to highlight the scholarly work of the faculty and make it accessible to a general audience. Each talk will last 20 to 30 minutes, followed by discussion and questions.