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A paper given by Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz at last year's American Philological Association (APA) has been chosen to receive an award for best paper by the Women's Classical Caucus. The paper, titled "The Greek Wedding: Escape from Patriarchy?", was the topic at a Kirkland Project Brown Bag last month.

The second performance in CAB's Acoustic Coffeehouse series features Willie Porter's "nutritional theory of music," on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. The Events Barn will be filled with, "A vitamin-rich, high-protein blend of pop, folk and rock" that escapes genre classifications. The concert will feature an opening performance by Trina Hamlin and free coffee, tea, cocoa, and cider refreshments. Always a Hamilton College favorite, this event is free to those with Hamilton ID and $7 to the public.

Max Thompson, nationally acclaimed speaker and educator will present an in-service on Thursday, Oct. 4, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His talk is titled Acceleration vs. Remediation: How is it possible to help EVERY student succeed in EVERY class? Thompson will be conducting this in-service training for several hundred regional K-12 professional educators, and all members of our Hamilton College Community are invited to attend.

The first in the fall series of Kirkland Project Brown Bag talks will take place Wednesday, Oct. 3 at noon in Schambach 108. [Please note this is not the usual location.] Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott professor of comparative literature, will speak about "The Greek Wedding: Escape from Patriarchy?" Brown Bag gatherings are informal. Please bring your lunch and join us for discussion. For more information, call the Kirkland Project office at x-4288.

Husband and wife authors, novelist Brad Leithauser and poet Mary Jo Salter, will read from their works on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m., in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center at Hamilton College. The reading, sponsored by the Hamilton English department, is free and open to the public.

Evan Smith, '87, was a panelist on NPR's Sept. 29 show of "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" Smith is the editor of Texas Monthly magazine. This news quiz program airs weekly.

Professor of Government Cheng Li was interviewed by Reuters News Service about China's leadership and its foreign policy in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

With the stock market's blue chip stocks in the biggest weekly slump since the Depression, all eyes are on Wall Street.

A week after the terrorist attacks, students of the Peace and Justice Action Group organized a noon rally attended by many members of the campus community. The audience heard from students and faculty members on the history of the region, philosophy of waging a just war and appeals for caution and concerns about curtailing civil liberties in the United States.

As the world reacted to the terrorist attacks, Hamilton employees joined as a community to take care of their own. Photo: Kelly Walton and Linda Michels (standing) of the dean's office did their part by giving blood during the recent drive on campus.