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Josh Conklin's "24 for a cure" -- a 24-hour radio marathon to raise money for A.I.D.S. Community Resources -- on WHCL, begins Friday, April 20, at 3 p.m. The Hamilton senior hopes to raise $1000 and is still accepting donations.

The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society, directed by G. Roberts Kolb, will perform a program titled "The Young Mozart" on Tuesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The program will feature works completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart before he was 19 years old.

Senior readings by Creative Writing majors will continue tonight, (April 19), at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Village.

The lecture by Brian Barry, the Arnold A. Salzman Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Columbia University, scheduled for Thursday, April 19, has been cancelled.

The Hamilton College Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull on April 25-28 at 8 p.m. in Minor Theater on the Hamilton College campus.

The inaugural Coaches vs. Cancer Continental Basketball Day Clinic at Hamilton College, held on April 7, was a resounding success. Sponsored by the Hamilton College Basketball Team and the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the clinic attracted 127 participants.

General Colin Powell, the inaugural speaker in the Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton, was cited by Americans in a recent Gallup Poll as the person they would most like to hear give a speech. Former President Jimmy Carter, who spoke at Hamilton on April 30, was the third most sought-after speaker.

Hamilton College has entered into an exclusive arrangement that enables its students and faculty to study and teach at Pembroke College of Oxford University. As part of the agreement, up to five Hamilton juniors each year will enroll at Pembroke. They will enjoy full privileges in Pembroke and Oxford academic and social life, including the university's famed tutorial program.

Jessica Dietrich, who was a visiting member of Hamilton's classics department from 1996 to 1998, will deliver the Winslow Lecture, titled "Dido and the Caesars: The Imperial Legacy of Vergil's Heroine," on Monday, April 16, 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit.

Maggie Hanson, a junior from Bowdoinham, ME, appears in the April 16 issue of Sports Illustrated, in the Faces in the Crowd column. Hanson recently won the Division III indoor title in the 5,000 meters. Her time of 16:59.07 was the season's fastest time in the division.