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Four Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the college's Board of Trustees during their recent meeting at the college. They are: Shoshana Keller, History; Catherine Gunther Kodat, English; Herman Lehman, Biology; and Joseph Mwantuali, French.

Hamilton College has implemented a new Information Line telephone number to call for details about the upcoming lecture by former President Jimmy Carter. Carter will give a free public lecture at the College on Monday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Call 859-INFO(4636).

The largest fundraiser for Hamilton's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program will take place today, March 1. The Not-So-Silent Auction will be held in the Annex, with silent auction items on display for bidding beginning at 9 a.m. and lasting thoroughout the day. A dinner (reservations required) begins at 6 p.m. and an oral auction begins at 7 p.m., with performances by Special K, Bobby Peru, the Hamiltones, and Tumbling After.

Highlights of men's and women's basketball, hockey, swimming, track and field, and squash for the week of February 18.

Dorothy Simpson, the mother of Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Classics Barbara Gold, and a class of 1928 Middlebury College graduate, had the opportunity to meet Middlebury's president Dr. John McCardell, Jr. this week. McCardell, visiting Hamilton as head of the Middle States Reaccreditation team, presented Mrs. Simpson with Middlebury's Gamaliel Painters Cane, a symbol of institutional strength and character.

Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman will present a reading from the poetry-cycle, 'Galactopoiesis' in the next Kirkland Project Brown Bag series talk on Monday, March 5 at noon in Schambach 108.

Hamilton College senior goaltender Mike Kaufman was named NESCAC player of the week for his outstanding play in this past weekend's 4-0 victory against Colby College.

Heather VanGuilder, a junior majoring in neuroscience and philosophy, represented Hamilton College at the annual Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) "Posters on the Hill" session, held last week in Washington D.C. She presented the findings of summer research in the biochemistry/neurochemistry field carried out in collaboration with chemistry professor Tim Elgren.

A Hamilton study examining the economic impact of Utica's refugee population concludes that although refugees present an initial challenge to this area, they are a long-term benefit.