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Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement, a new book by Assistant Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens, is featured in the Oct. 11 Chronicle of Higher Education's Hot Type column.

Action-packed and adventure-filled, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is director Steven Spielberg's loving homage to the Saturday matinee cliffhanger serials of his childhood. Starring Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliot, Karen Allen and others. Music by John Williams.

Fresh off his Boston Music Award for Best Debut Album, Howie never fails to bring a charasmatic, energy-filled stage presence to every show.

Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Robert Redfield’s paper, "Subfields of lattice-ordered fields that mimic maximal totally ordered subfields," appeared in the Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, 51(126), 2001, pp. 143-161.

Maria Crumb recently joined the Admission Office as an office assistant/application processor. Maria comes to us from Hartford Insurance, where she worked in the Customer Service department troubleshooting customer problems and entering data on insurance policies. She graduated from Remsen Central School and lives in Remsen with her husband, Jay, and daughter, Taylor.

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Roberta Krueger professor of french presented a paper on "Chrstine's Treasure: Women's Honor and Household Economics in the *Livre des Trois Vertus* at the Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society in Tubingen, Germany.

George Shields, professor and chair of chemistry at Hamilton College, received a $50,000 grant from the American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund to support research on "Accurate Calculation of pKa Values." He has published four papers on the topic, all co-authored by Hamilton undergraduates. The funding for this research will be used to identify computational methods that can be used to calculate accurate pKa values. Shields will use quantum chemistry methods and thermodynamic cycles to systematically study a broad range of molecules. The goal is to calculate the pKa for any molecule with an accuracy of half a pKa unit.

The eyes may be the windows of a person's soul, but you can also tell a lot about your colleagues by what's on their office door. Here's what we uncovered during a recent stroll through campus. If you know of other interesting doors, drop an e-mail to ath@hamilton.edu. We could be knocking on your door soon!

Noted author Barbara McMartin delivered a lecture, "The Adirondacks: Public Activism and Political Rigidity," on Feb. 27 in the Fillius Events Barn. McMartin, a resident of the Adirondacks, is the author of Adirondack guidebooks and other books on the forest preserve. In her talk sponsored by the Environmental Studies program, McMartin spoke about the role of public activism and political rigidity in the history of the Adirondacks. McMartin presented cases where attempts to enhance appreciation of the wilderness have been skewed or hindered by disagreements or ineffective governance.