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New York City might be expensive, but last fall, its luxury handbags weren't. In the middle of a crashing economy, consumers who were desperate to cut expenses and save cash decided to forgo the indulgences for which they clamored just a year earlier. As Saks Fifth Avenue CEO and Hamilton College Charter Trustee Steve Sadove '73 tells it, Saks found itself with an excess supply of seasonal products that would be unfashionable within months, and it needed to unload them, fast. So while other retailers were pursuing a conservative strategy of 30 percent discounts, Saks slashed prices on many big-ticket items by 70 percent.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was invited to give a talk at the symposium "Human Security and Business: Focusing on Conflicts, Human Mobility, and Governance" on April 27 at City University London. Her talk was titled "The Korean 'Hostess' Club 'Rose' in Japan and Human Security."

Seventeen students and three faculty members in French spent the weekend of April 17-19 in Montreal, Quebec, exploring many aspects of this bilingual city which is only five hours away from Clinton. Students viewed a piece of the Berlin Wall that was given as a gift to Montréal in 1992, for the 350th anniversary of the city. During a guided tour of the old and modern city, students -- who pledged to speak only French during the trip -- were told about the complex history of the area, and how bilingualism affects public and private life.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published an article titled "Narrating the Detective: Nansensu, Silent film Benshi Performances and Tokugawa Musei's Absurdist Detective Fiction" in Japan Forum (21:1), Routledge. This article discusses how Tokugawa Musei, arguably the most famous benshi or silent film narrator/commentator, undermined conventions of detective fiction by adding aspects of benshi narration to the typical formulae of detective novels. By doing so, Musei supplemented the main narrative with a perspective external to the diegetic narrative.

SUNY Oneonta scored four runs in the top of the 10th inning and the visiting Red Dragons held on for a 7-3 come-from-behind win against Hamilton College in a non-conference baseball game played at DeLutis Field on May 3.

Kristen Selden '09 broke her own school record in the 100-meter hurdles and Hamilton College finished in sixth place at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships, which were held at St. Lawrence University on May 1 and 2.

Hamilton College won the 3,200-meter relay and the Continentals finished in seventh place at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships, which were held at St. Lawrence University on May 1 and 2.

Alex Augustyn '10 drove in four runs on two home runs and a double to lead Hamilton College past visiting Amherst College, 9-3, in a New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division game played at Royce Field on May 2.

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall's novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, has been published by Caketrain Press. The novella is a collection of 48 short short stories that trace a year in the life of a couple trying to conceive a child.

Native American speaker Thomas R. Porter will give a lecture on Monday, May 4 at noon in the Chapel. Porter, whose Native American name is Sakokweniónkwas (He Who Wins Them Over or He Who Enables Them to Do Something), is a member of the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, an Iroquois territory located on the St. Lawrence River.