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Program in New York students gathered at Bob Hansmann's '72 for dinner.
Program in New York students gathered at Bob Hansmann's '72 for dinner.
I am trying out a new baked ziti recipe. It's made with cottage cheese, instead of ricotta, which alleviates ziti's tendency to become a carbohydrate slab of singular density. I've tried it out on hungry friends and found it both serves multitudes and vanishes completely. Over the course of many years' trial and error, I've discovered that the true test of any recipe is the reaction of Hamilton people. If your offering provokes the unprompted scarfing of seconds, well, you've succeeded. Last night I found out that I could take my ziti on the road.

Thirteen members of Hamilton's Semester in New York program along with Professor Erol Balkan came for dinner at 7. It was a rainy night, but these Semester-in-New-Yorkers could prevail over all manner of adversity. They brought me homemade baklava, redolent of honey and cinnamon, made by homeys in the Hamilton apartments on West Street. The young people were charming and disarming and gorgeous and goofy; perfect guests, they even helped with cleanup despite my protestations of utter self-sufficiency.

My Hamilton is a school that's long gone. And when I visit the Hill, my connections with students are ephemeral, at best. The pleasure of getting to know these kids, the miraculous good fortune of having the Hill come to me, it is sweet, like baklava.

-- by Bob Hansmann '72

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