February 16th, 2012
In this Issue
NEWS Sacerdote Series fails to bring Great Names speaker to Hamilton for 2011-2012 year
OPINION Recycling: A look at Hamilton's efforts toward sustainability
FEATURES Squeals and moans: The Vagina Monologues make a bang at Hamilton for women's charities
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Wellin opens doors to fresh, funky jazz quintet
SPORTS Hamilton men’s basketball thirsty for Amherst in NESCAC playoff debut
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Lessons from China
Sacerdote Series fails to bring Great Names speaker to Hamilton for 2011-2012 year
By Rachel Lieb '13
February 16, 2012
On Feb. 6, the Hamilton community received an email announcing, for the second time in three years, that there will be no Sacerdote Great Names speaker for the 2011-2012 academic year. Disappointment and frustration reigned on campus. Students, faculty and the community as a whole look forward to the speech each year to stimulate conversation, foster new and different ideas and to expose the community to a significant and successful public figure. See More...
More News this week:
- Search for new Wellin Museum of Art director narrows down to two finalists
- Common Reading Committee introduces ‘Know Thy Stuff’ theme to take program ‘beyond orientation’
- RecycleMania hopes to improve recycling on campus, increase student awareness
- CLASS fellowship shows Hamilton ‘taking a leadership position’ in Digital Humanities field
- Student Assembly Update
Common Reading should guide students in the next chapter of life
February 16, 2012
This week, the First-Year Experience Committee invited members of the campus community to discuss the problems first-years face in acclimating to college life. Simultaneously, the Common Reading Committee continues to discuss how to make the common reading a year-long, integrative experience that can work to bring the campus together. These two committees, however, are not effectively working in concert, and in failing to do so, the administration is missing a unique opportunity to both enhance the common reading experience and help students adjust at the same time. See more...
Recycling: A look at Hamilton's efforts toward sustainability
By Brian Hansen
February 16, 2012
As the College once again plans to participate in the national RecycleMania competition (as it has since 2005), the question of “Why recycle anyway?” comes to my mind. But before answering that question, some background.
Hamilton made the progressive and regionally unique decision to initiate its recycling program in 1989, through a strategic partnership with the Oneida Herkimer Solid Waste Authority (OHSWA) and their then new recycling program for the Mohawk Valley. According to Terry Hawkridge, the College’s Assistant Director of Physical Plant, Hamilton spent nearly $100,000 on equipment upgrades and personnel hires to facilitate recycling on our campus and has continued collaborating with OHSWA and Mr. David Lupinski for over 20 years. As evidence of this collaborative effort, Mr. Hawkridge and several Hamilton students were publicly recognized with the “Recycling Champions Award” by OHSWA in 2004. See more...
Squeals and moans: The Vagina Monologues make a bang at Hamilton for women's charities
By Jessica Moulite '14
February 16, 2012
The all-female cast performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, presented by Hamilton’s Womyn’s Center on Tuesday, Feb. 14 in the Events Barn, caused audiences to laugh and reflect, along with potentially inspiring change here on the Hill.
As a time honored tradition every February, The Vagina Monologues bring forth the voices of numerous women and allow audiences to hear their diverse experiences, while promoting awareness about women’s bodies and issues. The “taboo” nature of some of the monologues included the various types of orgasm moans women make, female genital mutilation in the Congo and the personification of the vagina as an entity of its own. See More...
Wellin opens doors to fresh, funky jazz quintet
By Steve LaRochelle ’14
February 16, 2012
The Hamilton Department of Music’s Spring Performing Arts Series will continue this Friday, Feburary 17 with a performance from Jazz Urbane, a combination of students and professors from Berklee College of Music in Boston. See More...
More Arts & Entertainment this week:
Hamilton men’s basketball thirsty for Amherst in NESCAC playoff debut
By Steve LaRochelle '14, Sports Staff Writer
February 16, 2012
It’s not every day that the New York Knicks starting point guard walks into Hamilton’s own Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
It’s not every day that one of the most accomplished basketball players in Hamilton history plays his last game there, either.
Needless to say, Sunday, Feb. 12 was a day of excitement, celebration and triumph for the Hamilton men’s basketball family. After having officially clinched a berth to their first ever NESCAC tournament with a Trinity College loss to Williams on Saturday, the Continentals honored their graduating seniors by handily defeating Bates College in front of an atypically large and energized crowd which included emerging NBA superstar Jeremy Lin. See More...