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September 22, 2016Williams College to spend academic year studying climate change; Amherst begins new student bike share program; Wesleyan University settles suit with professor More ...
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Make a Difference Day sees record participation
September 22, 2016Hamilton had their 15th “Make a Difference Day,” an event organized each school year by the Hamilton Association for Volunteering Outreach and Charity (HAVOC), this past Saturday, Sept. 17. HAVOC orchestrated more than 170 student volunteers to visit 21 sites throughout Clinton and the surrounding communities such as Kirkland, Oneida, Rome and Utica. This is a sharp increase from the 125 students that signed up for last year’s event. Students could either sign up individually or as part of a campus group, such as a sports team or their Greek organization. More ...
Students present research at NY6 research conference
September 22, 2016On Saturday, Sept. 17, Hamilton was home to the Sixth Annual New York Six Upstate Undergraduate Conference. This is the first year that Hamilton has hosted this event, having visited all the other schools involved in years past. Students and faculty gathered at Hamilton from schools in the surrounding area, including Colgate University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Skidmore College, Saint Lawrence University and Union College. The conference’s main goal is to provide a forum for students to present their research projects without the pressure of a professional research setting, where money and extensive travelling can come into play. Projects spanned from oral presentations to art installations, a new feature to the conference this year. More ...
Democratic candidates gather on Clinton town green for rally
September 22, 2016On Saturday, Sept. 17, Kirkland Democrats and Hamilton College Democrats co-hosted the 11th Annual “Gathering on the Green,” which serves as a rally and forum of sorts for Democratic Party candidates running for all levels of elected office. Officially named “The Town of Kirkland Democratic Committee,” Kirkland Democrats works to organize on behalf of Democratic candidates in the ten voting districts that make up the town of Kirkland (in which the village of Clinton sits). At this edition of the “Gathering on the Green,” the headlining candidate was Kim Myers, who is the Democratic nominee for the 22nd Congressional District of New York. Ms. Myers’s father founded Dick’s Sporting Goods and is a member of the Broome County Legislature, and also previously served as the President of the Binghamton City School District Board. Myer’s remarks at the event focused on the importance of education, especially the importance of education in preparing people for a vastly changing job market that has deprived Upstate New York, and Oneida County in particular, of many well-paying manufacturing jobs. More ...
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September 15, 2016Bowdoin gets rid of application fees for first generation and financial aid applicants; Deck collapse at Trinity off-campus party Injures 31; Middlebury to hold Clifford Symposium on mindfulness More ...
Summer construction update
September 15, 2016this fall, many things seem just the way we left them last spring. However, over the summer there have been some major construction projects which will reshape athletics, dorms, and campus infrastructure. Associate Vice President for Facilities and Planning Steve Bellona summarizes the goal of the summer projects as a “focus towards upgrading Hamilton’s infrastructure, building envelopes and electrical systems.” One of the most significant changes is the new sports fields. The new baseball and softball fields will be able to be used this week. As Zoe Singer ’18 summarizes, “I am a junior on the team so I’ve experienced what it’s like to not be able to play at home due to weather. I’m really looking forward to playing all of our home games at home this year on our new field because having friends and fans be able to come and support us is an amazing feeling.” These new fields will give the baseball and softball teams, which previously had to travel for home games, the chance to play at Hamilton in front of their own fans. Also by the end of this week, new toilet facilities at the Campus Road Fields should be completed. On the old softball field, the men’s and women’s soccer teams now have practice fields, which they have been using since July. Also for athletics, a new curtain and bleachers were added in the Scott Fieldhouse, and Bristol Pool was regrouted. More ...
Levitt Center promotes women’s leadership
September 15, 2016As a wrap up to her time as a leadership specialist with the Levitt Center, Former Ambassador Prudence Bushnell led two events. On Thursday, Sept. 8, Bushnell collaborated with the Days-Massolo Center to run the Women of Color Exercising Leadership Workshop. Though the event was limited to the first 25 students to register, every seat in the DMC living room was filled. This was the first of a series of four workshops planned for leaders who are women of color which will focus on “My Background.” The next day, Bushnell held a lunch for some of the women who had attended the Women Exercising Leadership workshop she ran last spring. Last spring’s workshop was similar in structure to the one this past Thursday. The participants at the lunch made it known how the workshop continues to resonate with them and discussed what Hamilton can do to keep the conversation alive. More ...
Hamilton hosts first Rorty Society Conference
September 15, 2016This past weekend, Hamilton College hosted The Richard Rorty Society’s inaugural meeting from Thursday to Saturday. The theme of the conference was “Crossing Boundaries: Rorty’s Promise” and the discussions and lectures throughout the weekend focused on numerous aspects of philosopher Richard Rorty’s life and work. Speakers and attendees alike came from all over the country and world, with at least 10 different countries represented. Some panels covered abstract themes beyond Rorty’s writings, such as ethics, religion, literature, politics and philosophy. More ...
Fire drill leads to confusion on 9/11 anniversary
September 15, 2016This past Sunday night, much confusion precipitated when a group of students mistook a fire alarm for a shelter-in-place emergency. The alarm, which was intentionally set off as part of a fire drill procedure which was scheduled to take place in both the Sadove Student Center and the library, elicited more unrest than is typically the case with fire drills. Reports from Director of Campus Safety Francis Manfredo suggest that eight students responded to the fire drill by taking shelter in the basement of Sadove instead of evacuating the building. When asked why students responded to a fire drill as though it were a shelter-in-place emergency, Manfredo responded over email: “I believe the verbal command type of alarm and not the typical horn alarm was the cause of the confusion during Sunday evening’s fire drill. Most of us are accustomed to hearing an audible horn alarm indicating a fire alarm in the building and not verbal commands instructing individuals to evacuate the building.” More ...
Prescription delivery service returns to the Health Center
September 15, 2016Starting on Sept. 19, the Health Center will bring back its former policy of allowing the delivery of some prescription medications directly to the Center for student pick up. During the weeks in which this policy had been discontinued, the Health Center did not have a full-service pharmacy and could not fill prescriptions written by anyone outside the Center, although they did stock a limited selection of commonly prescribed medications to dispense when needed. Normal protocol before this change was that students would go to the Health Center, and if they were prescribed anything, they would have to pick it up from a local pharmacy. This is hardly an unexpected change in policy. However, Dean of Students Nancy Thompson stated in an all-campus email: “Recognizing that this service is important to students, we consulted with peer institutions and legal counsel to ensure that we have a policy for disposing of prescriptions that are delivered to the Center but never picked up by students.” More ...