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November 14, 2013Bowdoin students find traces of metal in food Chance The Rapper fuels controversy at Middlebury More ...
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School bus brings cameras to late-night service
November 14, 2013Students headed downtown last weekend were met with a big yellow school bus instead of the usual Birnie Bus at the Sadove Jitney stop. After weeks of disorderly and destructive behavior during the Jitney late-night service, the bus company suggested the switch, citing large numbers of increasingly combative students. More ...
Revised workshop focuses on internalized racism
November 14, 2013Over 50 students, faculty and staff gathered in the Dwight Lounge on Nov. 8 to continue the campus-wide dialogue around race.The event, which focused around internalized racism, was a response to the reactions from the Real Talk discussion, which revealed that, although difficult, conversations about race are necessary for Hamilton students to have. More ...
Lecture considers the efficacy of racial profiling
November 14, 2013Last week, Hamilton students and community members had the opportunity to hear Rutgers Professor of Political Science Milton Heumann present a lecture titled “Policing, Racial Profiling, and the New York Police Department’s Use of Stop and Frisk.” The lecture was especially timely and relevant as the Bloomberg administration has continued to push back against measures to monitor stops in the city brought on by Federal District Court Judge Shira A. Schiendlin’s recent decisions. More ...
Does anyone really want to just hook up?
November 7, 2013Even though the phrase is whispered, squealed and bemoaned on every college campus, every academic weekend—“We hooked up”—the verb itself, somehow, still leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Kissing? Sex? Something in between? More ...
CELC relocation isn’t just a housing solution
November 7, 2013Last week’s cover story, “Clinton Early Learning Center to relocate off the Hill,” suggested that an on-campus housing shortage was the sole motivator for the daycare center’s plans to move its facilities downtown to Clinton Elementary School. Karen Leach, vice president of administration & finance, is at the head of the relocation planning process and explained that the issue is far more complex than The Spectator originally portrayed. More ...
Former Hamilton professor’s gift establishes endowed chair
November 7, 2013New York State historian and Hamilton alumnus David M. Ellis ’38 and his wife, Carolyn, have donated $1.6 billion to the College, a gift that will support an endowed chair in their name—the Ellis Distinguished Teaching Professorship. More ...
Colton lecture sets standard for critiquing political leaders
November 7, 2013Timothy J. Colton, a Morris and Anna Feldberg professor of Government and Russian Studies and the chair of the Department of Government at Harvard University, spoke to community members in the Barn on Monday, November 4 in a lecture titled, “Political Leadership after Communism.” The lecture, which was sponsored by the Levitt Center Speaker Series, focused on leadership in post-Soviet countries. More ...
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November 7, 2013Trinity and MasterCard bring African students to campus Tufts Engineer gets $1.5 million grant More ...
Clinton Early Learning Center to relocate off the Hill
October 31, 2013Nothing can make you smile like a parade of three-yearolds meandering down Martin’s Way, holding hands with their buddy and waving to passing students. More ...