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IMF follows Death From Above 1979 to Canada
November 8, 2012

For most students (including myself), typical Monday nights at Hamilton involve homework, club meetings, maybe some football and relaxing weekend recovery. This past Monday evening had something else in store for five students: sophomore Brendon Kaufman and seniors Lucas Kang, Brendan Doherty, Pete Adelfio and myself. Replacing the books in our backpacks with warm coats and passports, the five of us travelled up to Kingston, Ontario to see the dance punk duo Death From Above 1979 on a trip sponsored by Hamilton’s Independent Music Fund. More ...

Face Off: Should Celebrities endorse political candidates? - YES
November 1, 2012

I understand that this seems like the less logical side of this argument in some ways—celebrities are stupid, right? Don’t they represent the rampant superficiality and misguided value system of our flawed culture? Some might, but that’s an oversimplification that robs credit from the handful of brilliant celebrity intellectuals that really do deserve it. More ...

Face Off: Should celebrities endorse political candidates -NO
November 1, 2012

Celebrities should not endorse candidates. This is not to say that anyone should prevent them from announcing their support for a political party or candidate in an election—just that, in the ideal media culture, it would not happen. But, at best, candidate endorsements are empty statements, anyway. More ...

Theophilus and Wynter bring Brooklyn to Annex
October 25, 2012

With midterms mostly over and the semester’s inevitably snow-covered final weeks still out of sight, the cloud of buzzing, anticipatory energy that floats over Hamilton most Friday nights felt especially thick this week. While the campus’ most wizardly students congregated across the road for Hogwarts at Hamilton in Benedict, many of their Muggle classmates filed into the wide open Annex for the Campus Activities Board’s flagship musical event of the semester: rapper Theophilus London in the headlining slot with pop princess Wynter Gordon opening up the show. More ...

Coffeehouse starts Matrimony folk up Barn
October 25, 2012

Before we get too far, let’s get it out of the way: Mumford and Sons. There—it’s out on the table. Matrimony has been tagged with the comparison time and again on blogs and discussion boards all over the Internet, but the comparison is too easy and ultimately misleading. More ...

Q&A: Jess Klein
October 25, 2012

Having just released her eighth studio album Behind A Veil in April, Austin singer-songwriter and Hamilton College alumna Jess Klein ’95 returned to campus last Thursday to play an opening set for Matrimony at CAB’s Acoustic Coffeehouse series in the Barn. A few hours before her performance, Jess and her guitarist Billy Masters sat down with junior Nick Geisler in the WHCL studio to play a few songs and talk about her Hamilton experience and music career live on the air. The following are excerpts from their conversation. Stay tuned for the entire interview to be rebroadcast on WHCL soon! More ...

"Affinaty Atlas" awes
October 18, 2012

There was something so quaint, so understated and so unspectacular about the three-room space and tall atrium that was the Emerson Gallery. If there was anything everyone could agree to love about that space, it was its accessibility—its centrality to campus, the way that students and faculty and staff often traversed it to get to other parts of the building. More ...

Streak to Win still undefeated
October 18, 2012

It is an honor to attend the 16th best liberal arts school in the nation, as ranked by the 2013 U.S. News and World Report. But with this honor comes the responsibility of representing Hamilton College, ensuring that its prestigious reputation is upheld. In 2004, students had just that in mind when they formed Streak to Win, Hamilton’s own streaking team. More ...

Student writers look to Laymon for wisdom
October 4, 2012

After its publication in July 2012, Kiese Laymon’s essay “How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others in America: A Remembrance” received over 100,000 hits in just a few hours on the pop culture blog Gawker. Upon finding a version of the piece on Laymon’s personal blog Cold Drank, Gawker’s managing editor contacted him about republishing it as was, according to one of the site’s editors, it was “too good to pass up.” More ...

Edgecomb weaves a tale of sadness
October 4, 2012

Diane Edgecomb does not have a happy story to tell. On Tuesday night in the Red Pit, armed with only a chair, a floor mat, and a scarf, professional storyteller Edgecomb told the story of her project to collect traditional stories from the Kurdish people in a rural region of Turkey. Using a combination of first-person narration, character voices, traditional folk stories and Kurdish folk songs, Edgecomb painted a complex picture of cultural clashes and political problems. More ...

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