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Finding a role for students at Trustee Meetings
April 3, 2015

If you are a student, trustee meetings are kind of like folklore. You hear about the trustees, and you get emails about their meetings, but who they are and what they do is pretty mystical. For a few students though, the trustees are colleagues, if only four times year. Most trustee meetings, believe it or not, usually include student representative. They were invited to committee meetings in March, they went to the 1812 leadership circle in New York in December and a few typically linger on campus just long enough to make it to the June meeting as well. What they do there is unclear, and unfortunately it appears that students do not currently have a role at all. More ...

Where were the men?
March 6, 2015

If you consider Hamilton’s reputation of a bursting number of government and world politics majors and a vibrant, public commitment to civil rights issues, you would think that a talk by one of the last decade’s greatest civil rights leaders would draw a packed crowd, and you would be right–except the chapel looked more like Kirkland College than Hamilton College. At this past Monday’s lecture by Lilly Ledbetter the audience included around 100 people, and less than ten of them were male. This disparity is at the very least statistically troubling and at the most a dire indication of gendered disinterest about significant women’s issues on campus. The woman who helped create the most significant pieces of civil right’s legislation in the last fifteen years came to Hamilton, and all the men of the political sciences apparently had something better to do. More ...

Ties that bind: fostering a more constructive community
February 27, 2015

In the past few weeks, our campus has become irrationally divided, and, frustratingly enough, these differences are largely artificial. Yes, we all have different opinions, beliefs and backgrounds, but beyond all that we all share Hamilton as our temporary home. That, more than anything else, should be enough to unite, rather than divide, us in the face of individual differences. With the goals and hopes of the college in mind, we should be able to have intellectual diversity, creative differences and even arguments without tearing ourselves apart, and furthermore we ought to use these encounters with difference to better ourselves as a community. Whether you like or dislike any or all of your peers opinions, you also chose to create a community with them for a few short years. And communities above all work together to become better together; they do not give up and drift apart. More ...

Making the most out of winter
February 20, 2015

While Clinton cannot complain as much as Boston about the weather this year, it is starting to feel like God is specifically settling a score with central New York. But maybe between having to clean off your car twice a day and navigating the dangerous slush in the lobby of CJ there is a silver lining. Yes, snow poses a lot of problems, but maybe we should stop fighting it and start embracing it. More ...

Discourse Before Destruction
February 13, 2015

Almost every copy of Enquiry went missing this week. The people who did happen to read Enquiry before it went missing found a front page article about “radical feminism”, which as several posts on Facebook would indicate, did not go over very well with many parts of campus. This incident reflects the latest step of disrespect on camps – namely from those who chose to remove Enquiry. Although we do not necessarily always support the content in Enquiry, we can sympathize with any frustration or disappointment that they may have over the loss of their work. More ...

Is FebFest Happening?
February 10, 2015

Hamilton has a precious handful of social traditions, but this year it feels like we are skipping one. Along with the Citrus Bowl and Class and Charter Day, FebFest provides the campus with another opportunity to be together, but this year the lack of promotion for it makes you wonder if it is actually happening at all. Only a serious look at the Jay Pharoah posters around campus mention the upcoming festivities, and other than that nothing on campus–or even on the School’s calendars¬–would prime you for the excitement of next week. Considering the inescapable coldness and darkness of winter at Hamilton, FebFest exists to provide some necessary activity and spirit to the campus when it needs it the most. It reenergizes the students once they have settled back into the mundaneness of another semester and gives the Campus Activities Board and Social Traditions a significant chance to bring impressive programming to Hamilton. Yet it seems that these committees have failed to come together to provide the necessary promotion for the events. More ...

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