Quiet fell in the chapel on Wednesday afternoon for a candlelit vigil in honor of Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old girl who committed suicide on December 28, 2014. Alcorn’s death became a flashpoint in the trans rights movement when pre-scheduled posts appeared on her Tumblr account citing her conservative Christian parents’ refusal to accept her transgender identity as a reason she ended her life. More ...
For over twenty years, Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach and Charity, or HAVOC, has had an influential role in serving the local community and creating connections between Hamilton students and residents of Clinton, New Hartford and Utica. Last Saturday was no exception, marking the seventeenth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day organized by HAVOC. Over the course of about four hours, more than 140 students volunteered their time at sixteen local organizations, including Kirkland Town Library, Spring Farm Cares, the Lutheran Home and Masonic Care Community. More ...
Four Hamilton College students will join thousands of other students from all over the world along with President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea when they attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference at the University of Miami in March. Jose Vazquez ’15, Ryan Ong ’16, Sharif Shrestha ’17 and Tsion Tesfaye ’16 applied to, and were accepted by, the CGIU to join other students, university representatives, topic experts and celebrities in order to “discuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing challenges,” according to the CGIU website. Hamilton College is a member of the CGIU network, which requires a university provide a minimum of $10,000 in funding to CGIU student representatives from the school. Accordingly, the Levitt Center along with other offices such as Student Activities and the Dean of Faculty, through the Class of 1979 Travel Fund, will help cover the cost of transportation to the conference. More ...
Professor of geology emeritus Donald Potter passed away peacefully at his home the morning of January 20. Potter’s death followed complications from a fall. In an email to the campus community, Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart announced Potter’s death. More ...
Bowdoin Trustees elect Clinton S. Rose as next President Colby College names new Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid More ...
For most students, orientation is a warm affair, but some Hamiltonians move to the Hill amongst snow and freezing temperatures. This past Friday, Jan. 16, 45 new students, six transfer students and 39 January Admission students, began their time at Hamilton with January Orientation, a similar but shorter version of August Orientation. More ...
On Monday, January 19, the Days-Massolo Center hosted a town hall discussion on the state of diversity and inclusion at Hamilton College. The event was meant to give members of the Hamilton community the opportunity to voice their concerns and ideas to the Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion. More ...
The Annex rang with performance poetry by Professor Arthur Flowers during a remembrance celebration in honor of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday night. Beginning at 5 p.m., students and faculty mingled over dinner before enjoying the presentation by Flowers, an associate professor of English at Syracuse University. The dinner featured pulled pork, vegetable jambalaya, banana cream pie and red velvet cake. After about an hour, Kimberly Williams of the Days-Massolo Center introduced Professor Flowers, detailing his accomplishments as a novelist, essayist and performance poet. More ...
Former United States Ambassador Prudence Bushnell returned to Hamilton Jan. 12-16 to lead her fourth year of the Levitt Leadership Institute. A group of 24 Hamilton students joined her for the first week of the two-part institute that will continue during spring break. The week involved leadership exercises, seminars, interviews and projects that took the students from KJ classrooms, to Utica businesses and even into the McEwen kitchen. More ...
On January 5, Kenyon College announced the hiring of Meredith Harper Bonham to be their new Vice President for Student Affairs. Bonham graduated from Kenyon in 1992, but has served in various capacities at Hamilton since 1993. She arrived at the school as an Assistant Dean of Admissions with the intention of staying for two years. However, more than twenty years later, she is leaving the school as the Senior Associate Dean of Students for Strategic Initiatives and the Title IX Coordinator. More ...