In a major development on Monday April 14, Student Assembly voted to reduce the number of student representatives per class from five to four. This new legislation will soon reach the student body for a vote that could affect upcoming elections. More ...
Elections are here, yet some of them are nowhere near as competitive as they should be. The candidates for Class of 2016 President and Treasurer are running unopposed, as is the Class of 2015 President. In fact, the Class of 2015 Treasurer has no registered candidate. Meanwhile, the Class of 2017 election for president has five candidates, and the treasurer position is being contested between two candidates. What does this reflect about the nature of Student Assembly? More ...
On Tuesday, March 4 the College discontinued the communications concentration and dissolved the department’s third faculty position. Students will still be able to minor in communication, but the Class of 2016 is the lasat group of students to have the opportunity to major in it. What does this mean for the rest of Hamilton students? More ...
A part of the Health [Care] April Film Series at the Days-Massalo Center, Beauty Mark is a documentary film by Diane Israel that examines contemporary conceptions of beauty and gender norms, as portrayed in the media and as applied on a day-to-day basis. In her movie, Israel self-examines the distorted relationship between her body and her mind going beyond the common conceptions of media representations of the body. Beauty Mark discusses the cultural, psychological and emotional influences people undergo in their childhood and early adulthood and how they affect the perception of body and beauty in general. More ...
The 2013-2014 academic year has seen a reimagining of library programming that seeks to better engage students with the systems, services and academic culture of Burke Library. It is as if, with a new carpet, Burke launched a new face: friendlier, hipper and ready to help. From the Apple and Quill series to the newly-added 24-hour “Ask a Librarian” feature, the library is taking steps to reinvent itself in an age when academics are increasingly turning to digital outlets to enrich the academic experience. More ...
During the fall semester, I received a handful of emails from a Derek Lombardi, urging me to meet in Opus 1 to talk about Teach for America (TFA). TFA, a nonprofit organization that selects recent college graduates to teach at schools in low-income areas, seeks to recruit students who have demonstrated leadership on their campuses. Despite Mr. Lombardi’s inclusion of personal details, like my name and a nod to my involvement with The Spectator, the emails set off my form letter detectors. I knew I wasn’t unique in receiving his outreach notes. More ...
In the most recent issue of The Spectator, Hamilton Divests published a letter asking the Board of Trustees to “begin divesting the College’s endowment from select fossil fuel companies.” Despite unanimous support from a faculty meeting on March 4, as well as almost 200 signatures, the Trustee Committee on Investments decided against divestment and published a response letter outlining their disinclination to divest on March 11. This letter included several convincing arguments, such as the “belief that it is likely better to have a voice in corporate conversations about responsible behavior than to withdraw from them,” and the idea that divesting funds would be using them to “achieve ends other than academic.” More ...
For the second time within 10 years, the College Board is changing the SAT. Some of its plans include making the essay portion of the test optional and removing the deduction of points for wrong answers. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the updated version of the SAT will require test takers to “think harder, analyze more and anchor their answers to evidence.” More ...
Patrick English '15 and Hristina Mangelova '16 weigh in. More ...
Re: Divestment At Tuesday’s faculty meeting, Hamilton Divests received unanimous support for the following resolution on fossil fuel divestment. Below is a resolution letter to the Hamilton College community outlining specific requests for divestment. More ...