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Keith Ruggles ’20 is a longtime Hamilton Outing Club leader and officer, Adirondack Adventure orientation leader, and student writer for the Communications office. Here, he tells how the training he’s received as an outdoor leader has been valuable in helping him manage the uncertain current environment.

As he finishes his final semester at Hamilton online before starting as a software engineer position at J.P. Morgan, Chris Browne is volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and a volunteer firefighter in his home community.

For the second year in a row, Hamilton’s Mathletics team has won the Snow Bowl competition, icing the competition from Colgate University, St. Lawrence University, and Skidmore College.

Hamilton College basketball player Kena Gilmour ’20 (New Paltz, N.Y./Kent School [Conn.]) was selected the male winner of the 2020 Jostens Trophy in an announcement made by the Rotary Club of Salem (Virginia) on Monday, March 23.

The college’s decision to shift to online education after spring break necessitated a quick response to meet the needs of students who hadn’t planned to return home as well as those who couldn’t return home.

After strong showings in bonspiels this semester, Hamilton’s Curling Club is headed to the National College Curling Championships, March 13 to 15 in Fargo, N.D.

Hamilton’s men’s and women’s ice hockey teams both scored victories in NESCAC quarterfinal games at home on Saturday and advance to championship semifinals next weekend.

Anyi Rescalvo was selected as a Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) student cabinet member representing Hamilton. In that role, she attended CICU’s Student Cabinet and Student Aid Advocacy Days on Feb. 10 and 11 in Albany, N.Y.

Snow – and plenty of it – came to the Hill just in time for Hamilton’s annual FebFest. Just when it looked like FebFest activities would be centered indoors, The Outing Club encouraged everyone to get outdoors on Valentine’s Day and take part in a snowshoe relay.

Hamilton TEDx welcomed Erik Wemple ’86, a media critic with The Washington Post, and Yael Bromberg, chief counsel of voting rights at the Andrew Goodman Foundation, on Feb. 15 to explore issues of political polarization, voter disenfranchisement, and the role of the media in the United States. The program, titled “20/20: Political Divisions,” proved especially relevant in the context of the seminal election coming up in November.