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Tucked down the hill off Campus Road lies Rogers Estate: a large, two-story building with a sprawling field as a front yard and abundant trees and greenery as a view. Rogers is furnished with a full kitchen, library, living room, and television lounge – a housing option that differs in many ways from the standard dorm experience.

Members of the women’s basketball team made and served lunch on Nov. 19 at Mother Marianne’s West Side Kitchen, a soup kitchen in Utica

A large crowd gathered in the Events Barn on Nov. 9 for Multicultural Mayhem, a celebration of diversity through performances, fashion, and food. The event was organized by On the Move, a student organization that builds relationships between Utica’s refugee community and Hamilton College.

Six Hamilton students went to Clinton Middle School to help facilitate a Hanging with Hamilton open gym on Nov. 2. At the event, the Hamiton students played volleyball, basketball, and Castle on the Fence with about 20 middle school students.

After months of hard work, physics students launched their high altitude weather balloon, along with camera equipment to record the flight into the stratosphere and a parachute to bring it back down to Earth.

Maine Coast, White Mountains, Adirondacks …. The Hamilton Outing Club has been out and about conquering mountains and seas around the Northeast this month. Dedicated leaders, members, and directors of the Outing Club have been savoring the autumn weather.

Five students spent the Fall Break AXB volunteering at Pathfinder Village, a residential community for individuals with Down syndrome and developmental disabilities in Edmeston, N.Y.

Hamilton’s Model United Nations team participated in the Boston Area Model United Nations (BARMUN) conference from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7 in Boston, Mass. The team competed against other North American colleges and had the opportunity to meet other students with similar interests. The keynote speaker was Munira Khalif, the 2017-2018 United Nations Youth Observer.

On Sept. 21 to 23 Hamilton students flooded the Adirondack Park, hungry for the High Peaks. The Outing Club sent out 20 trips to conquer the 46 peaks above 4,000 feet in the Park as marked by the original surveying. The tradition started in 1995 and every year since, Hamilton students have been attempting this feat. This year the club managed to get a student on 40 of the 46 Peaks.