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“The great thing about immersing yourself into a foreign culture is taking advantage of all the new opportunities it presents,” says Louis Boguchwal ’13. “Trying something new is the only way to expose yourself to the opportunities.” Boguchwal is referring to korfball - a game resembling basketball meets ultimate Frisbee, played with what looks like a soccer ball on a court divided into zones, with gender-specific rules.

The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG ) participated in the worldwide 350 day on Oct. 24. HEAG members made 350 papers cranes that were hung on a tree in Root Glen to raise awareness of the climate crisis.

War correspondent Anna Badkhen will discuss her experiences in the field in a lecture titled "War, Women, and Women Warriors" on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 4:10 p.m. in the Hamilton College Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty and the Department of German and Russian Studies, is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin presented “Secret Plodders: Anti-Federalism, Anonymity, and the Struggle for Democratic Dissent” at the annual Association for Political Theory Conference on Saturday, Oct. 24. The three-day event conference was held at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at Texas A&M University.

The New York State Political Science Association (NYSPSA) awards committee selected papers written by two recent Hamilton graduates for the 2009 Best Student Papers honors. Blake Hulnick ’09 wrote “The Politics of State-Based Electoral College Reform” and Deanna Edwards ’09 wrote “Outsourcing the Military: Blackwater, Halliburton-KBR, and a New Military-Industrial Complex.”

Scott MacDonald’s discussion of filmmaker Andrew Noren’s recent films, to be featured in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art later this month, appears in the current issue of Artforum. His interview with nature filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (Microcosmos, Genesis) appears in the current issue of Natural History, published by the Museum of Natural History in New York.

Shelley Haley, professor of classics and Africana studies, and director of the Africana studies program, published an essay in Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. The essay is titled "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies." The book was edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza of the Harvard Divinity School and was published by Fortress Press, an imprint of Ausberg Fortress.

On Friday, Oct. 23 in the Kennedy Auditorium, eight Bristol and Schambach Scholars -- students who have demonstrated outstanding academic prowess and have each been awarded a $3,500 stipend for research -- presented their respective projects.

Students in Hamilton's Program in New York City visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Oct. 21. This semester's NYC program theme is International Political Economy. The program is directed by Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs.

A discussion on “The Future of Liberal Arts Education” featuring three panelists will take place on Monday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Panelists include Roger Kimball, author and co-editor of The New Criterion, Manhattan Institute scholar James Piereson, and Adam Kissel, director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The panel, sponsored by the Hamilton College History Department and the Alexander Hamilton Institute, is free and open to the public.