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Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented his work "The Home Planet," comprised of digitally processed environmental sounds, on April 2, in Santa Fe at the national conference of the Society of Composers. Included with the presentation was video art by Lauren Koss '00.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez Plate was recently made a continuing columnist for Religion Dispatches, a publication funded through the Ford Foundation. Plate's column is titled "Pop-Eye," which he says, "provides commentary on the latest trends and games, videos and films that matter to religion. And how and why religion matters to popular culture."

Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein will speak on Monday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. 

Hamilton College picked up a point in doubles play, but the host Continentals fell to nationally ranked No. 7 Amherst College, 8-1, in a New England Small College Athletic Conference match played at Gray Tennis Courts on April 11.

Clarkson University broke a halftime tie with six unanswered goals to start the second half and went on to a 13-5 Liberty League win against host Hamilton College at Campus Road Athletic Field on April 11.

Middlebury College swept a New England Small College Athletic Conference West Division doubleheader against host Hamilton College at Ferguson Fields on April 11.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper titled "Orestes and Oedipus, White and Black: Greek Tragedy and the U.S. Civil War," at the British Classical Association's annual meeting in Glasgow, Scotland on April 4.

Hamilton students participated in the 22nd annual EUROsim conference, an international and intercollegiate simulation of the European Union on April 2-5. Participants were Kasey Hildonen '10, Erich Romero '12, Alex Singh '11, Brett Shannon '11, Kelsey Lawler '11, Natalie De Boursac '11, Brandon Moore '12, Amanda Barnes '12, Hanna Kahrmann-Zadak '12, Stephanie Miguel '11, Reisa Asimovic '11, Maria Lozada '12, and visiting student Raphael Morali.

Marianne Janack's paper, "To Philosophize or Not to Philosophize? Rorty's Challenge to Feminists" (" ¿Filosofar o no filosofar? El desafio de Rorty a las feministas") was published in the December, 2008, edition of Ideas y Valores, a journal of philosophy published by the National University of Columbia.

Hamilton College recorded straight-set wins in every singles match and the visiting Continentals cruised to a 9-0 non-conference win against Rensselaer at Sharp Courts on April 10.