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This year Hamilton students are being offered front-row seats for an exceptional opportunity in Hollywood. In the Legendary Pictures Film Treatment Challenge, students can extend their ideas from the classroom to the big screen through the creation of an original film treatment. This unique opportunity will allow student film treatments to possibly be reviewed by the team that helped create Superman Returns, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Sponsored by Legendary Pictures founder, chairman and CEO, Thomas Tull '92, the competition is exclusively open to Hamilton students and will be conducted throughout the 2008-09 academic year

Survivors of the genocide in Western Sudan's Darfur region will come to Hamilton as part of a national speaking tour called "Voices of Darfur" on Wednesday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. It is free and open to the public. 

In celebration of Earth Day, Hamilton College food service provider Bon Appétit is declaring April 22 Low Carbon Diet Day for lunch. Commons and McEwen, the college's dining halls, will serve lunch foods that help illustrate key principles of how food production and consumption can help reduce climate change.  Bon Appétit general manager Pat Raynard explained, "it's more about removing foods from the menu and making substitutions than using certain foods. Our challenge is to make students understand what we're doing for one meal on this day and how our food choices can have a great impact on the environment."

Work on Hamilton's community farm garden got underway on April 18, as volunteers turned out to remove rocks from the ground. The Hamilton Farm Garden, located east of the Ferguson House parking lot, hopes to offer a place for all community members to garden. For more information, details on donations, or to get involved please contact: garden@hamilton.edu

Aishwarya Lakshmi, assistant professor of English, presented a paper at the  Midwest Victorian Studies Conference in Chicago, April 18-20. The conference was on the theme of "Unexplored Empire," and Lakshmi's paper was titled "Colonial Aesthetics: The Worlding of the Event of 1857," in which she explored how the Indian Revolt of 1857 was made part of British aesthetic discourse.

Thomas Tull '92, founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures (the company jointly responsible for producing the films Batman Begins, Superman Returns, and 300), spoke to Hamilton students on April 17 in Wellin Hall about his journey from Hamilton to film production. Tull expressed appreciation for Hamilton's impact on establishing his success, and reciprocated by screening never-before-seen footage of Legendary Pictures' upcoming Batman sequel, The Dark Knight. 

Mark Reichenbach '09 is the recipient of a Freeman-ASIA Award. Freeman-ASIA Awards are designed to support American undergraduates who are planning to study in East or Southeast Asia. Reichenbach is currently studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and during the fall 2007 semester he studied in Beijing through the Associated Colleges in China program. He is a Chinese major and Japanese minor.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper on April 12 at the Northeast Modern Language Association convention in Buffalo. Titled "'In duabus quasi divisam insulis': Imagining Scotland's Borders in the Middle Ages," the paper discussed the symbolic resonance of the Anglo-Scottish border in a range of sources including medieval historical writing, popular poetry and government documents.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Anne E. Lacsamana has been awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship based on her book project Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror. According to the AAUW, the selected fellows are a group of "exceptional women whose work promises to enhance such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology."

Survivors of the genocide in Western Sudan's Darfur region will come to Hamilton as part of a national speaking tour called "Voices from Darfur" on Wednesday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the College Chapel. It is free and open to the public.