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Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner, comments on the election of African American James E. Brown to East Hampton, Conn. town council. Klinkner, who has researched the impact of race on American politics, said in communities that are overwhelmingly white, voters are more apt to put aside race to elect a minority whom they like and deem qualified...The reason is that in places such as East Hampton with such a small minority presence, he said, "there's no sense among residents that they are vying for control of the town."

The Hamilton expedition aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer is heading into the Drake passage. This is one of the legs of their trip to Antarctica.

"Cloudy, windy and snow squalls with building seas" is the forecast for the Hamilton group as they head out of the Drake passage and make their way south toward Antarctica.

" ...when I came on duty at midnight we were passing through the Antarctic Sound at the tip of the Palmer Peninsula. A beautiful sunset occurred at midnight..." Read Dave Tewksbury's daily journal entries from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 expedition.

The research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer arrived off the coast of Seymour Island early on Dec. 9 but a large amount of pack ice that had been blown into the bay is presenting problems for the researchers.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Ice in the bay prevented going ashore on the north side of Seymour Island, and, after a long night of waiting to see if conditions would improve, the field group decided to establish camp on the south side of the island.

In December Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat presented a paper titled, "'From viewers like you': Arts Patronage and the State of/in Ken Burns's Jazz" at the annual Modern Language Association conference in New Orleans.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran gave an invited paper at Auburn University on December 7, 2001 called "The Consequences of Contingency."

Government Professor Cheng Li was featured on the China Forum,Sunday, Dec. 9, discussing China's Impending Leadership Change on WNVC TV. In addition, Li commented for BBC on China's political reform and in a Free Asia Radio broadcast on Shanghai's recently elected mayor.

Hamilton's antarctic expedition started with 36 hours of air travel to Punta Arenas, Chile. There they boarded the research vessel, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer--their destination an area off the Palmer Peninsula, Antarctica.