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Adirondack Adventure, Hamilton’s eight-day outdoor program for incoming students, has reached a record participation level, with 230 first-year students set to check in for the popular pre-orientation program on August 13. Fifty percent of the class of 2011 has enrolled in 27 different trips, selecting from programs that focus on hiking, canoeing, rock climbing or kayaking at beginning, intermediate or advanced ability levels. All trips are conducted in various locations in the Adirondacks.

The discoveries made during three Antarctic expeditions led by Eugene Domack, Joel W. Johnson Professor of Geosciences, in 2004, 2005 and 2006 were highlighted in the National Science Foundation’s online Discoveries publication in July. The Web site features major discoveries in NSF-funded research areas. The article on Domack’s findings was one of only two included in the Arctic and Antarctic research area on the site in 2007.

In a Reuters News article titled “YouTube gets candidates loosened up . . . sort of; With a new medium and format, some questions were frivolous, but the debate was traditional,” government professor Philip Klinkner shared his views on the novel CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate conducted this week.

Following Monday’s CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate, CBS News summer intern and rising junior Eric Kuhn wrote an article about his observations of the novel event. The article was posted on CBS’ “Couric & Co.” blog as well as on the CBS News home page. "Couric & Co." is a Web log whose principle contributors are CBS News producers and correspondents from around the world that, according to the site, focuses on “things large and small, from the meaningful to the amusing.”

An opinion piece written by Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory Edward Walker ’62, appeared on Friday, July 20, in The Providence Journal (R.I.). Titled “A war with Iran would be madness,” Walker’s op-ed suggested that the recent leaks from the White House intimating a possible major military strike against Iran are really about two combatants posturing for different audiences — Iranian President Ahmedinijad for support in Iran and the Middle East and Vice President Cheney for Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Kahmeni. Walker, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt under previous administrations, warns that the U.S. should not sacrifice any hope of stabilizing the region by launching an ill-advised strike against Iran.

In his new book, “The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place” (MIT Press), Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò focuses on the displacement and transformation of our landscape, the “crisis of place facing the United States.” He points out that “rampant development, unsustainable exploitation of resources, environmental degradation, and the commodification of places are ruining built and natural landscapes, disconnecting people from their surroundings and threatening individuals’ fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape.”

In his new book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (MIT Press, July, 2007), Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò focuses on the displacement and transformation of our landscape, the "crisis of place facing the United States." He points out that "rampant development, unsustainable exploitation of resources, environmental degradation, and the commodification of places are ruining built and natural landscapes, disconnecting people from their surroundings and threatening individuals' fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape."

Although the Reader’s Digest’s story, “Second Chance City - A wave of refugees is bringing new life to a dying American town” paints Utica as a city that has plunged into an “economic meltdown,” Hamilton’s Associate Professor of Economics Paul Hagstrom offers some hope. His research, which is referenced in this article, focuses on the economic impact of refugee resettlement and the refugees’ effect on local labor markets on the central New York community. 

Eric Kuhn ’09 published an interview this month with White House Photographer and Special Assistant to the President Eric Draper in PBase Magazine. The Washington Examiner picked up on the Pbase article and reported on both Kuhn and this interview in its newspaper and on its Web site. He met Draper in the West Wing while participating in Hamilton’s Washington, D.C., program last semester. It took Kuhn two years to arrange for the interview, contacting Draper on a regular basis. Draper was able to schedule an interview on Kuhn’s last day in the D.C. program.

“Compounding Interest in Your Investment Committee,” an article written by Hamilton trustee and co-chair of the board’s investment committee Henry W. Bedford, II, ’76, was published in the July/August 2007 issue of Trusteeship magazine. Produced by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), Trusteeship reports trends, issues and practices in higher education to help board members and chief executives better understand their distinctive and complementary roles and to strengthen board performance. AGB is the only national association that serves the interests and needs of academic governing boards, boards of institutionally related foundations and campus CEOs and other senior-level campus administrators on issues related to higher education governance and leadership.