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A week after an impressive attempt at conquering the Adirondack High Peaks during the annual 46 Peaks Weekend, Hamilton Outing Club (HOC) members have not tired. Over this recent fall break six tenacious students braved icy slopes and sore feet during a four-day assault of some of the highest mountains in New York State.

In Mark Bauerlein’s new book, The Dumbest Generation, he argues that the “Millennials,” those born in the late 1980s and early 1990s, are a generation much less cultured and politically aware than generations that preceded them. In a lecture in front of a standing-room-only crowd in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium Monday, Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, spoke about the crippling effects that the Digital Age has had on the minds of America’s young people.

For nearly 200 years, Hamilton College has been committed to environmental stewardship. Hamilton has a strong repertoire of environmentally sustainable practices, from the continual planting of trees on campus and investment in renewable energy resources for KJ and the Glen House, to student activist groups such as the Hamilton Environmental Action Group, the Recycling Task Force and Sustainability Committee.

In a time when the ozone is shrinking, countless species of animals are in danger of extinction, and the world's supply of natural resources is being tested, the ideas of environmental and ecological justice are relatively novel. In his Thursday evening lecture in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium, Northern Arizona University Professor David Schlosberg focused on the use of the "capabilities approach" in environmental and ecological policy-making.

Robert Spiegelman opened his lecture in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium Friday by asking what comes to mind when someone mentions the "wild, wild West." Audience members offered obvious images such as cowboys, Indian tribes, and buffalo. Spiegelman, noted sociologist, multimedia artist and writer, admitted that the old West did have a certain amount of the cowboy and Indian drama, the kind that has been dramatized in the movies. But, before the days of wagon trains and cattle ranges, the wild, wild West was actually the wild, wild East. New York, said Spiegelman, was the first frontier, the conquering of which helped lay the framework for manifest destiny. Spiegelman was a guest at Hamilton through the Speakers in the Humanities series, made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Vice President of Administration and Finance Karen L. Leach and Steven J. Bellona, associate vice president of facilities and planning, spoke at a Private Higher Education CFO Summit Meeting for the New York State Dormitory Authority in New York City on Sept. 25.