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The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College in Clinton announces its “Masculinities” film series for January – March 2003. Screenings are free and open to the public. All films will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 (Red Pit). For more information, contact the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.

Brett Mandel, a 1991 graduate of Hamilton College is the director of financial and policy analysis for the Philadelphia City Controller's Office. But he's also an author and baseball fan, whose latest book is Is This Heaven? The Magic of the Field of Dreams (Diamond Communications, $24.95). Is This Heaven? looks at the remarkable appeal that draws some 75,000 people a year to visit the baseball diamond on Becky and Don Lansings' Iowa farm, where the movie Field of Dreams was filmed in 1989. Mandel is featured in a January 7 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Evan Smith, a 1987 graduate of Hamilton College, was featured in a Dallas Morning News article (Jan. 5, 2003), "Native Texan via Queens." Smith, named editor of the magazine in 2000, majored in government and wrote for The Spectator while he was at Hamilton.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager was interviewed for a Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram article about Buddhist monks who shun the material world (1/5/03). Seager, author of the book, Buddhism in America (Columbia, 1999), said in the article, titled "The Path to Buddha," that "Buddha is a person. They don't worship in the sense...of [worshipping] God." Seager also noted that "Buddhism is gaining popularity with businesses, which offer seminars for their employees and pay to bring speakers such as the Dalai Lama to teach Buddhist thought and qualities such as being focused and mindful...'there's also a whole lot of spiritual or psychological reasons individuals might find it helpful to their own life,'" Seager said.

The fabulous multiphonic singers of Tibet’s Drepung Loseling Monastery, whose sellout performance in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center received national acclaim, will perform Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, on the campus of Hamilton College.

Professor of Classics Barbara Gold says, "This is more a hope than a prediction. I hope for: *a world free of war and the threat of war *a society with equity and justice for all *a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled *an earth restored These are not my words; they come from the Quaker organization, the Friends Committee on National Legislation. But they are my thoughts exactly and I could not say it any better."

Hamilton College is mentioned in a USA Today editorial (Dec. 26) about heightened competition in college admissions. The editorial notes that "the University of California...is beginning to examine applicants' accomplishments and abilities beyond academic achievements based on grades and test scores. That's long been the approach of smaller colleges such as Hamilton in upstate New York. Last year the staff interviewed 75% of the students personally."

Does the type of school an undergraduate attends really make a difference? A new survey suggests that it does. A comparative alumni survey, conducted by the independent research firm of Hardwick Day and commissioned by the Annapolis Group (a consortium of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges), has found that the undergraduate experience students encounter at small, residential liberal arts colleges is more effective in producing meaningful and lasting benefits than the education experienced at large, public universities and other institutions of higher education. Hamilton College is one of the original members of the Annapolis Group.

Vivyan Adair, director of the ACCESS Project, and Sharon Gormley, ACCESS coordinator, were guests on WCNY-TV's "Hour CNY," in December. They discussed the ACCESS Project, a comprehensive Hamilton College program designed to provide low-income parents with the opportunity to receive a liberal arts education. "Hour CNY" is a daily TV talk show in which the hosts feature people and organizations of interest in Central New York.

Men's basketball center Joe Finley was featured in a Utica Observer Dispatch article (12/13), titled "Hard Work Pays Off." In the article, Coach Tom Murphy describes Finley as "one of the hardest working kids we've had...He's made himself into a player." Finley, an economics major, is leading the Continentals in points this season, with 19.8 per game, plus 11.8 rebounds a game.