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Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley attended the Classical Association of the Atlantic States conference in New Brunswick, NJ, in October, where she introduced the luncheon speaker, Martha Southgate. Southgate is a novelist who wrote The Fall of Rome, which features as one of three protagonists a black classicist at an elite prep school in New England.

Profesor of Anthropology Bonnie Urciuoli will be the next guest in the Faculty Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson. Urciuoli's talk is titled "The Referential Complexity of the Words 'Multiculturalism' and 'Diversity.'"

The Society of Empirical Ethics, a component of the American Philosophical Association, along with the department of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, and the Institute for Applied Ethics at Utica College will hold a colloquium, “Science and the Foundation of Ethics,” on Oct. 25-27 at the Century House in Cazenovia.

Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery is offering an intriguing, concurrent trio of print exhibitions this fall. Open through November 2, this graphic triple-header includes one gallery devoted to contemporary, large format prints from the Emerson Gallery permanent collection. The second gallery focuses on Hamilton painting and printmaking professor Bruce Muirhead's collection of the best Hamilton student prints gathered over 30 years. The third gallery is slated for the Southern Graphics Council Student-Juried Exhibition.

The Society of Empirical Ethics, a component of the American Philosophical Association, along with the department of Religious Studies at Hamilton College and the Institute for Applied Ethics at Utica College will hold a colloquium, “Science and the Foundation of Ethics,” on Oct. 25-27 at the Century House in Cazenovia. The colloquium will examine the connections between modern empirical science and philosophical inquiry into the foundation of ethics.

Kevin Danaher, co-founder of The Global Exchange, will be the next guest in the Levitt Center Globalization series. He will give a lecture, "Globalize This! Why You Should be out in the Street Protesting the World Bank and IMF," on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Sponsored by the Globalization Seminar Series.

Stuart Scott '61, chairman of the Hamilton College Board of Trustees, announced the members of the Presidential Search Committee. The committee will be chaired by Drew S. Days III '63 and Patricia Smalley, charter trustees of the College.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, traveled to Buffalo with AV Director Tim Hicks to interview two prominent jazz musicians, pianist Al Tinney and saxophonist Bobby Militello. Tinney, who is 82 years old, played an active role in the formation of bebop jazz. He was the house pianist at Monroe's Cafe in New York City, where much of the experimentation by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie took place. Tinney also appeared as a child actor in the original production of Porgy and Bess. Bobby Militello is currently playing saxophone with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He is also the owner of the Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo's hottest jazz club and was able to offer a unique perspective on the current jazz scene.

Dr. James Cobey, a 1965 graduate of Hamilton College and an orthopaedic surgeon at Washington Hospital Center, has received a $50,000 Frank Annunzio Award in the Arts/Humanities/ Humanitarian field from the Christopher Columbus Foundation for his efforts to help victims with devastating injuries due to landmines and his work to ban landmines.

Bob Simon (Philosophy) was one of three speakers at a conference held at Trinity College, titled "The Game of Life and the Liberal Arts College." The conference examined the claims of the widely discussed book The Game of Life, about the effects of intercollegiate athletics on academics at selective liberal arts colleges.