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Hamilton College is hosting the third annual FebFest, the revival of an old college tradition, through February 9 on the campus. Upcoming activities include fireworks, communtiy sledding and a snowman building contest in the village of Clinton. Many events are free and open to the public.

Kirkland Project artist-in-residence Sharon Bridgforth and her daughter, Sonja Perryman, will perform "word orchestrations/for two," a staged reading featuring jazz/conjuring/word rhythms/blues/prayers on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center at Hamilton College. The event is free and open to the public.

Religious Studies Professor Jay Williams published a new book, The Way of Adam, which is now available through 1st Books (December, 2001). It tells the story of Adam, a child born of Heaven and Earth who leaves his cavern home and eventually leads a company from the great city on a quest for the secret that will end the woes of the City of Man. The text draws upon a variety of Biblical, astrological, numerological, mythological and Daoist symbols.

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley took the 23 students in her Ancient Egypt class to Chicago's Field Museum to view the traveling exhibit "Cleopatra: One Woman, Many Faces" in November. The Field Museum was the only North American stop for the exhibit, which featured many artifacts from Cleopatra's time. Haley and the students also visited the permanent collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts housed in the museum.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz has published a co-edited volume titled "Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World," with an introduction and essay by her. She has presented new work on Greek vase painting at the Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, "Doing Gender with Clothes in Attic Vase Painting," and at the Open University (UK) conference on the Clothed Body in the Ancient World, "Is My Bum Big in This?: Constructing Bodies in Greek Vase Painting."

Philip Zweig, a 1968 graduate of Hamilton, wrote an op-ed about the Enron crisis that was published in The New York Times (Feb. 2). Zweig is the second Hamilton alumnus in two weeks to be published in The Times' op-ed section; Michael Granof '63 wrote an op-ed that was published on Jan. 23.

Bob Halligan Jr., a 1975 graduate of Hamilton College, and his band, Ceili Rain, who have performed at Hamilton reunions recently, will appear as a headliner at tonight's (2/1) Syracuse Area Music Awards show (SAMMYs). The show will begin at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Theatre, Syracuse. Tickets are available at the box office or TicketMaster outlets. Halligan and Ceili Rain are featured in the Feb. 1 issue of The Syracuse Post Standard.

The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is holding a food drive this weekend for a local food bank in Utica. Those planning to attend any games at Hamilton this weekend are asked to bring non-perishable food items. After the holiday season donations drop off and food banks are in desperate need of food. Starting on Friday, collection boxes will be in the Athletic lobby and in easy-to-spot places in the Field House. The food bank in Utica is looking for any non-perishable items such as peanut butter, ramen soup, canned goods, cereals etc.

A new play, "99 questions you’ve always wanted to ask a black person," written by Mark Cryer, assistant professor of theatre and dance, debuted on Jan. 24 in Minor Theater.Cryer worked on the play with a student, Jared Johnson, who conducted interviews of people in New York City during the summer to arrive at the questions. Cryer calls the play “timely, interesting and entertaining, and an educational tool that is a positive answer to a problem that plagues our community and society as a whole.” He hopes to take it to other colleges and theaters.

"Midnight Madness," billed as "The World's Largest Late Night Writing Workshop," was held on the Hamilton campus on January 29. More than 250 students participated in a series of workshops led by faculty. Government Professor Ted Eismeier, who organized the event, said the purpose was "to reinforce the messages that students get in class -- that Hamilton cares about writing."