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Long Night's Journey Into Day, the award-winning documentary on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will be shown tonight, (Thursday 11/1), at 7 p.m., in KJ Auditorium. It will be followed by a discussion of the New South Africa and J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, Disgrace. Sponsored by the members of Sociology 381, Global Racisms, and English/CompLit 282, New Literatures in English.

Emerson Project award winner Meghan Lynch will read her "Poems from the Merrimack Valley," today (Thursday, Nov. 1), at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Lynch researched the history of North Andover and her personal relationship with the area. From her research she created a collection of poems drawing from her understanding of the area and her personal experience.

Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and La Vanguardia are co-sponsoring "Operation Christmas Child." The groups will collect small gifts, pack them, wrap and send them off all over the world to be given to needy children. There will be collection boxes in the Chapel, Cafe Opus and Beinecke for the next two weeks. These gifts can be anything that will fit in a shoe box, such as small cars, dolls, yo-yos, pencils, toothbrushes, washcloths, lollipops, socks, or books. Gifts and monetary donations may be dropped off at the Beinecke Table from Monday - Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Contact Kit Schofield at(315) 859-2552 or kschofie@hamilton.edu for information or to volunteer.

Come to the Emerson Gallery to purchase holiday cards featuring images from the Samuel Hopkins Adams Collection of prints by Currier & Ives. Each box contains eight cards, with envelopes, featuring some of the most beloved winter scenes from Currier & Ives, blank inside. $10/box, cash or check only. Make checks payable to: The Friends of Art.

Kevin Williams, Ph.D., and cross-country, track and field coach from the University at Albany, will speak at Hamilton on Thursday, Nov. 1, at noon in Science 318. Williams will discuss his research on goal setting and performance, titled, "Pursuing Personal Performance Goals over Time: Discrepancy Production and Revision Processes." His visit is sponsored by the Hamilton College Psychology department and Psi Chi. Bring your lunch and enjoy!

Around the Hill asked Hamilton employees the question, “Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 affected your travel plans, and if so, how?”

Shirley Croop, staff assistant in the Office of Admission, just celebrated her 41st anniversary of employment. She is the longest-tenured staff member at the College.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a free recital featuring soprano Rebecca Karpoff and pianist Fred Karpoff on Sunday, November 4, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert will include Mussorgsky’s song cycle “The Nursery” as well as humorous American songs and works by Schubert and Strauss.

Questions about life in the Ice Age will be discussed by Archaeologist Donald K. Grayson of the University of Washington when he visits Hamilton for a lecture, "Ice Age Extinctions," on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit at KJ.

David L. Smallen, Hamilton College's vice president for information technology, and Karen L. Leach, vice president for administration and finance, are leaders of a national study that indicates colleges' spending on information technology is growing faster than their spending in other categories. The researchers who gathered the data said the survey suggests a widening "digital divide" among American colleges. The data, presented in Indianapolis at the annual conference of Educause, are from the Cost of Supporting Technology Services (COSTS) project. COSTS is an annual survey of colleges' spending on information technology. Most of the institutions included in the survey are four-year institutions that do not offer doctorates.