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Hamilton's Personnel office presents "What is a 529 Plan, and is it right for you?" as part of its financial planning series on Thursday, Oct. 25, at noon in The Hub, Bristol Campus Center. Honorine Wallack, a Certified Financial Planner with A.G. Edwards & Sons, will highlight the features of 529 Plans and the questions one should ask to determine if these plans are right for you.

A Humanities Forum featuring Associate Professor of History Tom Wilson will be held on Monday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit. He will discuss Liturgies of Confucian Sacrifice.

Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat will be the next speaker in the new Faculty Lecture Series on Friday, Oct. 26, at 4:10 p.m. in KJ 109 (Red Pit). She will speak on the topic "'Don't Act': The Cold War Politics of Art."

A film and lecture,"Slave Routes: A Trail So Long Gone," will be presented by Professor Kofi Anyidoho, visiting writer-in-residence, Columbia University, on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit (KJ-109). Sponsored by the Department of English with co-sponsorship from the Office of the President, HEOP, Dean of Faculty, Dean of Students, departments and programs of Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, Government, History, the BLSU and La Vanguardia.

Professor of Anthropology Bonnie Urciuoli was guest speaker at the weekly Think Tank. Her topic was "Imagining the Campus Community." Think Tank is sponsored by the Levitt Center.

Ten seniors were recently elected to the Epsilon Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Hamilton College. They are Meira Barrett, Bridget Collins, Katherine Dewart, Tyler Greenfield, Julie Krudenier, Luciana Maxim, Martin Nedbal, Krystyn Schmerbeck, Amanda Taylor and Colleen Trzaskos. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious honor society in the country. Students are elected to membership in recognition of their exceptional academic achievement in fulfilling the goals and purposes of the college.

The Kirkland Project's 2001-02 series,"The Body in Question," will continue on Thursday, Oct. 25, with a lecture by Vivyan Adair, assistant professor of women's studies. The lecture, titled "Branded with Infamy: Bodily Inscriptions of Poverty," will begin at 4:15 p.m. in KJ Red Pit. Refreshments by Cafe Opus available before the talk. Free and open to the public.

The awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Secretary General Kofi Annan and the United Nations rekindles proud memories of Elihu Root, a Hamilton statesman who received the prize in 1912. Root, an 1864 graduate of Hamilton College, dedicated a large part of his life to the cause of international arbitration, and was the first president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Root graduated first in his class at Hamilton, then went on to become Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt and later a U.S. Senator.

The Performing Arts at Hamilton and the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership will present HT Chen and Dancers in a work titled "Bian Dan," on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Eighteen local residents and 11 Hamitlon College students will perform in "Bian Dan."

Government Professor Cheng Li was interviewed by Reuters news service about President Bush's visit to China this week for the Pacific Rim summit. "It's a big show. Superficially they will reach an agreement, but the reality depends on the unfolding drama," Li said. "For China the priority is to show that the previous concern that China is a threat to the United States is groundless."