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Hamilton's Baccalaureate Service took place on Saturday, May 19, at 3 p.m. in the Main Quadrangle. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, was this year's Baccalaureate speaker and presented her talk "On Voice, View and Visibility."

Richard Bernstein '80, chief quantitative strategist at Merrill Lynch, told Wall Street Week viewers last week to "sell technology -- profit margins are being squeezed dramatically for tech." When asked what sectors he likes, Bernstein said, "The story we've pounded the table on for the past year is the energy and power story."

The Kirkland Project has announced the teaching associates for College 130: Coming of Age in America, for Fall 2001. Teaching associates are Redell Armstrong ’02, Jessica Haab ’02, Sarah McDermott ’04, Byron Miller ’02, and Koert Wehberg ’04. This fall there will be five class sections, taught by professors Gillian Gane, Dana Luciano, Stephen Orvis, Nancy Rabinowitz, and Lisa Trivedi.

Check out the new Web site for Hamilton's bookstore. Buy clothing and accessories from the School Spirit Shop!

Richard Nelson, a 1972 Hamilton graduate, is receiving good reviews for Madame Melville, a memory play starring Macaulay Culkin that opened on Broadway on May 3.

Phyllis Breland has been appointed as Posse Mentor and Assistant Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program, effective June 1, 2001. A 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, Breland was a theatre major, class speaker, and the first African-American woman inducted into Pentagon.

The Producers, the smash Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan '51 received 15 Tony Award nominations, a new record. The musical opened in April to rave reviews and has already sold out tickets for the remainder of 2001.

Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology, and author of an upcoming book about homeschooling, Kingdom of Heaven: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton, 2001), was interviewed by Education Week (5/2/2001.) The article concerned an Iowa home-schooled student who will be unable to receive her high school diploma because she lacks enough credits to graduate.

The Theatre and Dance Department invites you to see "A Reluctant Tragic Hero" by Anton Chekhov,a senior project by Douglas Harris and "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" by Eric Bogosian, a senior project by Cameron Larson, on Tuesday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at Minor Theater. Admission is free.

Students of Biology 437 Tropical Field Ecology will present posters describing the research they conducted during their field trip to Costa Rica today, May 4, from 1-2 p.m. outside the Science Auditorium.