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In the wake of today’s vintage fashion craze, thrift shopping has become increasingly popular among college students and young adults across America. At Hamilton College, a select group of savvy students tapped into their sustainable side and hosted an on-campus fundraising event that appealed to the fashion preferences of the masses.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz brought a unique concert-going experience  to Hamilton  and Clinton on Nov. 6 – a moveable feast of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. He performed at the Taylor Science Atrium, the Howard Diner and the Kirkland Town Library  and then presented a full concert in Wellin Hall on Saturday evening.

This week marks the National Collegiate Emergency Services Foundation’s National Collegiate EMS week, during which Hamilton recognizes the efforts of its student EMTs. Whenever there is a medical emergency on the Hamilton College campus, student EMTs are always the first-responders.  The Hamilton College Emergency Medical Services (HCEMS) team comprises 24 students from varied backgrounds and interests.  We salute them this week and thank them for their service.

Joseph Taylor, author of Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbing and Modern Environmental Cultures, will present a lecture on climbing Yosemite titled “The Dawn Wall and the Golden Ages of Yosemite,” on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is sponsored by the History Department and is free and open to the public.

Narrative 4 (N4), an organization that aims to foster empathy through the power of storytelling, built emotional bonds in a powerful workshop on Nov. 5. The workshop, led by author and founder Colum McCann and executive director Lisa Consiglio, centered around empathy-driven social change. The crux of the workshop, and of N4’s mission, was “story exchange,” wherein two people share personal stories and then retell each other’s stories to the larger group. Consiglio defined N4 as being “founded for authors by authors, for writers by writers, and for educators by educators.”

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the Fall Theater production, Beauty and the Beast. Performances will continue Friday, Nov. 6 – Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 11 – Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. There is a matinee performance on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. All performances will take place in the new state-of-the-art Romano Theatre within the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts.

“Metacognitive Awareness of Facial Affect in Higher-Functioning Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” a study co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Camilla McMahon, was recently published online by the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

The Hamilton Outing Club recently brought the 10th annual installment of the Reel Rock Film Tour to campus. Reel Rock is a traveling film festival showcasing some of the year’s most outstanding feats of rock climbing and climbing cinematography.

John H. O’Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus and lecturer in English, recently presented a paper at Trinity College during the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Nan Aron, the president of Alliance for Justice, spoke at Hamilton on Nov. 4 about the cases on the Supreme Court’s docket this upcoming term as well as close-minded opinions about how the Supreme Court should function. In Aron’s opinion, the four most important cases this term involve unions, abortion, voting rights and affirmative action, all of which are more “hot button” issues than the court faced last term.