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A Community Concert, canceled due to last Sunday's snowstorm, has been rescheduled for Saturday, Dec. 22, from 7 - 8:30 p.m. at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. The purpose of this event, which is free and open to the public, is to raise donations to build a school in Cambodia.

The media relations office has collected a sampling of stories about the Hamilton College community's involvement in projects focused on making the holidays happier for others. We know that we may have missed some good stories of selfless giving, but we hope you enjoy those that we have gathered.

The work of Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant is being exhibited by the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis in a one-person show titled "mother choo choo" through Jan. 12, 2008. Featured in the gallery's New Media Room, Gant's series of short videos are centered on the principle that, in her words, "awareness of our own experience can inspire social consciousness, political responsibility, cultural interaction and changed behavior."

"Using China as a target may provoke a backlash, so politicians need to be careful," said Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, in a Dec. 11 Bloomberg News article. Li, who is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was commenting on a recent poll that found that the U.S. public has a more favorable impression of China than do congressional staff members and is more positive about trade with China than those staffers and business executives believe they are.

The exclusive advance showing of The Great Debaters for friends of Hamilton, held on Monday, Dec. 10 in New York City, proved to be an entertaining evening for attendees as well as a resounding fundraising success for the College's oral communication program. Generating just slightly less than $30,000 for the program, the event was attended by a capacity crowd of Hamilton alumni and friends. The event was underwritten by Sara Weinstein '02 and The Weinstein Company.

The photography of Sylvia de Swaan, visiting instructor of art, has been selected by SHOTS Magazine for inclusion in its annual portfolio issue (winter 2007). The magazine selected and showcased the work of nine photographers, publishing a four-page spread for each that included images as well as an interview. De Swaan's work was also selected for the magazine's back cover.

A community holiday concert and bake sale to raise contributions to build a school in Cambodia will be held on Sunday, Dec. 16, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Kirkland Art Center. Organized primarily by Hamilton employees, the concert will include a sing-a-long and is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled "The Russian Elite during Putin's Second Term: Has Militarization Continued?" at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on Nov. 16 in New Orleans. Rivera and her co-author, government lecturer David W. Rivera, revisit the question they addressed in a 2006 article in Post-Soviet Affairs, whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has created a "neo-KGB state."

Jeff Pliskin, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Levitt Center, and Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, were invited attendees at the First International Economic Research Meeting of the Mondragon Cooperative Academic Community. The meeting was hosted by the Mondragon University business studies faculty in Oñati, Spain, Dec. 3-4.

A Hamilton trustee and his wife have donated $1 million to endow a need-based scholarship for students who are the first generation in their families to attend college. Recognizing the need for alumni to give back to the College, the donors, who wish to remain anonymous, have made their gift with the hope that it will encourage other alumni and supporters to make similar contributions in support of scholarship aid.