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Ten Hamilton College seniors were elected this month to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are: Schuyler Chapman, Carter Cox, Takehiko Kaminogo, Alison Lin, Andrew Magyar, Bryan Pettigrew, Shauna Sweet, Sarah Taylor, Jessie Turner and Richard Waite, V.

Poet, essayist and political activist Martin Espada will visit Hamilton College in November. He will read from his work on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, and will give a lecture, "Poetry and Politics," on Friday, Nov. 8, at 12 noon in the Red Pit. Both events are free and open to the public. Espada's visit is sponsored by the English department, Spanish department, Office of the President, The Levitt Center and La Vanguardia.

The Kirkland Project's series on Masculinities will repeat its panel, "What Makes a Man?: Intellectual Investigations into Manhood, Masculinities and Men," at Colgate University. Kris Paap (sociology), Nancy Rabinowitz (comparative literature), Dana Luciano (English) and Marianne Janack (philosophy) will be joined by Meika Loe, a faculty member in women's studies and sociology/anthropology at Colgate, for the panel discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., Ho Lecture Room, 105 Lawrence Hall.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, is co-author of a Harvard University report about spoiled ballots in the 2000 election. The Civil Rights Project (CRP) at Harvard University released the report, "Democracy Spoiled," by Klinkner, Christopher Edley, co-director of CRP, and Jocelyn Benson and Vesla Weaver, CRP research assistants. Their research found that whether or not a vote is counted greatly depends on where it is cast, proving that ballot spoilage is a national problem that dilutes the voice of millions of Americans. In 2000, two million people who turned out to vote were disenfranchised, according to the report.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley attended the Classical Association of the Atlantic States conference in New Brunswick, NJ, in October, where she introduced the luncheon speaker, Martha Southgate. Southgate is a novelist who wrote The Fall of Rome, which features as one of three protagonists a black classicist at an elite prep school in New England.

Profesor of Anthropology Bonnie Urciuoli will be the next guest in the Faculty Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson. Urciuoli's talk is titled "The Referential Complexity of the Words 'Multiculturalism' and 'Diversity.'"

The Society of Empirical Ethics, a component of the American Philosophical Association, along with the department of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, and the Institute for Applied Ethics at Utica College will hold a colloquium, “Science and the Foundation of Ethics,” on Oct. 25-27 at the Century House in Cazenovia.

Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery is offering an intriguing, concurrent trio of print exhibitions this fall. Open through November 2, this graphic triple-header includes one gallery devoted to contemporary, large format prints from the Emerson Gallery permanent collection. The second gallery focuses on Hamilton painting and printmaking professor Bruce Muirhead's collection of the best Hamilton student prints gathered over 30 years. The third gallery is slated for the Southern Graphics Council Student-Juried Exhibition.

The Society of Empirical Ethics, a component of the American Philosophical Association, along with the department of Religious Studies at Hamilton College and the Institute for Applied Ethics at Utica College will hold a colloquium, “Science and the Foundation of Ethics,” on Oct. 25-27 at the Century House in Cazenovia. The colloquium will examine the connections between modern empirical science and philosophical inquiry into the foundation of ethics.

Kevin Danaher, co-founder of The Global Exchange, will be the next guest in the Levitt Center Globalization series. He will give a lecture, "Globalize This! Why You Should be out in the Street Protesting the World Bank and IMF," on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Sponsored by the Globalization Seminar Series.