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CAB Special Events presents "UFOs: A Hidden History,"a lecture by renowned UFO investigator Robert Hastings, on Monday, Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Annex. He will attempt to prove the existence of UFOs and a vast government conspiracy to cover them up using recently unclassified documents from the CIA, FBI, U.S. Air Force, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. This lecture is funded by student assembly.

Philip A. Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, will present the season's first faculty lecture, "Is the Old Racism Really Dead? An Analysis of Anti-Miscegenation Referenda in South Carolina and Alabama," on Friday, Sept. 27 at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit at Kirner-Johnson. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series continues the Classical Connections Series with the famed chamber orchestra I Musici de Montréal playing a concert titled “Night Music,” on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall on the campus of Hamilton College.

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Sept. 22 edition of Newsday. "A Debate Around Morality" discusses welfare reform and the need to provide educational opportunities for welfare recipients.

The Hamilton College Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series will continue with a lecture by activist, poet and author Luis Rodriguez on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn on the Hamilton campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Hamilton students and employees are reminded that Hamilton College IDs will be required to gain entrance to the special reserved seating section for the Rudy Giuliani lecture on Monday, Sept. 23. Those with Hamilton IDs may bring one guest. Hamilton community members without IDs are welcome to sit in the general public seating area. Attendees are reminded that large bags or backpacks cannot be brought into the field house for this lecture. Also, there will be no photography, video or audio recording permitted at this event. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. If the field house reaches capacity, the doors will be closed and lecture-goers are invited to view Mr. Giuliani's speech via closed circuit TV in the Science Aud., Physics Aud., Science 313, 318 or 323.

"Jazz in Caz," a weekend jazz and street painting festival to be held in Cazenovia on Friday, Sept. 20, through Sunday, Sept. 22, will feature some Hamilton College talent. "Doctuh" Mike Woods and the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble will perform on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. at the outdoor stage/theatre on Lincklaen Street next to the Lincklaen House and Cazenovia College Theatre. Hamilton a cappella group "Tumbling After" will perform at 6:20 p.m., and a cappella group "The Buffers" will perform at 6:40 p.m., both at the outdoor stage/theatre.

Hamilton College Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was interviewed for an article about the growth of homeschooling for the Denver Rocky Mountain News (Sept. 2, 2002). "In the early '90s home schooling was still questionable...In the last 10 years in this country it's become an acceptable, if still unconventional school option," Stevens said.

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was a guest on a St. Paul, Minn., radio talk show on Sept. 18. Stevens discussed homeschooling with host Ruth Koscielak, whose show is heard on five affiliate stations in Minneapolis. Stevens is the author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton, 2001).

A book edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, to which she also contributed, has received a positive review in the recent Bryn Mawr Classical Review (9/14/02). The reviewer, Barbara Goff of the University of Reading, calls the book "substantial and impressive," and says "Nancy Rabinowitz's Introduction does an excellent job of dancing through what she rightly calls the 'minefield' of the critical terminology surrounding matters of gender and identity."