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Even though first-years had barely stepped foot on �Ա���Ƶ’s campus last week, Adam Zimmermann ’10 didn’t waste any time getting the Class of 2012 fired up to vote. Recognizing a golden opportunity, Zimmermann, president of �Ա���Ƶ’s Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE), decided to integrate a voter registration drive into Link orientation meetings.

Geography professor Ellen Kraly’s hiking boots have logged many miles. Four years ago they went up Mount Baker in Washington state as Kraly raised money for breast cancer research, and next week they’ll be taking on Mount Baker’s larger Cascade neighbor, Mount Rainier, for the same cause.

The �Ա���Ƶ Press has dusted itself off and published its first book in 14 years. Released this summer, Crafting Fiction, Poetry, & Memoir: Talks from the �Ա���Ƶ Writers’ Conference is a collection of essays by a diverse group of authors who are passionate about teaching the art of writing.

While his students are on summer vacation, Patrick O’Neil, a social studies teacher from Charlotte, N.C., is spending time in a “summer school” at �Ա���Ƶ. Graham Hodges has written numerous books and articles about slavery. O’Neil and two dozen other K-12 teachers from as far away as California are taking on the role of […]

�Ա���Ƶ President Rebecca S. Chopp has been awarded the 2008 Professional Achievement Citation from her alma mater, the University of Chicago. The alumni citation honors Chopp for being a “pivotal figure in the field of higher education and a renowned scholar of religion and culture.”

Vic Mansfield, a longtime professor of physics and astronomy who helped lead an insightful workshop during the recent campus visit by the Dalai Lama, died Tuesday after a two-year battle with lymphoma. He was 67. Mansfield joined the �Ա���Ƶ faculty in 1973, armed with a doctorate in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell University and burning interests […]

At a time when many small-town movie houses have gone dark, the Hamilton Theater — once on the brink of closing — is thriving now more than ever. The movie theater remains a fixture of Hamilton in an era of mega-multiplexes and Netflix, according to The Post-Standard (Syracuse).

Dozens of �Ա���Ƶ students proved this past weekend that they are politically engaged when it comes to environmental issues.

A year and a half ago, �Ա���Ƶ music professor Laura Klugherz received a letter from a film company interested in using a piece of her music for an upcoming documentary about World War II. Klugherz didn’t think much about the request. In fact, she tucked the letter away in her files.

Students and faculty will not be the only ones working in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology next week.   Two Tibetan monks from Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y., will be creating a sand mandala in the reading room on the library’s third floor. (See this webcam to watch them work).