A Hamilton College Student Publication, Clinton, NY December 3, 2009 Volume L Number 11 THE SPECTATOR FERMENTATION EDUCATION ITS Transitioning to Google Applications Student e-mail accounts will switch to Gmail by March by Russ Doubleday ’11 [Gmail] version. NEWS EDITOR “It’s almost like we have our own private, or internal, If you are not already famil- version of Gmail that connects iar with Gmail and other Google into the main systems that we applications, you soon will be. have with a little more ability Throughout the spring semester, to customize,” said Thomas. Information Technology Ser- All Hamilton students will vices (ITS) will be transitioning transition to Google Apps dur- the entire Hamilton community ing the first week of March, and off of SunJava Communications ITS will clearly communicate Express e-mail and onto Google to the students what they will Apps for Education. All e-mail need to do and when. ITS will addresses will remain the same migrate to it as early as the end regardless and communication of January, and then a group of via e-mail during the transition students (such as ITS or com- will not be affected. puter lab employees) and staff PHOTO BY KRISTEN MORGAN-DAVIE ’12 Google Apps for Education will migrate to make sure that Max Wall ’10 (right) has been nominated for a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to is more expansive than Gmail, everything is smooth and per- pursue research on fermented foods across the globe. See the full story on page 8. Google’s webmail service. fected. If this all goes as planned, Google Apps provides more the students will move onto programs such as a calendar Google Apps, followed by the and document services that are faculty and staff with the transi- College to Welcome Ten New powered by Google, and the tion process extending into the applications will be accessible beginning of May. through the MyHamilton page Students who are abroad as the SunJava e-mail client is will transition with the rest of Students from POSSE Miami now. the student body during the first by Rebecca Pomerantz ’12 Since POSSE’s establishment Diversity Initiatives Professor “There are a lot of similari- week of March, but they will NEWS WRITER with Hamilton, there have been Steve Yao were looking into part- ties between [Gmail and Google have the option to opt out and 10 students (referred to as POSSE nerships with groups in Texas or Apps], but there are also some wait until May if they so desire. It is no secret that Hamilton “Scholars”) selected for each en- Washington D.C., but ultimately distinct differences,” said Jes- “The exact number of stu- aims to accept an increasingly di- tering class, making for a total of decided to join the Miami pro- se Thomas, a network/systems dents that will go per day, we’re verse group of intelligent students. 40 POSSE Scholars on campus gram. “It’s a city with a growing administrator for ITS. “Google still figuring that out because we An important effort in growing the at any given time. This statistic population and it is a great place Apps is really focused around have to determine how many can campus’ diversity since 2001 has is about to change. to spread the Hamilton name” said being able to collaborate as an go, how long it’s going to been the acceptance of students Starting with the class of Inzer. institution. Those features just from the POSSE program from 2014, Hamilton will begin its Hamilton’s administration don’t exist in the consumer see Gmail, page 2 Boston. partnership with the new Miami- and faculty takes great care in the POSSE, a program founded based POSSE in accepting 10 selection, orientation and mentor- and presided over by MacArthur students from this program in ing of its accepted POSSE Schol- Fellowship recipient Deborah addition to continuing the selec- ars. Inzer said that when choosing Bial, is an expanding program tion of Scholars from the Boston their student group, they look for geared towards giving inner group. Originally, Hamilton’s students who “compliment each city high school students an op- administrative group that works other as a group” as opposed to portunity to achieve a top-notch with POSSE, including Dean of being comprised of the same types education with the backing of a Admissions Monica Inzer and peer and faculty support system. Assistant Dean of Faculty for see POSSE, page 2 San Francisco State Professor Speaks on Human Trafficking by Ramya Ramnath ’13 sality is defined in opposition to the Hua cited the Victims of Traf- NEWS WRITER particular, but the particular is con- ficking and Violence Protection stitutive of universality.” This para- Act in 2000 as an example of the On Monday, Julietta Hua, as- dox, she explained, forms the basis productive nature of power, as such sistant professor of women and gen- for a bias in the formation of human acts place power in the hands of der studies at San Francisco State rights towards the western world the general public and makes the University, presented her views on and its beliefs. As a result, much of issue of human trafficking “hy- GRAPHIC BY ERIN HOENER ’10 the issue of human trafficking and what is considered a universal right per visible.” She then touched on Once Hamilton switches to Google Apps, students will have sex trafficking. Through examples is applicable mainly to American the problem of the victimization access to tools such as Google Calendar and Google Docs. of posters from awareness programs and European populations. paradigm, the problem of people feigning the status of a victim. She and public service announcements, She emphasized that while SPECIAL: Student Assembly Presidential Election 4-5 she highlighted the inherent bi- human rights provide a “positive identified this as a major problem ases of such work and the effect it site through which global gender because the government provides OPINION: Is Hamilton’s Writing Program Effective? 6 has framing global efforts against violence can be addressed,” it also many privileges to victims which trafficking. presents a problem in defining hu- are sometimes abused by illegal A & E: Walkmen to Bring Ferocious Sound 10 Hua discussed the paradox of man rights such that they apply to Sports: Heartbreak for Kosgei ’11 18 universality, the idea that “univer- all cultures. see Trafficking, page 2 INSIDE December 3, 2009 Page 1 NEWS THE SPECTATOR POSSE Miami Coming 2014 from POSSE, page 1 for more Miami students. They be able to have a dynamic impact NESCAC NEWS are leaving a legacy.” on their respective schools,” said of leaders. Once the Scholars ar- “The program fosters strong, Emerson Sosa ’10, a member of by Amanda Jordan ’10 rive at school, they are assigned a supportive relationships among the Boston based POSSE. “They NEWS WRITER tenured faculty mentor, in addition students, while also providing [the Miami POSSE Scholars] will to receiving the support of Dean extensive leadership training,” be immersed into a new culture, Yao who is the POSSE-Hamilton said Yao. “This combination helps but regardless I know that they Bowdoin College / Wesleyan University academic liaison. students be successful in a chal- will rise above and stand out as Despite the growing number lenging academic and social envi- leaders.” Russell Perkins and William Oppenheim III, 2009 gradu- of students in the POSSE program ronment such as Hamilton.” With Hamilton’s faculty and cur- ates of Wesleyan University and Bowdoin College respec- at Hamilton, there is no intention the support of one another and rent Boston POSSE Scholars tively, are two of the thirty-two Americans recently named to change the way the program their faculty mentors, Hamilton’s anticipate interactions with the as Rhodes Scholars. This prestigious scholarship began in will be run on campus. The Col- POSSE Scholars have thrived on new students from Miami both 1902 by Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and African lege hopes that the current POSSE campus in both academics and to further diversity and to fur- colonial pioneer. The scholarships pay for the full costs of students will act as a support group other activities. ther leadership on campus. Said study at the University of Oxford in England and provide for the new Miami students, just “I think that POSSE scholars Inzer, “These kids are really bright stipends for living and travel expenses. as the current POSSE students are successful by nature. The se- and talented and wouldn’t have have always supported each other. lection process is so rigorous and dreamed it was possible to attend While at Wesleyan, Perkins founded a prison education Inzer said that the “Boston stu- extensive that natural leaders and a school like Hamilton. We want program, which provides residents of the Cheshire Correc- dents paved the way for Miami scholars are chosen to be a part of to make Hamilton available to tional Institution with Wesleyan courses. Perkins aspires to students, who will pave the way POSSE with hopes that they will students who have earned it.” receive a master’s in philosophy at Oxford. He said, “The core of this [prison] program I’m working on right now is the effort to democratize access to a higher education. I’d like to continue to advocate for that, for education as a vital Lecturer Works to Debunk tool for social change.” Oppenheim self-designed his major at Bowdoin, combining anthropology, religion, and educa- tion. His research has focused on how religion, education, Myths of Human Trafficking and politics interact in India, Brazil and South Africa. At Oxford, Oppenheim intends to study comparative and inter- vice announcements and posters, stable, while the issue of trafficking national education.