BATES BALLROOM SOCIETY – Tonight at 8 pm in the PE room at the Merrill Gym- Last Dance Workshop before Gala. All levels (beginner to advanced) are welcome! Come and learn how to swing and foxtrot

1:30-3:00 p.m., Chapel.  YOGA FOR THE SEASONS: WINTER TO SPRING.  Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat, towel or blanket.

THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT invites you to a presentation by HELEN B. REGAN, Connecticut College on “Educating Relational Leaders: The Impact of Gender, Culture and Learning Environments" - today - March 22 - 4:15 pm - G21 - Pettengill Hall - Refreshments will be served!!!

ATTENTION JUNIORS!!  Please come to the Annual Junior Class Dinner  today, March 22nd at 5:30pm in Chase Lounge. The featured speakers  are the senior leaders: Jamie Nissen, Tracey Begley, Nicole Moraco, Erin Culbreth, Katie Nolan and John Phelan. You will learn about the opportunities with Batestar, Senior Gift and being  Senior Class Co-Presidents. The food is great and you get a Bates latte mug! Don't miss out!

FIGURE DRAWING sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art.  Artists should bring drawing board and supplies.  Easels provided.  Admission: $7 (free to Bates students).  6-9 pm in Olin Arts Center, Room 259

“Honest Questions, Honest Answers: Everything you’ve ever wondered about Christianity.”  Come join us for an open forum to discuss questions of faith with a panel featuring: Javede Harris, Bates class of 2005; Father Frank Murray, Bates Associate Chaplain; Naomi Seelback, InterVarsity staff worker at Bowdoin; and Reverend David Wood, pastor of First Baptist Church in Gardiner, ME.  There will be free books and pizza!  All are welcome.  Today, March 22 at 7PM in Skelton Lounge.  Sponsored by Bates Christian Fellowship

PERFORMANCE: Today, March 22, 7:00pm, Mays Center -  Zaney Angels  presents "SHAMELESS", a trilogy of wicked powerful performance art.  Serious, goofy, sad, and quirky.  This is a full out dancing, song, and the spoken word about growing up in dysfunctional families and healing from childhood trauma. Visit www.zanyangels.com to find out more about this dance/theater company-with-a-mission.

BATES UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP – Canham House, room 4 at 7 pm…Come to the weekly meeting of the Bates BUUF!

THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES invites you to a talk and video presentation by: Shawn Batey, Mellon Learning Associate "Changing Face in Harlem" -Today, March 22nd - Olin 105, 7pm.  Refreshments will be served!

Come see KENNETH STARR, Dean of Pepperdine Law School, and former special prosecutor best known for “The Starr Report” that led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.  Judge Starr will lecture on his life experiences and the American Judiciary.  Today at 7:30 PM in the Muskie Archives

You are invited to join the, BATES COLLEGE INVESTMENT CLUB - (Every Wednesday) at 7:30 pm.  The BCIC is open to all Bates students, faculty and staff. Members will:  Help manage a REAL investment portfolio (REAL MONEY!) to support financial aid at Bates. Learn the principles of financial analysis and valuation. Room G65, Pettengill Hall.  The BCIC will be meeting on most Wednesdays this semester to study the principles of financial analysis and valuation.

8:00 p.m., College Chapel.  BUSY LIFE, PEACEFUL CENTER.  A weekly time of rest for body and soul.  Candlelight, quiet, brief readings of poetry and prose, student musical performances.  This week: Alix Zamansky ‘08, poetry; The Hyperactive Kids, dance.

THE MAINE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL is coming to Bates! Bates Hillel and Temple Shalom will screen the film “Another Road Home” tonight, March 22nd at 8pm in Olin 105.  Seating is first come, first served.  Admission is free!  Here’s a summary of “Another Road Home”: Shortly after the Six-Day War noted Israeli author Amos Elon and his wife, Beth, hire a Palestinian man to take care of their six-month-old daughter, Danae. Musa Obeidallah continued in this role for the next twenty years until Danae was grown and he was able to save enough money to send all eight of his sons to America. In the early 1990s, with the mounting tension of the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Intifada, the two families lose track of each other. In her award-wining documentary, Danae sets out to find the man who served as her devoted and trusted caregiver. She first reconnects with his sons, now in New Jersey, and then reunites with Musa himself. The film explores the delicate boundaries between family, class and politics, and uncovers an emotionally complex story that is ultimately optimistic. For more information about other MJFF screenings (March 18-26th in Portland) go to http://www.mjff.org.

The Spanish House will be having SPANISH HELP SESSIONS on Thursdays and Saturdays from 2 to 6 pm. If you need help with essays or different topics, drop by. Please email Rafael Pacheco (rpachec2), Jacqueline Smith (jsmith) or Omar Maxwell (omaxwell) before stopping by.  The Spanish House is on Wood St.

LECTURE: Beauty Without Borders? Fashions, Global Feminisms, and Neoliberalisms - A Lecture By Dr. Mimi Thi Nguyen - Thursday, March 23, 4:15 pm, Pettengill Hall, G52 (Keck Classroom) - This paper looks at the women's NGO Beauty Without Borders and its effort to build a beauty school in Kabul to teach Afghan women the art and commerce of beauty. How do dress and beauty constitute not just metaphors for geopolitical contests but also the pragmatics of imperial and neoliberal policies?

 Do you have stories running through your head? Come to this week’s meeting of THE STORYTELLING CLUB and share and hear stories about this weeks theme: running. Hope to see you there! In PGILL G56 at 6 pm on Thursday, March 23.

DESIRE - Film by Julie Gustafson and the Teenage Girls' Documentary Project - Thursday, March 30, 7:00 p.m.- Olin 104 - A Panel Discussion with director Julie Gustafson and filmmakers Kimeca Rodgers and Tiffanie Johson will follow the screening.  Nearly a decade in the making, this film documents the challenges and desires of a group of young women in New Orleans by letting them film their own stories. As this diverse group of young women—two teenagers from the Desire housing projects, a single mother from the working-class suburb of Belle Chase across the river, and two girls from the most prestigious private high school in New Orleans—make short films about their own desires, this  film records the intimate dramas of their changing lives.  Sponsored By: Art and Visual Culture Department, Women and Gender Studies Program, Psychology Department

VILLAGE CLUB SERIES:  March 23rd - Mike Errico - Another great performance.  Mike has been on tour opening for the great Leslie Gore - this will be another fun show. In the Benjamin Mays Center on Thursday, March 23 at 9 pm

It's THE academic event of the year!  48 student talks!  92 research and service learning posters!  Dance! Film! Photography! Poetry!  Don't miss YOUR FRIENDS' presentation at the 5th annual MOUNT DAVID SUMMIT.   Festivities begin at 2:30 on Friday, March 24 in the Perry Atrium.  Afternoon sessions from 2:30-6 PM.  Evening events start at 7 PM.  Come for all or part of the event.  Lots of food--lots of fun.  See exactly WHO is doing WHAT and WHEN at http://www.bates.edu/mt-david-summit.xml .

WORLD MUSIC WEEKEND '06 - The Ramayana in Southeast Asia - Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Friday, March 24, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. - Cambodian Dance Demonstration and Workshop - With members of the Washington D.C. based Cambodian Classics Ensemble.  Free Admission

Friday, March 24, 8 p.m., THE CAMBODIAN CLASSICS ENSEMBLE (Performing scenes from Hindu epic Ramayana).  Pre-concert lecture at 7:30 p.m. with Dr. Joanna Pecore, Smithsonian Institution Free Admission

Saturday, March 25, 4 p.m. - Bates College Music Department and program in Dance present "The Abduction of Sita" - Dance-drama based on the Hindu Epic Ramayana - Guest Artists: Undang Sumarna (artistic director/drummer) and Ben Arcangel (choreographer/dancer) perform with The Bates College Gamelan and Dance students.  Free Admission

DO YOU WANT BATES EMAIL AFTER APRIL 17???  Do you want to get Bates email after April 17?  ILS is making changes to Bates email on April 18. If you use Webmail, you do not need to make any changes to the settings on your computer.  You will be able to send and receive messages.  If you use Thunderbird or another program for email, you will need to make changes to your email settings if you want to be able to send or receive email after April 17. Changes for Thunderbird can be found at  FAQ #1 at http://abacus.bates.edu/ils/offices/helpdesk/faqemail.html  If you use a mail program other than Webmail or Thunderbird, general setting information can be found at FAQ #6 at http://abacus.bates.edu/ils/offices/helpdesk/faqemail.html. Questions on email changes can be directed to Help Desk Services at 8222.

SENIORS! PLEASE CONTINUE GIVING TO THE CLASS GIFT. We need your support for green energy! You can give online at http://transakt.bates.edu/pay/development, which is through online giving. * Be sure that under “I wish to designate my gift to” you check “other” and write “senior gifts” Also Amstee is matching all gifts of $25 or more, so $25 is really $50!

GRASS FIELDS: looking for an area to enjoy the warm sunshine?  Please use the following areas on campus:  Page field, Rand field, Bardwell Field, and the Bill field.  These areas are available for general student use during the rest of Winter Semester.  Please wear sneakers - NO CLEATS!   The baseball, softball, football, and soccer fields are NOT in condition to be used at this time.  Thank you for your cooperation!

Noon Bio Dept. Luncheon – Rowe Room, Side A
4:00 pm College Choir Rehearsal – Olin 210
5:00 pm Chinese Table – Room 15, Commons
7:00 pm Bates Christian Fellowship Meeting – Hirasawa Lounge
8:00 pm Busy Life, Peaceful Center – Chapel
9:00 pm  Juggling Club – Hirasawa Lounge
9:00 pm OUTfront, the student group "for people of all genders and sexualities." - Chase Hall, upstairs and down the hall on your right. ALL ARE WELCOME!!!