LECTURE: Adam Nagourney, Chief Political Reporter for the New York Times, will be addressing the Bates Democrats on Wednesday, March 18th in Pettengill G21 at 4 PM. He will be talking about the recent election, and its aftermath. Chai and cookies will be served, please come join us!
BIO LECTURE: Dr. Hilary Neckles - Research Ecologist - USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - "Science in Support of Seagrass Ecosystem Management" - Wednesday, March 18th, 4:10 PM - Carnegie 204 - Presented by the Department of Biology
The Program in CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES PRESENTS Professor Anthony Hunter, Colby College - Cicero and Poetry: The Art of Quotation - Wednesday March 18th, Pettengill Hall, G-54, 4:15pm - Coffee and Cookies served before the lecture!!
AUDITIONS for Private Eyes by Steven Dietz - Directed by Matthew Paul '09 will be held on Wednesday, March 18 at 7:00 pm in Gannet Theater - Seeking Actors: 3 Men and 2 Women + Extras - Seeking Designers: Set, Lighting, Costume Production Dates: May 21-24 - All members of the Bates Community welcome. No prior theatrical experience necessary.
NEW YORK TIMES POLITICAL REPORTER VISITS BATES COLLEGE TO ASSESS OBAMA'S TRANSITION FROM CAMPAIGN TO OFFICE - Adam Nagourney, chief political reporter for The New York Times since 2002 – “From the Campaign Trail to the White House. Barack Obama's Tough Adjustment" - 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 – Muskie Room. Sponsored by the Bates Lectures Committee, the talk is open to the public at no cost. Nagourney joined The New York Times in 1996, first covering Bob Dole's presidential campaign before returning to New York to work as the metropolitan political reporter. In that position he covered the election to the U.S. Senate of Hillary Rodham Clinton, among other races. Before that, Nagourney worked at USA Today, where he covered the 1992 presidential election and the first year of Bill Clinton's presidency. He has also worked at the Daily News in New York and the Reporter Dispatch in White Plains. He is a graduate of Purchase College in Westchester, N.Y. Journalism seems to run in the Nagourney family. One brother, Eric Nagourney, is a New York Times colleague of Adam's, writing about health-related issues. Another, Sam Nagourney, is a senior at Bates who is one of two editors-in-chief at the student-run campus newspaper, The Bates Student.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Residents from BLAKE STREET TOWERS, a Lewiston Housing Authority apartment complex, will be visiting Bates for lunch. Come chat with residents and help those in wheelchairs to get food. 11am in Commons (131 Fish Bowl). – Thursday, March 19th. Sponsored by the Harward Center
The Politics Department invites you to a candidate presentation in International Political Economy - G A N E S H T R I C H U R, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, St. Lawrence University will give a talk on"East Asian Regional Dynamics and the Current World-Systemic Crisis" - Thursday, March 19 ~ 4:15pm ~ Pettengill G65 - Refreshments will be provided
CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM: Several Bates a capella groups along with bates dancers will be performing with performers from the Lewiston community to help raise money for the middle school’s Civil Rights Team so that the team may attend a student leadership competition. Admission is $3 for bates students with ID. Thursday, March 19th, 7pm, Lewiston Middle School Auditorium.
"THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS presents the first annual G.Ruff-J.Pribram colloquium on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 PM in Carnegie 204. Remember the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that opened up in Europe this past fall? Did you think it would suck us all up into a black hole? Come hear O. Keith Baker (Yale University, ATLAS Collaboration) talk about what the LHC is all about and find out the truth about the black hole scenario. Refreshments (including Chai) and desserts (including mini pastries and paw cookies) will be served after the colloquium."
READINGS: Sarah Manguso is the author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay(2008), the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007), and the poetry collections Siste Viator (2006) and The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James Books, 2002). In 2008 Manguso was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 pm in Skelton Lounge.
Friday, March 20, 2009 - CREOLE TABLE - Focus: Dominican Republic - 5.30 pm, Multicultural Center - Table's Guest: JUNOT DIAZ, author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. RSVP to ttaylor@bates.edu by next Wednesday (seating is limited to 20)
CHASE HALL COMMITTEE CONCERT: PETE FRANCIS AND BRADDIGAN OF DISPATCH are coming to Bates! They will be playing on the 21st of March (next weekend!) IN OLD COMMONS. Doors open at 8:00 and the show starts at 9:00. Barefoot Truth will be opening for them. Tickets for the show are being sold at the entrance to Commons from 5:30 to 6:30 Monday through Friday. Student tickets are $10, make sure you have your Bates ID when you come to the show. This show is open to the public, so tell your friends at other schools! General admission tickets are $15. This concert is brought to you by the CHC (Chase Hall Committee). If you would like to help out with our event programming, meetings are every Monday at 8:00 P.M. in the Hirasawa Lounge in Chase Hall.
