DID YOU KNOW? Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president of the U.S., in 1872.   March is the annual celebration of national women’s history month, a time to honor the achievements and contribution of women.

Multifaith Chaplaincy - Beginning Tomorrow at Noon - GOING ON TOGETHER - A Weekly Conversation For and Among Those in the Bates Community Who Have Lost a Loved One in the Last Year-  Wednesdays at Noon March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8 and 15- Multifaith Chaplaincy Common Room - 161 Wood Street 2nd Floor - Bill Blaine-Wallace, Convener

LECTURE: Adam Nagourney, Chief Political Reporter for the New York Times, will be addressing the Bates Democrats in Pettengill G21 at 4 PM. He will be talking about the recent election, and its aftermath. Chai and cookies will be served.

BIO LECTURE: Dr. Hilary Neckles - Research Ecologist - USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - "Science in Support of Seagrass Ecosystem Management" - 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 - Pettengill Hall, G-54, 4:15pm - Coffee and Cookies served before the lecture!!

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 – 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.

HOUSING LOTTERY is fast approaching! Here are the dates and times you should know. Rising Sophomore lottery will take place on Wednesday, March 18th at 7 PM. All lotteries will be held in Chase Lounge.

AUDITIONS for Private Eyes by Steven Dietz - Directed by Matthew Paul '09 will be held 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.

PHYSICS 108 PALG session on a special night! Open to all students of Physics 108 and is led by Maddie White. 7pm Carneg 113

Working on a paper? Get some feedback tonight about your writing from experienced Bates peer writing assistants. The Peer Writing Center in Ladd is open from 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday nights as well as Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5. No appointment necessary--just stop by with your paper and assignment and enjoy some constructive conversation about your writing. See you there!

PEER WRITING ASSISTANTS STAFF MEETING at 7:15 p.m. upstairs in Little Meeting Room in New Commons #226.

Interested in WATERSKIING DURING SHORT TERM?  Come to the Waterski Club's spring meeting to elect new officers and talk about getting on the water in a few weeks. 7:30 pm in Pettengill 127

Come join the BATES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP at 8pm in Hirasawa Lounge (Chase Hall) to sing, hang out with other Christians on campus, and talk about God's unfailing love!

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

THE LOVE 146 FAST against child sex trafficking is this Thursday with about 370 students having signed up last week.   On Thursday, join us in standing in solidarity with these children at 6:30 PM at the lower Library Terrace for a brief vigil.  There will be a five minute video about the work of Love 146, time for silent reflection, opportunity to hear of other ways to get involved, and a closing prayer.  Sponsored  by the Bates Christian Fellowship.

CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM: Bates a capella groups and  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 Department of ART AND VISUAL CULTURE Presents: Susan L. Ward, Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of Design - Wrangling the Gothic Census: How Americans Collected Medieval Sculpture - Olin Arts Center, Room 104 - Thursday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.  Reception Following

"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.

LECTURE: JUNOT DÍAZ is the 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. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009.  He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. – Friday, March 30 at 4:30 pm in the Benjamin Mays Center

COFFEEHOUSE: The International Club presents to you another great coffee house. With a whole range of performance including a bollywood dance, a sword-balancing belly dancer, some hip hop antics and plenty more!!! Come one and all to Chase Hall lounge at 7.30 pm on Friday, March 20th and witness a great exhibition of talent from all over the world!!!

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)

Have no fear, the DATING DOCTOR IS HERE! That's right, the man who inspired the movie Hitch with Will Smith is coming to Bates this Friday at 9pm in the Benjamin Mays Center.  David Coleman is known nationwide as The Dating Doctor and "America's Real-Life Hitch." He has been named the National Speaker of the Year on 10 separate occasions - 7 times by Campus Activities Magazine and 3 times by The National Association for Campus Activities. He recently won again for 2006! He is a highly sought after speaker, entertainer, and retreat facilitator. - http://www.datingdoctor.com/bio.html The Dating Doctor David Coleman is brought to you by the Chase Hall Committee.

BATES BUS SCHEDULE: The bus departs from Campus Ave. in front of Chase Hall.  Sign-up in advance for all trips in the Student Activities Office in Chase Hall.  This Saturday’s trip will be going to the OLD PORT free.  Bus leaves Chase Hall at 12 noon and returns to campus at 5:00 pm.

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, bring your Bates ID when to the show.  This show is open to the public, so tell your friends at other schools!  General admission is $15.  This concert is brought to you by the Chase Hall Committee.  Meetings are every Monday at 8:00 P.M. in the Hirasawa Lounge in Chase Hall.

4:15 pm Come to Debate’s weekly practice – Pettigrew 309
5:00 pm Chinese Table – New Commons Building, Room 131 A,B,C
6:00 pm Come to the LATINOS UNIDOS meeting in the Multicultural Center! Latinos Unidos is an organization that aims to create awareness of Latino Cultures in the Bates community while serving as a support system for its members. Share your ideas, help plan upcoming events and club activities, and bring your friends! All meetings are open to everyone and will be held in English. See you there!
6:30 pm Come join the Outing Club (the best and biggest club on campus) for their weekly meeting every Wednesday at 6:30 pm in the basement of Alumni Gym.  (To get there: take the side entrance closest to New Commons, down the stairs and take your first right through to the BOC room).
7:00 pm Portuguese Table – New Commons, Room 116
7;30 pm Interested in learning about the exciting world of investing?? Come join the Bates College Investment Club and help manage a portfolio of $100,000! No prior experience of any kind is necessary.  Pettengill G10 (except for March 18)
8:00 pm The Bates Democrats weekly meeting in New Commons 221. Come join us!
8:15 pm Bates Christian Fellowship weekly at 8:17pm in Hirasawa Lounge (Top floor of Chase Hall). Grab a friend and come ready to dive into what God has in store for us!
8:30 pm PostSecret Committee Meeting - All are welcome to help plan the PostSecret Event March 9th, and events surrounding. Email rchacko@bates.edu or ewrightt@bates.edu with questions.  Meet at Bill and Victoria's house: 32 Mountain Ave (across from the new dorm, on the corner). (until March 4)
9:00 pm Helicase Club Meeting – Come learn about the brand new Biology Club! New members are welcome!