Bates College | April 7, 2009

THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT candidate presentation in Cultural Anthropology - Brian Karl, Visiting Instructor, Colby College will give a lecture on "Appropriations of the 'Foreign' and Mediating the Social in Moroccan Popular Music" - Wednesday, April 8 ~ 4:15pm ~ Pettengill G21 - Refreshments will be provided!

This WEDNESDAY ONLY FILMBOARD proudly presents The Reader!!! Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) reflects on the formative sexual relationship he had with older woman Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet, in a Golden Globe- and Oscar-winning role) as a young teenager in this poignant drama set in post-World War II Germany. The passionate affair ended when Hanna disappeared. But years later, Michael learns she's on trial for horrific Nazi war crimes. David Kross plays the teenage Michael in this film based on Bernhard Schlink's best-seller. Show times are Wednesday at 7 and 9:30 ONLY in Olin 104. NOTE: due to popular demand, the Reader replaced the Spirit as the last movie of the semester. As always, admission is only $1 No better way to catch up on movies from this past fall or watch them again! Free posters are also available for the fall releases W., The Rocker, and Transporter 3, so please come see a Filmboard member at the showing if you are interested. Please remember, there is no food or drink allowed in Olin 104.

Students in THEA 364, Katalin Vecsey’s course in Advanced Voice and Speech, perform their final project, a production of the play CLOSER by Patrick Marber. "A brilliant and bracing new play, bruising and beautiful, shatteringly funny and devastatingly sad." (Variety) - Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30 pm in Gannett Theatre

CONCERT: The last time you will ever get to see Tyler Infelise, Brooks Puchner, Carola Cassaro, Matt Paul, Jessie Sawyer, and Molly Wolkin in concert with the CROSSTONES! Come see their favorite songs, all of their solos, a new song for this year, and a FIRST EVER for the Crosstones, along with all sorts of Senior Concert Fun. Wednesday, April 8 at 9:00 pm in the Benjamin Mays Center.

DOODLING: There's a lot of doodling going on out there! Have you wiled away a class, a meeting, a sporting event, a public lecture.....by doodling in a margin, on a letterhead, on a napkin, or what have you? Of course you have! We invite you to submit your creative doodle for display in the Bookstore. Feel free to submit your original or a copy of one or more of your efforts. ***All participants will receive a 10% discount coupon for a future Bookstore purchase and will be eligible for a prize drawing.** For inspiration and a bit more on doodling, check out this recent NPR article. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048 /~It's all about the fun~/ The Doodle Board is going up now, so relax and get creative! (We'll start taking submissions immediately--and we'll accept them until the fun wears off.)

If you are REMAINING ON CAMPUS FOR SHORT-TERM and want to switch rooms, please come to the Housing Office as soon as possible and fill out a short term room switch request form. Switches can take two forms:
1. If you know someone who will be vacating their room for short-term and you want to switch into their room, you can both email amcgeeha@bates.edu with the request.
2. You can fill out the short term room switch request form and turn it in to the Housing Office. You will be able to note your preferences on this form and will be housed accordingly, depending on what is available.
All short term room switch requests need to be handed in/emailed by May 1st. Please feel free to email housing@bates.edu with any questions.