Feeling Stressed?  Come TO MINDFULNESS MEETINGS  - Every Monday, 12:10-12:40 *Please note the change to Mondays* 161 Wood St. Chaplaincy Common Room (#227) With Emily Wright-Timko. Mindfulness is a way of being aware of the present moment, developing gentleness toward ourselves and others, and releasing distracting thoughts of the past or future.  Each meeting, we'll check in, and then Emily will offer a brief poem or reading followed by a guided mindfulness practice. This will be a great way to relax, re-focus and re-energize.  Hope to see you there!  If you have questions about Mindfulness Meetings please contact Mike Milliken: mmillike@bates.edu / x6936 or Emily: ewrightt@bates.edu / x6125. Also, let Emily know if you'd like to lead us in a mindfulness practice. Cosponsored by B Well and the Multifaith Chaplaincy

PEER WRITING is back for Short Term!  Special Short Term hours: Monday through Thursday afternoons from 1 to 4 and Sunday through Thursday evenings from 7 to 9:30.  Just stop by for helpful, low-key feedback and suggestions for your Short Term writing projects – no appointment necessary. We're on the main floor of Ladd.

Join us in the Ronj at 8:30 pm for the ANNUAL THESIS READING for students who did a creative writing thesis. Seniors will each read about ten minutes of original poetry or prose for your listening pleasure.  Prose Writers: Jessie Sawyer, Allie Goldstein, Charlotte Bair-Cucchiaro, Anna Webster-Stratton, Sophie Nelson - Poetry Writers: Zach Kornfeld, Vicki Howard, Kristen Hewitt

SHORT TERM LECTURE SERIES: You are cordially invited to attend a series of guest speakers who will give special lectures in my short term course "Indigestible Memories of Food" (ACS: s10).  Each talk will begin at 2:30 and will be held in Pettengill Hall Room 257. Tuesday May 19th: Dara Reimers,  "Bread, Baking and Re(Memory) - (http://www.thebreadshack.com/)

LECTURE: You are cordially invited to attend a presentation by Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn entitled “The Metaphor Books 1967-2009.”  Simon Cutts is a poet, artist and editor who began Coracle Press in the early 1970s.  He began making work through concrete poetry, a form of visual presentation of the poem on the page.   Now he sees book-form as the physical metaphor for the poem itself. The Coracle Press Archives are held in the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Writer and artist Erica Van Horn's work was exhibited in Book Arts in the USA, an exhibition of work by 51 artists (1990); and in New Work, the 1986 annual Artist Members Exhibition of the Center for Book Arts.  With Simon Cutts, Van Horn directs Coracle Press.  Tuesday,  May 19 at 4:15 pm in Muskie Room.

INFO SESSION: Want to get to know people in Lewiston next fall? Come learn about an innovative program that allows Bates students to work with refugees and immigrants through Catholic Charities Maine and the Lewiston Time Bank. Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00 pm in 161 Wood St. Conference Room

May 20th -  OPEN HOUSE FOR THE CAMPUS FACILITIES MASTER PLAN UPDATE - To hear information and share ideas related to the Facilities Master Plan Update please join us for a second Open House on Wednesday, May 20th from 3:00 to 5:00 PM in New Commons Room 221. The Facilities Master Plan Update addresses current and future needs for the buildings, open spaces and facilities that compose the campus and establishes a framework for phased improvements. The Plan extends a vision that respects valued campus qualities and provides future guidance to enhance the unique living/learning environment of the College. We look forward to your participation.

ART LECTURE: Bates College Department of Art and Visual Culture Presents Veronique B. Plesch, Professor of Art, Colby College - Speaking on "Taking Italy Home: Souvenirs from the Grand Tour" - Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m., Olin Arts Center, Room 104 - Reception to Follow - Veronique Plesch is known to many of us as a leading scholar on late medieval and early Renaissance Italian and French art, especially for her fascinating work reading the graffiti etched into the frescoes of Italian churches. An additional interest of hers has been collecting the art and memorabilia of the Grand Tour. Five years ago, she mounted an exhibition at Colby of the work in the collection there but also of her personal collection of memorabilia: prints, paintings, and objects. She is speaking about that project and her collection in conjunction with our course on the emergence of the study of Italian art at the intersections of the Grand Tour and expatriate life in nineteenth and twentieth century Italy, "Desiring Italy."

BATES PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT presents a reading & book signing by LISA GENOVA, Class of '92, author of "Still Alice" - Wednesday, May 20th, 7:30 pm  Chase Hall Lounge. Dr. Lisa Genova is the author of The New York Times best-selling novel "Still Alice." Genova's debut is a poignant story about a lesser known form of Alzheimer's Disease - the early-onset  form that affects people is their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Powerful and compelling, the book has been hailed as "moving and haunting,"  "a work of pure genius," "insightful, tragic, inspirational" and  "Heartbreakingly real"  Genova graduated from Bates with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University.  Refreshments served!

CLAM BAKE: The Outing Club will be hosting its spring clam bake Saturday May 23rd at Popham Beach State Park for all those who have long been awaiting this day of sand, sun and seafood. Tickets will be sold in commons all week: $6 for seafood tickets $3 for  non-seafood tickets.  Food will be served from 10am-2pm.  All are welcome

ATTENTION STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Please submit names of new officers to the CSA Office as soon as you have elections. The CSA office is in the process of putting a list of all student organizations and their leaders for next fall’s directory. The following organizations have not submitted a list of new officers:

BATES BUILDING HOUSES - IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCACY GROUP – KITE SURFING CLUB  - MUSHAHADA ASSOC.  (MUSLIM STUDENT’S ASSOC)- PAINTBALL BALL -  SHOOTING ASSOC.  - TABLE TENNIS   - VIDEO GAME CLUB  - VOLLEBALL W