SENIORS!!!  Every other year, seniors complete the Senior Survey, which evaluates the programs and services here at Bates.  Your combined responses give us a better idea of what we do well, and where changes are necessary.  Please log onto the Garnet Gateway to connect to and complete your personal survey.  Your participation is important and your responses will help influence our policies and programs.  If you have any questions please contact Bridget Harr in the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment Support at x8210 or by e-mail at bharr@bates.edu.

NOONDAY CONCERT: Suzanne Nance, soprano, singing songs by Schumann, Dvorak, Bach, and more.  Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm.  Free Admission.

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.

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. Today, 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.  4:15 pm in Muskie Room.

LECTURE: Kant and the 21st Century Stateless Nation: International Responsibility in Somalia. Somalia is a society without a state, as Kant would see it. The  challenge for a Kantian, international approach to Somalia is that of the stateless nation where we do, as Kant normally think would happen, revert to a  Hobbesian state of nature. What are Somalia's rights as a non-state? Do non-states have the right to remain non-states without outside interferences? Kant believes that states have to be hospitable to other states? Is the mere nature of a non-state such that they cannot be hospitable to other nations? Kevin Maguire, Instructor of  Philosophy and Logic at Southern University, will examine  the legitimacy of Kant's definition of  a state, as is given in  Toward Perpetual Peace, and engage in a discussion about international responsibility in occasionally inhospitable regions. 6:00 pm in Pettengill G65

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE POETRY: Students from William Pope. L’s course in contemporary performance poetry perform their final projects.  Free, no reservations.  7 pm in Schaeffer Theater.

CAMPUS FEUD CONTEST - TONIGHT!  Come watch 10 teams compete for the title of Campus Champion.  There are many opportunities for audience members to participate and win prizes!  Mays Center - 7:30 pm.

VOLUNTEER NEXT YEAR: 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.  8:00 pm in 161 Wood St. Conference Room

Looking for a supportive study environment.  Try MCC STUDY NIGHTS Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-9pm, Multicultural Center, 2nd Floor Lounge.

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!

THE MELLON LEARNING ASSOCIATES PROGRAM Presents: A discussion with Terri Kapsalis on The Hysterical Alphabet: Working Between Research, Writing, and Performance - Thursday May 21st, Room G65, Pettengill Hall at 4:15pm

Last chance ever to see FUNKBONE STRUMPET, this Thursday in the Little Room, 10 PM!  Wear something that doesn't stain red easily, and bid a decent farewell to Bates' heaviest band.

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!

The Student Activities Office is offering a great trip to go WHITEWATER RAFTING ON THE DEAD RIVER.  The trip will be on Sunday, May 24th.  The cost will be $75, and this will include rafting and all of the equipment, a roundtrip coach bus, snacks on the bus and a DVD of the rafting for each rafter to remember the trip. We are currently taking names and payments, so stop by the Student Activities Office in Chase Hall to reserve your spot. The trip is open to all students, staff and faculty, as well as affiliated friends and family members.  The recommended age is at least 14, in case you are interested in bringing children or siblings along for the ride. For students that are interested in going but are concerned about the cost, assistance is available - please ask if you are interested.

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 -KITE SURFING CLUB  - MUSHAHADA ASSOC.  (MUSLIM STUDENT’S ASSOC) - PAINTBALL BALL -  SHOOTING ASSOC.  - TABLE TENNIS   - VIDEO GAME CLUB  - VOLLEBALL W