HUGE POSTER SALE – art, music, film, photography, vintage, humor, magnets, postcards, frames, tapestries, and more! Don’t’ miss it!! Today and tomorrow from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Chase Hall Lounge

BLOOD DRIVE: 2 seconds is how often someone in America needs blood. 3 is how many lives 1 blood donation can help save. 97% is the chance you know someone who will need a blood transfusion. Make blood donation a regular part of your life. ***BLOOD DRIVE*** Tuesday, September 22. sign up WED-FRI lunch and dinner outside of commons.  To give blood for transfusion to another person, you must be HEALTHY, be at least 17 years old or 16 years old with parental consent. You must weigh at least 110 pounds, and not have donated whole blood in the last 8 weeks (56 days) or double red cells in the last 16 weeks (112 days). Students YOUNGER than 19 years old must also meet height and weight requirements. If you have STUDIED ABROAD, please ask if you are eligible to donate. Stop by our table WED-FRI to find out if you are eligible to donate. BATES EMS

12: 10 until 1:00. New Commons 221 - OTIS SUMMER FELLOWSHIP PRESENTATION by Chad Frisbie, class 2010 - Biking the Ring Road: Rethinking the Icelandic Landscape. Pizza Provided! Sponsored by the Office of the Environmental Coordinator and Environmental Studies Program (EnviroLunch is a weekly community gathering for all students, staff, and faculty!)

Office of Multicultural Affairs - 2009-2010 ARTURO SCHOMBURG AFRO-LATINO SPEAKER SERIES presents Dr. Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, North Carolina Central University -4:30 pm,  Benjamin Mays Center. Please note: in February the Schomburg Series will host Professor Quince Duncan, whose research and scholarship focuses on Afro-Costa Ricans. For more information about the Afro-Latino Speaker Series please go to http://batesmulticultural.wordpress.com

The BATES MIRROR YEARBOOK will be having its first meeting of the year today at 4:30pm in Chase Hall, Room 215. The Mirror is a small club of student editors responsible for the publication of the college’s annual yearbook. We work both independently and as a group in order to capture the memorable fragments of a Bates experience throughout the course of the school year. We welcome students with any or no yearbook experience. If you like to write, take photos, edit, or design, the Mirror would love to have you! Please contact the Mirror at batesmirroryearbook@gmail.com if you can’t make it or have any questions. Hope to see you there!

PRE-CALCULUS REVIEW PART I for Calculus students.  The session is open to all students.  Topics include: exponents, logarithms, solving equations by factoring, and composition of functions. 7pm Hathorn 104

POETRY READING: Jack Collom (b. Chicago, 1931) grew up in Illinois and Colorado small towns, walking the woods, loving nature, then studied Forestry at Colorado A&M.  After four years in the U.S. Air Force as a clerk-typist, he worked in factories for twenty years while becoming a poet.  For the past thirty years, Collom has worked as a freelance poetry teacher, and also taught in the writing program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.  Collom has published twenty-three books and chapbooks of poetry, the latest being Situations, Sings (with Lyn Hejinian, published by Adventures in Poetry, 2008) and Exchanges of Earth & Sky (Fishdrum, 2006).  His selected poems, Red Car Goes By, was published by Tuumba Press in 2001. Collom also has authored three books on and of writings by children, including Poetry Everywhere (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1994). 7:30 pm in Muskie Room

Do you have an EMS license? Come to an informational meeting and get running with BATES EMS. Please bring copies of all your certifications. Questions? Contact Meg Curran (mcurran@bates.edu). 8pm, Skelton Lounge.

CAPTURE THE FLAG in the Quad at 8 pm. Meet at the steps of Hathorn.

Join the STRANGE BEDFELLOWS for their first show of the year! Come to the Ronj at 9pm for a night of laughs as Bates College’s favorite Improv Group performs short and long form Improv Comedy.

PE REGISTRATION ENDS FRIDAY, SEPT. 18.  If you need to register for a class or drop a class, you need to do so by 6 pm on Friday.  Students will NOT be admitted to class if you have not registered.

L'SHANAH TOVAH! Come join Hillel for the Jewish New Year! Rosh Hashanah Services will be held in Chase Lounge on Saturday, September 19th at 10AM, followed by Tashlich at the Puddle. Hope to see you there!

DISCORDIANS EVENT: Come by the Adams Lounge (2nd floor) Saturday night at 9 pm for pizza, more board games than you can dream of, and -- if you're good, Guitar Hero. Continue on to the 80’s dance or hang with us for the night. See you there! Sponsored by the Discordians, organizers of crazy, chem-free activities at Bates.

Just beat it, beat it, beat it; no one wants to be defeated, showin’ how funky strong is your fight, it doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right just beat it – onto the 80’S DANCE floor – get your Michael Jackson moves flowin’. Saturday, September 19th, 10pm-2am, Library Arcade. 

Calling all novice debaters! Come to the first DEBATE PRACTICE of the year. No experience necessary, all are encouraged to come. Liked what you saw in the public debate? Come argue! Monday, September 21st, 4:10pm, Pettigrew 309A.

OTIS LEXTURE: N. Scott Momaday, noted writer, poet and winner of the Pulitzer prize for his novel "House Made of Dawn." will deliver the 2009 OTIS LECTURE on Monday, September 21 at 7:30 pm in the Olin Concert Hall.  The title of his talk is "Heritage, Healing and the Land:  The Spiritual Aspect of Landscape."  His receipt of the Pulitzer Price represented a key event in the recognition of American Indian literatures.  Dr. Momaday will be available at a reception and book signing after his talk.  The lecture is free and open to the public, although a ticket is necessary.  Tickets can be reserved in advance by sending an email to: olinarts@bates.edu Any remaining tickets will be available at the door. On Tuesday, September 22, Dr. Momaday will hold an open informal writers forum in the Muskie Archives from 9:30-11:00.

FROM THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICE: Students, please be reminded of the following registration DEADLINES: The last day to add is Tuesday, September 22nd. Check your class schedule on the detail schedule in Garnet Gateway. Is it correct? Save yourself some time and money and make sure it is accurate before next Tuesday. See the late registration policy on our web site at http://www.bates.edu/Late-Registration.xml which includes the late fee schedule. Remember that not all late registration adjustments are approved. ----- The last day to select pass/fail grading is also Tuesday, September 22nd. To change your grade mode you must select and submit the pass/fail grading option on the Garnet Gateway. (Courses taken pass/fail may not be used to fulfill general education requirements. See the Catalog for more information.)

Wish to make a difference in the world? Join BATES STUDENTS AGAINST POVERTY! A relatively young group, BSAP needs new members to help fight poverty locally and globally. Email ristrati@bates.edu for more information.

Noon Christian Science Organizational Meeting -Our weekly meetings include readings and the sharing of experiences and ideas about how the challenges of campus life and beyond can be met through prayer and spirituality.  We warmly welcome all genuinely interested students, faculty, and staff.  New Cooms Little Room, #226 (except Sept. 24 & Oct. 22)
Noon Math Table – New Commons, Room 116
4:10 pm Brooks Quimby Debate weekly practice! – Pettigrew 309A
5:00 pm Japanese Table – New Commons, Room 116
5:00 pm  French Table – New Commons, Room 131 A,B,C
6:00 pm  Come Join Hillel for our weekly meeting. Grab your dinner and come on upstairs Renyi Room, 211.  All are welcome.
6:30 pm  Bates College Television will be meeting every Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 upstairs in Commons in the Little Room, # 226!
7:30 pm BEAM is a movement dedicated to taking direct action to fight anthropogenic global climate change through direct political participation and the promotion of carbon neutrality at Bates. Come to our meeting every Wednesday evening in Frye Street Union to talk about climate change, energy independence, and 350!
8:00 pm Weekly PALG session for Chemistry 217.  The session is open to all students of the class and is led by Harita Dharaneeswaran.  Carn 113
8:00 pm The Bates Democrats will be meeting in New Commons 221. Please join us!
8:00 pm Come to Northfield!  We are the all-inclusive, folk a cappella group on campus.  We sing all kinds of songs - from traditional shapenote music to African songs to Pirate shanties.  We'd love some new members, so come check us out: Thursdays and Sundays, 8-9 pm, Hirasawa Lounge in Chase Hall. No auditions, no experience necessary.