ENVIROLUNCH - 12:10 until 1:00, New Commons 221 - Project 350: Focusing the world's attention on climate change through local activism. Presentation by Julie Rosenbach, Environmental Coordinator, Ryan Dean, L/A 350 Project Coordinator Campuses, residents, businesses and non-profits are organizing around Project 350  with visual displays of “350,” educational forums, celebratory fairs, arts, bike rides, etc.  all leading up to and on Oct 24. Come find out how to get involved in the L/A effort! 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!)

FIELD HOCKEY vs. Maine Farmington. 5 p.m. at Campus Avenue Field.

AUDITION for the Robinson Players' EVENING OF ONE-ACTS!! 7pm in PGREW 204. No experience necessary! kmoraros@bates.edu FMI.

ADMISSIONS PHONE-A-THON: Come to the Admissions Office in Lindholm House tonight from 7-9 to get delicious food (Heidi’s Deli tonight and Tu Casa on Thursday) while calling prospective students for the class of 2014. For more information, contact eedmonso@bates.edu.

BROOKS QUIMBY DEBATE COUNCIL DEBATE: Are CHARTER SCHOOLS doing their students more harm than good? What do you think about education reform? Come to the debate team's first public debate of the year! Audience participation will be encouraged through floor speeches. All members of the Bates community are encouraged to attend!  7:00 pm in Chase Lounge

THE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, Bates’ one and only improv group, will be holding auditions this week! Please come to either group A or B and show us your WILD SIDE! Today from 4-6 (group A) and 7-9 (group B) in Skelton Lounge.

BATES BUDDIES will hold its first meeting of the year in New Commons room 130A at 8:00 in the Little Room, #226 New Commons.  Students interested in having fun at recess with 1st-3rd graders and being a part of the program are encouraged to attend!

Jon Furbush will be running an ADVANCED CONDITIONING CLASS to the open campus starting at 8pm in Alumni Gym. The class will run every Tuesday and Thursday from 8-8:30 pm through the month of October.  During October break week there will be class on Monday the 19th, but no class on Tuesday or Thursday of that week.  The purpose of the class is to enhance the endurance, speed and quickness for those who are looking to get into shape.  Proper workout clothing and footwear is required.  Attendance will never be taken and anyone is welcome to show up for any given day.

VILLAGE CLUB SERIES: Free show this Thursday night!! NICK MOTIL - @9PM in the Mays Center - "It’s really all about the music, says Motil. 'Two of my biggest influences are Paul Simon and David Gray because they value their songwriting and lyrics first. Another thing I have worked on is creating an original sound, using alternate tunings and unusual fingerings so I don’t sound like every other acoustic artist out there. What I’ve heard the most is that my songs make people feel as though they’ve "been there," sharing these life experiences with me.'” Find out more about Nick at http://www.nickmotil.com. As always, there will be free coffee, tea, chai, cookies, and good company.  What more could you ask for? For more info about upcoming shows and links to videos, music and more from the artists, join the VCS Facebook Group and visit http://www.bates.edu/vcs.xml

T-SHIRT CONTEST!   Looking for creative individuals to design the 2009-10 IM T-shirt and the FY League t-shirt.  See details at:  http://abacus.bates.edu/IM/tshirtcontest.html.   Deadline:  Sept. 28.

FILMBOARD invites you to see BRUNO this weekend!  Flamboyant Austrian fashionista, Brüno takes his show to America. Bruno has been referred by its website to as a 'delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay.' Show times are Friday at 7pm & 9:30pm, Saturday at 2pm & 7pm, and Sunday at 2pm & 4:30pm. As always, admission is only $1 and we will be raffling off movie posters at random showings over the weekend. **Food and drink will not be permitted this year. Anything you bring will have to be left in the hall. This includes water. Thank you for your cooperation. ****Please note that there will be nudity

This Friday night Bates is privileged to host COMEDIAN ROY WOOD JR. in the Benjamin Mays Center (Silo) at 9 p.m.  Roy Wood Jr. is a standup comedian from Birmingham, Alabama.  He has made appearances on the Late Show with Letterman, the Late Late show with Ferguson, Comedy Central, BET Comic View, Bob and Tom Radio Comedy Tour, and has performed at the Apollo.  This should be an amazing show, and its free! What a great way to start out the weekend.  This act is brought to you by the CHC (Chase Hall Committee), which is the activities programming board at Bates.  If you are interested in getting involved, meetings are most Mondays at 8:00 in the Hirasawa Lounge (top floor of Chase Hall).  We are always looking for new members, so don't hesitate to come and check it out.

THE OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS presents, for Homecoming Weekend, a series of programs featuring multicultural alumni. We are happy to welcome back participants from the classes of '97, '00, '01, '02,'03,'04,'06, '07 and '08.

Friday, September 25, 4:30 p.m. - ART EXHIBIT & RECEPTION - “Multicultural Alumni: Diversity in the Arts”.  Join the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Career Services for a reception featuring an exhibit by artists NaKeisha Gumbs ’07 and Tonya Taylor ’02 entitled “Two Sistahs Explore Double Consciousness in Their Post-Modern Worlds.”  A sampling menu and beverages will be served.  Chase Gallery, Chase Hall

6:30 p.m. - FILM SCREENING - (continuation of) “ Multicultural Alumni: Diversity in the Arts”  The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Career Services presents a screening of the award winning film “Spent”, a drama about being “consumed by consumption” and the spend cycle that many Americans have experienced. A discussion with screenwriter Angela Perkins Palmer ’00 follows the film. Refreshments will be served. Chase Lounge, Chase Hall

Saturday, September 26, 5 p.m. - CREOLE TABLE: PAN-CREOLITÉ DINNER - Join alumni from Creole cultures for a Creole dinner, with presentations by Neeraj Mahadoo ’01 “Mauritian Creolité: Where are the Plantains?"; Theresa Mendoza-Barbare '00 "Tagalog & Tag-lish: Interbreeding Languages From Spanish & American Colonialism in the Philippines"; and Leeanne Cunningham '08 "A Tale of Two Creoles: My Jamaican Mother, Mi Abuela Cubana & My Voyage of Discovery." Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. (RSVP required by Monday, September 21st, by e-mail only (ttaylor@bates.edu), space is limited to 45) The Den, Chase Hall

Sunday, September 27, 11 a.m. - BRUNCH & PANEL - “Using My Head: Choosing the Scholarly Life" with Stephen Gresham '03, Tasha Hawthorne '97, Sze-Wei Ang '01, Dr. Myrna Morales ’97, and Arda Gucler '07
Join the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Office of Career Services for a brunch and alumni panel discussion moderated by Lina Kong ’10 and Anthony Phillips ’10. The panel of graduates will discuss their paths to graduate school and careers in academia and medicine.  Room 131, New Commons Building

FREE BUS TO COMMON GROUND FAIR - This Saturday the Student Activities Office is offering a free bus to the Common Ground Country Fair, in Unity, ME.  The bus will leave from in front of Chase Hall at 10 am, and will leave from the Fair at 5 pm.  To sign up for this great free trip come by the Student Activities Office, in Chase Hall.

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 Commons 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.  Carneg 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.