WASTE AUDIT – Where does your trash go? Today it will be in front of Commons. Come see the EcoRep’s waste audit from 11 am to 1:30 p.m.. Countless recyclables are thrown in the trash every day. Think about your waste and where it goes!

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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

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VOLLEYBALL vs. Maine Maritime. 7 pm in Alumni Gymnasium

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 tonight 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

MUSE OF FIRE - TONIGHT  @ 7:30pm, The Olin Arts Center - David Katz’s critically acclaimed biographical play about his apprenticeship with Maestro Charles Bruck at the Monteux School for Conducting here in Maine. “unique depth and humor… tremendous verve… and palpable passion.” - Chicago Sun-Times. MUSE of FIRE is David Katz’s extraordinary one-man play about the art of conducting.No other work of theater so vividly conveys the power of great music to open hearts and touch the soul. It is an event at once gripping, humorous and ultimately deeply moving. MUSE of FIRE features beautifully recorded orchestral works by more than a dozen
beloved composers exquisitely woven into the fabric of the story. It was the last play directed by Tony Award winning actor and acclaimed Broadway director, Charles Nelson Reilly. www.museoffiretheplay.org Tickets: General Admission $6 www.batestickets.com

8:00 PM Olin Arts Center, Room 105 -- Film: GLOBAL LENS: MUTUM. Thiago is a sensitive and imaginative boy living on a small, hardscrabble farm in a remote region of Brazil. His life is filled not only with curiosity and youthful discovery, but also the reality of his parent's unhappy marriage and his father's abuse -- all of which are one day changed by a chance encounter and unexpected gift. Director Sandra Kogut, in her poetic adaptation of the Brazilian short story Campo Geral, focuses on minute details of rural life to tell a bittersweet story of one boy's coming-of-age amidst events both great and small. $5 general admission, free for Bates students. (Brazil, 2007, 95 min.) http://www.globalfilm.org

Tonight 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 it’s 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.

FREE BUS TO COMMON GROUND FAIR –Saturday, September 26.  Bus leaves at 10 am and returns to campus at 6:00 pm – Sign up in the Student Activities Office in Chase Hall

POETRY READING: There will be a poetry reading on Saturday at 2 p.m. on top of Mt. David. Come listen to poetry and read your own if you want. Brought to you by the Verse House. For more information, contact japrea@bates.edu.

Saturday September 26, 2009--6:00 PM Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge --Panel Presentation: Pan-Creolité: Alumni from Creole Cultures. Presenters include Neeraj Mahadoo '01, discussing Mauritius; Theresa Mendoza-Barbare '00 (the Philippines) and Leeanne Cunningham '08 (Jamaica). Part of the weekend's Multicultural Alumni: Diversity in the Arts events. Seating is limited to 40; RSVP required. Call 207-786-8376.

ATHLETES!  Leadership meeting on Sunday, Sept. 27 @ 7:30 pm in New Commons room 221.

YOM KIPPUR SERVICES: Hillel and the Multifaith Chaplaincy are happy to announce that Neil Hirsch of Hebrew Union College in New York will be returning to Bates to lead Yom Kippur Services this Sunday and Monday.  Services will be as follows: 
Sunday, September 27:
7:30PM Kol Nidrei Evening Service in Chase Hall Lounge
Monday, September 28:
10:00AM Yom Kippur Morning Service (Shacharit, with Yizkor service immediately following) in Chase Lounge
4:00PM Torah Study/"Stump the Rabbinical Student" in Chase Lounge 5:00PM Afternoon Services (Minchah) in Chase Lounge
6:00PM Concluding Services (Neilah and Havdallah) in Chase Lounge, with break fast immediately following in Muskie Archives

Blues quartet "SWEET DADDY COOL BREEZE" for a concert at the Mays Center on Sunday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. Wally "Sweet Daddy" Greaney on Hohner harps, sax and vocals  Mark Easton on guitar and vocals, Joe Fonda on bass, Peter Perfido on drums – FREE!!!

T-SHIRT CONTEST   The deadline to submit your design for the IM and FY League t-shirts is Monday, Sept. 28   For more details, see:  http://abacus.bates.edu/IM/tshirtcontest.html

FIRST SEASONAL FLU SHOT CLINIC FOR STUDENTS - Monday, September 28, 3:00pm - 5:00 (or until vaccine runs out). New Commons 221        $10.00 Cash     Please Wear Short Sleeves! It's a first come, first served basis beginning at 3pm on the 28th. The Health Center has ordered several hundred more doses of seasonal flu vaccine as well as H1N1 vaccine.  Depending on when the vaccines arrive, we may be offering both  H1N1 and Seasonal Flu vaccines to students during one vaccine clinic.  (The CDC has included simultaneous vaccination in their guidelines).

6:00 pm  COLLEGE SHUTTLE - The shuttle runs on Friday and Saturday nights from 6 pm - 12 am, and Sunday from 12 pm - 6 pm.  The shuttle runs to Auburn locations at the beginning of each hour, and runs to Lewiston locations on the half hour.