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NOONDAY CONCERT: Timothy Burris performs Works by J.S. Bach and Jacque Bittner. 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION WORKSHOP - Information Session. Noon – 12:30 pm AND 4:30pm-5:00pm, OCS Conference Room, 31 Frye Street.

MORNINGSTAR, INC. INFORMATION SESSION. 5:00pm-5:30pm, OCS Conference Room, 31 Frye Street

LECTURE: Professor PZ Myers is no stranger to controversy- viciously attacked by the American Catholic League, nearly dismissed from his tenured position, even threatened with assault and murder. Why? For insulting the wrong God at the wrong time. Hear him tell it in his own words at 5:00 PM in PGill G65 as the Bates Secular Student Alliance presents "The Importance of Blasphemy." This event is free, open to the public, and will be catered, so bring your friends!

PHYSICS 107 PALG session in preparation for this week's exam.  The session is open to all students of the class and is led by Jean McIntyre.  8pm Carn 113

TRIUMVIRATE ENVIRONMENTAL was named as a “Best Place to Work” by the Boston Business Journal for three consecutive years, in addition to being named as the 2007 “Best Large Environmental Services Firm” by the Environmental Business Council.  Come speak with recruiter, AnnMarie Blunda, to learn more about what this company has to offer. Wednesday, September 30 from 11 am to 1 pm in New Commons Renyi Room, #211.  Sponsored by OCS

The Outing Club welcomes MEATHEAD FILMS back to Bates College for the premier of their latest film, Wild Stallions. Winter is right around the corner and there is no better way to get psyched for it than by watching some rowdy ski porn, filmed on location at mountains all over the East Coast and Canada. Along with the mind-altering footage will be a sweet raffle with all the gear and apparel you need to get your steez on before the flakes start falling. Show starts at 8, but plan to show up a few minutes early to get a raffle ticket and mingle with the athletes.  All are welcome, admission is free, See you there. The BOC - Check out www.meatheadfilms.com for a preview of Wild Stallions and to learn more about Meathead Films – Wednesday, September 30th at 8:00 pm in Carnegie 204

PRESENTATION:  Scotland: The Traditions of Sustainability Folklore & Organic Farming -  Kaitlin Webber will talk about her experience as an Otis Fellow. The purpose of the Otis Fellowship program is to encourage Bates students to explore and reflect upon new adventures and innovative ways to understand, appreciate, and express our interdependencies with the earth in the tradition of Phil Otis ('95). Sponsored by the Office of the Environmental Coordinator and Environmental Studies Program. Thursday, October 01, 2009, 12:10 PM until 1:00 PM New Commons 22.

STITCHING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE!  We invite interested students, faculty, staff to gather at the Costume Shop in Schaeffer Theater on Thursday, October 1st from 4-7pm to cut and SEW DRAFT STOPPERS in our effort to make 350 (!) of them in conjunction with the L/A 350 Project on October 24th. These "stoppers" will help block drafts in doors and windows in a number of L/A homes and will be dispersed through an ongoing winterization project in Lewiston/Auburn.  If you'd like to help out, please contact Sarah Potter in the Bookstore (spotter@bates.edu or x6120).  We could use 4 or 5 people to sew straight lines and 4-5 people to cut fabric.  There'll be a few tasty snacks on hand, as well!

POETRY READINGS: Tessa Joseph Nicholas, former editor of Carolina Quarterly, has published poems in journals such as Sulfur, Talisman, minor/american, Cold Mountain Review, and the Seneca Review.  She holds an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and a PhD in English from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she teaches New Media Studies in the Department of Computer Science. Tessa is currently completing a poetry manuscript Kennebec: Birthing based on the 1785-1812 diaries of Martha Ballard, who during these years, worked as a midwife in Hallowell, Maine, the poet’s hometown.  Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbooks Shake Her (Dusie Kollektiv, 2009) and Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003).  She is co-editor of Starting Today: Poems from Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa, forthcoming 2010), amongst other anthologies.  Greenberg also is editor of a college reader, Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006).  She is an Associate Professor in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago and lives in Evanston, IL with her family.  Greenberg is spending 2009-2010 in Belfast, Maine working on an oral history of the new back-to-the-land movement. - Thursday, October 1 at 4:15 pm in Chase Hall Lounge

BAREFOOT SOCCER! Sign up to play in the Barefoot Soccer tournament on Saturday, October 10th. Gather a group of friends have fun & bring awareness of the impoverished who can’t afford shoes. TOMS shoes will be sold at this event. For more information, email kprins@bates.edu

Noon Reminder to Peer Writing Assistants: Staff meeting from noon to 1:00 in Pgill 162. See you there! 
6:00 pm German Table – New Commons Jarnyrd Room #222