EXHIBIT: Students and professor, Trian Nguyen, will be displaying photography from their 2008 Short Term trip. The group spent four weeks traveling from southern to northern Vietnam studying the country’s artistic and cultural aspects. Until October 17th in the Chase Hall Art Gallery.

ENVIROLUNCH – Today, 12:10 until 1:00 - New Commons 221 - Marion Browning from Healthy Androscoggin presents: The Androscoggin Farm Guide - Produced last short term by Elise Walsh, class of 2009 and Healthy Androscoggin! 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!)

PRESENTATION:  Promoting Healthy Eating includes letting people know where to find it. Our County has a wealth of farmers producing excellent food! Come hear about how a Bates Environmental student & Healthy Androscoggin teamed up to create a local farm guide. Presentation by Marion Browning, Worksite Wellness Coordinator for Healthy Androscoggin. Sponsored by the Office of the Environmental Coordinator and Environmental Studies Program. Today, 12:10- 1 PM New Commons 221.

COMING OUT DAY PROGRAM featuring  Emanuel Xavier, Latino (Puerto Rico/Ecuador) poet and gay activist - Today, 4:30 pm, Chase Lounge. Emanuel Xavier is an award-winning queer Latino spoken word artist, author, and activist. He is author of the poetry collections, "Pier Queen" and "Americano", the Lambda Literary Award nominated novel, "Christ Like", and editor of "Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry" and "Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry". His work has been commissioned for the Walt Whitman Archives, UNESCO, and the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review. He has appeared on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry and been featured on CNN for an article to promote the documentary, "Latino in America."  Xavier performs regularly throughout the country and internationally sharing his sexual, political, cultural, and often religious themed poetics and has received the Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award, a New York City Council Citation, and a World Pride Award. He has been named one of the "25 Most Influential GLBT Latinos" and is currently working on spoken word/music collaboration CD and a new poetry collection.  In addition to reading his poetry, in recognition of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, he will be commenting on the impact of the rebellion on post-Stonewall young artists and activists. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs

There is a mandatory meeting for anyone interested in playing WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY this winter today, 7 p.m. in Carnegie 339. If you are interested but unable to make the meeting, please contact Kara at ksulliv2@bates.edu.

VCS: There is no better way to spend a Thursday night than eating cookies, sipping tea and listening to awesome music. Please join us today @ 9PM in the Mays Center for  VCS. This week EDIE CAREY is coming!  "Edie Carey's reputation is well-deserved. She is filled with such high-spirited energy and humor that you can't take your eyes off her. You need to have good stories, good lyrics, and a super-engaging style to pull off truly confessional music, and [she] does it with equal parts love for her audience and star-quality panache." COME SEE ONE OF BATES' FAVORITE PERFORMERS! Find out more about Edie at http://www.ediecarey.com  As always, we will be serving coffee, chai, tea, cookies, and the  utmost satisfaction. info from: http://sonicbids.com/ediecarey and http://www.Indiegrrl.com

The PEER WRITING CENTER in Ladd has new daytime hours. We're open Monday through Thursday from 11 to 5 and Friday from 11 to 3. Stop by for some constructive conversation about your writing - no appointment necessary. The Center is also open Sunday through Thursday nights from 7 to 11 and Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5.  See you there!

ATTENTION STUDENT ORGS!  Did you know that The Little Room and The Underground are great spaces to hold events? The Student Activities Office wants YOU to use the amazing available spaces on campus for your org's events! We have reserved these spaces on Wednesday nights this Fall from 9-11pm and we are offering $150 towards the cost of an event sponsored by your organization. Hold dances, host bands, karaoke parties, board game nights, fund-raisers, dinners, poetry readings...there are a plethora of activities your organization could sponsor in these great locations! Please contact Sara Noyes (via email snoyes@bates.edu, phone 755-5936) to sign up for a date - first come, first serve!

CREATIVE? ARTSY? MURAL CONTEST!! The Student Activities Office is holding a mural contest. The winner will have the opportunity to recreate their submission on the back wall of The Underground (the basement of 280 College Street). The winner will also receive a gift certificate to the Bates College Book Store. Submissions must be on paper and submitted to the Bates College Office of Student Activities no later than Monday October 26th. For more information please contact Sara Noyes via email at snoyes@bates.edu or phone (207-755-2936).

OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE PRESENTATION: Dr. Jim Moore will be visiting from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM). He will talk about the differences between Osteopathic and Allopathic medicine and LECOM. Friday, October 9th at noon in New Commons Renyi Room 211.

CONCERT: Described by The Boston Globe as "the best guitarist you never heard of," Glenn Jones of Cambridge, Mass., plays a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Ronj at 32 Frye St. The Concert is sponsored by your friends at WRBC. Opening for Jones will be Micah Blue Smaldone of Portland. Admission is free.

On Tuesday, October 13th, members of the V-12 PROGRAM will gather for their yearly Reunion at 11:00 a.m. in Muskie Archives, and all are welcome to attend. The V-12 program was established here at Bates in the 1940's for the purpose of training young men to go to war.  Listening to the stories these gentlemen tell is very interesting and entertaining.   If you would like to join members of the V-12 program, as well as members of the Bates community for this luncheon, please RSVP to Shanna Bruno no later than Friday, October 9th.  You can reach her by email at sbruno@bates.edu, or by phone at 786-8254.  The social hour will begin at 11:00 a.m. followed by lunch at noon.

BAREFOOT SOCCER GAME AND BBQ to spread awareness and support for TOMS shoes! We will be selling TOMS shoes at the game. With every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need. One for One. Using the purchasing power of individuals to benefit the greater good is what we're all about. Saturday, October 10th on the Astroturf Field BBQ from 12-2 p.m. and soccer from 1-3 p.m. Promotional code: CAMPUSBATES will get $5 your purchase of shoes!

The Bates College Community and the Harward Family cordially invite you to a MEMORIAL CONCERT in honor of ANN M. HARWARD - Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 3:00 p.m. Concert Hall, Olin Arts Center - A reception will follow in the Bates College Museum of Art. For more information or to rsvp, please contact Jennifer Richard at 207-786-6476 or jrichar4@bates.edu

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 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. 
8:00 pm Interested in meditation and Buddhism?  Join the Bates Dharma Society with "Sitting Space" Thursdays at  in the Chapel.