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).
CONNECTICUT EXPRESS: Departs: Bates on Tuesday, October 20th at 1 p.m. Express to Sears at Corbins Corner in West Hartford , across from WestFarms Mall, and continuing on to the New Haven Train Station (50 Union Avenue). Returns: to Bates on Sunday, October 25th. Leaves New Haven Train Station at 1 p.m., leaves Sears at 2 p.m. then non-stop to Bates - COST: $115.00 [Same price one-way or roundtrip.] This may be a very popular bus, so if you want the ride, please send in your checks immediately. Details: Bus has a restroom and a DVD player, it seats 36. Please make checks out to Dattco Bus Company and mail to Pamela Dowling, 54 Westwood Road, West Hartford, CT 06117-2252. Please send checks immediately. The seats are reserved based upon when the checks are received. Email: connecticutexpress@gmail.com
Come watch the BATES ULTIMATE TEAM TAKE ON THE ALUMNI in the second annual alumni tournament! Saturday, Oct. 10 starting at 10am on Leahy Field.
October 10-Dec. 18, 2009- Bates College Museum of Art - Joel Babb: The Process Revealed: This exhibition investigates the role of both the act of drawing and the drawings themselves in making a painting. Rather than mere by-products of the act of creating paintings, drawings are engaging, satisfying and instructive in their own right. Illustrating the creative process by pairing preparatory drawings with finished paintings, this exhibition will reveal the many stages of work that go into a resolved piece of art.
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!
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.
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
LECTURE: "Deconstructing Global Warming" Monday, October 12 at 7:30 PM in Pettengill Keck Room (G52) - Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Chair, Dept of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lead author of the 2001 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will attempt to show how the popular view of global warming is based on the misrepresentation of both authority and language. Moreover, it will be shown that direct observation of the earth's radiative budget suggests that all current models are profoundly incorrect, and that their projections are greatly exaggerated.
POETRY READING: Chris Vitiello is the author of two books of poetry Nouns Swarm A Verb (Xurban Books, 1999) and Irresponsibility (Ahsahta Press, 2008). Vitiello has had several short plays performed at Small Press Traffic’s Poet’s Theatre Jubilee, and he was a founding editor of Proliferation magazine. Vitiello’s highly experimental work (which even includes mathematical signs) is challenging yet surprisingly accessible, owing to a grain of autobiographical reflection that wends throughout the broader, philosophical address to questions of language and consciousness. He lives in Durham, NC. Monday, October 12 at 7:30 pm in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall
CAMPUS-WIDE FORUMS for the Campus Facilities Master Plan Update - Two forum sessions will be held to provide the college community with current information regarding the progress of the Campus Facilities Master Plan Update. During these sessions participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share opinions about the update process. Forum 1: Date: Tuesday, October 13 at 3:00 pm in New Commons 221 & 222
Interested in working in conservation management and biodiversity research? Not sure what to do with your science major after you graduate? Then come to a presentation by OPERATION WALLACEA (www.opwall.com). Opwall is an organization that designs and implements large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs in Indonesia, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Egypt, Honduras, Peru and Cuba. You can join the programs for 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 weeks, combine field-training courses, work on different research projects and use your research as part of an undergraduate or master’s thesis. Course credit and internships are available. Tuesday, 4:15 p.m. in Carnegie.
