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!

RPI MBA PATHFINDER PROGRAM INFO SESSION - Location: Career Services Conference Room 11am-2pm .

IM 3V3 BASKETBALL begins this Sunday, Nov. 1.  Register your team for one of the 3 leagues offered:  competitive, recreational, women.  Deadline to register: today @ Noon.  www.bates.edu/IM.

The Multifaith Chaplaincy: How many times do I have to vote No? How many times do I have to vote Yes? TABOR TALK - A conversation about Question 4: Do you want to change the existing formulas that limit state and local government spending and require voter approval by referendum for spending over those limits and for increases in state taxes? We have asked supporters representing both sides to start the conversation.  Noon to 1 p.m. - Skelton Lounge Chase Hall

CAREER DISCOVER INTERSHIP PROGRAM: First Years through Seniors  Come pick up some information about job shadowing opportunities offered over February Break.  Noon to 1 pm in the Pettengill lobby. Application deadline is November 13th.  For more information visit eRecruiting or contact Career Services at x6232

The leaves have fallen! Come by the Quad between 3-6pm for the ANNUAL LEAF JUMP, where campus comes together to bask in the Maine foliage and enjoy a childhood pastime. Huge piles of leaves and hot chocolate will be provided. Brought to you by a beautiful union of the Discordians and Freewill Folk Society.

WOMEN’S SOCCER . 3pm, Russell Street Field.

PHYSICS LECTURE: Professor Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak on "The gravitational two-body problem in general relativity".  The relative motion of two bodies is quite simply described by Newtonian mechanics, but becomes a much richer problem when general relativity is taken into account. In particular, the relativistic two-body problem plays an important role in gravitational wave generation. 4:15 PM - Pettengill G52 (Keck Room)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Museum of Art - RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS: Reception celebrating Barry Nemett: Drawings from Italy and Joel M. Babb: Process Revealed. http://www.bates.edu/museum-exhibitions.xml

FILMBOARD invites you to see Public Enemies this weekend!  The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. To view a trailer for this movie click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BawY4gjAdM  Show times are today at 7pm & 9:30pm, tomorrow at 2pm & 7pm , and Sunday at 2pm & 4:30pm in Olin 104. 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. **

ALTERNATIVE CONTRADANCE! Come ‘bust a move’ with us! Traditional New England dancing to modern rock, techno, and alternative music. All dances taught, come with or without a partner. Free for Bates students! 8pm, Merrill Gym Dance Studios.

8:00 PM Olin Arts Center, Room 105 - FILM. Global Lens: Sleepwalking Land. In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. Together, the storyteller and diary lead him on a magical, and sometimes macabre, journey across war-torn landscapes to find the family he lost. Based on Mia Coutou's acclaimed Portuguese novel of the same name, Teresa Prata's transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war. $5 general admission, free for Bates students. http://www.bates.edu/x205194.xml

CLUSTERFLOCK has a Halloween Show this Saturday, October 31st starting at 9 in the Little Room. We will be playing a mix of funk, pop, and 80s covers. Stop here on the way to or from the Halloween Dance in the Gray Cage. See you there!

POETRY READING: Poet and artist (b. Santiago, Chile, 1948), Cecilia Vicuña performs and exhibits her work widely in Europe, Latin America and the U.S. Vicuña is the author of sixteen books, including Palabrarmas (RIL, 2005); Instan (Kelsey Street Press, 2003); UL, Four Mapuche Poets, edited by Cecilia Vicuña (LARP, l998); QUIPOem / The Precarious, The Art & Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña, edited by Catherine de Zegher (Wesleyan University Press, l997); and Unravelling Words & The Weaving of Water, edited by Eliot Weinberger (Graywolf Press, l992). Templo e’Saliva / Spit Temple, a collection of her oral performances, edited by Rosa Alcalá, is forthcoming by Factory School Press. With Ernesto Livon Grosman, Vicuña is editor of 500 Years of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology for Oxford University Press (2009).  Vicuña's visual work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, and at The Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.  She also is a political activist and founding member of Artists for Democracy. Monday, November 2, at 7:30 pm in the Benjamin Mays Center

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.