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!

T-SHIRTS: Have $15 and like wearing clothes? Buy yourself a WRBC T-Shirt -- between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in Commons, we will be selling a second batch at dinner until they run out. Check out the sweet designs on our website: www.wrbcradio.com. Available in limited quantities in the sizes small, medium, and large. Get them while you can!

DIWALI! & Bollywood Movie Night with Indian Food!* Come celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights tonight from 6:30pm-9:30pm at the Benjamin Mays Center by attending a short prayer session followed by a showing of DOSTANA, an uproarious Bollywood movie and scrumptious Indian food. Movie starts at 7:00pm! Synopsis: When Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) and Kunal (John Abraham) are turned down for an apartment because the land lady doesn't want two strapping young men to corrupt her young sexy niece Neha (Priyanka Chopra), they go to plan "G" - they pretend to be "gay" to secure the apartment. All is well till they meet the sexy siren Neha and thus begins a rollercoaster ride of love, laughter and thigh-slapping buffoonery with a test of friendship like never before. When Neha's boss Abhimanyu (Bobby Deol) enters the fray as the third contender for her affections, it gets even hotter under everyone's vests and bikinis as the boys get down and dirty, in sunny Miami. Brought to you by Salaam Namaste (The Bates South Asian Club) in co-sponsorship with: Filmboard, The Multifaith Chaplaincy, The Multicultural Center, The Student Activities Office, The International Club & The Cricket Club.

FILMBOARD invites you to see HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE this weekend! As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.  *****BECAUSE THIS MOVIE IS OVERLY LONG SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY AND SUNDAY HAVE BEEN CHANGED, BELOW ARE THE TIMES FOR THIS WEEKEND - Show times are tonight at 7pm & 10pm, Saturday at 2pm & 7pm , and Sunday at 2pm & 5pm 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.

7:30 PM Olin Arts Center Concert Hall - CONCERT: FRANK GLAZER, performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonatas III. Admission is Free, although tickets are required. Contact: olinarts@bates.edu or 207-786-6135. http://www.bates.edu/x181248.xml

An Evening of ONE-ACTS presented by the ROBINSON PLAYERS: Want something to do that's quick, free, and highly entertaining? Come to Gannett Theater and enjoy four short shows directed by and starring your fellow Batesies! Don't miss hilariously awkward bar scenes, sisters coping with their fears, biting critique on failed writers, and seemingly respectable couples getting their clothes ripped off. Tonight & Saturday Nov. 7 at 7:30pm, Sunday Nov. 8 at 2:00pm! As always this production is FREE, no reservations! kmoraros@bates.edu FMI.

8:00 PM Olin Arts Center, Room 105 - FILM: GLOBAL LENS: SONG FROM THE SOUTHERN SEAS. Two couples, one Russian and one Kazakh, live side by side in relative harmony in a beautiful yet semi-desolate region of the Great Steppe. But when the fair skinned Russians give birth to a boy of decidedly darker skin, fifteen years of suspicion and acrimony arises between them, and can only be resolved by an ironic twist of family and fate. At times darkly somber, at other times tender and wistful and buoyed throughout by a soundtrack of folk inspired melodies writer-director Marat Sarulu draws on Kazakhstan's epic history to create a gritty and deeply compassionate tale of humor and cultural insight. $5 general admission, free for Bates students. http://www.bates.edu/x205194.xml

RAFFLE WINNER!  Congratulations to AUBREY HILL who won the Milt's $50 gift card in the fundraiser for the Chapel Worship/BCF Guatemala trip.  We will have another raffle soon for a Bates hooded sweatshirt!  Thank you to the 130 people who partcipated in the raffle!

Don't forget that we are also offering a BUS TO AND FROM BOSTON FOR THE UPCOMING NOVEMBER BREAK.  This bus will leave on Friday, November 20th, at 4 pm, and will drop folks off at the Alewife T stop.  The return trip will leave from the Alewife T stop, on Sunday, November 29th, at 12 noon.  The cost for either way is $20, or $40 for the round trip.  We are taking signups for this bus now, so stop by to sign up and pay.  The rest of the schedule can be found at: http://www.bates.edu/buses.xml

Love Bates Burgers? Do you miss the days of middle school P.E.? Get your friends together this weekend to play DODGEBALL and compete for a $60 gift card to Milt's!! On Saturday, November 7th the Bates chapter of Habitat for Humanity will be hosting a dodgeball tournament in the Gray Cage from 4-6. $2 per person to participate, with all proceeds going toward Habitat build trips. Each member of the winning team will receive a $10 gift certificate to Milt's, and the second place team will also receive a prize!! So create a team of six, choose a country to represent, and sign up in Commons this week to be a part of some crazy dodgeball fun!

THE GLOW DANCE is back again.  This function is one of the hottest dance party of the year.  It is hosted by AMANDLA to bring all Batesies of all colors under one dancefloor representative of the colorful, and glowing decorations of the party. (Remember to wear white or any color that will radiate under the blacklights.) Saturday, 10 pm in the Benjamin Mays Center

November 8th is the annual TRASHION SHOW!  Join the Environmental Coalition in the Fish Bowl (glass room in Commons) from 5:30 to 7:30 to construct trashion show costumes fit for the runway.  Make an outfit for yourself or bring a few friends and make one together.  You don't need to be a model to participate in making a costume. Some materials will be provided, but please bring what you can (empty cardboard boxes, scrap paper, empty containers, old tin foil, as well as scissors, string, and glue).

Come join us for a festive dinner in celebration of the spiritual diversity of BATES COLLEGE MULTIFAITH BANQUET - Wednesday November 11, 6-8 p.m. - Mays Center - RSVP by November 9 by replying to Martha S. Deschaines mdeschai@bates.edu Hear your friends' stories:  Nick Barron, Shlesma Chhetri, Jordan Conwell, Ben Flanders, Jessica Heiges, Nicole Kahn, Umar Khan, Josh Linscott, Erica Long, Sangita Murali, Leena Nasser, Shachi Phene, Chris Ray, Hannah Roebuck, Zach Ross, Becca Schmidtberger, Nick Silverson, Challen Willemson. Traditions represented include:  Animist, Buddhist, Christian, Christian Scientist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Quaker, Roman Orthodox, Secular Humanist, Transcendental Meditation, Unitarian Universalist. Special performances:  Bhangra and Bollywood Dance by Harita Dharaneeswaran; cello music by Chris Ray Sponsored by the Bates Multifaith Council and the Multifaith Chaplaincy

SEMESTER ABROAD IN CHINA INFO SESSION – Monday, November 9 at 7:00 pm in Pettengill Hall, G21

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.