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Volume CXXXII, Number 5
October 18, 2002

Friday

SCHOOL SPIRIT WEEKEND!
Friday: Drag/Retro Day (go drag, retro or both!)
Saturday: Wear School Colors (symbols, emblems, wherevah!)

COMMON HOUR:
Jill Fredston, master rower, author, and co-director of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center, a nonprofit organization that provides training to the general public in avalanche hazard evaluation, mountain rescue, and other wilderness skills. She is the author of Rowing to Latitude.
Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater,
12:30-1:30 p.m.

Slide Show:

Tim Leach, photograher, adventurer and activist will speak and present slides on the Artic wilderness. This presentation is one of 40 that will be given along Leach's 1,600-mile bicycle trek as part of his 8,000-mile nationwide self-propelled journey called the"Walk to Washington, D.C. for the Arctic Refuge."
V.A.C., Beam Classroom
7:00 p.m.

FILM: Ocean's 11
Bowdoin Film Society
Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium,
7:00 p.m.

HOMECOMING COFFEE HOUSE:
Be entertained by the various talents of your fellow Bowdoin bears!
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union
8:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Bowdoin BONFIRE!
Hyde Plaza,
10:00 p.m.

CAMPUS WIDE:
Bam! LIGHTNING
with DJ MARQUEE
Ladd House, 11:30 p.m.
"NO I.D., NO ENTRY"

Saturday

SPORTS:
Bowdoin vs. Trinity:
Men's Soccer: Pickard Field, 11:00 a.m.
Women's Soccer: Pickard Field, 11:30 a.m.
Field Hockey: Ryan Field, 11:30 a.m.
Football: Whittier Field, 1:30 p.m.
Bowdoin vs. Colby:
Rugby: rugby field, 11:00 a.m.

CONCERT:
Chamber Choir and Chorus Concert
Bowdoin Chapel
2:00 p.m.

FILM: Croupier
Bowdoin Film Society
Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium
7:00 p.m.

COMEDIAN:
The one and only Hari Kondabolu '04 performs his critically acclaimed comic act, "Keeping it Brown."
V.A.C., Kresge Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.

Meddiebempster Concert!
Morrell Lounge, 8:00 p.m.

Sunday

7th Annual Quinby House Flag Football Tournament!
Bring teams of 5-7 for a wonderful afternoon of football. $8 per player for free lunch and tee shirt, benefits the American Hearth Association.
Farley Fields, 12 noon

CATHOLIC MASS:
Bowdoin Chapel,
4:30 p.m.

Writing Project Workshops:
Sundays: Russwurm House library,
6:00-11:00 p.m.
Monday-Wednesday, H&L Library, 3rd Floor, 8:30-11:00 p.m.

Monday

Etiquette Dinner
Career Planning.
Moulton Union,
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Local Theater: Chicago and Other Places
The Theater Project of Brunswick opens its season with two plays in one production: Chicago, written by Sam Shephard, a one-act set in a bathtub; and Other Places, written by Harold Pinter, a play that combines two plays in one. Tickets: $15, $10 (students).
The Theater Project
14 School Street, Brunswick
For more information and tickets, call 729-8584.

Vote Training and Planning Session:
Help mobilize students and plan a GIANT 'Get Out the Vote Week!' Encourage students to vote and bring them to the polls.
Adams Hall, First Floor, 9:00 p.m.
*REMEMBER to Vote! Tuesday, November 5th.*

Tuesday

JUNG SEMINAR: Jennifer Lyons presents, "Shifting Inner Realities: My Adaptation Experiences."
V.A.C., Beam Classroom, 4:00 p.m.

President Mills' Office Hours:
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union, 12-2 p.m.
German Table: Thorne Hall, Pinette Dining Room, 5-7:15 p.m.
Chinese Dining Table: Thorne Hall, Hutchinson Room, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

LECTURE:
"Ethics and Neuroscience: Should We Place Any Limits on Engineering the Brain?" by Arthur Caplan, director for the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania.
V.A.C., Kresge Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday

Lecture: Archaeology Month Lecture
The series' final lecture will be given by Dr. Daniel Sandweiss, University of Maine-Orono, on "The Maritime Tradition of Ancient Peru: First Arrivals to the Inca Empire." Sandweiss has excavated some of the earliest evidence of fishing
and shellfish exploitation in South America.
V.A.C., Kresge Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

French Table: Thorne Hall, Pinette Dining Room, 5:00-7:15 p.m.

Japanese Dining Table: Thorne Hall, Hutchinson Room, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Thursday

Kibbe Science Lecture:
"Space-time Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future," by Kip S. Thorne, theoretical physicist, California Institute of Technology.
Cleaveland Hall, Room 151, 7:30 p.m.

UGLY PAGEANT!
Get as ugly as possible (using your medium of choice) and show up ready to work it on the runway. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes will be rewarded to the most hideous contestants,
including gift certificates to
L.L. Bean, Bull Moose
and Ben & Jerry's.
Smith Union,
8:30 p.m.

LECTURE:
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, delivers a lecture entitled "The War on Terrorism: Economic Consequences." Tickets are required; available at the Smith Union Info. Desk: free with Bowdoin I.D., $15 general public.
Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater, 8:00 p.m.

Trey Anastasio
7:30 p.m.
Portland Expo
239 Park Ave.
Portland, ME
Tickets: $35.00
For more information and tickets,
call (207) 775-3331.