October
17 ,
2003
Happenings
October
Friday 17
Walk the Labyrinth Walk the spiral path, a symbol
of wholeness and life’s meandering but purposeful path.
Questions? Email jmwood@mtholyoke.edu.
*Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 10 am.
French Table Abbey Hall private dining room, 11:30 am.
Halal Lunch Followed by
Jumma Prayer *Eliot House lounge, noon.
Japanese Table South Rockefeller Hall private dining room, 12:15
pm.
Contemplative Community
Meeting *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
2 pm.
"Will There Be a Central Theory
of Partial Differential Equations?" Lecture by John W. Neuberger, Regents Professor,
University of North Texas, College of Arts and Sciences. A reception
will be held at 3:30 pm in Room 416, Clapp Laboratory. Dinner
at Pinocchio’s at 6:30 pm by reservation only by 10/13.
Contact lkamins@mtholyoke.edu. Room 407, *Clapp Laboratory, 4
pm.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service *Abbey
Interfaith Sanctuary, 6:30 pm.
Auditions For the musical
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Solo and ensemble numbers for 8–12 female
and male singers; four male or female dancers. Suitable for all
vocal ranges. Please bring music to the audition and be prepared
for movement. An accompanist will be provided. Rehearsals begin
mid-January. Black Box Theatre, *Rooke Theatre, 7 pm.
Mis Raices Internacional Learn the history of salsa through
poetry and performance. Enjoy free salsa lessons afterward. Free
for MHC students, $3 non-MHC individuals. Great Room and Balcony,
*Blanchard Campus Center, 8:30 pm.
Saturday 18
AM Shabbat Service *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 10 am.
Auditions See 10/17. Black Box Theatre, *Rooke Theatre, 1 pm.
Field Hockey vs. Babson. *Kendall, 1 pm.
Volleyball vs. Simmons. *Kendall, 1 pm.
Film Ocean’s Eleven (2001, 116 minutes), directed by Steven
Soderbergh. $2. Gamble Auditorium, *Art Building, 7 pm.
Las Vegas Night A night of dancing and gambling. Win prizes
including iPod, digital camera, movies, phone cards, cash, and
more! Advance tickets $8, at the door $10. *Chapin Auditorium
(dancing) and Great Room, *Blanchard Campus Center (gambling),
10 pm.
Sunday 19
Quaker Friends Meeting *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 10 am.
Ecumenical Worship Service *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
11:15 am.
Buddhist Program A talk by Rick
Wilson, Soka Gakkai International (SGI). *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,1
pm.
Film See 10/18. Gamble Auditorium, *Art Building, 2 pm.
Unitarian Universalist Community
Meeting *Eliot House lounge,
4 pm.
Piano Recital Pianist Victor Rosenbaum performs Beethoven’s
Opus 109, 110, and 111 in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary
of his Jordan Hall debut. McCulloch Auditorium, *Pratt Hall,
4 pm.
Baha’i Community Meeting *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
5 pm.
Roman Catholic Mass *Abbey Chapel, 6:30 pm.
Global Film Series The
Official Story. An upper-class Argentinean
couple discover that their adopted baby is the child of a victim
of political violence in this film directed by Luis Puenzo. A
discussion will follow. Room 101, *Dwight Hall, 7 pm.
Introduction to Dreamweaver Workshop for students. Register
at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/training. Room 109, *Dwight Hall,
7 pm.
Zazen Meditation Wa-Shin-An, *Eliot House, 9 pm.
Monday 20
"The 'Uncommon’ Hormone Prolactin: Insights into
Its Roles in the Breast and Prostate" Lecture by Mary Grace
Lorenson, Department of Biochemistry, University of California,
Riverside. Refreshments at 4 pm; lecture at 4:15 pm. Room 305,
*Kendade Hall.
Italian Table *MacGregor Hall dining room, 5:30 pm.
Exploration Summer Programs *CDC conference room, 7 pm.
Preparing Images for Presentations
and the Web Workshop for
students. Register at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/training. Room
109, Dwight Hall, 7 pm.
Quad Social Committee Room 102, *Shattuck, 7 pm.
Teach for America Information
Session *CDC workshop room, 7 pm.
Poetry Reading Prize-winning poet Mary Jo Salter, Emily Dickinson
Senior Lecturer in the Humanities and author of A Kiss in Space,
reads from Open Shutters. For information call 534-7307. Odyssey
Bookshop, Village Commons, 7 pm.
Eleanor Smeal The former president of NOW and current president
of Feminist Majority will speak in promotion of the March for
Reproductive Freedom to be held in Washington, D.C. in April
2004. Gamble Auditorium, *Art Building, 7:30 pm.
Tuesday 21
Faith and the Environment With Rev. Kate Stevens. *Eliot House
lounge, noon.
Public Forum The Multicultural Committee on College Life presents
a public forum on Fair Labor Practices Subcommittee recommendations.
New York Room, *Mary Woolley Hall, noon.
Women’s Recovery Weekly Meeting Run by and for students,
these meetings are gatherings of campus women supporting one
another in dealing with concerns about their own use and recovery,
or another’s use of alcohol and other drugs. For information
contact Susan McCarthy, Alcohol and Drug Awareness Project director,
at x2616. Room 318, *Blanchard Campus Center, 12:20 pm.
Staff and Faculty Meditation *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
12:30 pm.
What Do You Want to Do? Achieving Clarity (Part I)
*CDC conference room, 4 pm.
Buddhist Meditation *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 4:15 pm.
Introduction to PowerPoint
for Presentations Workshop for students.
Register at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/training. Room 109, Dwight
Hall, 4:15 pm.
Field Hockey vs. WPI. *Kendall, 4:30 pm.
Spanish Table *MacGregor Hall dining room, 5:30 pm.
Jewish Student Union Meeting Room 213, *Blanchard Campus Center,
5:30 pm.
College Republicans Meeting Room 226, *Blanchard Campus Center,
6 pm.
iMovie Workshop for Students Capture
digital video, edit and return to tape, or
compress for the Web. Register at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/training.
Room 109, Dwight Hall, 7 pm.
Going International Workshop *CDC library, 7 pm.
New England Center for Children
Information Meeting *CDC workshop
room, 7 pm.
Author Discussion Caroline Alexander discusses The Bounty: The
True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. For information call
534-7307. Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, 7 pm.
Japanese Tea Ceremony With Nobue Yamashita. Wa-Shin-An, *Eliot
House, 7:30 pm.
International Relations
Movie Night Room 216, *Skinner Hall,
8 pm.
Wednesday 22
Alumna Performance Jennifer Sarudzai Kyker ’02 plays and
sings music from Zimbabwe, where she has spent the past year
as a Fulbright Scholar. She has played both mbira and marimba
professionally since age twelve, with the Kudana Marimba Ensemble,
Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, Tute Chigamba and Mhembero,
and the Paul Winter Consort. Great Room and Balcony, *Blanchard
Campus Center, noon.
Interfaith Prayer Lunch
With Sister Shamshad Sheikh. *Eliot
House lounge, noon.
Recovery Luncheon Meeting These informal lunches are an opportunity
to meet others in recovery and those exploring recovery. Facilitated
by Susan McCarthy. Free pizza and beverages. For information,
call x2616. Room 135, *Groves Health Center, noon.
Tuck Business Bridge Program/Dartmouth School of Business Info
Meeting *CDC workshop room, 12:30 pm.
Open Hours for Major Fellowships *CDC conference room, 3 pm.
Funding Study Abroad/Away An overview of requirements and application
procedures for Mount Holyoke’s Laurel Fellowships for Off-Campus
Study and information on outside scholarships and awards for
undergraduate study abroad. Bring your questions! With Joanne
Picard, dean of international studies. Room L-2, *Cleveland Hall,
4 pm.
Zazen Meditation With Rev.
Issho Fujita. We will focus on "cultivating
the enlightenment factors." Wa-Shin-An, *Eliot House, 4
pm.
NAMI Program for Community Education With Otto Wahl. Room 302,
*Reese Building, 4 pm.
Hunger for Meaning Lecture
Series With Penny Gill. *Eliot House
lounge, 4:15 pm.
German Table Abbey Hall private dining room, 5:30 pm.
Chinese Table *MacGregor Hall dining room, 5:30 pm.
German Department Informational
Session on Study Abroad Refreshments
will be served. Abbey Hall living room, 6:30 pm.
"Iraq: Transitions to Tomorrow" Discussion about
American foreign policy and Iraq by Rania Masri and Richard Garfield
from the Education for Peace in Iraq Center. Hooker Auditorium,
*Clapp Laboratory, 6:30 pm.
"Toward Ecological Cities: Pathways
to More Ecological Cities" As urban regions expand, individual contact with "nature" is
reduced. In response, new programs have been intitiated in many
cities to preserve, restore, and raise awareness of urban ecology.
The Ecological Cities Project based at UMass Amherst is conducting
research and outreach on some current programs. Call x3091 for
more information. Gamble Auditorium, *Art Building, 7 pm.
Excel II: Additional Topics
in Using Excel Workshop
for students. For covered topics and to register, visit http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/training.
Room 109, *Dwight Hall, 7 pm.
Interviewing Skills Workshop *CDC workshop room, 7 pm.
Film El
Espinazo del Diable (2001), directed by Guillermo del
Toro. During the Spanish Civil War, an orphaned ten-year-old
boy arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which he discovers has
some creepy secrets, including a sighing ghost. In Spanish with
English subtitles. Room 101, *Dwight Hall, 7 pm.
Author Reading American Book Award–winning poet Martin
Espada, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, and editor and translator Robert Marquez, William
R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and Carribean Studies
at Mount Holyoke College, read from Man-making Words, a
selection of poems by Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen. For information
call 534-7307. Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, 7 pm.
Public Forum See 10/21. Great Room, *Blanchard Campus Center,
7:30 pm.
College Democrats Meeting Room L-3, *Cleveland Hall, 7:30 pm.
Introduction to the CDC
for First-Years *CDC library, 8 pm.
Thursday 23
Russian Table Abbey Hall private dining room, noon.
Muslim-Jewish Dialogue *Eliot House lounge, 12:15 pm.
Goldwater and Udall Scholarships
Information Meeting *CDC conference room,
3 pm.
Hindu Worship *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, 4:15 pm.
Introduction to Dreamweaver Workshop for students. Register
at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/training. Room 109, *Dwight Hall,
4:15 pm.
French Table *MacGregor Hall dining room, 5:30 pm.
Résumania *CDC library, 6:30 pm.
"Making Arbus Strange: History,
Time, and Memory in the Arbus Archive" Lecture by Laura Wexler, professor, American
studies and women’s and gender studies, Yale University.
Offered in conjunction with the Diane Arbus: Family Albums exhibition
at the art museum. Galleries will be open 6:30–8:30 pm.
Gamble Auditorium, *Art Building,
7 pm.
American Express Financial
Advisers Information Session *CDC
workshop room, 7 pm.
Author Lecture Jim Hightower, radio commentator and author,
discusses Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country
and It’s Time to Take It Back. Donations are requested:
$1–$25 students, $5–50 community members. This is
a fundraiser for Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice. No
one will be turned away for lack of funds. For information call
534-7307. Chapin Auditorium, *Mary Woolley Hall, 7:30 pm.
Christian Worship *South Mandelle Hall living room, 7:45 pm.
Thursday Night Edge Live music. Great Room, *Blanchard Campus
Center, 8 pm.
Friday 24
Walk the Labyrinth See 10/17.
French Table See 10/17.
Halal Lunch Followed by
Jumma Prayer See 10/17.
Alcohol and Drug Awareness
Project Meeting Room 318, *Blanchard
Campus Center, noon.
Japanese Table South Rockefeller Hall private dining room, 12:15
pm.
Contemplative Community
Meeting See 10/17.
Volleyball Hall of Fame
Tournament Matches at 6 pm and
8 pm. *Kendall.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service *Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary,
6:30 pm.
Author Discussion Lois W. Brown, professor of history and gender
studies, Southern California, discusses Intertwined Lives: Margaret
Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. For information call 534-7307.
Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, 7 pm.
Something Every Friday Great Room, *Blanchard Campus Center, 8 pm.
Faculty Recital Romantic sonatas, performed by Linda Laderach,
violin, and Larry Schipull, piano. McCulloch Auditorium, *Pratt
Hall, 8 pm.
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