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Friday 15

Volleyball ECAC. Time and location to be announced.

Exhibition Come see MHC's record of women in high places at the College archives' exhibition on Alumnae in Politics, continuing through November 18. Ground floor, Dwight Hall.

Renaissance Symposium Cultural Exchanges: Nations, Classes, and Genders in the Early Modern Period. Keynote speakers and interactive workshops led by scholars in a variety of Renaissance fields such as history, literature, religion, and cartography. To participate in the symposium and register for workshops, contact Francisco J. Borge at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at UMass, 545-5467. Space is limited; register as soon as possible. There is no registration fee for members of the five colleges. Call 545-5467 for more information.

Due Date for materials for fall resume referral companies at the Career Development Center (CDC).

Workshop Researching Awards. CDC, 10:30- 11:30 am.

Art Exhibit Jean-Louis Forain, Works of Art on Paper continues through December 15. Art Museum: Tuesday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 pm.

Art Exhibit Painting Abstract: Gregory Amenoff, John L. Moore, Katherine Porter continues through December 15. Art Museum: Tuesday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 pm.

French Lunch Table Abbey private dining room, noon.

Open Advising Session for students considering a career in the health professions. Members of the Committee on the Health Professions will be available to answer questions. 103 Carr Laboratory, noon-1 pm.

Gallery Talk "Dancing Ganesha, a Newly Acquired Indian Sculpture." Ajay Sinha, art. Art Museum, 12:30 pm.

Public Health Workshop Andreola Room, Willits-Hallowell Center, 2:00-3:30 pm.

Practice Rounds in public speaking. Speech and Debate Society. 210 Skinner Hall, 4-5 pm.

Shabbat Teaching Service followed by Kosher/Hallal dinner. RSVP x2054, or email lwaller by 2 pm Thursday, 11/14. Eliot House, 5:30 pm.

Farewell Dinner Islam Awareness Week. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 6-8 pm.

Cancellation The Coopers & Lybrand information meeting that was scheduled for 7 pm in the CDC has been canceled.

Kids' Night Out Play sports and games with the MHC softball team. What better way to stay active as winter approaches? Kendall Hall, 7:00-9:15 pm.

Auditions More Beautiful Now by Marla Moffa. Blending reverie and reality, this piece portrays with humor and compassion a young woman struggling to live in the confines of the world around her. Roles for men and women. Rooke Theater, 7-10 pm.

Reading and Discussion with John Irving. Admission $10. Call the Odyssey Bookshop at 534-7307 for more information. Gamble Auditorium, 7-10 pm.

Film Society Mighty Aphrodite. Admission $2.50. Hooker Auditorium, 7 and 9 pm.

Meeting Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Singing, speakers, prayer, and fun. Eliot House lounge, 7:30 pm.

Faculty Dance Concert Guest faculty Clara Mora and Marilyn Middleton perform flamenco and West African dance; faculty members Terese Freedman, Rose Marie Flachs, Charles Flachs, and Peter Jones each present a work in their own idiom. Join us for an evening that runs the gamut of dance performance, including modern dance, excerpts from the classical ballet Swan Lake, and contemporary ballet. Admission $5 general, $3 for students, seniors, and children. Studio Theater, Kendall Hall, 8 pm.

Concert Great love duets, arias, and songs. Patrizia Cioffi (FP), soprano, assisted by Iris Prcic, guest soprano; Antonio Daino, guest tenor; and Clifton J. Noble, accompanist. Pratt Hall, 8:00-9:30 pm.

Totally '80s Dance party. The '80s are back! Come party the night away with pegged jeans, side ponytails, and neon everything! Admission $3, $2 with MHC ID. Prospect Hall, 10 pm- 2 am.

Latina Flava La Unidad's first party of the year! Admission $2 before midnight with college ID, $3 after. Betty Shabazz House, 10 pm-4 am.


Saturday 16

Riding vs. Clark University. Away, time to be announced.

FP Tag Sale Emergency Loan Fund fundraiser. Chapin Auditorium, 7 am-3 pm.

Auditions More Beautiful Now by Marla Moffa. See 11/15. 101 Chapin Hall, Amherst College, 3-6 pm.

Practice Speech and debate rounds. Speech and Debate Society. Selected classrooms in Skinner Hall, 7-9 pm.

Film Society Mighty Aphrodite. Admission $2.50. Hooker Auditorium, 7 and 9 pm.

Concert/Gallery Talk Eastern Horizons. Arcadia Players Trio. Works by Handel and Couperin. Ajay Sinha will give a gallery talk during intermission. For tickets, call the Arcadia Players office, 584-8882 or 1-800-THE-TICK. Tickets also available at the door. Gamble Auditorium, 8 pm.

Faculty Dance Concert See 11/15. Studio Theater, Kendall Hall, 8 pm.

Network Party Organized Chaos. Admission $3 with college ID, $2 with MHC ID. Blanchard Campus Center, 10 pm-2 am.


Sunday 17

Roman Catholic Mass Abbey Chapel, 10:30 am.

Auditions More Beautiful Now by Marla Moffa. See 11/15. East Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, 2-4 pm.

Protestant Worship Ministry of Music. Abbey small chapel, 4:30 pm.

Meeting 1998 Class Board. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 4:30-5:30 pm.

Meeting Speech and Debate Society. 210 Skinner Hall, 7-9 pm.

Meeting WMHC Board. 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 7-9 pm.

Callbacks More Beautiful Now by Marla Moffa. See 11/15. Rooke Theatre black box, 7-10 pm.

Meeting Asian Students Association. 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 8:00-9:30 pm.

Meeting College Democrats. Women in Politics Room, sixth floor, Williston Library, 8 pm.

Faculty Recital Beethoven sonatas for violin and fortepiano. Performed by Linda Laderach and Larry Schipull. Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, 8:00-9:30 pm.


Monday 18

Open Advising Session for students considering a career in the health professions. Members of the Committee on the Health Professions will be available to answer questions. L-1 Cleveland Hall, noon-1 pm.

Video Series "Genesis: A Living Conversation." Featuring Bill Moyers, along with Biblical scholars, writers, artists, lawyers, and theologians across the religious spectrum, discussing the stories of Genesis and their relevance for our times. Meet in Eliot House; lunch provided. Call x2054 by Friday 11/15 for lunch reservations. Sponsored by Eliot House and the religion department. Eliot House, 12:10 pm.

Works-in-Progress Talk "Decentering Sex: Toward a Theology of Sexuality." Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College and Smith College. Sponsored by the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Dickinson living room, 4:30 pm.

Lecture "Looking for Sex and Gender in Later Nineteenth-Century French Art." Hollis Clayson, art history, Northwestern University. Gamble Auditorium, 4:30 pm.

Information Meeting Mitchell Madison Group (consulting). 206 Seelye Hall, Smith College, 4:30 pm.

Japanese Language Table Sign up in the Asian studies office or email mlohuchi. Limited to fifteen. South Rockefeller private dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Spanish Language Table Nonresidents sign up at the Spanish and Italian department. Ham dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Information Meeting The Tuck Business Bridge Summer Program of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, a four-week residential summer program designed and taught by Tuck M.B.A. faculty and corporate partners. Come to this meeting to see how you can develop marketable business skills that will put you on the path to a first-class business career. CDC, 7 pm.

Workshop Note-Taking Strategies. Sponsored by the Study Skills Corps. Refreshments will be served. Mead Hall, 7-8 pm.

Lecture Performance of Perotin with lecture. Robert Eisenstein, music. Pasts and Presences I-114. Hooker Auditorium, 7:30-9:00 pm.

Information Meeting Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Browsing Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, 7:30 pm.

Meeting SGA Senate. New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, 7:30-11:00 pm.

Workshop Peer health educators. Health Center, 7:30-9:00 pm.


Tuesday 19

Photo IDs Faculty and students can get an ID card from the registrar's office; staff can pick up theirs from human resources. Bring it to 117 Blanchard Campus Center for photos. 11 am- noon.

Blood Drive Chapin Auditorium, noon-6 pm.

Lunch Gathering Integrating Prayer with Daily Life. Facilitated by Andrea Ayvazian, Protestant chaplain. We will share daily concerns (including theological issues) and discuss how these can be integrated with prayer. Our gathering will be ecumenical and biblically centered, not denominationally centered. All welcome. RSVP at x2054 by 11/18. Eliot House, 12:15 pm.

Workshop Financing Your Child's College Education. Kimberly Condon, director, Student Financial Services. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 1:30-2:30 pm.

Meeting Council on Student Affairs. 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 4:30-6:00 pm.

Workshop Come and learn how to properly use the Cybex equipment. Sign up in Kendall Hall. Kendall Hall, 5 pm.

Italian Language Table Nonresidents sign up at the Spanish and Italian department. Ham dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Focus Group Discussions of alcohol and other drugs in the lesbian and bisexual communities. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 5:30-7:00 pm.

Meeting Llamarada (yearbook). 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 6-7 pm.

Workshop Treat Your Own Back. Presented by MHC physical therapist Phyllis Clapis. Focusing on self-treatment approaches. Wear comfortable clothing! For more information, contact Karen Jacobus, health education coordinator, x2466, or email kjacobus. Health Center Conference Room, 6:30-8:00 pm.

Information Meeting City Year. CDC, 7 pm.

Practice Speech and debate rounds. Speech and Debate Society. Selected classrooms in Skinner Hall, 7-9 pm.

Coming-Out Support Group Sponsored by the Lesbian Bisexual Alliance (LBA). Women's Center, Blanchard Campus Center, 7:30 pm.

Slide Lecture "The Great Hindu Temple of Tanjore: Center of South Indian History and Culture." Dr. R. Nagaswamy, director, epigraphy, French Institute of Indology; director, Tanjore Temple Project, Indira Gandhi National Center, India. Sponsored by the Asian studies program, the religion department, and the Amy M. Sacker Memorial Lectureship Fund of the art department. Gamble Auditorium, 7:30 pm.

Colloquium "Jane Addams and Differing Views of the Female Hero." Louise Knight, research associate. Sponsored by the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Dickinson living room, 7:30 pm.

Meeting AIDS Awareness Coalition. 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 8-9 pm.

Meeting Lesbian Bisexual Alliance. New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, 8:30-9:30 pm.

Meeting Peer Health Education. Participants only. Blanchard Campus Center, 9:30- 10:30 pm.


Wednesday 20

Tea Meet your friends and enjoy fellowship and tea, coffee, and cookies. Stimson Room, Williston Library, 4-5 pm.

Zazen Meditation Naturalness. Practice and discussion. Issho Fujita. Wa-Shin-An, Eliot House, 4:00-5:15 pm.

Meeting Career Exploration Project Evaluation. Hooker Auditorium, 4:00-5:30 pm.

Information Session Denmark International Studies. 101 Burton Hall, Clark Science Center, Smith College, 4:15 pm.

Rosary Prayer Abbey small chapel, 5 pm.

Chinese Language Table Ham dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Der Deutsche Tisch German language table. Kommt und sprecht Deutsch. Ham Hall, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Focus Group Discussions of alcohol and other drugs in the lesbian and bisexual communities. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 5:30-7:00 pm.

Kosher/Hallal Dinner and Muslim wedding. RSVP x2054, or email lwaller by 2 pm on Tuesday, 11/19. Eliot House, 6 pm.

Meeting College Republicans. 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 6:45-8:00 pm.

Meeting Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). AA is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problems and help others recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. This is a beginner's meeting and is open to everyone--those who know they have issues with alcohol and those who are concerned about their misuse of substances. South Hadley Congregational Church (third floor; use side entrance), 7 pm.

Meeting Amnesty International. 202 Blanchard Campus Center, 7-8 pm.

Workshop Test-Taking Strategies. Sponsored by the Study Skills Corps. Refreshments will be served. Mead Hall, 7-8 pm.

Practice Speech and debate rounds. Speech and Debate Society. Selected classrooms in Skinner Hall, 7-9 pm.

Slide Lecture "Scythian Gold and the Great Silk Road: The Hermitage Collections." Elena Varshavaskaya, senior research fellow at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Sponsored by the Russian department and the Russian and Eurasian studies program. Gamble Auditorium, 7:30 pm.

Information Meeting Broadview Associates. 110 Seelye Hall, Smith College, 7:30 pm.

Lucy Pickett Lecture "A Physical Organic Perspective on Transcriptional Activation." Alanna Schepartz, Yale University. L1 Cleveland Hall, 8 pm.


Thursday 21

Drop-In Hours Chat with the dean of first-year studies. 309 Mary Lyon Hall, 11 am- noon.

Russian Language Table Abbey private dining room, noon.

Presentation Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. The center offers credit courses in journalism, documentary photography, field methodology, oral history technique, advanced nonfiction writing and editing, and archiving and magazine design. Come for a presentation of the center's work. 202 Clapp Laboratory, noon-1 pm.

Workshop Inside the Optometry Profession. CDC, 4:00-5:30 pm.

Oxfam Hunger Banquet Students have the option of participating in a fast held in their residence halls or a hunger banquet held in Blanchard Campus Center. For the fast, students commit to give up their evening meal. Dining Services will contribute the cost of the food to Oxfam, a national grassroots organization dedicated to fighting poverty and hunger. For the banquet, students randomly pick a number which will determine whether they receive First World, Second World, or Third World meals. As with the fast, Dining Services will contribute the costs of food to Oxfam. Kathy Night from Oxfam will speak at the banquet. Sponsored by the Community Service Board. Residence halls/Blanchard Campus Center, 5 pm.

Photo IDs See Tuesday. 117 Blanchard Campus Center, 7-8 pm.

Practice Speech and debate rounds. Speech and Debate Society. Selected classrooms in Skinner Hall, 7-9 pm.

Lecture Sally Cunneen will discuss an ecumenical, feminist, and historical perspective of Mary in the New Testament. Eliot House lounge, 7 pm.

Information Meeting MIT Lincoln Laboratory. 107 Seelye Hall, Smith College, 7:30 pm.

Japanese Tea Ceremony Opening the sunken hearth: Robiraki. Nobue Socho Yamashita. Sign-up sheet at Eliot House entrance. Wa-Shin-An, Eliot House, 7:30-8:30 pm.


Friday 22

Fellowship Drop-In Hours CDC, 10:30 am-2:30 pm.

French Lunch Table Abbey private dining room, noon.

Student Recital Student instrumentalists and vocalists perform a varied program of music. Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, 12:15-1:00 pm.

Orientation Internship Programs. CDC, 12:15-1:15 pm.

Meeting Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Patricia Allen will be available to answer questions, help file claims, and follow up on any filed claims. 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 12:30-2:30 pm.

Video Jackson Pollock. Sponsored by the Art Museum. Art Museum, 12:30 pm.

Practice Rounds in public speaking. Speech and Debate Society. 210 Skinner Hall, 4-5 pm.

Kids' Night Out Play sports and games with the MHC softball team. What better way to stay active as winter approaches? Kendall Hall, 7:00-9:15 pm.

Film Society Scent of a Woman. Admission $2.50. Gamble Auditorium, 7 and 9 pm.

Meeting Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Singing, speakers, prayer, and fun. Eliot House lounge, 7:30 pm.

Dance/Theater "Choose the Path, Make Your Way; A Work in Progress." Sponsored by Shades of Expression. Chapin Auditorium, 7:30-9:30 pm.

Concert Baroque/classical orchestra Euridice Ensemble performs music by Bach and Hayden, and a suite by J.B. Lully. Diana Brewer, soprano; Jonathan Boxer, tenor; Stephen Curylo, baritone; and Robert Eisenstein, conductor. Pratt Auditorium, 8:00-9:30 pm.

Something Every Friday Steve Trash, magician and illusionist with an environmental message. Blanchard Campus Center, 9-11 pm


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