Lafayette has been selected to offer a Tournees Festival for the second consecutive year. Funded through a grant from the French Cultural Services (FACE), the festival is part of an initiative to help bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses across the US. This year's selection of films includes an array of genres from documentaries to dramas, co-productions that represent the Francophone world, as well as films by directors ranging from unique new voices to established figures.

A short discussion will follow each screening. For the full list of dates and places, go to: http://sites.lafayette.edu/tourneesfilmfest/2009-schedule/

An exhibition marking the 150th anniversary, on November 24, of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species," is comprised of three related sections. In "A Habit of Deciding Influence" are 18 photographs of Darwin’s pigeon specimens at the Natural History of London/Tring. Darwin took up the study of domesticated pigeons in 1855 and his observations of artificial selection in pigeon breeding was invaluable to his understanding of the way species change in natural environments. 2)"Coop" is a mixed-media installation based on Darwin’s five-sided pigeon coop. 3)"Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon” includes 10 altered prints from “Birds of America.”

Your first opportunity to have senior portraits taken will be held in Farinon Marlo Room West. To schedule your sitting log onto www.ouryear.com enter school code 10 or call 1-800-687-9327.

Get your Blackout gear @ the College Store - 20% off
for Saturday's football game!

Bring your lunch and enjoy informal performances by Lafayette instrumental and vocal students and faculty. Dessert will be provided.

REES 241 will be offered for the first time in Spring 2010. This course includes a FREE TRIP TO RUSSIA over spring break (students will only be responsible for visa and passport expenses, plus some meals and personal expenses). Course enrollment is limited to 18 students, and registration requires the signature of either Prof. Sanborn or Sinkevic. Come to this meeting to learn more and to sign up if interested! Lunch will be provided. If you are interested but cannot make it, please contact Prof. Sanborn or Sinkevic directly.

The Kirby Government & Law Society is sponsoring a debate between the College Democrats, College Republicans and College Libertarians. They will be debating the important issue of the job market and the economy. At the conclusion of the debate, a panel of professors will announce the winner.

Food will be provided.

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

Nonlinear Optics: from molecules to materials to devices

Local author Sung J. Woo will discuss and sign copies of his debut novel, EVERYTHING ASIAN on Wednesday Nov. 4 @ 7 pm, room 329 Pardee Hall.

Mocktar, a Nigerian peasant who lost his entire family in a terrible accident, tries to rebuild his life. He goes to Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, to look for work and to forget the past that haunts him. He is quickly introduced to the small community of miners and begins working in the dangerous tunnels of the mine. Little by little, Mocktar discovers that the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit. In Essakane, the life of the whole population revolves around the irrational expectation of finding gold. Hope makes them surpass the threat of the mines. Among the inhabitants, the beautiful Coumba is still courageously struggling to raise her daughter. She takes care of her alone as her husband died in the mine. As he falls in love with Coumba, he fights not only to survive, but also to provide a better future for her and her child.

"Building the First Wind Project on the Galapagos Islands: After This one, Global Electrification Should Be Easy", Lecture by Paul Loeffelman, American Electric Power, and Jim Tolan, Project Manager, E8 Wind Project, Galapagos Islands. Lecture on sustainable ecologically-minded energy systems: At the invitation of the UN, American Electric Power led an international team of companies through institutional, public policy, financial, environmental, and engineering challenges to develop, construct and support the operation.
Open To Public

In 1990, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new 'Prawn' friends.

SHOWTIMES:
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY
7:00PM & 10:00PM

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

6:30-7:15 Executive Panel
Industry leaders will make presentations about their organizations and the opportunities to pursue sustainable careers. You will have the opportunity to participate in a question-and-answer session.

7:15-8:30 Information Fair
Employer representatives will be present to share information about their organizations and to talk about possible current and future internship and full-time career options. Bring your resume!

Opportunity to win great raffle prizes! Free food!

Are you a member of a student club or organization? Student clubs or organizations will receive $10 for each member (up to 10 students) who attends. You could raise up to $100 for your club or organization just by attending this program! Designate your club/organization name on the sign-in sheet when you arrive at the program.

Need a ride or can you offer a ride? Come to Career Services (201 Hogg Hall) for more information.

SPONSORED BY CAREER SERVICES

Free to the public and Lafayette Community. Under 18 must have written permission. (Sessions will be canceled during inclement weather.)

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s 1869 classic, this intimate musical lovingly follows the saga of the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grow up in Civil War America. Since its Broadway premiere in 2005, this delightful and nostalgic mix of everyday reality and spirited fantasy has grown in popularity across the country as young and old audiences alike fall under the charm of life in Concord, Massachusetts and connect across the years with the play’s aspiring author Jo, an early feminist who wants to be known for her brains and talent in a time when women were discouraged from demonstrating much of either. Directed by Mary Jo Lodge.

Fellowship and rest by the sea with focus on the relationship of college stress and the spiritual life.

Chrin Vans depart Friday afternoon from Hogg Hall periodically after noon and leave the retreat location Sunday at noon.

Oblates of St. Francis de Sales,1601 Beach Ave, Cape May, NJ 08404-3608. Tel. (609)884-3761. Contact President Francesca Pileggi for further information.

Come visit our campus for our Fall Open House! Prospective students and their families are invited to tour the campus, attend classes, eat in our dining halls, and learn about various opportunities at Lafayette College.

Registration available the admissions website.

Sun/Moon Boxes, Mirrors, Wood Flowers, Tapestries & Coconut Jewelry

Pat Sonne coordinates and models for these sessions; she is slender, toned, and graceful with 11 years experience modeling for artists. Group meets First Fridays (some exceptions). Contact: sonne@inspiredmuse.net.

Biological soil crusts are commonly found in semiarid and arid environments throughout the world. Formed by cyanobacteria, mosses, and lichens, the crust plays an important role in preventing the erosion of underlying sediments as well as soil biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling. The Garcia-Pichel lab studies the diversity and distribution of bacteria in natural communities as well as biological adaptations to extreme environments at the physiological and biochemical level.

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

A public reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the gallery. During the reception, images from the exhibition will be projected on the outside of the building and on the walls of the gallery. Attendees are encouraged to wear white in order to reflect the images.

Bridge to the Weekend is this Friday at 4:00 in the room next to Math common room.

Math Club Game Hour will be this Friday at 4:00 in the Math common room (Pardee 218). Free snacks and soda will be available. Feel free to bring your own game, and people will play it with you.

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s 1869 classic, this intimate musical lovingly follows the saga of the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grow up in Civil War America. Since its Broadway premiere in 2005, this delightful and nostalgic mix of everyday reality and spirited fantasy has grown in popularity across the country as young and old audiences alike fall under the charm of life in Concord, Massachusetts and connect across the years with the play’s aspiring author Jo, an early feminist who wants to be known for her brains and talent in a time when women were discouraged from demonstrating much of either. Directed by Mary Jo Lodge.

Mayda del Valle is an exceptional slam poet that has been featured in multiple shows. She has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry, has appeared on Oprah, and has recently performed at the White House for President Obama. As an Afro-Cuban female, she incorporates gender and race into her shows to provide an eye-opening, inspirational, and invigorating experience.

Prior registration required. Register online at www.ets.org

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s 1869 classic, this intimate musical lovingly follows the saga of the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grow up in Civil War America. Since its Broadway premiere in 2005, this delightful and nostalgic mix of everyday reality and spirited fantasy has grown in popularity across the country as young and old audiences alike fall under the charm of life in Concord, Massachusetts and connect across the years with the play’s aspiring author Jo, an early feminist who wants to be known for her brains and talent in a time when women were discouraged from demonstrating much of either. Directed by Mary Jo Lodge.

Do you think you have what it takes to be crowned Mr. and Ms. Lafayette?

Show your school spirit at the Spot
Competitors must prepare some talent and be prepared to answer questions from the judges
Bring your friends to get as many votes as possible!

Cash prize of $250 for winners
Free Transportation from Williams Center

Please welcome celebrant Fr. John Hanley, OSFS,
campus minister at De Sales University, as celebrant. Widows, the bereft and silent one, feature today in Kgs. and Mk.: at Zarephath for Elijah, and the woman Jesus points out in the Temple giving "all she had to live on."

1 Kgs 17:10-16
Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
Heb 9:24-28
Mk 12:38-44 or 12:41-44

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

Come receive the blessings of a supportive community and time in the Word. You don't have to be a Christian or an Athlete to attend!

Please welcome celebrant Fr. John Hanley, OSFS,
campus minister at De Sales University, as celebrant. Widows, the bereft and silent one, feature today in Kgs. and Mk.: at Zarephath for Elijah, and the woman Jesus points out in the Temple giving "all she had to live on."

1 Kgs 17:10-16
Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
Heb 9:24-28
Mk 12:38-44 or 12:41-44

Interested in working for Carney Sandoe? Your chance to find out more about the company from the employers themselves!

No registration required.

SPONSORED BY CAREER SERVICES

Baba Brinkman is a Canadian actor and rap artist. The Rap Guide to Evolution explores the history and current understanding of Darwin's theory, combining hilarious remixes of popular rap songs with clever lyrical storytelling that covers Natural Selection, Sexual Selection, Evolutionary Psychology, and much more. Dr. Mark Pallen, author of The Rough Guide to Evolution has vetted the entire script for scientific and historical accuracy, making it a powerful teaching tool as well as a laugh-out-loud comedy experience.

"From the India of Mother Teresa to the South Africa of Nelson Mandela: 50 Years of Historical Encounters and Philanthropic Engagement"

Lapierre is the author of several international bestsellers and founder of a humanitarian organization that supports medical care, education, and development projects in India, Africa, and South America. His visit to Lafayette will coincide with the launching of his new book, A Rainbow in the Night. The Lives of Liberty Lectures began in 2007 as a celebration of the 250th birthday of the Marquis de Lafayette and to honor his legacy of dedication to freedom. A post-lecture public reception and book-signing will be held in the lobby of Pfenning Alumni Center.
Books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served.