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Volume CXXXIII, Number 18 April 2, 2004
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Friday |
Common Hour
“The Four Bags” is a New York City-based ensemble comprised of trombone, accordion, guitar, and woodwinds. The group’s music combines the vibrancy of modern jazz and popular music with the rigor and sophistication of a classical chamber music group.
Gibson, Room 101, 12:30 p.m.
Cuba: The Forty Years War
Professor Allen Wells of the History and Latin Studies Departments presents a film and
discussion of the 1961 Bay of Pigs event.
Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium, 7 & 9 p.m.
April Verch
Award-winning Canadian fiddler, step dancer, and composer April Verch will perform.
VAC, Kresge Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Ursus Verses Spring Invitational
Come see Ursus Verses and special guests Wellesley Tupelos, WPI Simple Harmonic Motion, and Wesleyan Quasimodal.
Druckenmiller Atrium, 8 p.m.
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Saturday |
“Strings Across the Border” Concert
Clawhammer banjo player Ken Perlman and Cape Breton fiddler Brenda Stubbert will perform.
VAC, Kresge Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
“Landscape and Architecture: Reflections on Spaces and Places”
The Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes will present its fourth annual landscape symposium.
Druckenmiller and Cleaveland Halls, 9 a.m.
L.A.S.O Pub Night
Celebrate the end of Cuba Week with some spicy Latin dancing.
Smith Union, Jack Magee’s Pub, 10p.m.
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Sunday |
DaPonte String Quartet Concert
The DaPonte String Quartet will be performing selections by Franz Joseph Haydn, Charles Ives, and Antonin Dvorak.
Moulton Union, Main Lounge, 3 p.m.
“Water Works” Exhibit
The exhibition brings together works of art on paper spanning centuries and artistic styles that highlight successful strategies used to approach the challenge of illustrating water.
Museum of Art, Becker Gallery, 2 p.m.
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Monday |
“A Long Walk Home: A Story of a Rape Survivor”
A multimedia performance about the road to recovery that two sisters face after one is
sexually assaulted in college.
VAC, Kresge, 7:30 p.m.
Lecture
Former editor of the award-winning environmentalist newspaper High Country News Ed Marston will give a talk titled “How the Twin Myths of Pristine and Quaint are Transforming the American West.”
Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center,
7 p.m.
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Tuesday |
Lecture
A lecture and slide presentation on the Nunamiut Eskimo will be given by anthropologist Margaret Blackman.
VAC, Beam Classroom, 7 p.m.
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Wednesday |
Rape Is...
Safe Space sponsers the documentary screening for Sexual Assault Awareness Week.
Women’s Resource Center, 7:30 p.m.
Mathematics Lectures
Mount Holyoke mathematics professor Harriet S. Pollatsek
will deliver two lectures: “Using Algebra to Conquer Frustration: The Hamming (7, 4, 3) Code.”
Searles Building, Room 217, 4 p.m.
“Where the Railroad Tracks Meet: An Introduction to the (Finite)
Projective Plane.”
Searles Building, Room 315, 8 p.m.
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Thursday |
Blood Feathers
Written and directed by Elaine Johanson ’04, Blood Feathers examines the life of a modern-day Korean-American family in crisis.
Memorial Hall, Wish Theater, 7 p.m.
Bowdoin Christian Fellowship Lecture
Larry Taunton will give a talk titled “Truth or Consequences: Life in the Post-Modern World”
Moulton, Main Lounge, 7:30 p.m.
Sexual Assault Awareness Run
Safe Space will sponsor a lighted-path run around campus, followed by a candlelight vigil.
Farley Field House, 7:30 p.m.
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Birds come back to New England to show that spring is finally here. (Jennifer Lee, Bowdoin Orient) |

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