Last Chance to Phone Bank For Obama

Wesleyan Students for Barack Obama is hosting their last phone banking event for Obama today.
Date: TODAY Time: 4-7 Place: Nic lounge

Bring your laptop and/or phone and head over.

Lecture: Foucault and Sexual Freedom

Russell House lecture tonight with Jana Sawicki, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Williams College. Part of this semester's Center of the Humanities lecture series on human nature:

In an interview conducted just before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault suggested that homosexual activists might advance sexual freedom by turning away from the discourse of sex-desire and exploring the possibilities opened up within an ethics of pleasure. Cultivating pleasure, he claimed, was more likely to enhance sexual freedom than appeals to the trope of "desiring man."

Professor Sawicki asks, what is the ontological status of the pleasures that Foucault invokes? Why turn to an ethics of pleasure? Finally, why refuse the discourse of desire? Insofar as queer theorists (Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Michael Warner) rely heavily upon psychoanalytic theory, they appear to have rejected Foucault's sustained critique of the discourse of desire. Are there good reasons to be wary of this reliance upon psychoanalytic thought? Or, must we burn Foucault?

Date: Monday, November 3
Time: 8-9:30 pm
Place: Russell House - Millett Room, free

S&C Menu for November 3 - 6

Monday, November 3

Dinner – Green Salad, Creamy Dill dressing., Lemon Caper Chicken/ Tofu, Wild Rice, Sauted Corn, Roasted Carrots. Coconut cake for dessert. 

Tuesday, November 4

Lunch – Thai Masaman Curry w/ Chicken/ Tofu, Jasmine Rice. (VEGAN) Snickerdoodle cookies for dessert.

Dinner – Green salad, Charred Tomato vin, Puerto Rican Rice and Beans Chicken/ Tofu (VEGAN). Chocolate peanut butter bars for dessert.

Wednesday, November 5

Lunch –Tadka Dal, (Yellow) Basmati Rice, Garlic Naan Bread. Coconut bars for dessert.

Dinner – Green salad, Saffron vin., Paella w/ Shrimp, Chicken, Salmon or Veg w/ Tofu (VEGAN) Berry cake for dessert.

Thursday, November 6

Lunch – Thai Panang Curry w/ Chicken or Tofu, Jasmine Rice. Pinapple yogurt for dessert.

Dinner – Green Salad, Balsamic vin, Lasagna w/ Beef and Sweet Italian Sausage or Veggie style with Tofu. Chocolate cake for dessert. 

The Star and Crescent Restaurant is located in Alpha Delta Phi on the corner of Church and High. Remember, the first three freshman to every meal eat for free!

Pumpkin Fest

Pumpkin Fest this weekend - a movie, a lecture, and a Saturday fall festival at Long Lane Farm:

Movie: Power of Community

This movie is about How Cuba survived and thrived after the fall of the Soviet Union. Power of Community Shows redistributed Land, revamped their healthcare system, and reorganized their public transportation system.

Date: Thursday, October 30
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Pac 001

Pumpkin Fest

Fall Festival with bands The Shade, Waterwheel, Poor Pluto, and Matabasset String Society. There will be Free Food! Local Vendors! Crafts! Fall Fun!

(Instructions: If you follow Cross St. around a bend past the Freeman Center, it turns into Long Lane. Keep walking, and it's on the corner of Wadsworth and Long Lane.)

Date: Saturday, November 1 (raindate Sunday)
Time: 12-4 pm
Place: Long Lane Farm

Lecture: Keith McHenry

Keith McHenry will be speaking. He a co-founder of "Food Not Bombs", a world wide organization dedicated to the redistribution of food and social justice and peace.

Date: Monday, November 3
Time: 8:00pm
Place: Shanklin 107

Mikado benefit helps Habitat for Humanity

Mikado Japanese Restaurant will host three "Wesleyan nights" in early November. Part of the nights' proceeds will go towards Wesleyan's Habitat for Humanity group. Habitat will use this money to fund a trip during either Winter Break or Spring Break, that will be open to all students.

Date: Nov. 3, Nov. 4, Nov. 5
Time: 5:00 – 9:30 PM
Place: Mikado Japanese Restaurant (3 Melilli Plaza)