Who:Sub-Free Hall and Psi Upsilon
What: Good times, mocktails, fun had by all.
When:Tomorrow Thursday, October 18th at 3pm-5pm (come for as much or as little as you like!)
Where:Psi Upsilon
What: A Totally Sweet Movie about A Totally Awful Place
When: 30 minutes too early, Wednesday Evening. (7:30pm)
Where: Where it always is.
Piece of stolen wit that made this worth posting: "We bring you one final exercise in pessimism: "Chinatown", Roman Polanski's consummate film noir (and crucial quasi-prequel to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"). The shameless corruption and flagrant dehumanization on display in this picture rival only the construction and operation of the Usdan University Center in its scope and intensity. I don't have anything novel to say about this film—it's just perfect, and you should see it as many times as you can (especially on a big screen). It will reaffirm your belief that movies can whisk us away to an absorbing fictional world and at the same time harshly reflect the realities of our own historical condition." -Melissa Tuckman '08 [from argus]
What: A meditation retreat led by Ethan Nichtern, founder of The Interdependence Project.
When: This Saturday, October 6th. Come from 10am-1pm or 2:30pm-5pm or 10am-5pm
Where else?: Buddhist House
For Hungry Ghosts: Complimentary lunch will be served from 1pm-2pm!
Title:A Declaration of Interdependence
When:Friday, October 5th. 4:30PM
Where:Russell House
Blurb:"Author Ethan Nichtern will lead a discussion about the truth of interdependence as the most pressing issue facing society in the 21st
century. In Ethan's new book, One City: A Declaration of Interdependence, this truth is framed around contemporary cultural and political issues and set vividly against the backdrop of living with awareness and compassion in an urban landscape."
The Magistrates of the Devensive arts Recognition And Glamorization Organization for Non-practicers (DRAGON) would like to invite you to join their club!
DRAGON holds weekly screenings of martial arts films, from samurai to muay thai and all that comes between. Interested parties can email dragon.wes@gmail.com.
This Tuesday the film is Zatoichi's Flashing Sword, starring Shintaro Katsu as the Blind Swordsman whose mysterious cane sword kills with more preciseness than any gun. All are welcome!
Date: Tuesday, October 2nd
Time: 9:15pm
Venue: Film Hall
Want improve your Sign Language? Want to learn how to sign in general? Hellz, want to communicate with your friends without saying a word?
Come to Sign House's Sign Language Hour! It happens from noon to 1pm every Wednesday at Sign House. This week, we're going over sport signs. Every week is a different category.
All levels are welcome!
Venue: Sign House (64 Lawn)
Time: noon-1pm
Date: every Wednesday
Here's the deal:
Think you're a bigshot cookie baker? Then prove it at the UCAB "Cookie Bake Off!" The idea for the Bake Off is that each participant will bake and bring their cookies to the Usdan Cafe on Thursday (10/4). Each participant will compete against the other bakers and taste testers will decide whose cookies reign supreme! The winners will get prizes (really good prizes)! Sign ups will be held Monday (10/1) and Tuesday (10/2) during lunch and dinner at Usdan. You can also sign up by emailing ucabevents@wesleyan.edu.Date: Thursday, 10/4
Jesse Bordwin '10 thinks you don't have enough to do besides midterms. Or that you don't have enough fun. Something to that effect. To solve this problem, Jesse has create the 1st Annual Great Wesleyan Caper. What in the Usdan is this, you ask? According to the Caper website (thegreatwesleyancaper.weebly.com):
"One way to describe the GWC is as a giant scavenger hunt murder mystery extravaganza. It's very involved, and those who are playing will be forced to use their skills to follow a long trail of clues to solve the kidnapping. It will take days, weeks even, to get to the bottom of the mystery.
What kidnapping? What mystery?
You haven't heard? Oh, it's terrible! Last night, somewhere between the hours of 2:00 am and 4:00 am, my roommate Gabriel Fries was abducted. I was fast asleep and only when I woke up to go to class did I discover the blood on the sheets that was the only trace of my poor friend. That and the one clue we have that might set us on the trail to his recovery. I loved Gabe dearly, and I'd like to have him back. And that's why I'm putting you, the best minds of Wesleyan University, on the case. And oh yes! There's a nice reward involved.
...There will be a trail of 40 clues that will lead to the location of Gabe's whereabouts. Along the way, you will figure out who took him and why. The first person/team to get to the last clue will save Gabe Fries, and win the jackpot...Once everyone is registered, I will give each team Clue #1 as the first step to solving the 1st Annual Great Wesleyan Caper, on Wednesday, October the 17th, the first day of classes after Fall Break. From there on out, it is an all-out race to be the first team to reach the final clue."
Just think of it as Humans vs. Humans-- all the campus craziness, with no zombie carnage (bummer, right?). Of course, there are plenty of other rules/regulations/guidelines that will help to make this crazy idea into a reality. So if you're interested, visit the website to read up and register. Happy hunting!
EDIT: Re: Anonymous Comments-- A disclaimer on the site notes, "[D]on't be surprised if you see the real Gabe Fries walking around Campus, going to class, or making films... he was just generous enough to lend his person to the Caper, and if you see him around, it doesn't mean you've solved the mystery."
Join the Jewish Community in decorating the Sukkah outside Olin...and then eating pizza in it!
What is a Sukkah, you ask? Come and find out! (or click the link...but still come...)
Date: Wednesday, September 26th
Time: 4-7pm
Venue: Outside Olin
Sometimes people say fabulously witty things, coining insightful new aphorisms at the drop of a hat that will go down in the annals of lexicography as the words that forever changed the course of modern intellectual thought. Sometimes people just say really weird stuff at Usdan. Come to Miss[(ed) It] and see some of Wesleyan's most shining examples of the latter, savagely decontexualized and lovingly reanimated into a Frankenstein's monster of theatrical exploration that WON'T be tragically misunderstood and chased out of town by a vicious mob. At least, we're hoping it won't.
Dates: Thursday, September 27th, and Friday, September 28th
Time: 8pm and 9:30pm
Venue: '92 Theater
This Thursday (9/27), there will be a rally/vigil/meeting on Middletown's South Green (if you're going down Church Street, it's the big grassy area right before Main St. with a monument and some apple trees). Wesleyan students will be meeting at 4:45 in front of Olin to walk down together. The vigil is from 5-6. Bring signs, ideas, and everyone you know. This is a chance to work together with Middletown folks on an issue that we all feel strongly about, and they're counting on us to show up in numbers.
Details on the Jena 6 case here.
Date: Thursday, September 27th
Time: 4:45pm
Venue: In front of Olin
Have some "tiempo libre" this weekend? (I'm sorry, I had to do it). Well...
Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre, one of the hottest young Latin bands today" will be at the CFA this Saturday, September 29th, at 8pm, at Crowell Concert Hall. Tickets only $6 for students.
Wanna pickle, can, and make applesauce? Preserve that food! Earth House is getting goodies from Long Lane/White Gate Farms and holding a canning workshop for the Live Wolves Co-Op and/or Veg-Out. Lend a hand, get some skillz.
Date: Saturday, September 29th
Time: 2pm
Venue: Earth House (159 High)
Come to an info session about IMPACT! Humanity, a student chapter of a non-profit organization devoted to alleviating poverty through sustainable means--mainly through the work of microfinance. We're refocusing our group this year, so come learn what we've done in the past and some ideas we've got for the future!
When: 9:00pm, Tuesday Sept. 25th
Where: Usdan 136
Professor Will Eggers (who really wants you to call him by his first name) is holding a weekly Medieval Movie Night this semester. The series-- which will include the likes of "The Princess Bride," "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and "Camelot"-- will take place on Wednesday nights. Although the movies are in conjunction with his Medieval Myth and Legend class, Will stresses that all are welcome. Popcorn will be provided (with the possibility of pizza as well), and admission is free.
This week, take comfort in that fact that you're not the only person who's ever thought, "I bet foxes are the only animals in the kingdom with British accents!" The series starts with "Robin Hood"-- the Disney (animated) version.
Date: Wednesday, September 26th
Time: 4:30 PM-7PM
Venue:PAC 004
Turath House, Butt B and the LRC are sponsoring Arabic Night!
Date: Tuesday, September 25th
Times/Events:
