Tonight at 8pm, in the SPA, those brave souls running for SGA positions will be giving speeches. Go hear what they have to say. Oh yeah, FREE PIZZA, DOUGHBOYS, AND BURRITOS. Voting for SGA elections begins Wednesday at 12pm and will end Friday, September 26th at 12pm. Students can vote online, in the Atrium, or in Case.
This Thursday, Falstaff’s will host K Records recording artists Phil Elverum, of Microphones fame, as well as Julie Doiron and Calm Down, It’s Monday. The concert is co-sponsored by Lively Lucy’s and WSPN and is free for students. Falstaff’s will open its doors at 8:30 but the show begins at 9pm, however we recommend you get there early and find yourself a seat.
RSVP on (fbook)
http://www.pwelverumandsun.com
http://www.juliedoiron.com
Calm Down It’s Monday
Voter registration, presented by Skidmore Democrats, runs all this week in Case. Hours are (currently) as follows:
Monday: 12-6
Tuesday: 10-12 & 2-4
Wednesday: 12:30-4
Thursday: 9-11
If none of these times work for you, well, you should probably talk to the registrar about revising your schedule. Or, better yet, email Amy Bergstraesser and volunteer some of the free time you do have (during the next 3 weeks) working the tables.
Skidmore Dems meet Wednesday nights, 8:30 in the Spa.
Students can register in their home state or in New York with a campus address. Register by October 10, vote November 4.
For those of you who are just finishing your walks back from Union Ave, you may have noticed that the famed leaves of upstate New York have begun to change. Ladies and Gentlemen it is Autumn. For those of you just joining us that means you’ll soon be getting a call from your parents wondering when they should “come up and see how beautiful the campus is.” While we don’t have any advice for avoiding your foliage fiending parentals this fall we recommend you ease the pain with some apple picking. So grab some friends, pile into your roommate’s car, and get off campus. NYAppleCountry.com has a pretty long list of Saratoga County’s apple farms here. Not into apple picking, bro? Don’t worry, you can totally smoke out of one dude.
Following Girl Talk’s (Gregg Gillis) performance on Friday night, the artist was spotted assisting keg stands at the East Ave residence.
Tonight, SEC will host its bi-yearly blowout bash, building the basketball court into a bangin’ ballroom.
Rotgut refreshments will realize risky ramifications in the rusty reminiscences of the evening.
(You know what I mean?)
Please:
1) Avoid putting vodka in a water bottle. This will prevent drama from developing later in the evening.
2) Don’t steal anything without permission. You may be drunk, but the police probably won’t be.
3) Don’t be a loner. Cover your boner.
4) When it rains, it pours. It’s going to be slippery out there tonight. One wrong move, and you may fall on your ass.
Cheers, and consider the anniversary of the First Battle of Saratoga.
Tuesday the New York Times took a break from its normal rationality and published a piece criticizing the previously covered Amethyst Initiative.
The college executives are right to be alarmed about the binge drinking that besieges their campuses. But there is no proof that easier access to alcohol would solve that problem, and there is strong evidence that college administrations could do a lot more than they are doing to combat the alcohol epidemic.
Agree? Disagree? Comments?
To all roommates,
Unless you’re homeless, or dating someone with a single, you probably hate your roommate. Res Life is pretending to understand the pain you feel when you get back to your room only to find that your roommate is already asleep, or has 30 lacrosse players over to play some ‘ruit, by offering room changes (that you probably won’t get). You can pick up a room change application anytime tomorrow between 8:30 and 4:30 from the residential life office located in Rounds Hall. If you don’t think you can get there in time maybe your roommate can.
Here is a quick list of some events happening on campus this weekend. If you don’t see something you think people should know about put it in the comments and we’ll update the post.
Artist Lecture and Noise Circuit Workshop with Jessica Rylan. 6pm @ The Tang
Lively Lucy’s Poetry Slam/Spoken Word Night. 8:30pm @ Falstaffs (fbook)
Peace in Tatters: Vision and Reality in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict w/ Yoram Meital. 8pm @ Davis
FRIDAY 9/19
Farmers Market with local produce and good stuff like that @ Case Center all day.
SEC Presents: Girl Talk and Prefuse 73 @ The Big Gym. Doors at 8pm. $5 before, $10 at the door. (fbook)
Skidmore Field Hockey vs Union 4pm @ Thoroughbred Field
SATURDAY 9/20
Banff Mountain Film Festival’s “Radical Reels.” 7pm $2 @ Gannett.
“What Do I Know About War?” Margo Lee Sherman Play. 8pm FREE @ JKB
SUNDAY 9/21
Wag The Dog @ The SPA 3pm
SOC Four Square Competition @ the Tang roof 1:30p
No, don’t tell us you forgot! Well, lucky for you, there’s still a few hours left in the day to go out and grab some flowers for a certain document on its 221st birthday.
If that doesn’t float your politically aware boat, Skidmore is providing you with a slightly more reasonable way to make it up to that protector of all we hold sacred in the U-S-of-A. Swing by the Pohndorff Room in the library at 5:30 tonight to hear David Nichols, professor of Political Science at Baylor, give a talk entitled “Forgotten Founders of the Constitution”. You’ll thank us when you can ask a member of your opposing political party, “What did you do to celebrate today?” with oodles of pretension.
More on Nichols here (Skidmore event write-up) and here (Baylor faculty page).
