Terrifying

Named for the long forgotten, and recently sold, Moore Hall, tonight’s Moorebid Ball will begin promptly at 10pm. Students without costumes will be rightfully ridiculed and are encouraged not to attend. This is your best opportunity to combine esoteric pop culture, fashion and fake blood—a combination sure to impress that girl in your Art History lecture.

Students that have not yet experienced the moist debauchery of Moorebid Ball should prepare themselves accordingly. Just because you don’t have class tomorrow doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have class tonight. SGA is bringing in free photobooths so you can all document the evening and have a nice souvenir of the time you locked lips with someone in a rubber mask.

Tonight’s entertainment will be provided by lights.down.music.up and OnPoint. Requests can be texted to (518) 879-7990 as long as you don’t request Monster Mash. Case Center is decorated all spooky and shit, my costume is ready and I’m having candy for dinner. Trick or treat Skidmore College, Trick or treat.

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CampusGrotto.com has compiled their annual list of most the expensive colleges and Sarah Lawrence is leading the pack with an annual cost of $54,410. That makes sense. Sarah Lawrence is clearly the highest quality and most enjoyable school in the country so there’s no reason that it shouldn’t cost the most. Hell, I would pay fifty grand just to live in Bronxville and not even attend the school! No argument there.

Skidmore is sitting pretty at #5, with an annual cost of $51,196. That’s pretty good, but I think we can do better. We’re currently only $6 ahead of Johns Hopkins, which is ridiculous. We’re way better than Johns Hopkins! It should cost at least $200 more to attend Skidmore than to attend Johns Hopkins. They could overtake us easily right now. Skidmore, step your game up. Also, we’re currently $104 behind Bates College. I don’t think it’s too much of a long shot to hope to overtake them by next year. Just tack $105 onto tuition. Nobody’s going to notice. We can do this!

THURSDAY
All Day- Academic Council’s Major Fair @ D-Hall Atrium
6:30pm- CSGR Hotline Telethon begins (fbook)
5:30pm- “Gender Studies in Art History Residency” @ The Tang
7:30pm- ProArts Presents: Open Modeling Session @ Saisselin 311
8:00pm- Bling: Consequences and Repercussions Screening @ Bolton 282
8:00pm- Sterne Virtuoso Series Concert by Guitarist Jason Vieaux @ Filene
8:00pm- Lively Lucy’s: April Smith & The Van Buren Boys @ Falstaff’s (fbook)
8:00pm- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl @ JKB Blackbox

FRIDAY
All Day- Academic Council’s Major Fair @ D-Hall Atrium
2:30pm- “Gender Studies and Art History” Panel Discussion @ The Tang
6:30pm- ISU Bonefire Night @ Moore Commons (fbook)
8:00pm- Annual Filene Scholarship Winners Concert @ Filene
8:00pm- Verbs, Silent Kids and Mutual Friends @ Falstaff’s (fbook)
8:00pm- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl @ JKB Blackbox
10:00pm- Sketchies Show @ Davis (fbook)
10:00pm- Hip Hop Non-Stop Til You Drop…Or Until You Get Enough Concert @ Spa

SATURDAY (Halloween)
1:00pm- Field Hockey vs. Utica @ Sports Center
1:00pm- Men’s/Women’s Swimming & Diving vs. Potsdam @ Sports Center
8:00pm- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl @ JKB Blackbox
10:00pm- Moorebid Ball @ Case Center (fbook)

SUNDAY
2:00am- Daylight Savings Time Ends
8:00pm- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl @ JKB Blackbox

Missing something? Let us know in the comments.

Lively Lucy’s Presents April Smith & The Van Buren Boys
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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CSGR representative Joe Yanks ‘11 writes in to tell us about The Center’s new hotline and the chance to win free money:

This Thursday and Friday the Center for Sex and Genders will be holding a telethon on their 24 hour weekend hotline phone and you will have TWO chances to win $35 to the SkidShop.  To win simply  be the 20th caller on Thursday and Friday night at 6:30 pm (On the dot!). The hotline number is: (518) 256.1439.    Make sure you save it in your phone!

The hotline is active throughout the semester from Thursday night at 7 pm until Monday afternoon at 1 pm (when the Center re-opens for the week).  You can call the number at any point during the weekend for immediate help (If you’re in an uncomfortable situation, need instant help, etc) or just  have a question or need advice. With the spookiest weekend of first semester coming up, it’s definitely going to be a great idea to keep the number handy!

Just as a reminder as well, if you need any supplies  (condoms, dams, lube, pregnancy tests, vibrators, pamphlets, etc.), the Center is located on the third floor of Case Center and is open during the week, as well as on Saturdays from 2-4 pm. We are student run and anonymous on all matters.

Join Hip Hop Alliance and The United Students Against Sweatshops for a screening of Bling: Consequences and Repercussions a documentary tackling  the issues behind hip hop’s obsession with diamonds and the continued illegal diamond trade in West Africa. Jadakiss, Tego Calderon, Paul Wall and Kanye West travel to Sierra Leone to visit the Kono diamond mines and view the conditions of the miners and witness a nation destroyed by a decade long civil war that took over 100,000 lives and created a population of more than 200,000 amputees.

Thursday, October 29th, 8-10pm, Bolton 282

Tonight is the Opening of the Rounds Gallery Fall Show Effigy and Geometry.  The opening reception is tonight from 5-6 in the lobby of the Residential Life office. Refreshments will be served and good times will be had. If you can’t make it tonight the gallery is open from 8:30 am – 6 pm on Monday through Thursday, and 8:30 am – 4:30 pm on Friday.

Wednesday at 8pm in Davis Auditorium join Rabbi Joseph Telushkin for a disucssion on what it means to be good in a morally complicated society.

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Beginning this upcoming Spring semester the Women’s Studies Department will transition into Skidmore’s new Department of Gender Studies. The interdisciplinary program will employ both gender queer and feminist theory and scholarship to analyze the experiences, perspectives and contributions of men, women and intersexed people and the systems of gender relations in various cultural settings and time periods.

As part of this transition the 2009 Solomon Residency will focus on the roles of gender studies in art history. The three day residency will feature two free and open to the public lectures.

At 5:30pm on Wednesday Henry Drewal will give a lecture titled “Spirit Spouse: Art and Gender Identity in the Worship of Mami Wata” in the Tang’s Payne Presentation Room. Then on Thursday, again at 5:30pm at the Tang, Patricia Simons will present her lecture, “Sex in the Kitchen: The Social Iconography of Male Bodies in Renaissance Art and Culture.”

More information on the events is available from the Saratogian.

Too Rad

Yo Motherfuckers, if you’re not totally popping wood about all the good music coming to campus this weekend you must be a serious wet blanket. Thursday night Lively Lucy’s brings you a free show with April Smith and the Great Picture Show and The Van Buren Boys and then Friday night is SEC and Benefaction’s biannual Benefit Concert with sets from VERBS, Silent Kids and Mutual Friends. After all that madness there is this little party called Moorebid Ball featuring LightsDownMusicUp on Saturday Night.

I just want to let everyone know now so we can collectively avoid all those what-are-you-doing-tonight text messages.