It seems Skidmore’s own Kara Walker has found their way to the campus walls. Sometime this afternoon someone installed these silhouette fabric cut-outs around campus. We’ve got a few more pictures after the jump but if you know anything we’d love to hear from you in the comments.
I know many of you have been forced to strike “Twisted Tuesdays” from your calendars because of the end of the semester work push, so for those of you looking for a more appropriate alliteration to fill your calendar get ready for Lecture Loving Tuesdays! Tonight brings three separate lectures to quench your thirst:
Kick things off in the early afternoon with Dr. Mark Walker’s talk entitled Physics Under Hitler. “This talk will use two main examples, the history of how the German Physical Society accommodated itself to the National Socialism (including the purge of its Jewish members) and the wartime nuclear weapons project to survey how German physics and physicists interacted with Hitler’s regime.” 1:15pm @ Dana 227
Next, head over to Emerson at 5:30 to hear Vassar Prof. Rachel Friedman talk about Derek Walcott’s Odyssey and the Postcolonial Recovery of Classical Greek Texts.
“Prof. Friedman will examine Derek Walcott’s “Stage Version” of the Odyssey, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1992, specifically Walcott’s characterization of Odysseus as a wandering hero extremely ambivalent about his return home to Ithaka. Friedman will consider whether Walcott’s reading of Odysseus might be seen as emerging from Homer’s poem and will suggest some of the ways such a reading can help us access aspects of the ancient texts from a postcolonial perspective.
Finally the 6pm nightcap in the Faculty Staff Center where various Alumni and Professors from the Govt. department will be addressing Living the Liberal Arts in a Government Career. If you are considering majoring in this discipline or are a current major, this program is for you!
All lecture descriptions stolen from the Bartlebys who run the Skidmore website.
Last time we talked to Glotzbach about the economy things were still unstable—daily market fluctuations had kept the college from making any serious plans and things were still unsure. Since then, according to an email in last weeks Student Announcement Digest, our cheerful leader has met with the Board of Trustees, the full Institutional Policy and Planning Committee (IPPC), and the IPPC Subcommittee on Budget and Finance to talk about the institutions circumstances and future plans to cut funding for many departments. This Tuesday, Glotzbach will give two presentations on our situation, which he describes as “a considerable challenge, particularly for next year.” If that foreboding language doesn’t send tingles down your tuition-paying spine, I don’t know what will. Come hear the man speak Tuesday (11/11) in Davis first at the ungodly hour of 8:30am, and then again for us sane people at 1pm. Each talk should last about an hour.
According to our calculations it has been about 300 years since Halloween has fallen on a decent party day but remember, just because you don’t have class tomorrow doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have class tonight. According to the internet if we do bad things tonight the college will take away other things we enjoy like Junior Ring and Fun Day which would be a bummer. Moorebid starts at 10pm and there is a costume contest at 11 with glamorous prizes so make sure you look hella fly in your costume or that girl from phsyics is going unimpressed. All of Case Center is decorated all spooky and shit so get your costumes on and get ready. Keep it safe.
So this Wednesday, Oct. 22, the Center for Sex & Gender Relations is hosting another one of Skidmore’s most glorified events. No, we are not talking about Fun Day, OktSoberfest, or any amateur shit like that, we’re talking about Free Condom Day. Due to the great success of the first Free Condom Day, noted by the absence of little babies and syphilis around campus, and the surprising surplus of glow-in-the-dark condoms, the Center has decided to unleash another wave of dome caps onto us students. Going to the Center is a great idea because it avoids playing with any of the potentially sabotaged willy wraps, as well as providing a number of other resources and fun facts. Keep up the good work students, and remember, no glove, no love.
Ladies and Gentleman, Res Life is trying to stir things up a bit by giving us all some incentive to go check out the Men’s and Women’s Soccer games on October 15 @ 1pm and 4pm. There will be some tailgating (6pm in the gym parking lot) so all of you can work on that weight gain you need to stay warm this winter, and also some prizes for everybody to get really competitive and overly exited about.
The dorm with the most attendees will win a prize of more food–doughnuts and doughboys to be exact.
p.s. Rumor has it world famous badass Zinedine Zidane will be stoping by for some headbutts and hot dogs.
Happy Yom Kippur
Go and break the Ramadan fast with Hayat, Skidmore’s Muslim culture club. Hayat is sponsoring a Ramadan dinner tomorrow night at Falstaff’s at 7pm. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, and a time to fast. During Ramadan Muslims concentrate on their faith and spend less time on the concerns of their everyday lives. It is a time of spiritual reflection, contemplation, prayer, doing good deeds and spending time with family and friends. Hayat will celebrate and break the fast during the Ramadan dinner.
For those who could not understand what was coming out of the mumbling Big Brother-like sound system on top of the library: “This is a test! This is a test of the emergency warning system! This is only a test!” We think it may have said that about 5 more times, but again, we couldn’t understand a thing.
Register here for the text message urgent notification system so you know what crazy shit is going down on the Skidmore campus wherever you might be.
The physic’s lounge, located on the second floor of Dana, is now open for sleeping, studying, and particle acceleration (perhaps build your own).
