published on 09/28/06

Weekly Calendar 9/29-10/4

FRIDAY, 9/29
3 p.m. Tea. You can bring liquids on planes now. Rose Parlor

6:45 p.m. F.R.A.N. Event. Bowerbirds, Sonya Cotton, Chris Kiehne. What are you guys, like super super super seniors now? Ferry House

SATURDAY, 9/30
9 a.m. Freshmen Parents’ Weekend. Welcoming Remark and Campus Life Panel. Vassar students will talk about their experiences at the College. “Well, at first it was just the booze, but then I realized that I was both non-gendered and addicted to narcotics. Do you want me to talk about my independent major?” Students’ Building, Second Floor

10 a.m. Arlington Street Fair. Every year The Miscellany News loses the chili contest. Perhaps Aaron’s secret ingredient was just a little too personal last year. Raymond Ave

1 p.m. Women’s Rugby. Vassar vs. Princeton. To be followed by a debate on the benefits and drawbacks of following the lead of Harvard. The Farm

2 p.m. Freshmen Parents’ Weekend Program. Vassar Students and How They Spent the Summer. Sponsored by the CDO. Learn about the beauty of nepotism, Brooklyn, and the publishing industry. Students’ Building, Second Floor

2 p.m. Learning and Teaching Center. A panel of three students who have successfully completed their first year at Vassar tell their stories. Featuring Meg Prossnitz, Michael Cashman, and Michael P. White. Library 122

8:30 p.m. “Voices in Harmony.” A cappella. Do they still say that thing on the tour about how we have more a cappella groups per capita than any other school? Is that really a thing to brag about? Students’ Building, Second Floor

SUNDAY, 10/1
2:30 p.m. Women’s Tennis. Vassar vs. Williams College. Well, Cappy, who you gonna cheer for? Joss Tennis Courts

6:30 p.m. Kol Nidre. Remember to stuff your face and repent for all sins by sundown! Aula

MONDAY, 10/2
10 a.m. Yom Kippur Services. Just pretend it’s Fashion Week. Aula

2 p.m. Info Session. Harvard Dean of Admissions. Trying to steal as many Mr. Vassars as possible. Faculty Parlor

3 p.m. Tea. But they have to fit in a quart-sized ziploc bag. Rose Parlor

6 p.m. Yom Kippur Services and Break Fast. Go for religious reasons, go to watch 60 Jewish kids squirm through a service and then make a mad dash towards stale bagels. Aula

9 p.m. ViCE Concert. The Creeping Nobodies, Master/Slave, and Crystal Clyff. Stalking, sadomasochism, and meth—sounds like a Clay Aiken album. The Mug

TUESDAY, 10/3
11 a.m. Balfour College Rings. Be the tool with the pinkie ring. CC, North Atrium

3 p.m. Tea. They realized explosives couldn’t fit in a little plastic bag. Rose Parlor

6 p.m. Lecture. Adam Davies, author. Amazon gave his book lukewarm reviews, but judging from his author photo, I’d suggest going. Sanders Hall, 212

10 p.m. ViCE Jazz. Brotherhood of Groove. That’s why they call it Grooveadelphia. It’s from the Greek. The Mug

WEDNESDAY, 10/4
3 p.m. Tea. But even before, with the total ban, in addition to three ounces of saline solution and breast milk, K-Y Jelly and gel-filled bras were allowed. Rose Parlor

6 p.m. Blegen House Program. “Sexuality in a Time of Change: Socio-Economic Transformations in Bulgaria and the Shaping of Sexual Identities and Culture.” Boris Petrov ’01 looks at the post-communist gay youth movements in Sofia. Vassar will be offering a course on this next semester, complete with field trip. Blegen House

6:30 p.m. Claflin Lecture. “The Light of Icons at Mt. Sinai.” Robert Nelson of Yale University. Featuring images from UsWeekly of Lindsay Lohan leaving Cedars-Sinai Hospital for “exhaustion.” Taylor Hall, 203

THURSDAY, 10/5
9 a.m. Harvest Health Fair. Did you see that article in the Times? Condom sales go up at the beginning of every school year. Here’s why. CC, North Atrium

3 p.m. Tea. At least flat-chested prostitutes with poor eyesight and small children could fly unimpeded. Rose Parlor

6 p.m. Philosopher’s Holiday. Maggie Little, “Intimate Assistance.” She will look at what moral frameworks to use when talking of helping others that involves use of one’s very body, for example, kidney donation, or, more provocatively, gestation. And, of course, hand jobs. Taylor Hall, 203

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