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crounse Library hours for midterms and Fall Break: Tuesday, Oct. 12: 7:45 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 13: 7:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 14 and Friday, Oct. 15: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 16: CLOSED
Sunday, Oct. 17: 6 p.m. – 12 a.m.
Monday, Oct. 18: Resume regular hours


daira October 21. Daira Elsa Quinones will speak about the
displacement of Afro-Colombians in Colombia's
ongoing war.


Anne Seelbach October 22. Anne Seelbach artist reception and showing
at 4 p.m. in the AEGON Gallery.


Eric Hutchinson October 23. The Student Activities Council and the
Alumni House invite the entire Centre community to the
free Homecoming concert on the Campus Center lawn,
at 8 p.m. Check out Eric Hutchinson’s album Sounds
Like This, including the hit singles "Rock & Roll," "Ok," "It's
Alright With Me," and "Oh!" You can learn more about
Eric Hutchinson at his website, and we look forward
to seeing you there!


October 12, 2010

Meetings/Gatherings

Be sure to click Career Services, Convos, and Church Announcements tabs to the left for a complete listing of those related events.

Sundays. Get Centred is a contemplative Christian worship service held on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. in the candlelit sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church. This half-hour service of music, prayer, scripture readings, and silence is a great way to start the week.
—Jeff Jones

Sunday, Oct. 17. One-year anniversary celebration of Saffron’s Funky Finds, located at 390 Whirl-A-Way Drive (near 84 Lumber), beginning at 1:30 p.m. Celebrate with food, fun, friends, and 20% off many items storewide.
—Cindy Arnold

Wednesday, Oct. 20. Psychic Fair. Student Activities is sponsoring a Psychic Fair from noon to 5 p.m. in the Ewen Room in the Campus Center. Open to the Centre community, the Psychic Fair will feature three psychics who will be performing palm and tarot card readings. Appointment sign-ups will be outside of Cowan on Monday, Oct. 18, and Tuesday, Oct. 19.
—Laura Pasley

Thursday, Oct. 21. Witness for Peace luncheon. Daira Elsa Quinones will speak about the displacement of Afro-Colombians in Colombia’s ongoing war in the Ewen Dining Room during common hour. This opportunity is being co-sponsored by CentrePeace and Religious Life. You may reserve your luncheon space by e-mailing shayne.jarman@centre.edu (please include your student ID number). Watch Daira tell her own story in this online video.
—Jeff Jones

Monday, Oct. 25. CONVO: Jane Austen and Cognitive Science. 7 p.m., Vahlkamp Theatre. Professor Lisa Zunshine of the University of Kentucky will speak on how Jane Austen intuitively experimented with her readers’ theory of mind: that is, our evolved cognitive ability to explain people’s observable behavior in terms of their unobservable mental states.

Wednesday, Oct. 27. CONVO: Wood Energy and Improving Appalachian Forest Sustainability. 7:30 p.m., Vahlkamp Theatre. Grant Curry of ecoPower Generation will speak about the reasons for declining forest productivity in eastern Kentucky and how right-sized wood energy plants will provide the incentive necessary for landowners to improve the productivity of their forests for the benefit of future generations.

Thursday, Oct. 28. CONVO: Tokyo String Quartet. 8 p.m., Newlin Hall. Regarded as one of the supreme ensembles of the world, this string quartet performs on a group of renowed Stradivarius instruments.

Saturday, Oct. 30. Interested in attending a rally in Washington D.C., to restore sanity? Or is the March to Keep Fear Alive counter-rally more to your liking? Click here if you need more information on the rally. Either way, Centre Democrats and Centre Republicans are organizing an expedition to take part in this historic event. If you would like to go, please go to this Centre-specific website.
—John Perry, Advisor, Centre Republicans
—Beau Weston, Advisor, Centre Democrats

Notices and Announcements

Notices and Announcements will run for one week only, so please mark your calendar for anything of interest. You can always go back to the week before or archives as well.

Babysitter List. If you are interested in having your name on a babysitter list that would be given to community members when requested, please e-mail your name and a telephone number to anita.bertram@centre.edu

Reminder from last week: The University of Louisville Dental School will have an Open House on Friday, Nov. 5, and volunteers needed for the YMCA! Click here for last week’s edition.


Click here for the Norton Center for the Arts Student Ticket Pickup Policy (PDF).

Click here for the AEGON Gallery Events Schedule.



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