Asian Studies Center: Japan Week, Japan Club Party, 6 p.m. Nov. 4, Spartan Village Community Center.
Hillel Jewish Student Center: Shabbat services and dinner, 6 p.m. Friday, Williams Hall. Services are at 6 p.m. and dinner is at 7 p.m. For more information, contact (517)332-1916 or hillel@msu.edu.
Students for a Free Tibet: Free Tibet benefit show, 7 p.m. Saturday, Lower Level Records. Starling Electric and other bands will be performing. Half the proceeds will go to the Red Cross and the other half will be used to buy baby clothes to send to Tibet.
Abrams Planetarium; Orion Rendezvous, A Star Trek Voyage of Discovery, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday. Orion Rendezvous: The Science Ship “Antares” awaits in Neptune orbit for the latest Starfleet Academy recruits. Once onboard, your orders are to proceed to a rendezvous point near planetary nebula NGC 2022 by a means never before attempted, travel through a “wormhole” tunnel. For more information, contact Mary Gowans (517)355-4676 or e-mail skycal@pa.msu.edu.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship: Acoustic Worship Set, Prayer & Biblical teaching, 7:30 p.m. today, 101 Biochemistry Building. Since the terrorists attacks, do you have questions about God such as, “If God is good how can he allow innocent people to suffer?” If you have honest questions, come seek genuine answers with us.
Golden Key International Honour Society: Fright Night, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, Oldsmobile Park. Dress up and scare little kids! A haunted stadium will be set up and we are looking for volunteers to help out. Costumes and makeup will be provided. It’s a fun event and you can bring your friends.
Episcopal Ministry at MSU: All Saints Day service, noon Nov. 1, Alumni Chapel. Communion service celebrating the lives of God’s servants both living and dead. For more information, contact Aleen at (517)351-7160.
Medical Yoga Club of MSU: Yoga classes and meetings,5:30 p.m. to 6: 30 p.m. today, Wisconsin Room, Union. 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, D214 Fee Hall, 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. Monday, D214 Fee Hall, Achieve good health, relaxation, body awareness and more with simple, nonstrenuous exercises for adults of all ages. For more information, contact Rob at (517)351-3056.
MSU Chess Club: Chess, 7:30 p.m. Monday, A517 Wells Hall. Everybody welcome, free. Unrated and rated games available. Please bring your own sets and clocks.
Phoenix Rising Drum Circle: Come Drum And Dance With Us, 8 p.m. Friday, Purdue Room, Union. Come make rhythms with drums and other percussion instruments in a group setting. No experience is required. Some rattles and drums will be available for use, but bring an instrument of your own if you have one. Most importantly, bring your enthusiasm and your desire to make rhythm with other people. For more information, contact Perry Godwin at (517)485-2544 or e-mail perry_godwin@excite.com.
Meetings
Golden Key International Honour Society: Open house for current and prospective members, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, B108 Wells Hall. Meet the executive board, honorary members, and ask any questions you may have about Golden Key.
Women in Business Students’ Association: Meeting, 6 p.m. today, N105 Business College Complex. Enterprise Rent-A-Car is coming to discuss how to “dress for success.” Food will be served. Need a ride? Contact wbsa@msu.edu.
ECO: Student environmental activist organization meeting, 7:45 p.m. today, Illinois Room, Union. Student activism toward a sustainable future. For more information, e-mail eco@msu.edu.
Spartasoft: Member meeting, 8 p.m. Tuesday, B100 Wells Hall. Join Spartasoft, MSU’s computer game development club and learn the art and science of game design and programming. Creative people welcome. For more information, e-mail spartaso@msu.edu.
MSU Student Filmmakers Guild: Meeting, 9 p.m. Thursday, B106 Wells Hall. Weekly meetings for making student films. For more information, e-mail MSU_filmmakers@hotmail.com.
MSU Student Cancer Support Network: Meeting, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, MSU Room, Union. Are you a student with a personal history of cancer? Or are you providing support for a family member or friend? If so, please join us. For more information, e-mail scsn@msu.edu.
Student Greenhouse Project: Weekly meeting, 9:30 p.m. Monday, Minnesota Room, Union. Students growing dreams, this is an opportunity to build our own building on campus. For more information, e-mail Phillip Lamoureux at lamoureux@psl.msu.edu.
Films
Libraries, Computing, & Technology: Friday Night Film Series, 7 p.m. Friday, W449 Main Library. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” San Francisco, with its eccentric and diverse population, proves ripe for the pod people this time around. After city health and safety inspector Matthew Bennell and his friends go on the run to keep aliens from taking the form of their bodies, they try valiantly to save others from the same fate. Discussion following with Robert Shelton, associate professor in the Lyman Briggs School. For more information, visit www.lib.msu.edu/events/films.htm.
Libraries, Computing, & Technology: University Libraries Colloquia Series, 7 p.m. Tuesday, W449 Main Library. Film Title: “The Children of Chabbannes.” Kenneth Waltzer, professor of history in James Madison College, will give the introduction. A tale of courage, resilience, and love set during World War II, The Children of Chabbanes tells the story of how the people of Chabbanes, a tiny village in unoccupied France, chose action over indifference and saved the lives of 400 Jewish refuge children. Filmmaker Lisa Gossels returns to Chabbanes with her father and uncle, two of the children who were saved. Through accounts by the extraordinary teachers who taught these children, this lyrical film shows the powers of love in a time of catastrophe. After the film, Norbert Bikales, one of the children saved at Chabbanes, will offer an account of his experiences and reflections on the meanings of the village’s efforts. For more information, visit www.lib.msu.edu/events/colloqui.htm.
Asian Studies Center: Japan Week, movie showing, 7 p.m. Tuesday, B108 Wells Hall. “After Life” directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. From the award-winning Kore-eda comes a remarkably touching film exploring the profound human need to discover meaning in everyday life. Many films have offered insight into the unexplainable realm of the after life. In Kore-eda’s thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a station somewhere between Heaven and Earth.
Spanish Club: Romance Language Film Series, 5:30 p.m. Friday, 206 Old Horticulture Building. This week’s film is “Entre Pancho Villa y una Mujer Dusnuda.” This look at changing gender roles in Mexico is both funny and thought provoking.
Lectures
Asian Studies Center: Japan Week, lecture, 4 p.m. Nov. 1, 201 International Center. “In America’s Shadow: Postwar U.S.-Japan Relations” by Peter Duus, professor, Department of History, Stanford University. For more information, contact the Asian Studies Center.
Asian Studies Center: Japan Week, colloquium, 4 p.m. Oct. 31, 201 International Center. “Challenging the State, Embracing the Nation: Buraku Liberation and the Politics of Human Rights in Japan” by John Davis, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology.
Asian Studies Center: Colloquium, 4 p.m. today, 201 International Center. “The Gender of Nationalism: Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan,” by Jason Karlin, visiting assistant professor, Department of History. Contesting images of masculinity in Meiji Japan reveal that questions of national identity were articulated in the idiom of gender. In response to the perceived threat of the feminization of culture represented by the intensification of consumption, fashion, and artifice, a vigorous masculinity asserted itself that rejected Western materialism and instead extolled notions of primitivism, national spirit, and imperialism. These two opposing representations of masculinity, a “masculinized” and “feminized” masculinity, each constituted differing responses to the problem of modernity in Japan.
Asian Studies Center: Japan Week opening lecture, 7 p.m. Monday, Lincoln Room, Kellogg Center. “What’s Changing in Japan,” by Makoto Ito, consul general of Japan in Detroit.
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