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Events

Medical Yoga Club of MSU: Yoga classes and meetings, 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, 5:30 p.m. to 6: 30 p.m., today, Wisconsin room, Union. 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 sets and clocks.

Phoenix Rising Drum Circle: Come Drum And Dance With Us, 8 p.m. Friday, Purdue room in the 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.

School of Music: Concert, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Music Auditorium. This free concert features “Musique 21” - the School of Music’s contemporary music ensemble composed of faculty and students. The ensemble is comprised of mixed instrumentation devoted to the performance of new and contemporary works.

Abrams Planetarium: Season of Light, 8 p.m. Friday, Abrams Planetarium. “Season of Light” explores the customs we associate with this special time of the year. The idea of a “Christmas Star” is briefly examined. National Public Radio’s Noah Adams narrates. “Season of Light” will be presented from Nov. 23 through Sunday, Dec. 23. For more information, contact Mary Gowans at (517)355-4676 or e-mail skycal@pa.msu.edu.

Meetings

Citizens for a Peaceful Response: Meeting, 6 p.m. Monday, second floor of the Union. An action group formed in response to Sept. 11, exploring issues of creative nonviolence, civil liberties, racial equality, education and fund-raising. For more information, e-mail Chuck Torpe at greenman1970@yahoo.com.

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: Organization meeting, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 28, 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

Lectures

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Discussion with Professor Bill Lawson, 5-6 p.m. Nov. 28, 530 South Kedzie Hall. The topic is “The Good Racist.” All undergraduates are welcome.

Asian Studies Center: Asian Studies Center Colloquium “Ethnicity and the Thai and Vietnamese Nations,” 4 p.m. Friday, 471 MSU-Detroit College of Law Building. Speakers will be Charles Keyes, president of the Association of Asian Student and professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Washington. The lecture examines the relationship between the construction of national communities and the generation of ethnic differences within states as well as the relationship between nations and Diasporas in Thailand and Vietnam.

Career Services & Placement: Recruiting Trends 2002: Hiring and the College Labor Market, 4:30 p.m. Dec. 3, Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center Auditorium. Phil Gardner of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute will present the national Recruiting Trends 2002 report highlighting the recruiting and college employment outlook including a question and answer session on today’s job market.

Films

Spanish Club: Romance Language Film Series, 5:30 p.m. Friday, 206 Old Horticulture Building. This week’s film is “Coup de Torchon.” Bernard Tavernier directed this classic film about a French policeman in Africa who takes the law into his own hands.

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