Lafayette has been selected to offer a Tournees Festival for the second consecutive year. Funded through a grant from the French Cultural Services (FACE), the festival is part of an initiative to help bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses across the US. This year's selection of films includes an array of genres from documentaries to dramas, co-productions that represent the Francophone world, as well as films by directors ranging from unique new voices to established figures.

A short discussion will follow each screening. For the full list of dates and places, go to: http://sites.lafayette.edu/tourneesfilmfest/2009-schedule/

An exhibition marking the 150th anniversary, on November 24, of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species," is comprised of three related sections. In "A Habit of Deciding Influence" are 18 photographs of Darwin’s pigeon specimens at the Natural History of London/Tring. Darwin took up the study of domesticated pigeons in 1855 and his observations of artificial selection in pigeon breeding was invaluable to his understanding of the way species change in natural environments. 2)"Coop" is a mixed-media installation based on Darwin’s five-sided pigeon coop. 3)"Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon” includes 10 altered prints from “Birds of America.”

In 1990, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new 'Prawn' friends.

SHOWTIMES:
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY
7:00PM & 10:00PM

Fellowship and rest by the sea with focus on the relationship of college stress and the spiritual life.

Chrin Vans depart Friday afternoon from Hogg Hall periodically after noon and leave the retreat location Sunday at noon.

Oblates of St. Francis de Sales,1601 Beach Ave, Cape May, NJ 08404-3608. Tel. (609)884-3761. Contact President Francesca Pileggi for further information.

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

Come receive the blessings of a supportive community and time in the Word. You don't have to be a Christian or an Athlete to attend!

Please welcome celebrant Fr. John Hanley, OSFS,
campus minister at De Sales University, as celebrant. Widows, the bereft and silent one, feature today in Kgs. and Mk.: at Zarephath for Elijah, and the woman Jesus points out in the Temple giving "all she had to live on."

1 Kgs 17:10-16
Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
Heb 9:24-28
Mk 12:38-44 or 12:41-44