Venham bater papo e escutar Portugues!

Join pre-law advisor Abigail Perdue, law students, and undergraduate students who have recently completed the LSAT as they discuss helpful test-taking tips and strategies.

Steve Goryl will talk about his experiences climbing Mount Everest. There will be coffee and desserts, starting at 6:00 pm.  Mr. Goryl will begin speaking around 6:15 and the event should last until around 7.  The speech will be held at the Chi Psi fraternity house (5 Lee Avenue).  This event is sponsored by the W&L Outing Club and is open to all.  

This talk will highlight the diverse plant life and wildlife on Warm Srpings Mountain Nature Conservancy Preserve. It will also discuss how the Conservancy uses the preserve to demonstrate effective land conservation and management techniques for use throughout the central Appalachians. Marek Smith, director of the Nature Conservancy's Allegheny Highlands program will make the presentation.
Piovano Room, Rockbridge Regional Library

The Little Calfpasture River downstream of the dam at the Goshen Boy Scout Camp to its confluence with the Calfpasture River is considered to be unhealthy due to its lack of aquatic life.  The VA Departments of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will present information from a study of the sources of pollution in the Little Calfpasture at a meeting in the Rockbridge Baths Volunteer Fire Department building.
After the meeting, comments regarding the study will be accepted through December 18, 2009 (11.59pm).  Contact Tara Sieber, Valley Region TMDL Specialist, VA DEQ with any questions or concerns, or check out the DEQ TMDL website at: www.deq.virginia.gov/TMDL.

Venid a la casa Hispánica (4 Lee Avenue) a ver una buena pelicula y practicar espannol.

"Camino de Santiago," new paintings from Spain and France by Walter Cumming. Sept. 25-Nov. 30, 2009 in Williams Gallery, Huntley Hall.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

See http://williams.wlu.edu/gallery

"Portraits from Life," paintings by Michael Ananian, Sept. 1-Dec. 11, 2009--McCarthy Gallery, Holekamp Hall.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

See http://williams.wlu.edu/gallery

Kamen Gallery Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Artist Shirley Irons is a painter and photographer who has been exhibiting, teaching, lecturing, and curating for over 25 years. She uses her paintings to “slow down, edit out, [and] look for the permanence in the transitory.” In her current series, Irons paints empty institutional spaces, such as airports, office buildings, and hospitals, along with other fragments of daily life.  The works evoke an ephemeral transcendence suspended in environments that we experience indirectly. Irons teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is represented by the Luisotti Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Staniar Gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm

Introduced in 14th-century Japan, the netsuke would hang from a kimono's obi or sash by a cord to attach the container in which Japanese men would store their personal belongings. These soon became elaborately sculpted from ivory, lacquer, wood and other exotic materials.

The netsuke in the Washington and Lee Collection come from alumnus Joseph M. Glickstein.

Kamen Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.