C3 DAY
COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE COMMUNITY DAY
Hopefully by now, you've heard of C3 Day (Commonwealth College Community Day)! This upcoming event (on November 8th) will be an opportunity for you to find out more about a variety of Commonwealth College related topics and have fun too (karaoke and casino night will happen in the evening). To find out more, and RSVP to the FREE dinner, please link to the following
website:
www.comcol.umass.edu/c3

If you're interested in volunteering to help with this event, please contact Melissa Beesley at mbeesley@comcol.umass.edu.

STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
The next meeting of the Commonwealth College Student Advisory Board (the group of students who provides the dean with a student perspective) will be held on Tuesday, October 26th, at 6pm in the Commonwealth College lounge (504 Goodell). This meeting is open to everyone; we hope to see you there!

UMASS/AMHERST MAJORS FAIR TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 3, 2004 Pre-Major Advising Services, Commonwealth College and Career Services will co-sponsor a MAJORS FAIR which will take place on Wednesday, November 3 from 6:00 8:00 pm in the Student Union Ballroom. All current and prospective students are cordially invited to attend.
The event will provide an opportunity for all undeclared students to explore potential areas of study while allowing current majors to learn about other options they may not know exist at the University.
Dont miss this once-a-year chance to explore the impressive array of majors and resources available at UMass/Amherst! On no other occasion throughout the academic year will so much information be available under one roof in such a friendly, accessible setting. Representatives from over 90 different departments will be present to answer questions and provide literature on major requirements and opportunities. Light refreshments provided by Career Services will make the occasion festive as well as informative.
Contact person: Susan Machala
Pre-Major Advising Services
615 Goodell
545-2191
smachala@acad.umass.edu

THREE EVENTS- LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
HISTORY, DANCE LESSONS, MUSIC
Boricuas Unidos, the Puerto Rican Club at UMass On Wednesday, Oct 20th, we are having a salsa discussion at 7 pm at the Latin American Cultural Center (LACC) in which we are having a speaker come in and talk about the history of salsa and what it means to us puertoricans and latin americans in general.
Then on friday Oct 22 we are holding salsa lessons at 7pm at the Fine Arts Center Lobby were profesional salsa dancers are coming to give free lessons.
Finally on Saturday Oct 23 we are having a party from 8pm-2am at the Student Union Ballroom which will include food at the beginning and then a party featuring latin music. This will have a charge of $5 for 5 college students and $8 general public. Thanks for your time.

ASPIRING EDITORS
ED2010 Meeting This Thursday, 10/21, 6 P.M. at the Bluewall!
Want an internship at Cosmopolitan? Dream of being Editor-in-Chief of The New Yorker? Join the UMass chapter of ED2010!
What the heck is ED2010 ("ed twenty-ten")? Good question. It's a networking group for aspiring editors who want to reach their dream magazine jobs by the year 2010. The current deputy editor of CosmoGirl!
magazine founded it in 1998. (Check out www.ed2010.com! It has many internship and job listings, as well as resume tips, salary reports and a glossary of magazine lingo.) Why should you join? Well, the nice people at Ed2010.com will provide us with guest speakers and lots of helpful advice. This is a great opportunity to find out where other UMass students have interned and what their experiences were like. Also, we need YOU to serve on our E-boardwhat a great leadership position to have on your resume!
First general interest meeting: this Thursday, 10/21, 6 p.m. at Bluewall!
Questions? Email ed2010.umass@gmail.com. Thanks, and see you Thursday!
-Michelle Dozois, Journ/Psych '05 and Erica Beaulac, English '05

TAKE BACK UMASS
Invites you to a talk on
"Globalization: El Salvadorian Style"
with Teresa Perez & Jesse Kates-Chinoy
of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities/CRIPDES Thursday, October 21 12:00-1:30 pm Campus Center 803

UMASS RED CROSS CLUB
Open Meeting Oct. 26th, Tues. 7pm
Campus Center #803
* Organize and help with Blood Drives
* Raise awareness about the Measles epidemic
* International Services
* Certification in CPR / First Aid
* Certification as an instructor for CPR / First Aid If any of these projects interest you or you have some ideas of your own that you would like to share with the Red Cross Club, please come to our meeting and help us make a difference!!
umassredcross@yahoo.com

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA
Lanfranco Marcelletti, conductor
Estela Olevsky, piano
8:00 PM, Saturday, 23 October
Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center
This Saturday, 23 October, the University Orchestra will be performing a full concert with faculty soloist Estela Olevsky. The program will include Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony no. 5 in D minor ("Reformation"), written in 1832. It is one of the great symphonic masterpieces of the early Romantic era. The fourth movement is based on the famous chorale "Ein feste Burg"
composed by 16th century reformist Martin Luther. The program will also feature Professor Emeritus Estela Olevsky as she performs Frdric Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, composed in 1830. This concerto contains both impressive virtuousic playing as well as beautiful lyricism in the bel canto style of the time.
Both pieces will be performed by the University Orchestra and conducted by Professor Lanfranco Marcelletti, whose passion and energy make for an incredible listening experience. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to hear two orchestral masterpieces performed by an orchestra of talented musicians who have come from all over the world to study at UMass. Tickets are $5 for students with a valid ID, $10 for the general public, and are available at the Fine Arts Center Box Office.

COME AND HEAR SPOOKY STORIES ABOUT UMASS!
The History Club is having its annual Halloween Ghost Tour of Campus on Wednesday, October 27th at 8:30pm. We will meet in the elevator lobby of Herter Hall (Haigis Mall side).
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
Monday, November 29, 2004
John J. McCarthy, Professor of Linguistics "Pahk Your Cah in Hahvahd Yahd:
A Biography of the Boston Dialect"
What are the distinctive properties of this Eastern Massachusetts dialect, heard all over campus? Professor McCarthy, himself a speaker, will describe what is known about its history, geography, and demography, and test conclusions with data collected by students in Linguistics 101. He'll also use the famous r sound to show how speakers have a sophisticated, unconscious knowledge of linguistic structures and rules, and what this and other properties of the Boston accent reveal about how language is represented in the human mind.

WRITERS WORK with April Ossmann
Executive Director, Alice James Books
Tuesday November 30, 4:00 p.m. Commonwealth College Lounge, Goodell WRITERS WORK: making art, making a living hosts a rich array of professionals working in fields related to literary, book, and other arts, but distinct from academia. Showcasing the ways writers and other artists find careers in which to apply their skills, and the ways art lovers bring the arts into their lives, editors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, arts administrators and other professionals share how their careers and their love of literary and other arts intersect. Writers Work is a program of the Juniper Initiative and is made possible by support from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers, English Dept., Commonwealth College, UMass Arts Council and Alumni Association.