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A student play, a charity run for cancer research, varsity soccer games, an art reception and discussion, standup comedy, a concert, a progressive dinner, a intellectual dinner discussion, and screenings of American Wedding are on the schedule of campus events this weekend.
Amanda Roth ’04 (Easton, Pa.) and Kamaka Martin ’04 (Brooklyn, N.Y.) continue their presentation We Were Pioneers, a play they wrote with the assistance of the Special Collections department about Lafayette’s transition to coeducation, 7:30-9 p.m. today and Saturday in the Marlo Room of Farinon College Center. The play is a serious of monologues based on about 50 interviews with alumni from the 1960s and ’70s, as well as 15 to 20 with current students. Admission is free
Chi Phi fraternity will host its ninth annual Dan Boone Memorial 5K to fight cancer 9:45 a.m. Saturday. The $15 entry fee includes a T-shirt, a post-race barbecue, and prizes for winners. All donations will go to American Cancer Association. For registration or more information, contact race organizer Tim Bruss ’04 at brusst@lafayette.edu or 610-438-1026.
The men’s soccer team (6-4-2) will take on Patriot League foe Navy 3 p.m. Saturday at Metzgar Fields. The Leopards look to rebound after falling 1-0 to Bucknell on a penalty kick in the 55th minute last Saturday, when they nearly knotted the score despite playing a man down for most of the second half.
An opening reception for the new exhibition at the Williams Visual Arts Building, “Synthesis: Experiments In Collaboration,” will be held 4-5:30 p.m. Saturday in the Grossman Gallery, followed by a half-hour panel discussion with artists represented in the show.
The women’s soccer team (4-7-4) will take on Navy 7 p.m. Saturday at Metzgar Fields. The Leopards fell to Patriot League power American, 4-2, last Saturday.
The Arts Society will host a progressive dinner at the Arts Houses 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday (RSVP deadline has passed). Appetizers, a main course, and dessert will be served.
Comedian Steve Byrne will offer up his material on topics such as fitting in as an Asian-American, an interesting childhood, and dating 10 p.m. Saturday in the Farinon Snack Bar. Over the past year, he has appeared in BET’s “Comic View,” Que Loco, and Club 54 in Canada. He is a regular at Comic Strip Live and The Comedy Cellar in New York City. The free event is sponsored by Lafayette Activities Forum.
LAF also will bring singer/songwriter Beth Wood back to Gilbert’s 11 p.m. Saturday. Billboard Continental Drift states, “If you have a hankering for soulful blues/rock a la Bonnie Raitt, look no further than Beth Wood.” She has released five CDs: Woodwork (1996), New Blood (1998), Late Night Radio (1999), Ghostwriter (2001), and You Take the Wheel (2003). The single “Geometry” from Woodwork was featured on FOX TV’s “Party of Five.”
In addition, LAF will show the comedy American Wedding, the latest in the American Pie series, 7 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 p.m. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, in the Limburg Theater of the Farinon Center. Admission is $2.
With a running time of 1 hour, 41 minutes, the film is rated R for sexual content, language, and crude humor. It was released by Universal Pictures in August 2003. The characters have graduated from East Great Falls High and are getting ready for the wedding of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). Stifler (Seann William Scott) plans to throw the ultimate bachelor party; other characters include Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), Michelle’s younger sister Cadence (January Jones), and Jim’s father (Eugene Levy).
The McKelvy House Scholars will host a dinner discussion Sunday evening on “Does Greed Drive the Economy? Should It?” Dinner will begin 6 p.m. at McKelvy House, 200 High Street; RSVP by Saturday with McKelvy Scholar Creighton Conner ’04 (Lewisburg, Pa.) at connerr@lafayette. Led by Scholar Hart Feuer ’05 (Portland, Ore.), a double major in economics and business and German, the discussion will start at 6:30 p.m. and requires no reservations.