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Homecoming festivities, the dedication of Acopian Engineering Center, a Lafayette oral history presentation, varsity sports, alumni concerts, and screenings of Bad Boys II are among the campus activities this weekend.
Homecoming will include a pre-game tented clambake, family entertainment, a post-game nacho and wing bar with a performance by an alumni band, an alumni fencing exhibition, open houses, a College Archives Oral History Project presentation, and more. For the full schedule, visiting the Homecoming web page.
Acopian Engineering Center will be dedicated 5 p.m. Friday. The renovated and modernized 90,000-square-foot facility includes innovative student learning centers, labs designed for collaborative student/faculty research, and high-tech classrooms. A reception and tours will follow at 5:45 p.m.
The volleyball team will take on American University 7 p.m. Friday and Navy 7 p.m. Saturday in Patriot League action at Kirby Sports Center. In their last contest, the Leopards fell to Lehigh, 3-1, on Oct. 17 despite a 15-kill performance from Veronica Canto-Ponce’07 (La Jolla, Calif.).
Winner of the 2002 Big Break Competition, Katie Todd ’00will return to campus with her brand of edgy pop music 10 p.m. Friday at the Farinon Center Snack Bar. Chicago Arts and Entertainment Magazine said of a concert, “Katie Todd left audience members stunned with her striking voice… Her highly emotive songs about innocence, etc. were driven by an inner intensity that I have rarely witnessed.” Todd has been featured in an article on “New Discoveries” in Singer Magazine. Her debut album, Changing Faces, “is packed with remarkable pop songs centered around her astonishing keyboard skills and breathtaking vocals,” states MusicBox-online.com.
A multimedia production on the College Archives Oral History Project, created by a team of students under the guidance of Kristen Turner, assistant archivist, and Diane Shaw, college archivist, will be presented 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Oechsle Hall. Personal reflections of Lafayette during periods of campus activism and social change are captured in monologues based on the experiences of women and African American students in the 1960s and 1970s.
Former Cadence singers Liza Zitelli ’02 and Krystin Porter ’01 will present “earthy blueglass melodies” as members of the band Sweetfire during the pre-game clambake 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday on the lower level of the Markle Parking Deck near Oechsle Hall.
The field hockey team, victors over nationally ranked opponents this season, will play Lehigh 1 p.m. Saturday at Rappolt Field. The team (11-6) defeated Rutgers 2-0 on Wednesday and Colgate 4-0 last Saturday. Jennifer Stone ’04 (Newtown, Pa.) and Kristen Chiusano ’04 (Medford, N.J.) were named Patriot League Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week for Oct. 13-19.
The football team (3-3) will resume its Patriot League schedule with a 1 p.m. Homecoming game at Fisher Field. This marks the second straight week that Lafayette will face a nationally ranked I-AA opponent. Last week, it lost a 34-27 decision at No. 22 Harvard. Fordham is coming off a 41-7 romp over Division II New Haven in which Kirwin Watson ran for five touchdowns.
LAF will show the action movie Bad Boys II 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.
Released in July by Columbia Pictures, the film is rated R for strong violence and action, and pervasive profane language, sexuality, and drug content. The plot: Narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) have been assigned to a high-tech task force investigating the flow of designer ecstasy into Miami. This leads them to a conspiracy involving a vicious Kingpin (Jordi Molla), whose ambitions have ignited a bloody turf war. Mike and Marcus’ working relationship is threatened when Mike develops feelings for Marcus’ sister Syd (Gabrielle Union), and unless they can separate the personal from the professional, the case and Syd’s life are in danger.