Amherst College Event Calendar   Academic Year at a Glance

Students considering graduate work in environmental studies should stop by this information table in the Campus Center atrium on Monday, Nov. 16, between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to chat with the representative from Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

"Cloud Tectonics" by Jose Rivera, directed by Patricia McGregor, is Emmanuel Genard and Tanya Jackson’s senior project in acting. The play is Rivera's meditation on life's inexplicable mysteries, including chance and love. A bizarre Los Angeles downpour brings together two strangers, both searching for dreams they lost in the shuffle of life's miles and years. Just as Anibal and Celestina seem to reach an equilibrium, in bursts Nelson, Anibal's reckless missing brother, on leave from his army base. Quickly the sand beneath all their feet begins to shift. In a world where the rules of time and logic fail, where do we find truth? Perhaps, as Rivera puts it, "What better way to respond to a miracle than falling in love with it." Auditions will be held on Monday, Nov. 16, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Studio 3 of Webster Hall. Callbacks will be on Nov. 18 from 8 to 10 p.m. Perusal scripts and sign-up sheets are located outside of the Theater and Dance Office, Webster G27. Performances will be Feb. 18-20 at 8 p.m. in Holden Theater. Available role: Nelson De La Luna, a man in his 20s, with a ferocious desire to penetrate or be penetrated by life. His structured army regime feeds a reactionary wild and destructive side. He lives by the idea of survival of the fittest and masks his pain with a parade of fast living, cheap booze and beautiful women. Mixed with his macho aggression is a deep desire for partnership and fatherhood.