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Annapolis Parents' Weekend - October 31 to November 2, 2008

Parents' Weekend Schedule of Events
Date/Time	Event
October 31, Friday
8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.	Registration Francis Scott Key Lobby
9:00 a.m. to 3:40 p.m.	Class visits: Parents and guests can sit in on their student's tutorials and laboratories throughout the day.
5:30 to 7:oo p.m.	Informal dinner with students in the Dining Hall. Pay at door.
8:15 p.m.	Lecture: In Defense of Cicero Professor Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame
November 1, Saturday
9:00 a.m. to Noon	Registration Coffee Shop, McDowell Hall
10:30 a.m.	Parent/Student Seminars McDowell Hall The reading is Plato's Meno
Noon	Buffet Lunch Dining Hall or FSK Lobby
1:45 p.m.	Question and Answer Session Conversation Room, Mellon Hall President Christopher B. Nelson and Dean Michael Dink will answer questions about the Program, the college, and the community.
3:00 p.m.	A choice of three activities: Tutorials on Definition, Propositions, and Common Notions from Euclid's Elements Walking Tour of Annapolis The immediate environment of the campus, including the Maryland State Capitol and the U.S. Naval Academy, holds an education in itself. Guides in colonial dress will take small groups on one-hour walks. *Gallery Tour: Los Caprichos* by Francisco Goya y Lucientes** Grancisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), the court painter for the Spanish crown, has often been referred to as the "Father of modern art." This exhibition from Contemporary and Modern Print Exhibitions features select aquatint prints from Goya's largest graphic work, Los Caprichos. These "impulsive fantasies," as the name implies, are masterful political, anti-clerical and allegorical prints inspired by the terror of the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Philosophie, and Spain's contrasting reaction to the revolution. The tour will be led by Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg
10:00 p.m.	Waltz Party Great Hall of McDowell We still call them "waltz parties," but the heyday of the waltz has passed. Most of the dance music played will be from the swing era.
November 2, Sunday
11:00 a.m.	The President's Brunch FSK Lobby, Mellon Hall
EXHIBITION
September 25 to December 17, 2008- Hodson Lobby in Mellon Hall Stephen Morse (A'68) Polyhedron Models This collection of geometric polyhedron models by St. John's College alumnus Stephen Morse (A'68) is based on the five Platonic solids described in Book XIII of Euclid's Elements. The works include stellations, compounds, and other extensions and variations, and uses colors to help the viewer clearly distinguish among the complex intersecting facial planes.
SPORTS EVENTS
November 1, Saturday 8:30 a.m. Occoquan Regatta - Virginia Crew teams from over two dozen Eastern colleges and clubs will compete in a 3.2 mile "head race" on the Occoquan River in Virginia, a 90-minute drive from campus. Races will be in sweep rowing in 8s, 4s, and sculling in singles. Directions and detailed directions will be available upon request at Registration.
November 2, Sunday 2:00 p.m. The Smith-McDowell Cup, Upper Playing Field This annual women's soccer showdown pits a team chosen by Athletic Director Leo Pickens, A'78 against one chosen by the senior team captains.