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Warning: we have reached the second weekend of September funk.

This means you may need to exercise some ingenuity when it comes to your amusement this weekend.

That’s not to say nothing’s happening, of course. In fact, if after two weeks on the treadmill of higher education you feel like a marionette (which is to say, mixed up in general), we recommend a refreshing visit to First Assembly of God on 44th St., where tonight at 7:00 p.m., Evangelist Randy Rijfkogel “will reveal who’s in control of your life” in his powerful message “The Puppet Master” (featuring human video).

You do have other options. Also tonight, at 8:00 p.m., the award-winning, soul-stirring, taste-defying, ever-popular Freshman Variety Night appears under the big top of the FAC.

At the very same time, for more sophisticated palates, we have the Film Arts Committee’s presentation of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” at 8 p.m. in Commons Lecture Hall.

If it’s hipness you’re longing for, you may go to Four Friends Coffeehouse, where, at 9:00 p.m., the Space Ks will woo and wow you with “ethereal jazz.”

Upon waking, you may wish to venture down Lake Street: the Eastown Street Fair, with acts like Mustard Plug, Dry, and Mission Orange will liven up GR’s city-within-a-city.

Finally, tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., “Saving Private Ryan” will bathe the FAC screen with the horrors of war.

Oh, and a reminder for next week: Jazz! The Jeff Haas Trio will syncopate the FAC for the low, low price of three smackers on Thursday, the 23rd at 8:00 p.m.

And a final admonition: remember the Cave Cafe!


Friday, Sept 17
courtesy Michael Vanden Berg
Unearthing a Giant

Michael Vanden Berg, one of four Calvin students who participated in the excavation of a mastadon (smaller cousin of the wooley mammoth) at a church construction site in Cascade Township, holds one of the large bones unearthed. The excavation team included Calvin students Anne Albers, Paul Petersen, Beth Vanden Berg and Mike Vanden Berg, along with Professor Ralph Stearley and various volunteers from the Grand Rapids area.

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