--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rains E-Drops: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Online version at http://rains.stanford.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS RAINS EVENTS 1. Movie Night: James Cagney is "Public Enemy - Wednesday 03/26/2008 Willis Lounge: 9PM Wednesday 3/26 The Greatest Gangster Movie of All-Time 2. Bar Mitzvah Party!!! - Saturday 04/05/2008 Koret Pavilion, Meet in Willis at 9:30pm (optional) Pretend you're 13 and enjoy the open bar...mitzvah 3. Hindu Student Council Presents: Holi, The Festival of Colors - Saturday 04/05/2008 11AM Manzanita Fields Free Colors, Dance, Music, Food, Drinks and Water Balloons! 4. Habitat for Humanity - Saturday 04/05/2008 Saturday, April 5th, 8 AM - 5 PM, RSVP to jlitze@stanford.edu Come volunteer with Peninsula Habitat! 5. CA online application! - Monday 04/07/2008 Application due April 7th Enjoy Rains events? Want to get more involved? 6. Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides Walk - Sunday 04/27/2008 Meet at 9am at Willis Lounge come out and have a great time! 7. Bay to Breakers! - Sunday 05/18/2008 Sunday May 18th, 2008 Famous 12K race in San Francisco! OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS 8.GSC Events Announcements Can't get enough events? See below! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAINS EVENTS: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Movie Night: James Cagney is "Public Enemy Wednesday 03/26/2008 at 9:00pm CA Contact: William (wckomiss@stanford.edu) Seriously, y'all the greatest gangster movie ever (from a guy who loves them). If you're in-town for the break, come check this out -- we'll snacks and goodies, too. Crime doesn't pay, as James Cagney learns (too late!) in this vintage Warner Brothers gangster movie that's become a much-imitated classic of the genre. Cagney plays hot-headed Tom Powers, who's on the fast track running illegal hooch during Prohibition. Directed by William Wellman, the film is famous for its scene where a ticked-off Cagney smashes his breakfast grapefruit in Mae Clarke 's face. Also stars Jean Harlow and Joan Blondell . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Bar Mitzvah Party!!! Saturday 04/05/2008 at 9:00pm CA Contact: Amy (amym2@stanford.edu) Bar Mitzvah Party!!!* April 5, 2008, 9pm-2am, $10 admission ticket at Koret Pavilion, Campus Drive and Mayfield Ave OPEN BAR!!! Look forward to middle school music classics, hilarious photos of your fellow students at age 13, food and drinks, and cheap plastic party favors! THE PARTY IS OPEN TO JEWS AND THEIR NON-JEWISH FRIENDS!!! Tickets will soon be available for online purchase for $10 at http://acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=156264. In the meantime, check our facebook group (Inaugural Bar Mitzvah Party) for updates. Contact CA Amy Morgenstern (amym2@stanford.edu) to get $5 reimbursement after you buy your ticket! That means a full night of dancing, fun, and an open bar for $5! :) Hosted by Stanford Jewish Law Students Association, Sponsored by the Hillel's new Graduate Student and Young Adult Board *Bar Mitzvahs are the Jewish coming of age celebrations for 13 year olds, followed by dance parties often featuring plastic novelty hats, lifting people in chairs, songs employing the word "Shout" and "YMCA," and glow-in-the-dark bracelets. See http://acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=156264 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Hindu Student Council Presents: Holi, The Festival of Colors Saturday 04/05/2008 at 11:00am CA Contact: Alice (atryan@stanford.edu) Hindu Students Council presents its annual Holi (Festival Of Colors) Celebrations! Holi is an Indian festival celebrated each year during the beginning of Spring season by having a mass color wars with all your friends! You basically mix powdered colors in water and color your friends with it (you are invited to be creative with how you wanna color them!). There is music, dancing and it may be a fun way to meet people and make friends. The colors are temporary and can be washed off with soap. For more information visit, our Facebook event's page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11575816436 or contact raghavh@stanford.edu. When: Saturday, April 5th Time: 11AM - 3PM Where: Manzanita Fields Why: Holi Playing: Free Colors, Dance, Music, Food, Drinks and Water Balloons! Cost: FREE! Everyone is invited. See http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11575816436 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Habitat for Humanity Saturday 04/05/2008 at 8:00am CA Contact: Julie (jlitze@stanford.edu) Want to get your hands dirty? Feeling like it’s time you give back to the local community? Or just need you get your volunteering fix? Join us as we spend a Saturday with Peninsula Habitat, a local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. We’ll be working at their new Redwood City site, helping to construct an affordable home for a local low-income family. This will be a full-day, rain or shine, hands-on experience! We only have 10 spots for volunteers – RSVP to Julie (jlitze@stanford.edu) if you’re interested. We’ll leave by 8 AM on Saturday, April 5th, and should return to campus by 5 PM. Because of the limited number of spots, please only reply if you can absolutely commit to the whole day! Rains will provide a small sandwich lunch on the day of the event. http://www.peninsulahabitat.org/ http://www.facebook.com/peninsulahabitat --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. CA online application! Monday 04/07/2008 at 12:00-midnight CA Contact: Alice (atryan@stanford.edu) The CA application website is finally up and running! The applications are due by April 7th. If you have any questions and/or experience problems with the application (it's a new system for us this year) please email Marcela at chaverri@stanford.edu. Applications can be accessed at the following website: https://rescomp.stanford.edu/resjobs/applicant/grad-ca/ Any questions? Feel free to email me or any of the other Rains CAs. Our email addresses (and bios) can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/group/rains/html/caswho.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides Walk Sunday 04/27/2008 at 9:00am CA Contact: Alice (atryan@stanford.edu) Walks are fun and a great way to bring our community and friends together to support a very worthwhile cause. Rains will take care of everything, so all you have to worry about is showing up on time. If you would like a shirt, please RSVP to Alice (atryan@stanford.edu) by Sunday, April 20th. More details will follow as the date gets closer. More info on Cystic Fibrosis can be found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis See http://www.cff.org/great_strides/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Bay to Breakers! Sunday 05/18/2008 at 8:00am CA Contact: Jen (jerhart@stanford.edu) Bay to Breakers When: Sunday May 18th @ 8 am Where: San Francisco Bay to Breakers is here again. For those of you who did it with Rains last year, or have done it in the past - you know what a fun/crazy race it is. The course description is below - it's a 12k race through San Francisco. You can run it, walk it, dress up in a costume or in nothing at all (yep there are definitely naked people running it). If you are interested, email Jenny by no later than WEDNESDAY MARCH 19th (jerhart@stanford.edu) to get instructions on how to register and get some reimbursement. Registration is $44, of which Rains will subsidize $10 each. Race fees include race entry, chip timing with a collectible souvenir chip (the second in a series of five leading to the 100-year anniversary), participant T-shirt, printable on-line finishers certificate & entrance to ING Footstock. You will be responsible for getting yourself to San Francisco (CalTrain is a very easy way to do this - they have special trains that run early to get you there). COURSE DESCRIPTION: ING Bay to Breakers is a 12K (7.46 miles) course. From sea level at the Embarcadero the course rises steeply along Hayes Street Hill. Around the 2.5-mile mark runners climb an 11.15% grade between Fillmore and Steiner, bringing them to the highest point in the race, approximately 215 feet above sea level. The remainder of the course gradually flows alongside the Panhandle and through Golden Gate Park. See http://www.ingbaytobreakers.com/main.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. No GSC events found. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please respond to contacts given, or to owner-rains-events@lists.