Adrian To

At AU, a lot of students from the Liberal Arts and Science College have been complaining about how many “Gen Ed” classes they need to complete throughout their four years in college. However, business students in the College of Business are only required to take courses in the four areas in General Education Requirements, including Creative Discipline (Arts, Dance), Natural Science(no lab required), Social Science (Psychology, Sociology) and Humanities (Philosophy, religion); each with a minimum of three credits.

Last October, three students established a campus-wide campaign. senior Susan Morrison, junior and current Student Senate Diversity Director, Kevin Carr, sophomore and out-going Student Senate Diversity Director, Adrian To together with Coordinator of Diversity Programming, Craig Arno, launched "Think Before You Speak."

If you were fifteen minutes late for this year’s Raices, you had already missed the first half of the show. Though Raices had some fantastic dances, the show was relatively short compared to last year’s and the performances consisted mostly of dances, such as Tango and Cha-cha.

There are 12,000 Japanese residents missing and more than 10,000 people dead or injured following the highest intensity earthquake in the Japan's history, on Friday, March, 11. This catastrophic earthquake not only affects northeast Japan, but also affects other places like Japan's capital, Tokyo.

The earthquake and tsunami also spread across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and the United State's west coast.

Photos and videos on CNN and other news networks depicted cars washed up on houses, a whole village completely destroyed and several other traumatic photographs.

Personally, I do not like Miley Cyrus. A lot of it has to do with her depiction of such a silly character in the Disney Channel series, “Hannah Montana,” where she doubles as a high school girl by day and teenage pop-star at night. If you have watched that show before, even one episode, you will probably notice how annoying Hannah Montana is and wonder how this show can be a global sensation among teens and children.

Junior communication studies major, Nickelina Noel will be creating a faux-documentary film, "Zombie Town," with the assistance of the Alfred University community. The event will be filmed this coming Saturday, Mar. 26 at 4 p.m. in front of the Alfred bandstand.

“The project’s main goal is to bring the Alfred University community together through the use of social media, to participate in this exciting project,” Noel explained.

Last year’s Alfie-Award-winning show, Alfred to Asia (A2A) will once again showcase talents and culture from various parts of Asia beginning at 7 p.m Saturday, April 2, in Holmes Auditorium.

This year’s theme is Air Tour; audiences will experience a unique flight experience to Asia through performances including traditional and pop dance, as well as music performance.

Organized by the International Student and Scholars Organization (ISSO), Alfred to Asia has been presenting and bringing Asian culture and elements to the Alfred community since 2006.

What is the first thing to come to mind about 2010’s movies? Leonardo DiCarpio’s Shutter Island or Alice’s Wonderland? Scott Pilgrim’s battle the seven evil boyfriends or Hit Girl’s fight with Red Mist in “Kick Ass?” The unstoppable totem in “Inception” or the unstoppable train in “Unstoppable?” In the past year, there were movies that surprise you and some who let you down, let’s have an overview of the past year with six key headlines.

1. Nolan is back with surprises

The Oscar nominees were announced last Monday and, of course, there were surprises and disappointments.

Have you ever heard songs like “Over the Rainbow,” or the theme to “Harry Potter” being played in harmonious melody around campus? Yes, it is “from the bells up there.” And you would wonder if someone played that, or the songs are played by "computer.” The fact is they are usually played by AU carillonneur, Professor Laurel Buckwalter, or students who are taking the carillon lessons.