Sonya Ellison

The Women’s Leadership Center presented All Parts at Peace, a presentation about media’s influence upon body image, on Thursday March 24 in Holmes. Featuring both original and remade works, performances included skits as well as songs and an interpretive choreographed piece, all of which were performed by students.

Student Senate met on Wednesday, Feb. 23 to discuss the upcoming student elections. Running for Student Senate president for a second term is junior Ana Devlin Gauthier and freshman biology major Matthew Farrell.

Farrell is running with hopes to “further the development of diversity and sense of community in Alfred.”

Ana stressed her previous experience as Student Senate president and representative, as well as being a part of other student organizations such as the Women’s Leadership Academy.

It’s midnight on a Friday and downtown Alfred comes alive for the weekend. Only two more hours until everything closes. Everything in town, except for B.B. Shenanigans, which will stay open for an hour longer.

A customer comes in and cracks a joke at the modestly familial Blake Brown, Shenanigans' owner. The owner laughs, playing along with a genuine smile on his face.

“Our busiest hour is our last hour, from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.” Brown says. “Weekends are our busiest time of the week.”

It’s the 1990s: the decade of the prescription drug boom. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jamie Randall, a womanizing pharmaceutical representative for Pfizer, who convinces doctors to prescribe his company's Zoloft instead of the decade’s controversial drug of choice, Prozac.

During one of his visits, Randall falls for Maggie Murdock, a patient with stage one Parkinson’s disease, played by Anne Hathaway. Murdock, at first, displays immunity to Randall’s charms. The two end up having liaisons with no strings attached, but one eventually falls for the other.

It’s midnight on a Friday and downtown Alfred comes alive for the weekend. Only two more hours until everything closes. Everything in town, except for B.B. Shenanigans, which will stay open for an hour longer.

A customer comes in and cracks a joke at the modestly familial Blake Brown, Shenanigans' owner. The owner laughs, playing along with a genuine smile on his face.

“Our busiest hour is our last hour, from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.” Brown says. “Weekends are our busiest time of the week.”

The Women’s Leadership Center hosted a “Mentoring Matters” panel featuring thee alumni speaking on the impact of mentoring, on Thursday, Jan. 27.

The panel of successful career women included Peggy Wozniak, class of 1972, Beth Mott Rothwell, class of 1990 and Rachel Comstock, class of 1996. They shared their personal mentor experiences and talked about the importance of mentoring.

ITS director Gary Roberts hosted a presentation about the upcoming broadband upgrade coming to Alfred at Howell Hall on Nov. 30.

It took three years of actively partnering with different groups to provide Alfred with better internet connectivity. AU ITS supported a number of grant proposals among local technology groups, including Finger Lakes Technology Group (FLTG), Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board and the Independent Optical Network (ION).

Author John Blundell spoke at Susan Howell Hall on Nov. 11 about his recent book, "Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady." The biography takes a very intimate look at England’s most important prime ministers.

Thatcher’s life began in England right after World War II in the small town of Grantham in Lincolnshire. She came from a working class family, of which her father owned a village grocery shop and was involved in local politics.

Singer/songwriter and Alfred University graduate, Ade Adu, performed acoustic songs for his audience at the Knight Club on Nov. 6.

With no backing band, he got the crowd to clap and sing along with just his rhythm, powerful voice, and guitar.

He shared some original material from his newly-released album, as well as a few popular favorites. Among those, he covered the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back,” R. Kelly’s “Ignition,” “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz, and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

This year the Wellness Center has not had as many people come in with H1N1 as the year before.

According to Pam Schu, last year the Wellness Center saw around 107 cases. However, there is a problem with reporting numbers when estimating how many people within the whole campus suffer from this illness.

“Not everyone with symptoms comes to the Wellness Center to get them checked out,” says Schu.

The symptoms are similar to the common cold or mild flu-like symptoms, which is what makes diagnosing swine flu tricky.